QR Code Information
What is a QR Code?
QR Code, or Quick Response Code, is a two dimensional barcode containing data that can be read by a smartphone camera. Many smartphones have a QR code reader already installed or users can download a QR code reader app that will allow the phone's camera to act like a scanner and "read" the barcode. The encoded data could be in the following format: URL, phone, SMS message, text, Google Map/geo location, email, RSS feed, video or audio format.
History
QR Codes were developed in1994 in Japan by the Toyota subsidiary, Denso Wave, to track car parts for its factory. Today QR codes are used as a marketing tool to help promote products, websites and services targeting mobile phone users.
Using QR Codes:
QR Codes can be a useful marketing tool using interactive mobile communication to connect users to a website, email, online registration page, Facebook, or YouTube video.
- Marketing: Place a QR Code on any print marketing materials such as flyers, brochures, newsletters and pamphlets.
- Help with Research: Excellent tool for Research Day posters, conferences, or course projects! Include a QR Code in your poster to link it to your contact information, website, video, audio or any other additional online resources.
- Link to a video: Upload a video to YouTube and create a QR code directing users to the link.
- Contact information: Acts as a business card. At a conference/ event users can "scan" your QR Code and it will embed your contact information into their smartphone.
- Job Support: Create a QR Code to help direct potential employers to your online resume.
- Social Media: Use a QR Code to link to your Facebook, Twitter, and Linkedin accounts.
Additional Information
- Denso-Wave : Creator of the QR Code
- Mobile-Barcodes :Provides a list of QR Code Generators and Readers
- QR Codes in the wild (Flickr Photos)
- Create QR Code / Download QR Code
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Create QR Code / Download QR Code Reader
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