Call me old-fashioned, but the one low-tech item I never expected to see threatened with extinction was the humble but indispensable business card. After Last Thursday’s re:think08, the fifth edition of the seminar on event marketing and team building put on by the communications company Impact Unlimited, I’m not so sure. The event had some terrific speakers and ideas (more about them in a minute), but my top takeaway was . . . the name tags.

Not just any name tags, of course, but nifty high-tech numbers called nTAGs that let participants automatically swap contact info, plus data about interests and skills, (more…)