MOO!
At 360|Flex I gave out quite a few business cards. My Nxtbook Media business cards are pretty cool in my opinion.. I mean, they list my job title as ‘Conjurer of Code / Diviner of Logic‘ .. it doesn’t get much cooler than that, right? But I realized after handing out a few of these that they don’t really convey the information that I need to build relationships within the community. If I were at a sales event, or talking to a prospective customer then these are the cards to give out, but developer-to-developer relationships are based on much more personal information. I want people to be able to visit my blog, IM me or follow me on twitter even if they never need to email or call me at work.
Before MAX rolls around I think I should have something a little more personal to give people I strike it off with that won’t be so intimidating to use. So I dropped by MOO.com and tinkered around with their design tools to come up with something a little more personal to give out in addition to my Nxtbook card.
MOO.com sells their miniCards in packs of 100 and will let you use a separate image for the front of each if you’re feeling especially ambitious. Unfortunately, they make up for this by limiting the back design, with three fonts to choose from, six lines of text to fill out and a handful of pretty useless predefined graphics. After playing with some image ideas, I decided to use their text card editor to create a very simple, to the point card:
Simple and to the point. They’re only $20 for 100, so if these come and I don’t like them then it’s not too much of a hit to try again, but I think they’ll do the trick.
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