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Louis Gray
Thanks to Allen Stern of CloudContacts, I am going to take hundreds of business cards and go get them recycled.
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not centernetworks Allen Stern right? - Zee.
Is that Mark Krynsky in the top right corner? - Rochelle
The same Allen Stern. His new product is here: http://www.cloudcontacts.com/ - Louis Gray
Yes, Rochelle. The same Mark. - Louis Gray
Louis: Allen has more than 3,000 of my business cards already. Does an awesome job. I now have a much better contact list. - Robert Scoble
I see my card in the photo. Heheh. Microscobleized indeed! - Robert Scoble
Robert, you're getting Microrecycled. - Louis Gray
That looks a very attractive idea: my business partner is currently trying to persuade me to buy a new scanner which also does biz cards - for $450! Yikes. This looks very attractive as I have thousands of cards that desperately need scanning. I wonder if you can import the scanned data into FilemakerPro? - Sally Church
Sally, Allen knows this better than anybody, of course, but you can export it into CSV format, into Address Book (Apple), to your e-mail application, to Salesforce.com and other apps. I assume, Filemaker could get the data as well. - Louis Gray
Sally: you should be able to. It's just a database. - Robert Scoble
remember the old palms had the beam your contact feature. I am surprised that did not catch on. The newspaper industry may be dying, but the business card people I guess are ok. - Jeff
I need to send Allen my cards. I tried Evernote, but I still can't find my contacts after scanning through there. - Jesse Stay
Thanks Robert and Louis! Sally - we offer a variety of export files and a standard default file that should work anywhere. I've created a dozen custom exports for customers as well so if the default doesn't work, I can create one that matches whatever app you use. - Allen Stern
Allen, thank you for the quick response! I will look into this seriously. - Sally Church
Thanks Sally - let me know if you have any other questions. - Allen Stern
no wayy! fantastic! - Zee.
Holden, if you've gotten a ton of business cards over time, and they're not all in your computer, Allen will get them into an online database, which is exportable to common address book programs and databases. CloudContacts also links online profiles to social networks, contains a scan of the card, and uses geolocation to show their office in Google Maps, etc. - Louis Gray
i used cloud contacts and thought it was great. - Charles Hudson