Do you want your business card to go completely virtual?

Posted by Neil Patel On October - 26 - 2009

There are some excellent ways for you to share your updated social media profiles.

Retaggr creates a full-fledged social media business card (of course, virtual in nature) that you can easily share and embed. It includes links to your social profiles. The virtual card can even pull in dynamic content (such as blog posts and tweets).

Chi.mp will allow you to give very own (yourname.mp) domain name. It ably aggregates content from various socials sites you use. The feature that makes it ideal for business usage is its advanced privacy settings. The setting will let you create special profiles for the different sets of users so that your key business contacts never need to view pictures of your family or friends from your Flickr stream.

Google Profiles are pretty much basic. They serve as a simple albeit effective avenue for listing of standard biographical information as well as profile links.

Broadly speaking, each of your social media profiles tends to define your online identity, so you may well like to make them as part of your virtual business card. But sharing a whole bunch of different social media profile URLs isn’t easy. An assured way to deal with the problem is using a profile
aggregator.

If you dispatch your business cards to CloudContacts, they will be scanned and organized for you. In fact, you can see all the cards you have collected online from businesspeople, and download that data to desktop email clients such as Outlook, Thunderbird, Entourage, and Exchange. Once scanning is done, CloudContacts will either recycle your paper cards or return them.

There’s another app that lets you dispatch business cards over Twitter. twtBizCard ensures sending business cards via Twitter is easy. The most comforting thing about dispatching a virtual business card is that you can make use of the remaining tweet space to add a message about where and when you met.

Neil Patel

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