Day 10 - Creating Digital Business Cards

12 Days of Techmas

Day 10

Creating Digital

Business Cards

On the tenth day of Techmas, Ms. D shared how to make digital business cards so you always have your info to share in the palm of your hand.

Ever been in a meeting, at a conference, or out and about and needed to quickly share your info with someone and didn't have a business card?

This summer, I was sitting in the Charlotte airport headed to the NFPA Conference in Boston and realized that I didn't pack any business cards!! EEK! Here I was headed to a BIG conference, presenting a session and being awarded NFPA Educator of the Year, and I didn't have a way to share my contact info. I knew people would be asking me for my contact info....so I needed a quick fix that wasn't going to cost me money and that I could literally do on the 'fly."

I ended up deciding to AppSmash a few of my favorite tools to create a quick Digital Business Card that I save to my phone! This was a game-changer! Now when someone asks for my business card or contact info, all I have to do is pull out my phone and I have this image saved to my favorites. I can also drop it in my presentations.

What is a Virtual Business Card?

Creating Your VCard

A VCard is a “Virtual Contact File” that includes information that you want to share with people.

So think anything you want on a print business card….you can put on a VCard!

How do you create a VCard? You will need to use a QR Code Generator (there are lots out there)

Here are a few options:

-https://www.qr-code-generator.com/

- https://www.the-qrcode-generator.com/

- https://www.qrcode-monkey.com/

How it works? When someone scans the QR code with your vCard it will ask if they would like to add your information to their contacts and Ta-Da! There you are so they know how best to reach you. It can be an email address, school phone number, etc.

Video Tutorial: Creating a VCard with QRCode Monkey

Creating Your Virtual Business Card in Canva

Getting Your Virtual Business Card to Your Phone

There are a few ways that you can get your Virtual Business Card to your phone:

Email yourself the image and open it on the email app on your phone. From there save the image to your camera roll.
Drop the image in your Google Drive and open the Google Drive App on your phone. Then save the image to your camera roll.
Use the Canva app to create the Virtual Business Card and when you save the image out of the app it will be in your camera roll

TIP From Ms. D!!! Save the image to your favorites so you can easily access it when you need it!

Want to earn CEUs for participating in this year's 12 Days of Techmas? It is easy!

Each day there will be a task to complete based on the tool for that day. Complete the Form below and share your completed task. At the end of the 12 Days of Techmas you will receive a certificate for the days you participated in. You have the chance to earn up to 3 hours of Technology credit.

Day 10 Task:

Create a Virtual Business Card for yourself.

You will need to create a VCard (QR Code) with the information that you want to share and drop that into a Phone Wallpaper template in Canva. You can customize the wallpaper however you would like. Upload that image to the CEU form.

Share how you could use this in the future.

To submit your Day10 task, complete the 12 Days of Techmas CEU Form

Don't have time to work on today's task? That's okay! You can work on these throughout the holiday break and January.

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