English English
Steve Dotto here. How the heck are you this fine day. Me? I’m feeling particularly well-connected
and thank you so much for asking. Why is it I’m feeling so well-connected, you might
well ask? I’m glad you did because I would like to tell you. It’s because two of my Evernote & LinkedIn Team Up - Scanning Business Cards !!! favorite products: Evernote and LinkedIn have gotten together to help me and you with our
business card situation. Now Evernote has been developing business
card scanning technology and building it into Evernote without really—it’s been kind
of just sitting there on its own and we haven’t used it too much up to now. LinkedIn has had
a program called CardMunch which is quite popular although I never really dug CardMunch
all that much. It turns out that LinkedIn is now dumping CardMunch in favor of a new
relationship with Evernote which just might be a thing of beauty so stick around. You’re
cheap printing company going to want to find out what EverIn or LinkedNote has to offer.
All right, Evernote has long been a favorite app of mine and lately Evernote has been really
taking advantage of their document capturing capabilities of their Evernote camera to give
us some really creative new functionality. Case in point: In the last couple of months,
we have taken a look at the Evernote’s ability to capture post it notes and to automatically
file them, and to work with the Moleskine notebook to digitize notes and automatically
file those as well by using little stickers that we place on them. We do all that through
the camera app that’s built in to Evernote. Now LinkedIn and Evernote are getting together
to give us yet more functionality to that camera. Let me show you where we go.
Let me first of all fire up and start to share this Macbook. Let me first of all fire up
and start sharing my iPhone here to give you a look-see. Now everything I’m doing right
now we can do on the iPhone right now, not all of it in Android although you will be
able to do this very shortly in Android. They are committed to making it work on Android
as well. But here’s the start. You go in to your Evernote settings. You go
into the gear settings. We’ve done this a few times now. You go into the General tab
and here on the General tab if we scroll down we can see the camera. In the Camera Settings,
we can go and we can maintain our settings and we can set it up to capture Post-it notes
and the Moleskine Notebook, all things that we’ve already looked at and are awesome
with Evernote. But there’s this new and this additional
one here called Business Cards and if we tap on the Business Card link, we can go in and
we can connect our Evernote account to our LinkedIn account. Then if we have our saving
contact info to Contacts, we’re saving it in the Contact form so it’s like in the
database form then we have the ability to link and to synch our Evernote Contacts with
our LinkedIn Contacts so we can then automatically move everything over into LinkedIn, which
creates all sorts of new opportunities for us. It is awesome.
Now also in here we have the ability to choose what notebook all of our business cards are
saved to. So I just created a notebook called Notebooks and if you want to you can tag the
notes as well. You can set this up temporarily. So if you are at a conference and you are
gathering a whole bunch of business cards at the conference, you can set up a tag to
automatically tag everything from that one conference as it comes in and then change
the tag when you move to the next conference. So you have that kind of control at this point
using these tools. They’re quite flexible and quite powerful.
But now let’s take a look at the actual scanning because bottom line is if it’s
not easy to capture the business card and if it’s not clear, if it doesn’t do a
good job of digitizing and parsing out the information, it’s really not that much of
a solution, is it? So to use it, we go into the camera. When we go into the camera, we
have within our camera we have the ability to save post it notes, which we’ve looked
at, photos, documents using it as the documents scanner and now this new business card one.
Now the cool thing with the business card one is it will look for the business card.
It actually creates a little frame for us so all we have to do it’s basically get
the business card within that frame and go bink. It will automatically find it and then
it takes a picture. You don’t even have to hold it straight. You see how I had it
at a slight angle there? But it nevertheless gets it through and with a business card like
this which is almost all text, look at what a great job it does at parsing out all of
the information and look what it’s done already. Because it’s linked with LinkedIn,
it’s gone into LinkedIn and it’s pulled the photo of the contact that I have. It’s
awesome! It’s just awesome how that works! But let’s see how it works on maybe a little
bit more challenging business card. So here’s another card that I have, one that I got to
say okay that. What you have to see here is what it does is—actually I’m not connected
to this person on LinkedIn; it just pulled the information—it allows us to do a few
things at this point here. You can email your contact information to the person right away.
So think about being at that conference. Somebody gives you their business card, you scan it
in and now just with one tap your email and all of your contact information can be mailed
to them so they don’t have to scan in your business card so the connection is made. You
can also invite them to connect on LinkedIn, if you want to create that connection right
away at whatever venue you happen to be at as well. So this is really a streamlined process
now for bringing people together, for connecting. Now let’s try another card and this one
here is a little more complex. Let’s see how it does. Now you notice what’s happening
here. We’re just going to move it in and once it capture it like grabs it, it’s pretty
easy. This one’s more challenging. There’s a lot more information on it. The name of
the person is not quite as clear so it missed the company name, which is okay. No, it didn’t
the company name. It pulled a different piece of text for the company name but it got most
of the information. It looks fairly correct. The thing that’s important here is you do
have to go through in Evernote a little bit later on and you do have to audit. You have
to go through and read through and make sure that everything is correct because it will
make the odd little mistake. It will turn an I into a
parsing out the information so you have to proofread each card. But the cool thing is
you’ll see when we go into Evernote in a moment that the card, the image of the card,
is there for us as well. So let’s try a really challenging card.
Sorry, I said done. Let me go back into the camera and let’s start it again while it’s
synching that. Let’s take a much more difficult one now. Let’s take this card here and I
want to show you what’s going to happen. This is a very graphically rich card that
is quite popular, the style should I say is becoming increasingly popular and look, it’s
not just getting it at all. It can’t capture it. Now one of the problems is it’s a dark
background with a dark card. So they tell us to, whenever possible, use a light colored
background with a light dark card and a dark-colored background with a light-colored card. So here
we go. Now it’s capturing the information. It didn’t really. It cut things off so I’m
going to actually ask it to do it again. I’m going to trash that one. I’m not going to
let it use that one and I’m going to try it again, maybe working a little bit better
angle. There we go. If there’s glare on it, you tilt the camera slightly and that
gets rid of the glare. Okay, so it captured the card here and it didn’t do too bad a
job capturing it. Let’s see if it gets anything out of it at all.
With a card like this, it’s not going to get a lot of information and there’s just
nothing that we can do about that. Really graphically rich cards are going to be very,
very difficult for it to save. So it’s just something we’re going to have to put up
with. But here’s the next step of that process even when you do have that.
So bottom line is if it’s an easy card to scan in, if it’s an easy card, it’s black
and white text, it’s going to do a great job of capturing the information and putting
it into the correct fields. If it’s something that’s graphically rich like that, the one
that we just saw, well then we’re going to have to take on a little bit of responsibility
ourselves. But still it’s a step way in the right direction.
So here’s my business card notebook right here. So let’s just take a look at the three
cards that were imported. I don’t have to pick up the card to proofread anymore because
I’ve got the card right here so I can proofread here just by looking at this information here.
That one is in great shape. This one here, what I might do is I might go in and I might
change the company to Speak Your Purpose, which is the name of her company and I would
make the editing here. I can go Speak Your Purpose. I can make all of those changes right
here because it’s dealing with it as a contact within Evernote. Then finally this card here,
really no useful information at all but I can read it and I can just go through it.
I can type in the information here should I choose to. So this one here even though
it’s still some manual entry, at last again I don’t have to go looking for the card
and look back and forth. I can see it all right here on the screen.
Now what will happen because we synched this with LinkedIn is all of these contacts will
be passed over into LinkedIn as well and they’ll be available to us within LinkedIn, within
the contact area of LinkedIn. That’s what I want to show you just quickly right now,
the Contact area within LinkedIn. To see your contact in LinkedIn, you go into your LinkedIn
account, you go under the Network Settings, you go into Contacts here and that brings
you into your LinkedIn Contacts. They’ll give you all sorts of background information
on all the different people that you’re connected with here on LinkedIn. But where
you want to check on this synch, on how it’s talking to other applications, is by clicking
here on Settings and within Settings then we can go and we can set up the relationships
with the other apps. So I’ve got it set up to actually synch with my Google Contacts,
which I think should be another demo. We should be talking about how that all works at another
time. Here we also have it synched with Evernote. So there we have what could be the beginning
of a really beautiful relationship between LinkedIn and Evernote for us. I think that’s
awesome and I should point out that more than just the contacts are going to synch into
LinkedIn. All of your notes within Evernote are also going to be available to you. You
will be able to call them up when you’re in and you’re communicating within LinkedIn.
So it’s going to change our work flow quite a bit, at least those of us who decide to
embrace this new metaphor. I hope you found today’s video to be useful
and I just wanted to point out that there’s three ways that you can stay in touch with
us, should you choose. The first is please subscribe to this channel. That way we’ll
let you know right away as soon as we release a new video, which we do just about every
day of the week. The second thing you can do is sign up for
our newsletter. Now why would you want to sign up for our newsletter? Because we give
you a weekly digest of all of the videos that we produce. As well, you get early notice
about all of the different webinars and courses that we put on and they are all free. So it’s
well worth your time to sign up for our newsletter and some of the courses even though they’re
free sell out so you want to get in early in order to make sure that you can gain access
to all of the different training that we put forward here in the DottoTech channel.
And finally if you would like to support us in a more tangible way, DottoTech is supported
by our patrons at Patreon. If you drop by there, you can see how crowd funding works
and how Dotto Tech is the beneficiary of our community stepping up and helping make sure
that we can continue producing great compelling content on an ongoing basis. And with that,
I am out of here. I am Steve Dotto. Have fun storming the castle! *** ***

Evernote & LinkedIn Team Up - Scanning Business Cards !!!

English English
Steve Dotto here. How the heck are you this fine day. Me? I’m feeling particularly well-connected
and thank you so much for asking. Why is it I’m feeling so well-connected, you might
well ask? I’m glad you did because I would like to tell you. It’s because two of my Evernote & LinkedIn Team Up - Scanning Business Cards !!! favorite products: Evernote and LinkedIn have gotten together to help me and you with our
business card situation. Now Evernote has been developing business
card scanning technology and building it into Evernote without really—it’s been kind
of just sitting there on its own and we haven’t used it too much up to now. LinkedIn has had
a program called CardMunch which is quite popular although I never really dug CardMunch
all that much. It turns out that LinkedIn is now dumping CardMunch in favor of a new
relationship with Evernote which just might be a thing of beauty so stick around. You’re
business card printer going to want to find out what EverIn or LinkedNote has to offer.
All right, Evernote has long been a favorite app of mine and lately Evernote has been really
taking advantage of their document capturing capabilities of their Evernote camera to give
us some really creative new functionality. Case in point: In the last couple of months,
we have taken a look at the Evernote’s ability to capture post it notes and to automatically
file them, and to work with the Moleskine notebook to digitize notes and automatically
file those as well by using little stickers that we place on them. We do all that through
the camera app that’s built in to Evernote. Now LinkedIn and Evernote are getting together
to give us yet more functionality to that camera. Let me show you where we go.
Let me first of all fire up and start to share this Macbook. Let me first of all fire up
and start sharing my iPhone here to give you a look-see. Now everything I’m doing right
now we can do on the iPhone right now, not all of it in Android although you will be
able to do this very shortly in Android. They are committed to making it work on Android
as well. But here’s the start. You go in to your Evernote settings. You go
into the gear settings. We’ve done this a few times now. You go into the General tab
and here on the General tab if we scroll down we can see the camera. In the Camera Settings,
we can go and we can maintain our settings and we can set it up to capture Post-it notes
and the Moleskine Notebook, all things that we’ve already looked at and are awesome
with Evernote. But there’s this new and this additional
one here called Business Cards and if we tap on the Business Card link, we can go in and
we can connect our Evernote account to our LinkedIn account. Then if we have our saving
contact info to Contacts, we’re saving it in the Contact form so it’s like in the
database form then we have the ability to link and to synch our Evernote Contacts with
our LinkedIn Contacts so we can then automatically move everything over into LinkedIn, which
creates all sorts of new opportunities for us. It is awesome.
Now also in here we have the ability to choose what notebook all of our business cards are
saved to. So I just created a notebook called Notebooks and if you want to you can tag the
notes as well. You can set this up temporarily. So if you are at a conference and you are
gathering a whole bunch of business cards at the conference, you can set up a tag to
automatically tag everything from that one conference as it comes in and then change
the tag when you move to the next conference. So you have that kind of control at this point
using these tools. They’re quite flexible and quite powerful.
But now let’s take a look at the actual scanning because bottom line is if it’s
not easy to capture the business card and if it’s not clear, if it doesn’t do a
good job of digitizing and parsing out the information, it’s really not that much of
a solution, is it? So to use it, we go into the camera. When we go into the camera, we
have within our camera we have the ability to save post it notes, which we’ve looked
at, photos, documents using it as the documents scanner and now this new business card one.
Now the cool thing with the business card one is it will look for the business card.
It actually creates a little frame for us so all we have to do it’s basically get
the business card within that frame and go bink. It will automatically find it and then
it takes a picture. You don’t even have to hold it straight. You see how I had it
at a slight angle there? But it nevertheless gets it through and with a business card like
this which is almost all text, look at what a great job it does at parsing out all of
the information and look what it’s done already. Because it’s linked with LinkedIn,
it’s gone into LinkedIn and it’s pulled the photo of the contact that I have. It’s
awesome! It’s just awesome how that works! But let’s see how it works on maybe a little
bit more challenging business card. So here’s another card that I have, one that I got to
say okay that. What you have to see here is what it does is—actually I’m not connected
to this person on LinkedIn; it just pulled the information—it allows us to do a few
things at this point here. You can email your contact information to the person right away.
So think about being at that conference. Somebody gives you their business card, you scan it
in and now just with one tap your email and all of your contact information can be mailed
to them so they don’t have to scan in your business card so the connection is made. You
can also invite them to connect on LinkedIn, if you want to create that connection right
away at whatever venue you happen to be at as well. So this is really a streamlined process
now for bringing people together, for connecting. Now let’s try another card and this one
here is a little more complex. Let’s see how it does. Now you notice what’s happening
here. We’re just going to move it in and once it capture it like grabs it, it’s pretty
easy. This one’s more challenging. There’s a lot more information on it. The name of
the person is not quite as clear so it missed the company name, which is okay. No, it didn’t
the company name. It pulled a different piece of text for the company name but it got most
of the information. It looks fairly correct. The thing that’s important here is you do
have to go through in Evernote a little bit later on and you do have to audit. You have
to go through and read through and make sure that everything is correct because it will
make the odd little mistake. It will turn an I into a
parsing out the information so you have to proofread each card. But the cool thing is
you’ll see when we go into Evernote in a moment that the card, the image of the card,
is there for us as well. So let’s try a really challenging card.
Sorry, I said done. Let me go back into the camera and let’s start it again while it’s
synching that. Let’s take a much more difficult one now. Let’s take this card here and I
want to show you what’s going to happen. This is a very graphically rich card that
is quite popular, the style should I say is becoming increasingly popular and look, it’s
not just getting it at all. It can’t capture it. Now one of the problems is it’s a dark
background with a dark card. So they tell us to, whenever possible, use a light colored
background with a light dark card and a dark-colored background with a light-colored card. So here
we go. Now it’s capturing the information. It didn’t really. It cut things off so I’m
going to actually ask it to do it again. I’m going to trash that one. I’m not going to
let it use that one and I’m going to try it again, maybe working a little bit better
angle. There we go. If there’s glare on it, you tilt the camera slightly and that
gets rid of the glare. Okay, so it captured the card here and it didn’t do too bad a
job capturing it. Let’s see if it gets anything out of it at all.
With a card like this, it’s not going to get a lot of information and there’s just
nothing that we can do about that. Really graphically rich cards are going to be very,
very difficult for it to save. So it’s just something we’re going to have to put up
with. But here’s the next step of that process even when you do have that.
So bottom line is if it’s an easy card to scan in, if it’s an easy card, it’s black
and white text, it’s going to do a great job of capturing the information and putting
it into the correct fields. If it’s something that’s graphically rich like that, the one
that we just saw, well then we’re going to have to take on a little bit of responsibility
ourselves. But still it’s a step way in the right direction.
So here’s my business card notebook right here. So let’s just take a look at the three
cards that were imported. I don’t have to pick up the card to proofread anymore because
I’ve got the card right here so I can proofread here just by looking at this information here.
That one is in great shape. This one here, what I might do is I might go in and I might
change the company to Speak Your Purpose, which is the name of her company and I would
make the editing here. I can go Speak Your Purpose. I can make all of those changes right
here because it’s dealing with it as a contact within Evernote. Then finally this card here,
really no useful information at all but I can read it and I can just go through it.
I can type in the information here should I choose to. So this one here even though
it’s still some manual entry, at last again I don’t have to go looking for the card
and look back and forth. I can see it all right here on the screen.
Now what will happen because we synched this with LinkedIn is all of these contacts will
be passed over into LinkedIn as well and they’ll be available to us within LinkedIn, within
the contact area of LinkedIn. That’s what I want to show you just quickly right now,
the Contact area within LinkedIn. To see your contact in LinkedIn, you go into your LinkedIn
account, you go under the Network Settings, you go into Contacts here and that brings
you into your LinkedIn Contacts. They’ll give you all sorts of background information
on all the different people that you’re connected with here on LinkedIn. But where
you want to check on this synch, on how it’s talking to other applications, is by clicking
here on Settings and within Settings then we can go and we can set up the relationships
with the other apps. So I’ve got it set up to actually synch with my Google Contacts,
which I think should be another demo. We should be talking about how that all works at another
time. Here we also have it synched with Evernote. So there we have what could be the beginning
of a really beautiful relationship between LinkedIn and Evernote for us. I think that’s
awesome and I should point out that more than just the contacts are going to synch into
LinkedIn. All of your notes within Evernote are also going to be available to you. You
will be able to call them up when you’re in and you’re communicating within LinkedIn.
So it’s going to change our work flow quite a bit, at least those of us who decide to
embrace this new metaphor. I hope you found today’s video to be useful
and I just wanted to point out that there’s three ways that you can stay in touch with
us, should you choose. The first is please subscribe to this channel. That way we’ll
let you know right away as soon as we release a new video, which we do just about every
day of the week. The second thing you can do is sign up for
our newsletter. Now why would you want to sign up for our newsletter? Because we give
you a weekly digest of all of the videos that we produce. As well, you get early notice
about all of the different webinars and courses that we put on and they are all free. So it’s
well worth your time to sign up for our newsletter and some of the courses even though they’re
free sell out so you want to get in early in order to make sure that you can gain access
to all of the different training that we put forward here in the DottoTech channel.
And finally if you would like to support us in a more tangible way, DottoTech is supported
by our patrons at Patreon. If you drop by there, you can see how crowd funding works
and how Dotto Tech is the beneficiary of our community stepping up and helping make sure
that we can continue producing great compelling content on an ongoing basis. And with that,
I am out of here. I am Steve Dotto. Have fun storming the castle! *** ***