<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" version="2.0"><channel><title><![CDATA[A contact QR that survives changing jobs]]></title><description><![CDATA[<p dir="auto">Most contact QR codes are static vCards: name, title, company, phone and email encoded straight into the pattern. They work offline, forever, with no account behind them — and they are frozen the moment they are printed.</p>
<p dir="auto">That is fine for a conference badge. It is a problem for a business card you ordered 500 of, if you change your title, your number, or your employer.</p>
<h3>The two approaches</h3>
<p dir="auto"><strong>Static vCard.</strong> The contact details live in the code. Scanning it offers to save a contact immediately, with no internet connection. Nothing to maintain, nothing to pay for, nothing you can ever change.</p>
<p dir="auto"><strong>Dynamic.</strong> The code points at a short URL that serves your details. Scanning it opens a page that offers the same contact download. You can update your title or number afterwards and every printed card follows. It needs a working connection at scan time, and it depends on the link continuing to resolve.</p>
<h3>Which to choose</h3>
<p dir="auto">Ask how long the card will be in circulation and how likely the details are to change. A card you reprint every year with a landline that never moves: static is simpler. A card you hand out for three years with a mobile number and a title that might change: dynamic pays for itself the first time you get promoted.</p>
<h3>What actually happens on the phone</h3>
<p dir="auto">Saving a contact from a QR code is a two-step action on both major platforms — the phone shows the details, then the person confirms. There is no way to write to someone's address book silently, and you should be suspicious of anything claiming otherwise.</p>
<p dir="auto">Keep the payload small. A vCard with a long photo embedded produces a dense code that scans badly at business-card size, which is exactly the size constraint you cannot escape here.</p>
<h3>Put a name next to it</h3>
<p dir="auto">"Scan to save my details" next to the code roughly doubles the number of people who do. A bare square on a card reads as decoration.</p>
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