One of the evolutions that brought web 2.0 is the creation of virtual identities which, at times, are invented alter ego and cannot be traced back to real people while other times they are just personal web pages . So here are the paper business cards that are delivered by hand are transformed into web pages accessible from all over the world, which act as a person's business card .
Most of the time, a normal business card is lost, thrown away, or placed in a drawer along with many others.
In this digital age, the business card becomes virtual and is found online on the internet.
I could say that stopping using normal and traditional business cards can bring benefits to the environment, cost savings, greater personalization, the ability to update information easily and immediately and the ability to reach a much wider audience.
The virtual business card can also be found on Google and on the internet search engines and can be shared via email and via any social network such as Facebook.
After talking about the business cards to be created for free, we see the free services that make it very easy to create your online profile, sites that allow you to fill in your business card complete with contact information and summary, graphic or written, of the activities.
1) About.me is a recent web application that presents itself with a lot of elegance, with a minimalist approach and an immediate presentation of oneself.
Creating your own virtual business card with About.me is really simple, with a significant amount of customizations.
It becomes like creating a personal and synthetic presentation web page with name, surname, short biography, useful images and whatever you want.
You can choose a background image, colors, fonts and all the text that appears on the page.
When registering, you can choose your own domain which will be of the type about.me/claudio .
On About.me you can also add the social networks to which you have subscribed allowing visitors to read, without ever changing the page, the latest interventions made on their Twitter, Wordpress, Flickr, Facebook, Blogger or RSS feed of their site .
Another way About.me differs from other similar services is a dashboard with visitor statistics so you can see how many people have found me.
About.me is ideal for photographers and other visual artists who want to get an online business card.
2) Flavors.me is a good option for those who want a more graphically beautiful web page that integrates with Facebook and other social networks.
Very similar to About.me, with customizable graphics and the ability to add images and backgrounds as you wish.
You can also pay for a premium account to have your personal domain (like pomhey.com).
This is one of the simplest web apps for creating a personal site for free
3) Pixelhub is a great customizable service that offers the unique feature of integrating videos and is truly perfect for creating an artist's personal page .
4) Swite.com is the one that brings together Linkedin, Facebook and Twitter to create a site that automatically feeds on the interventions made on social networks, preserving and putting together in a beautiful space to see all the various social profiles together.
5) Somebody.io is a site similar to Flavors.me, to create a web page scrollable downwards with large images and which functions as a virtual business card.
6) Carrd.co is an online business card, similar to About.me, but with more options to customize the graphics and add very modern elements, released in 2016.
I had also talked about personal web pages about the possibility of publishing your CV online .
In this regard, I would like to point out that Linkedin has added an application to transform the Linkedin profile into a CV to be published online and printed .
