14 Ways to Create a Memorable Business Card [PICS]

Memorable business cards are either all about minimalism or maximum creativity. If you’ve decided to avoid the American Psycho-esque, off-white, watermarked business card and flex your artistic muscles, here are 14 ideas that will help to inspire you.

From scented and edible, to 3D and digital, we’ve gathered ideas and online resources to help you create the next big thing in business cards. Make sure the next time you pass out your card, it doesn’t end up buried in a desk drawer, or worse, tossed in the trash.

Sample below

1-Plantable

2-Interactive

3-Texturized

4-Edible

5-Playful

6-3D

7-Useful

8-Share-Worthy

9-Perforated

10-DIY

11-Lying Around The House

12-Photos

13-QR Code

14-Stickers

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Google+ Users Are Nearly All Male

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Here’s an interesting tidbit from the Google+ stats trackers: Three quarters (or more) of Google+ users are male.

SocialStatistics, a third-party site that gathers data from select profiles, pegs the percentage of male users at 86.8%, whileFindPeopleOnPlus, which curates information from about a million users, says men constitute 73.7% of Google+.

FindPeopleOnPlus also discovered that 95% of the Google+ users who say they are “looking for love” on the site are male. Some 25,000 users in their sample identify themselves as single, versus 19,000 married and 12,000 in a relationship. The vast majority of the million users sampled don’t say what they are.

With around 60% of users identifying themselves as web developers or software engineers, that paints a fairly stereotypical picture of Google+’s userbase: nerdy guys who have deep understandings of technology and who don’t mind killing some time setting up Circles of friends.

It’s true that the early adopters of any new technology are usually male. But Google+ will have to appeal to a mainstream audience if it’s to reach mass adoption anytime soon. Consider the gender breakdown for Google+’s biggest competitor, Facebook. The social network is close to a 50-50 split between men and women. And some of Facebook’s most addicted, most enthusiastic users are women.

Meanwhile, Google is about to stop requiring users to input their gender — meaning we may get less accurate stats as time progresses.

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Are You a Facebook Defector for Google+? [POLL]

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Google+ has only been out for about two weeks, but a few users are so taken with the service that they’re exiting Facebook entirely.

For instance, Chris Brogan, president of the consultancy Human Business Works, put an “I have moved” message on his Facebook Page, where he has more than 3,000 friends.

“I never liked Facebook,” Brogan wrote on his G+ profile page Friday. “I never used it to stay in touch with friends. I never had a great experience with the platform. I never had it work well (if at all) for my business. So, I didn’t bother. I used it grudgingly.”

Another user, Jeff Patch, wrote on Facebook, “My Facebook feed has become unmanageable. I’m de-friending anyone who is not a close friend, family member or colleague. Find me on Google+.”

Jack Lesley, another Facebook defector also wrote, “Leaving Facebook. Have about half of my friends moved, will be deleting my FB account on 31 July!”

Google+ already has about 10 million users. But users may be reacting to the novelty of a new social network. Facebook, with more than 750 million users, has seen would-be social networks, like Google Buzz, invade its turf before.

And to be sure, there are some who think Facebook defectors are daft.

“Wondering if that’s a career-limiting move considering clients who will still want council on Facebook on the years to come,” David Armano, executive vice president of global innovation and integration at PR agency Edelman, wrote regarding Brogan. “Of course, it’s perfectly viable to build a niche outside Facebook since so many others are focused there.”

What do you think? Are you planning to reboot your social network on G+? Do you think these defectors are crazy? Let us know in the comments and cast your vote in our poll.

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