Would you believe me if I told you I attended the last two conferences without business cards and my world didn’t implode around me for a lack of being able to connect post-event? AND, what if I told you I was able to communicate rapidly and at almost no cost while attending an international event??
Before your heart starts ticking away madly, please hear me out. Especially for those attending the upcoming World Education Congress in Vancouver,BC, see if any of these modern information sharing tools could potentially apply to you.
Sharing Contact Info:

• To be able to send contact info to your Twitter network, free iPhone app, BeamME, is a great option.
• You can send a Twitter Business Card using TwtBizCard. Here’s a sample of mine:

• Wawame, for iPhone, Blackberry or Nokia, could come in handy for sharing information while roaming internationally as it can utilize Bluetooth instead of requiring wifi or data roaming connectivity.

Communicating Internationally – if you’re not excited about spending loads of money to be able to make phone calls while roaming internationally, here are a few apps that are really handy! Just remember – turn your Data Roaming Setting to OFF! Found under your Settings, under the “General” section. See the picture for proper setting…

• Download Whistle Phone for your iPhone or PC/Mac and enjoy the free calls over VoIP (that’s Voice Over IP, which is basically using the Internet to make voice-to-voice phone calls). I have successfully used this to make my iPad a telephone!!
• Skype and Google Voice can really come in handy for affordable texting and checking voicemail via email.
• I will be posting a video today of how to use Whistle Phone to make international calls.