Now this is a cool business card

Check it out. What do you think? What would yours look like?

And speaking of business, cards, we had an interesting conversation last week with Jeremy Epstein, who asks people to rate and comment on his business cards...

You know I am partial to gaping void cards. My current one is "badass chick blogger"...



...although it's been superceded by our sweet and simple SocialFish cards. Don't have a picture right now but they just have our logo, website, and Twitter/SMS/phone numbers - and rounded corners (ooh, radical!). We made them up speedily to have some ready for our launch at ASAE's annual meeting, and asked everyone for their comments, and is it turns out everyone loved them so we're more or less sticking to them now that it's time to order more.

Thinking of revamping yours? Chris Brogan offers advice on what essential information business cards should have.

'Course, some people are starting to get rid of business cards altogether. Jeff Pulver asks, Will business cards still be used in 2015? You can already use services like DropCard or Retaggr or 211me.

And what to do about all those cards you have already collected? Check out Cloud Contacts - for a small fee they will take that big pile of cards and put them online, so you can access them from your phone or import into most email applications or into Facebook, LinkedIn etc. A good point from their site - Cost of a card reader - $250, cost of this - $30. I'm looking at a stack of cards right now and thinking, cool. I'm on it. Or here's another one - Shoeboxed. They do the same, and scan your receipts too.

While I am having fun trying some of these "virtual" cards (check out my Retaggr card or hover over the retaggr icon on the right hand sidebar), my thought on this would be don't underestimate the value of handing over that "social object". I'm particularly partial to Moo Cards for printing all kinds of small, unusual cards that grab people's attention while providing the basic contact info they need to find you later, in the case of business cards. And there's lots of other uses - I am 100% sure that part of the reason our YAP party was so huge at ASAE's annual meeting in San Diego was thanks to some tiny little invite cards we handed out selectively, which simply had the location of the party on the front and the yapstar.org website on the back.

It's a little piece of you... make it count.