A good business card is still a good marketing tool

A lot of blog posts and other commentary has surfaced about retiring the business card forever, opting instead for new technologies that make information sharing easy (generally, using a smartphone).

I object. For many reasons.

But forget my personal objections for the moment (or rather read about them here)

Here is a great NY Times blog post that summarizes some other people’s responses on this issue.

Read: O.K. I Guess We’re Not Retiring the Business Card (Yet)

What do you think?

Is it time to retire the business card? Or does this marketing tool still have some legs?