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LinkedIn is where colleagues and recruiters find your career history. A digital business card is what you actually hand someone at a meeting, a desk or a networking event. They overlap a little, but they are not the same tool, and most UAE professionals end up using both.
What LinkedIn does well
LinkedIn is a public professional network: a single profile, a feed, connections, endorsements and job history. It is the right place to build a long-term professional reputation and be found by recruiters or old colleagues. It is not designed to be handed to someone in three seconds at a reception desk or a trade show.
What a digital business card does that LinkedIn can't
A MyInfo digital business card is your own page at an address like myinfo.ae/yourname, built for the moment you meet someone in person or send a link. You choose exactly what appears: photo, job title, phone, WhatsApp, a booking link, a YouTube video, and your LinkedIn icon alongside everything else — see links, videos and text. LinkedIn shows what LinkedIn decides to show; your card shows only what you decide to show, in the order you choose.
Sharing: link vs scan vs tap
Sending someone your LinkedIn profile usually means searching for your name or copying a URL. A digital card opens with an NFC tap or a QR scan — no app, no search, no typing. It also works over WhatsApp in one message; see sharing your card on WhatsApp.
Keeping in touch after you meet
On LinkedIn, the other person has to send and you have to accept a connection request before either of you has much beyond a name. A MyInfo card has a Save Contact button that puts your name, company, phone and email straight into their phone as a contact file — see how visitors save your contact — no connection request needed on either side. On Premium cards, lead capture lets a visitor send their own details back to you the same way, which LinkedIn has no equivalent for.
Use both together
They are not competitors. Put your LinkedIn icon on your card so visitors can follow your professional history, and put your card link in your LinkedIn "Contact info" or featured section so connections can reach you instantly instead of messaging back and forth. Each one covers what the other does not.
Getting started
If you already have a LinkedIn profile, adding a digital card takes a few minutes. Create your free MyInfo card, add your LinkedIn icon under links, and start sharing it by tap, scan or link at your next meeting.
Frequently asked questions
Can I just put my LinkedIn link on my email signature instead of a card?
You can, but visitors only reach your public profile, not a one-tap Save Contact or a direct way to reach you. A digital card does both and can still link out to LinkedIn.
Does MyInfo replace LinkedIn?
No. MyInfo is a shareable contact page for the moment you meet someone; LinkedIn is a professional network. Most people link one from the other.
Create your free digital business card — Start free — no app to install and no card details needed.