Create a QR Code to Drive User Group Attendees to Your Online Community

[Matt Cate]

While browsing some of the NI community pages; I noticed that AlphaTreo, a group organizer for NINILUG, recently posted a QR code for his the user group community. I really like this idea as a way to make it really simple for attendees to navigate to your user community page. Obviously, the URLs are not the easiest to remember. In terms of usage, I see a couple of opportunities here.

First, you can include a picture of your code at the end of a presentation and leave it up for interested parties to read with their phones. It could direct them to your community or even straight to a presentation download. Another option is to use it to drive online community membership. The picture can easily be printed on the back of a business card or on a flyer if you promote your community in such a fashion.

Create a QR Code

To be honest, I haven't created a QR code up until this morning. Super easy! I simply Googled "create qr code" and selected the first relevant link. This was the interface...

I simply pasted the User Group Resource Center URL in the text box and clicked the button. And here it is...

Take a screen shot of the image and save it as a .jpg and you're good to go. Like I said earlier, paste it in a presentation or print it on a flyer. Those who scan it will be redirected straight to your onlilne community. If you have any ideas or thoughts on usage, please comment below.

[AlphaTreo]

Thanks for the shout-out, Matt!  I had incorrectly assumed that one needed to sign up with some service which would generate a "controlled" QR code.  Once I got to researching the codes here, I realized that it is just a way to encode normal text.  There really isn't much to it.