The Nonprofit Technology Conference is just around the corner, so we're posting 11NTC tips every day until the event starts.

The fabulous Rob Cottingham, the NTC Official Cartoon Blogger, is helping us prep with some great cartoons -- you'll see them on our blog throughout the conference and at http://socialsignal.com/ntc2011.

The tip of the day is to order and bring enough business cards to hand out to 1900 people. Yep, that's the number of folks attending the 11NTC!

In addition to your business cards, you'll also be able to connect to every attendee via QR code with a QR code reader on your smart phone! Every attendee name badge will have a QR code that links to your myNTC profile (the 11NTC online conference and community). If you have a smart phone, you'll be able to scan other attendees' name badges to follow them, send a message, or request a meeting within myNTC.

To get a glimpse of how this will look, take a look and scan my name badge:

Anna / @annanten

Richter

Program Director

Nonprofit Technology Network

Pretty nifty, huh? We can't wait to trade business cards and scan name badges with you!