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What kind of conference/badge are people asking to scan? I go to 10 conferences a year and I've never been asked to have my badge scanned.
by chrisabrams 11y ago
What kind of conference/badge are people asking to scan? I go to 10 conferences a year and I've never been asked to have my badge scanned.
- arethuza 11y agoAnything involving "enterprise" technology will have vendors who are desperate to collect leads e.g. Microsoft Convergence. To be fair any time I've been at a conference people on stands were very polite about asking whether they could scan you and it's easier to be scanned than giving out business cards or scribbling down email addresses.
- chrisabrams 11y agoI'm assuming these badges have QR codes or RFID then? I definitely don't go to enterprise conferences :O
- exelius 11y agoUsually either QR codes or just plain old bar codes. This isn't new technology by any means.
- chrisabrams 11y agoSure. Just interesting to learn about badges technology.
- caminante 11y agoIt doesn't have to be "enterprise." It's any conference with a demo alley and/or sales booths. As others mentioned and only if you're forced to walk the gauntlet, remember to use an email alias (or email+tag) and a non-important phone #. Each scan gets your name, email and phone #. If you don't tread cautiously, you get an army of sales drones calling you for the next year at all times during the day in addition to a never-ending, unfilterable drove of sales emails clogging your inbox.
- cmdrfred 11y agoI host my own private mail server and have an entire domain just for spam emails for this reason. I give each company an email like CompanyName@domain.com that filters down to a catchall so I can track who spams the most.