A few months back a local company, DubMeNow, threw a hell of a launch party down on the Georgetown waterfront. It was a great time and a great crowd, but at the time it was one time I felt out in the cold as an iPhone user. When they initially launched they only had a WinMo and Blackberry app for their new business card in the cloud application, DubMe.
So at the time I was not very excited because I really didn’t see the value since I was not able to really use it. So I was pretty happy when I got an email from Chris Hopkinson, Director of Business Development at Dub, who I have been working with to set up a demo at the upcoming TECH cocktail this Thursday. He told me the iPhone Dub app had finally hit the Apple iTunes App Store and was ready to try out. I immediately headed over to the mobile iTunes store and installed the app. Since then I have had a chance to play and am quite impressed with the features and simplicity of it all.
At it’s core, DubMe, is your business card in the cloud and an always refreshing mobile address book. Once signed up, you simply fill in all your pertinent information as it would appear on 
your business card. Then you can start sharing your data via email, SMS, or the web. For instance say I meet someone at TECH cocktail, I can simply send them an invite to my contact info via the iPhone app and they get my info automatically inserted into their mobile address book and eventually into their desktop address book when the phone is synced. Easy enough right ? What is even better is that if I need to change any of my personal info, like an updated phone number, I can do it in my Dub card and it automatically refreshes to ALL of my Dub contacts. This in and of itself is a huge deal. No more static data. I mean once you have a business card printed and passed out, that’s all your contacts know about you. But what if you change jobs, get a new phone, etc ? You would most likely have to send out some mass email with the hopes that your contacts see it and actually take the time to adjust your contact data in their address books. Might not happen though.
They have also added some other pretty cool features. One I particularly like is the Group DubID.
Group DUB simplifies exchanging contact information in a meeting setting. A coordinator creates a Group DUB PIN with an expiration date. Then, all participants, including the coordinator, who send a DUB invitation to this PIN can easily exchange their cards.
The offer integration with several CRM solutions to include SugarCRM, Salesforce, and Microsoft CRM and coming soon are Dub connections via LinkedIn and Facebook.
I am looking forward to continuing to explore this new iPhone app and corresponding web application and see how I can best utilize it in my networking flow.
