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LinkedCard.com - The Name

July 01, 2010

So what is LinkedCard.com and what does it mean? The "card" represents the business card aspect of it. "Linked" means that the cards are connected to other resources on the "net". Therefore, the domains linkedcard.net and linkedcard.com are good descriptions of the upcoming product.

What are Business Cards used for?

June 21, 2010

People go about Business Cards differently. Some throw them at other people at every possible occasion and others only give out their details after a long "socializing" talk. Companies attach Business Cards of the PR and HR department to marketing and recruiting materials.

The big question is how this behavior changes when marketing materials are distributed online or companies are recruiting using online services. How do you give your Business Card information to the other person in a professional manner?

Another aspect is the question of how the information on Business Cards is stored. The idea of a Business Card would still be right in our times, when you receive an email with contact details and your immediate thought is to print them out on a tiny piece of paper and store it with the rest of your Business Cards. This is however not the way it works. It is the other way around. You get a Business Card and store that information as soon as possible in your cell phone or computer. The original paper Business Card could be stored for archival purposes, but most people opt (or should opt) for a better backup solution of the electronic information instead. So Business Cards are only valuable for the transaction. The receiving person then spends the next five minutes typing all the information by hand on a tiny keyboard into his or her phone.

Maybe there is a better way ...

Hello World!

June 20, 2010

Exciting times ahead. More information is soon to come.