<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Jun 14, 2012 at 4:26 PM, Ron Frazier (ALE) <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:atllinuxenthinfo@techstarship.com" target="_blank">atllinuxenthinfo@techstarship.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Hi all,<br>
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I'm thinking about ordering some business cards / contact cards to give to people I meet while going back to school to learn programming and for later use when I start job hunting. I'm wanting to incorporate QR codes (2 dimensional bar codes) into the cards. I've done some googling and this seems to be a popular tactic. I'm wondering if any of you are doing this. My sister has a specialty merchandise business and can get the printing done for me. I'm more interested in how you design, create, and use the QR codes.<br>
</blockquote><div><br></div><div>I have a personal business card with nothing more than my human-readable email address (this one, so it's easy to figure out my name) on the front, and my personal QR code on the back. The QR code contains my name, email, and phone #. My phone # is a google voice # so it's trivially easy to block people that abuse it and I never hear from them again. My "real" cell # I don't even bother giving out any more.</div>
<div><br></div><div>It's more a novelty than anything else, but most people I give them to like them (which so far has been recruiters, who love EVERYTHING you give or say to them, and at tech conferences where I am amongst largely like-minded folk). To my wife, they're just eye-roll cringeworthy, but after 24 years of marriage most everything I do is that. Just HAVING the cards is nice since really techie people who want my info can just scan it and they don't have to keep the card.</div>
<div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>I used <a href="http://zxing.appspot.com/generator/">http://zxing.appspot.com/generator/</a> to generate the code, then saved the image and used <a href="http://vistaprint.com">vistaprint.com</a> to print the cards. </div>
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