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Tag Yourself

In Uncategorized on 8 March 2006. Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , .

You’ve seen conference badges at conferences and nametags at big parties. At the recent Adaptive Path party, I “tagged” myself. Ha. Ha. I’m so clever, right? I mean gee, Kevin, you’re such an original character. Well let’s see what happened. I put:

and then ran out of space. During the course of the night I had one person come up and just start talking to me about Canada because he was also Canadian. Another felt compelled to come talk to me because he was a fan of comics. All this at the geeky design party with the digerati. No, “so what do you do?” or “what company do you work for?” or “did you see that latest thing on TechCrunch?”. I got to meet the _people_.

Refreshing.

So with conference season here. Please, at TED, eTech, SxSW, IASummit, CHI, NetSquared, etc, etc …

Tag Yourself


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9 Comments

Yes please! I wholeheartedly agree.

Adding another dimension to yourself other than the technical really paints a better picture of who you are and how you distinguish yourself from every other geek in the room. (I mean, chrissake, the conference/party is about technology so yes, we already know you’re a geek, thanks.)

Posted by Glenda on 8 March 2006 @ 4pm

I went to a lecture once on social networking where the speaker suggested doing something along these lines. He said whenever you fill out a name tag, draw a picture or write something in addition to your name that will attract attention. He said people are bound to comment on whatever you do that is different and that is an easy way to avoid being a wallflower. I’ve been meaning to try it, but I always forget. Based on your experience, it certainly sounds like it’s a useful technique. I don’t think he was thinking of it as “tagging” though.

Posted by Karin on 9 March 2006 @ 9pm

Do you do any work at Yahoo, or just get paid to go to conferences?
That’s almost as sweet as Trilogy, where they paid us to drink beer.

Posted by Jon on 14 March 2006 @ 2pm

Not all of the conferences I’ve listed are ones I’m attending but it is conference season so I’m out and about a lot (or oot and aboot if you will).

Posted by Kevin Cheng on 15 March 2006 @ 9am

Credit to BarCamp Austin for using nametags with room for tagging. Boo to all the attendees that only put their blog and tags like “geek” and “design” as their tag. Seriously. Geek. You’re at BarCamp. Ya think?

Posted by Kevin Cheng on 15 March 2006 @ 9pm

I tried it. It worked!
http://www.flickr.com/photos/laughingsquid/111797242/

Posted by David Beach on 16 March 2006 @ 10am

Glad to hear it, David! Hope you spread the word and more people will do the same. Too bad I didn’t get to meet you, though =(

Posted by Kevin Cheng on 19 March 2006 @ 11am

Doin’ it at IA Summit. Big name tags. Big empty space on them for tagging.

Posted by Donna Maurer on 19 March 2006 @ 11pm

I belive that they did this at Webzine, but there was certainly not enough room for tags on the badge. But it really is a good idea.

Posted by courtney on 21 March 2006 @ 1pm

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Kevin Cheng is a global nomad who's settled in San Francisco after calling Vancouver, Hong Kong, Austin and London his homes. Founder of Off Panel Productions and OK/Cancel. Product manager at Twitter, former Director of User Experience at Raptr, a social network for gamers, and former designer of Pipes and Bravonation at Yahoo!. Presenter on numerous design subjects. Reachable at kc -at- this domain.

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