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vCard (Electronic Business Card)

Published on March 17, 2011 in Business Tools. 0 Comments Tags: , , .

A vCard is an “electronic business card” that can take a user directly with a mouse click in the address book of his e-mail program or PIMs. vCards can be in HTML pages, embedded as file attachments are sent to an e-mail or QR code. Mobile phones and PDAs also use vCards to store contact information and exchange ideas with IrDA or Bluetooth.

vCard Properties

The content and structure of vCards are set by the Internet Mail Consortium (IMC), standardized, and many e-mail programs can read contact and export as vCard. However, the support is often unreliable, a vCard that has been created with a specific program may be unreadable to a different program, lost umlauts, etc. Currently, the IMC is no official test to be tested, the quality of a vCard, or a list of products that support vCards (reliable).

The usual file extension for vCard files is *. vcf = “vCard file”. Continue reading ‘vCard (Electronic Business Card)’

Business Cards in Japan

Published on March 12, 2011 in Business Tools. 0 Comments Tags: , .

Compared with Europe and America, the business card (Meishi) in Japan have a higher priority. Because Japanese names with many different but identical characters can be written, it is necessary to know the correct spelling of a name. Moreover, the exact position of the card holder in a company plays an important role in dealing with each other.

The transfer of a map follows fixed procedures: The older person or the higher level or lower level of the younger person has to first enter the map. The transfer is done with both hands and then bow. Then the map is considered accurate and in no case immediately plugged. Rather, it is placed carefully on the page, it is considered a particularly gross faux pas, to put the card in the pocket or back pocket. Then the younger or lower-ranking person the card has to present the same way. The card complies with the European. If Japanese people maintain regular contact with foreigners, they usually use a bilingual map on which is located on one side of an English translation.

Business Card Portrait

Published on March 11, 2011 in Business Tools. 0 Comments Tags: , .

As a business card portrait (also Business Card Photo) refers to photographs and portrait photographs from the mid-19th Century in the standardized format of 5.5 × 9 cm were raised on board – they had thus about the size of a modern business card. These were often exchanged between friends and family members and collected in special albums. The process was in 1854 by André Adolphe-Eugène Disdéri patented and held just after that until the 20th Century.

History and Development

The first note on the introduction of the Visit portraits are found in the French journal La Lumiere 28 October 1854 which states: “An original idea had Dellesert E. Aguado and Count on the use of small portraits. Until now, business cards bearing the name, address, and sometimes the title of the person who they imagined. Why should you not be able to replace the name with the portrait? “

According to another version to the Duke of Parma as the inventor of the visit card apply. He had stuck the idea in 1857 to a photograph on his business card. Boom got the business card photography by the Parisian photographer and “inventor “of the business card portraits André Adolphe-Eugène Disdéri, who in 1854 signed in on this application of the collodion process in France.