Thanks to everyone who posted their photos and funny stories on the DishyMix Fan Club and on this blog in hopes of winning the free Executive Business Card Scanner from CardScan Valued at $259.99!

You contributed great ideas, poems and sob stories, but the best request included this ispiring tag line: “Technology + Humanity= World of Change!”

The winner is JamieLuv of San Francisco because she posted a story with a global perspective and the intention of doing great work in the world with her Executive CardScan. Read on.

(If you still want a CardScan business card scanner and didn’t win, you can use Promo Code SPECIAL at check out to get a free Dymo LetraTag Plus Label Maker with your order. Or you can use Promo Code FREE to get free shipping at CardScan.com They just launched their CardScan for Mac too!)

JamieLuv ToYou wrote at 12:02pm on December 16th, 2008

My pile of business cards may not be the largest, but it is certainly the most fabulous! I have cards from incredible people in 12 countries and 5 continents. My card collections consists of people who want to be part of the “Fun Network.” People who want to connect with other conscious individuals, to create a better world.

By having a card scanner, I could more efficiently connect the people, who are doing the most with the least, and creating abundance, possibility and positivity, more quickly. One little machine that saves time, energy and improves the accuracy of data entry, could help save the world!

Technology + Humanity= World of Change!

 

Turn your contacts into assets you can act on.

Some of my favorite runner up posts included:

 

Amy B Johnson (UAB) wrote
at 10:23am on November 20th, 2008

The pile of business cards on my husband’s desk is SO big that he’s actually had to move to a new desk with his computer to have room to move around. He has them sorted into piles for different purposes with notes written on and around them, and I keep BEGGING him to get one of these scanners because it MAKES ME CRAZY!!!

 

We have four small children, and I took them into his office on day, and compared the size of our 5 and 3 year old to the pile, and I’m pretty sure they could be totally covered in cards, no problem. Unbelievable. But if we had the scanner, what would we do with all the cards? The older children have suggested we could laminate them and make a doll house, so we’ll send you a pic of that if we get the scanner….

 

 

Photos from Sheryl Sever, DishyMix Fan

 

Paul Small wrote
at 10:34am on November 20th, 2008

What desk? My laptop is stationed on a house of cards, tech and IT companies as the legs, marketing and content companies as the drawers, and media sales reps as the flat, wide surface.

 

Rodney Rumford (Silicon Valley, CA) wrote
at 6:29pm on November 21st, 2008

i uploaded a picture of my stack of biz cards. do i win the scanner? I have more. but this is what is currently on my desk. sectioned out by categories…lol

 

Peter V.S. Bond (Campbell Soup) wrote
at 11:09am

I want the cardscan reader. Do me right Glamazon!!!

Alison Mary Madden wrote
at 3:48pm on December 16th, 2008

OK, on the scanner thing

Title: very clever request

I will use it at burning man, really (do my best). As with all projects, it will morph but I used the wi fi this past year to file a request for my energy efficient washer rebate (yes they give you 90 days and the last day fell on a day I was at BM; true to my form (in recovery on this) I left it till the last day but had my laptop as I had driven straight from work. So I’ll do some kind of feed from the thought scanner. I’ll scan business card size cards filled out by BM participants. Not too much connection to the default world, but something showing the inherent power of real-time thought share that the internet/social/web 2.0 models are allowing. It’ll grow and focus and morph, but I like the initial idea. . .

 

Gerry Howatt (Burlington, VT) wrote
at 6:34am on December 17th, 2008

There once was a fine man from Vermont,
That cool new CardScan schwag was his wont,
to scan all the data
he thought it might matta,
Will it handle the hot chick’s funky font?

 

Steven Echtman wrote
at 7:31pm on December 29th, 2008

Is this where I request the CardScan? Consider it reserved ; )

 

Paul Delagrange (Washington, DC) wrote
at 6:38am yesterday

Woo hooo Forget what Steven Echtman said. Consider the Cardscan reader reserved for me……

And here are the comments listeners left on my blog, rather than in the Facebook Fan Club:

PodcastPickle said,

December 23, 2008 @ 1:07 pm · Edit

Pile? You ask how big is my pile of business cards? Lets change that to piles. On the sidebar of my desk are 9 piles of business cards, and each pile is about 6 inches tall.

I have had this desk since 1999, and that is when my piles started. They are not organized in any manor, but I do seem to be able to find what I need. It just takes a while.

I may have the most complete collection of podcasters business cards. I have all the original podcasters. The first generation.

The only problem that I would have with winning the scanner is that it would take forever to scan them all.

Well, my wife would love that though.

warrenss said,

December 25, 2008 @ 2:50 pm · Edit

I’m not that bad, but I must have at least a couple hundred. Please save me CardScan!

lauralevitan said,

December 25, 2008 @ 2:56 pm · Edit

I am proud to say that there is not one card on my desk. When I receive them, I immediately (or upon my return) create an Outlook contact….less stress!

morganb said,

December 30, 2008 @ 2:52 pm · Edit

I’ve got about 35 on my desk and a solid stack in my top drawer. My rolodex died and I could see going out and buying a bunch of those little rolodex cards to slide or staple these in. So I’m left with a stack. The card scanner would be sweet!

johnmunsell said,

December 30, 2008 @ 3:59 pm · Edit

I’ve got 26 on my desk and another 27 in a drawer. The sad part is that I’ve already got a CardScan sitting right next to my stack of cards! I love the darn thing, but the cards are the least of my worries. The bigger mess that needs my attention is the 23 inch high stack of paper, books, folders, receipts, etc. that I need to get through before I accidentally knock everything over! So much for the paperless society…

Hey, but I highly recommend the CardScan! Do they make one for the rest of the junk on my desk? Preferrably one that does filing, makes sales and pays bills.

loumongello said,

December 30, 2008 @ 4:05 pm · Edit

The towering (teetering at the point) pile of important business cards stands right next to the business card organizer book… which sits there… laughing at me… mocking the fact that I will likely never, ever find the time to type them all into my computer and THEN file them in the book. There MUST be an easier way…

 

technacea said,

December 30, 2008 @ 5:00 pm · Edit

Social Media Connect (or is that phrase already copyrighted?)

I have 137 cards business cards sitting on my desk – but for at least 16 of those cards, I am already connected to and conversing with their previous owners on Twitter, LinkedIn, Plaxo, and FriendFeed. What I really need is a CardScan that will give me the option of connecting with people based on the social media information they put on their cards…but I’d be happy with he regular version of course!

cherot said,

December 30, 2008 @ 10:15 pm · Edit

I have many boxes of cards. The photo shows those gathered in the past few years. Sometimes I type them into Outlook on the plane on the way home. If not, the little boxes eventually end up in bigger boxes.

The most important thing is to add a note about where you met the person. More than once I met someone years later and upon looking them up recalled that I’d shared a cab with them in Vegas or had sushi in Tokyo. This is especially useful know when you get a “friend” request on Facebook or Twitter and wonder if you ever met.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/cherot/3152956450/

chris2x said,

December 31, 2008 @ 10:12 am · Edit

I only have 30 cards sitting on my desk but they have been sitting there for at least 6 months. Inside a drawer I have a box of hundreds of cards in no particular order.

weswyatt said,

December 31, 2008 @ 1:38 pm · Edit

I LOVE to meet new people, get their Business Card, write their B-Day on the back, and then send them a card – so I have A LOT! I have hundreds within an arms reach alone!

The CardScan is one of those things you always think to yourself that you SHOULD get – but don’t – so to win one would be INCREDIBLE!

Should you pick me – I’ll be a Card Scanning Work From Home Daddy!

Have a DYNAMITE day and best of luck to all the other people commenting!

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Thank you to Newell Rubbermaid and Alyssa at CardScan for the DishyMix give away and this excellent offer for my listeners!

Imagine how organized you’d be if your address book was totally up to date. CardScan’s business card reader is the fastest, easiest way to accurately scan those stacks of business cards on your desk right into your address book. Even drag and drop email footer info on the fly. Cardscan’s software safely backs your data up online too.

Turn your contacts into assets you can act on.

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