#business-cards — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #business-cards, aggregated by home.social.
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Fun With NFC Cards
I’ve been messing around with NFC cards and trying to figure out if I should just self-roll my own virtual business card (like Popl.co and Dot).
I’m a big business networker. I’ve been an entrepreneur for more than 18 years. (Yikes!)
I do love a good business card, but I’m also intrigued, and have been for a while, with the NFC tap card business cards.
It’s actually not that difficult to do and the way around the NFC vcard blockage on iOS is to host the vcard on a web server and directly link to it via a button.
And the best way to get the other person’s contact info is to setup a contact form on your links page for them to exchange the contact info with you.
So instead of paying for Popl.co on a monthly/yearly basis or one time for Dot, etc. maybe spin up your own. I’m tempted to do that.
I’ll report back.
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Just posted on Paperposts:
Chicago gang business cards
https://www.paperposts.me/chicago-gang-business-cards#book #branding #cards #paperpost #socialmedia #businesscards
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🚀 Behold the pinnacle of innovation: a 3D-printed gizmo that embosses business cards, because ✨plain paper✨ just won't cut it anymore. Igor Daemen, the Einstein of office supplies, has revolutionized #networking with a contraption that’s *modular* and *hardware-free*—perfect for impressing your local printer. 📇🔧
https://www.core77.com/posts/138492/A-3D-Printed-Business-Card-Embosser #3Dprinting #innovation #businesscards #modulardesign #HackerNews #ngated -
The Casual Archivist’s Short History of the Business Card, From Versailles to Microsoft Word
https://themalin.co/journal/the-casual-archivists-short-history-of-the-business-card/ #identity #GraphicDesign #BusinessCards
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Building a Macro Pad into a Business Card https://hackaday.com/2025/08/31/building-a-macro-pad-into-a-business-card/ #circuitbusinesscard #handheldshacks #businesscards #businesscard #PCBHacks #macropad #ZMK
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Building a Macro Pad into a Business Card - A business card is a convenient way to share your contact information, but it’s u... - https://hackaday.com/2025/08/31/building-a-macro-pad-into-a-business-card/ #circuitbusinesscard #handheldshacks #businesscards #businesscard #pcbhacks #macropad #zmk
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Download a Stacked Business Cards Photoshop Mockup For Your Brand’s First Impression https://weandthecolor.com/download-a-stacked-business-cards-photoshop-mockup-for-your-brands-first-impression/204633
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I kept having people type my website in their phone browser since they can't add me on LinkedIn (I don't do big tech), which is easy to get lost if you close a tab
After I received business cards on an event I thought: "well, that's one thing that has an age old solution". Sometimes the solution is so easy, yet we've almost forgotten after we got used to big tech
So I had some personal business cards printed. I think they came out cool 😎
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In this age of LinkedIn profiles and digital everything, you might think business cards are going the way of the fax machine.
But the truth is, even though...
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Tanah suggested I update my business cards, and maybe get some bookmarks. Et voila! (Try the QR code!)
#marketingdigital #marketing #business #businesscards #bookmarks #books #publishing
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Ah, the 🎩 "Genghis Khan" approach to networking—because nothing says “I’m a serious professional” like a flashy piece of cardboard with your name on it. 📇 When your career is a battlefield, remember: there’s no problem that a clichéd business card can’t solve. 🥳
https://kolyder.com/business-cards/ #GenghisKhanNetworking #BusinessCards #CareerAdvice #ProfessionalBranding #NetworkingHumor #HackerNews #ngated -
Evernote has gotten seriously better
Almost doubling the subscription price of a program is usually not a recipe for customer satisfaction, but I can now make an exception for Evernote. Yes, the note-taking app that many people seemed ready to leave for dead three and a half years ago, when a European software company I had never heard of bought the app that I’d already been relying on for more than a dozen years.
The Nov. 16, 2022 TechCrunch headline on Kyle Wiggers’ post about Bending Spoons buying Evernote practically sighed, calling it “the end of an era.” By then, Evernote had fallen greatly from its heights a decade earlier, when it was a frequent home-screen occupant of iPhones in Silicon Valley and visionary CEO Phil Libin talked about making the company a “100-year startup.”
After Evernote’s introduction in 2014 of a business-card-scanning feature that I still rely on, I had not seen many new features useful to my own work. And I was still experiencing too many note-synchronization glitches between my devices, despite the vow of new management to focus on the app’s core note-taking functions.
All this had me wondering if the premium account that had been a fixture in my Web-services budget since 2015, and which had increased from $45 a year to $69.99, was an expense I would be better off zeroing out. The obvious alternative was Microsoft’s OneNote, which I was already paying for with my Office 365 subscription.
But some genius at Microsoft elected to retire the company’s Evernote-to-OneNote importer in September of 2022, making any such migration a lot more difficult. And then the new management at Bending Spoons got to work improving the product–and one of the first things the people at that Milan-based firm addressed was note sync.
They made enough progress that when the company announced a steep rate hike at the end of 2023–from $69.99 to $129.99–I grudgingly decided to re-up for one more year and see where things stood. Eight months later, I was pleasantly surprised to see words I typed in my laptop’s copy of Evernote appearing my phone’s copy of the app a second later.
Today, that lag is barely discernible.
And last year, Evernote added a feature that directly helps one of my core tasks as a journalist, writing down what people say. This AI Transcribe tool that once served up long, unbroken blocks of text has gotten increasingly accurate and useful.
When I tested this Saturday afternoon by having the Evernote app on my iPad record and then transcribe a video of a 15-minute talk from the HumanX AI conference, the transcript that it generated in 40 seconds was just about as accurate as the Read AI transcript on the conference’s site (aside from botching a company name) and added bullet points and numbers to match the speaker’s pacing.
Evernote’s new management has also done a good job of communicating with its customers, posting detailed release notes for the app’s Windows, Mac, Android and iOS/iPadOS versions (why is that so hard for other companies?) to go with its frequent updates. The app still needs a word-count function, but overall it seems immensely improved from two years ago.
Meanwhile, Evernote’s cross-platform competition hasn’t done as much to earn my business.
OneNote still doesn’t have a built-in business-card-scanning feature–that requires a separate app–and sees fewer updates than Evernote, with less detail published about the content of these updates. I don’t see the same hustle at Microsoft.
And I just don’t want to trust this function to Google Keep, the free app Google had the temerity to announce in 2013 literally a week after the company killed off its beloved RSS client Google Reader. Twelve years later, a lot more of my digital life now happens on Google services, which makes me even less interested in handing over this extra bit of it to that company.
Yes, $129.99 is a serious amount of money for a Web app and service–but not in the context of one that I use and find useful multiple times a day.
#100YearStartup #AITranscribe #BendingSpoons #businessCards #Evernote #GoogleKeep #noteTaking #notes #OneNote #PhilLibin #transcribe #transcription
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Thank you to the buyer who purchased some customizable business cards with a windmill sunset photo @zazzle
https://www.zazzle.com/ozark_windmill_sunset_business_card-256629953609464825
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Cleaning out the car this morning & found one of the #businesscards I had made for my better half when she was selling #Nutrimetics.
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QR Business Cards and Moo.com
https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2011/06/qr-business-cards-and-moo-com/
An edited version of this paid-for post appeared at Moo.com on the 7th of June
QR codes are awesome! I mean, you may think your moo mini-cards are pretty funky - but they're nothing without a QR code.
Why do you hand your card over to someone? You want the recipient to plug your contact details into their address book, right? So you give them a bit of card and then you expect them to tap away on their phone, like a primitive ape, until they've saved your number. And hope they've saved it correctly.
That's just so.... analogue... Isn't there a better way of doing things?
Yes. Yes there is. QR Codes are here and they are going to ROCK YOUR WORLD!
Introducing QR Codes
QR Codes are two dimensional barcodes which can quickly and easily be scanned by most camera phones. They're free to create, easy to use, and they look like this.Go take a look in your phone's app store - you'll find several free readers. If you can't, point your phone to GetReader.com to see what's available for your device.
QR Codes can contain many different types of data - URL, phone number, SMS, and vCard. I'm going to show you how you can integrate these into your Moo Cards.
URL
With a QR code on your Moo Card, you can point people straight to your blog.To your .tel website.Or any other site you like. Perhaps to search Twitter for your hashtag?
Phone Number
Scanning in this code will prompt your phone to give me a call. Why not leave me a message?
SMS
Want someone to scan your card and send you a message? Dead easy.
vCard
Scan this code and my address will appear in your phonebook as if by magicOne thing to note is that these QR codes are rather large - it's probably best to print them on full size cards.
Putting It All Together
Here are some of my cards. I've used free or Creative-Commons images of phones and placed the QR code inside them.
Resources
There are several free sites you can use to create your QR Codes.I recommend using QRstuff to generate these codes.You can also use Google Charts for QR Codes if you want dynamic, highly customised codes.Finally, if you want to generate QR codes on your own site, there are several free resources. I use Swetake's QRCode v0.50.
Final Tips
Here are some tips to make sure you get the most out of your QR codes.
- Use black ink on a white background to ensure the code is readable.
- Ensure there is some whitespace around the code.
- If you resize the QR codes, don't use any interpolation.
- QR Codes can have variable error-correction. Unless your codes are likely to get dirty, you can set this to "low".
- If you're pointing people to a URL, make sure it's mobile friendly.
- Make sure your phone numbers are in International Format (+44 for the UK).
- Be creative! QR Codes are appearing on everything from advertising posters to urban graffiti - make sure yours stand out.
