What is a digital business card?
A digital business card is contact information shared electronically rather than on paper, as a link, a QR code, a wallet pass or an NFC tap. The recipient saves the details without typing them.
How it compares with paper
A digital card is easy to update: anyone who opens the link later sees the new role, though saved details stay as they were. A printed card can carry a QR code that opens it.
What it does not carry
Neither kind says why you met or what you promised. The person receiving the card has to add that, soon.
An example
At the hospitality investment forum, Noor Ghannam of Wadi Sakina Resorts shows a QR code on her phone. You scan it, and her details land in your contacts. The context does not: she is refitting the resort kitchens.
In Marrow
Marrow reads a photo of a paper card into a person, and reads a QR code on the card ahead of the print. Marrow is in Beta.
Related
Get Marrow on your phone.
Install the app, sign in with your email, and send it the last business card you are still carrying. Marrow is in Beta.