BusinessCard v2.0 – does this replace the printed business card?

I read an interesting article on MarketWatch.com some time back (Digital business cards move networking off paper) proposing that traditional business cards may be under threat from some new kids on the block – digital business cards and their associated networking services. Check out mine from BusinessCard2.com:

Yes, my BusinessCard2 card would look nice on my email attachment and handy for social networking, Tweets and the likes. But… yes, the but word; how about at a trade show? What about in the elevator? Or at my boys football (yes, soccer) matches?

There is work being done where these can be zapped from one cell phone to the next. But till all cell phones can communicate equally, the printer need not worry about printed business cards with fancy color graphics, maybe even made with Publisher software (!), going anywhere, anytime, soon.

This said, Stephen Beals gave us some stark warnings in this recent post, titled, “Don’t be too Certain About Print’s Future“…

The fact that China’s print industry grew 7+% last year, in the midst if a major global recession is proof that print is likelynot going to disappear. (And did you know that China has more than 100,000 printers? (Source: Spindrift, volume 7, number 7 – 13 November 2009 issue) Yet for those in print-media, it is time, if you have not already, to dive more into the media side and find ways to use your customers content in various ways, other than just ink on paper. Internet, iPhone/cell phones, ePaper, e-Books, ePub format, etc.

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