In less than a week, we'll be sharing insights and business cards with others in our talent development community. If you're a dutiful networker, you'll take those precious 3.5 x 2" pieces of cardstock home, compose a few notes about your conversations, and reach out to one or two of those people within the next few days.
And then what? If you're like me, even if you don't follow those networking steps properly, you've got a pile of business cards sitting in a drawer somewhere, or on top of your desk, waiting for appropriate entry into the contact management system of your choice.
Today I learned about Evernote Scannable, and I can see its potential to help me with my post-network routine.
First: what is Evernote? It's a cloud-based workspace that's great for taking notes, saving snippets of web articles, even collaborating with teammates. This article was written on Evernote before it got posted here. It's a dominate program in a market that's continually finding new players. To keep on the cutting edge of that market, the folks at Evernote continue to develop new features that will support your productivity.
Evernote's Scannable app looks to have come into their toolkit January of this year. It uses your smartphone's camera to take a snapshot of a document -- any document. From there, you can share the scanned document via email or message, save it into your Evernote workspace, and a bit more.
We've embedded their introductory video to help give you a clearer picture of what it can do.
(I'm going to use this app to scan my receipts for business expense reports!)
How can this help you with your networking?
Around the 20 second mark in the video they show one person handing a business card to another. The recipient uses Scannable to take a picture of the business card, and from there save the card information to their phone's contacts list.
Want to add some notes before saving? You can do that as well.
I've done this with three of the business cards I've had on my desk at work. It was smooth and intuitive, and (dare I say) just a little bit fun.
PLUS, if you connect the Scannable app to your LinkedIn account, Scannable allows you to send your contact info to that other person, and invite them to connect with you on LinkedIn.
Evernote Scannable is free (as is a basic Evernote account), so download it to the smartphone of your choice and take it for a spin over dinner this August 26 with your talent development community!
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