Business+Cards

Every grad student should have business cards. You can handout your business cards at conferences, events, symposiums, lectures, and any other time you meet someone you would like to stay in touch with. It is important to grow your network throughout your graduate school experience and sharing business cards will help you do just that.

Unfortunately, UCSB Business Services requires you to go through your department to buy official UCSB business cards. Here are some other options:

Design & Print Your Own
You can get business card paper from Staples or any other office store and print your own business cards. Typically you will create the business card in MS Word using a template.

Here is the official **UCSB logo** to add to your card: @http://www.geog.ucsb.edu/ideas/Logos/Ucsb_seal.png

Print your design On-campus
[|Alternative Digital Printing] is located on the second floor of the UCen building. They print 500 color cards for $24.95. Don't forget to take your design, in .PDF or .JPG formats.

Use a 3rd Party Website to Design and Print Business Cards
Vistaprint is a great website for creating professional looking business cards. Sign up to be on their mailing list and wait for one of their deals (i.e., 50% off). It's easy to create one by adding text to one of their pre-designed business cards or you can upload your own design and edit it. Here are some templates for Vistaprint:
 * Blank Template (jpg)
 * Blank Template (psd) - [[file:Business_Card_Blank.psd]]
 * Template with Sample Text (jpg)
 * Template with Sample Text (psd) - [[file:Business_Card.psd]]

Digital Portfolio
You may want to consider building an online portfolio and adding your url to your business card. Here are some common portfolio tools:
 * LinkedIn
 * Google Sites
 * About.me
 * Re.vu
 * Pinterest

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