2010, News

QR Code, Short-Form URL and Simpler Social Links

Posted by on July 26, 2010 at 4:40 pm.

We are well underway in the planning of the next 12×12 Vancouver Photo Marathon which will take place on Sunday September 12, 2010. Sponsors are coming on board, media is starting to contact us and people are getting excited.

12×12 QR Code

This year we are trying to raise the bar a bit where our digital presence is concerned. Among the many new features we are introducing is the weird graphic you see here – the newly minted 12x12YVR QR-Code. If you have a barcode scanner app on your phone you probably already know what this is, but in case you don’t here’s a very very short primer:

A QR Code is a two-dimensional bar code that contains more information than a regular one dimensional barcode. With a QR Barcode Scanner (i.e. your cell phone) you can lift information off this code including links to both this website and all our social media outlets.

You can get a barcode scanner app for pretty much any smart phone. Here’s a link to the free Android one I’m using. I’m going to venture a guess and say that you can probably get one for your iPhone at the App Store for a dollar or two.

New Short-Form URL

In addition to our tried and trusted URL www.VancouverPhotoMarathon.com we have acquired the shorter www.12x12YVR.com domain to make it easier for everyone to create links to our posts and other information. The new 12x12YVR.com domain points to the same site and the same pages as the longer form original and they can be used independently. That means next time you want to link to us using Twitter and you don’t have enough characters left for the long version, just swap out the long domain name for the short one and get the same results.

Simpler Social Links

To make it easier for everyone to find us on various social networks, we have created some new and simpler social links. They are:

All of these links will take you straight to the various social network profiles. No magic, or mumbo jumbo. They are just easier to remember.