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QR Coded LinkedIn Profile With Tracking
Squarepush have developed an enterprising new mobile service called PingTags. You sign up via LinkedIn and it creates a QR code for you, which links to your ‘PingTag’. The PingTag is simply a mobile enabled page with all your relevant LinkedIn information but it comes with some nice tracking features. For example it not only tracks what the user clicks on your page but also attempts to ascertain the exact location of the user when they first scan it. This is thanks to both the iPhone and Android allowing web pages to query for the users location. If the user allows it PingTags logs the exact coordinates along with the rest of the scan information. Putting a PingTag on your business card is a great idea and you don’t have to change the QR Code if you change jobs or contact numbers, just update your Linkedin entry. PingTags is in beta and 2d-code readers are invited by Mark Percival of Squarepush to try it out.
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Are all QR codes the same for the same web address? I already have one.
I want to track the number of people that use the QR link. Does LinkedIn do that?
@Stacey Ison - All the PingTag QR Codes point to HTTP://2D4.ME/[UniqueUserCode]
If you already have an LinkedIn QR Code my understanding is that LinkedIn will not track the scans.
Feel free to email me any questions about PingTags - mark
I tried it, and do like the application and the looks of the resulting landing page. Keep up the good work, Mark!
Thanks, interesting info.
Here are the social media qr code sites I like.
http://justgoogl.me and http://agilecodes.com
That is very cool but I’d want tracking so I can see who’s scanned my info.