People Can Meet Each Other Better With Ice Breaker Name Tags.

January 18, 2011
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I love this! I love it because I am irked by networking events where everyone starts off with ‘what do you do?’, which is an insanely hard question to answer (Penelope just wrote a good post about it). In fact, I was just laughing with a friend of mine over her impression of herself explaining what she does to her parents. There are even 2 artists that created a whole series composed of videos of artists explaining to their parents what they do for a living. So it’s maybe safe to say that it’s a hard question to answer and yet everyone is asking it.

So Icebreakertags is a site that allows you create your own more original nametag that can get people talking about stuff that’s a little more interesting.

If you don’t run a group you could just write this in on the blank nametag that they give you at events. Here are some of my favorites:

If I could induct one new word into the dictionary it would be:

What is your best practice?

I can teach you:

Category: Inspiration, Internets, Making Things
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Comments

Todd Liss January 18, 2011 at 9:48 pm

This brings me back to OMS 10 when we were their “weird” ones who wrote our Twitter handles on our name tags. It is about time for a name tag revolution of sorts.
caitlin January 18, 2011 at 10:09 pm

Todd – I almost forgot about that! We were ‘way ahead of the trend’ putting those Twitter addresses on the nametags….
I think big things may be in store for the trusty name tag!
Mehul Kar February 1, 2011 at 7:19 pm

I’ve been thinking of organizing an event (either online or offline), where you are allowed to talk about anything except what you do and what you’re looking for. Icebreakertags might be a good way to do that
caitlin February 1, 2011 at 7:22 pm

Mehul – Love that idea! If you decide to do it – take some pictures and I’ll cover it here!

People Can Meet Each Other Better With Ice Breaker Name Tags.

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