Ms. Middleton, the Dallas brand strategist, said she walked out of her first likemind meeting with 10 new business cards — gathered discreetly, to be sure — and later touted her attendance at job interviews.
A few started going out of their way daily to duck into subway stations where they learned the cards gathered in stacks (for example, the 86th and Lexington stop, where tidy people place their used cards in a tiny cubbyhole where a brick happens to be missing right by the turnstile).
Mr. Card gathered about 20 White House aides for a meeting at 1 p.m., even as workers were painting and rewiring.
And at AT&T Wireless, the third-largest wireless carrier, the union won the right last year to card-check organizing, although elections must be held several days after the cards are gathered -- a potential union impediment not included in the Verizon agreement.
A collection of cards is gathered by the company through comprehensive searches and by its users under the guise of a crowd-sourcing effort.
Cardmobili: A comprehensive collection of membership and loyalty cards is gathered through crowd-sourcing as well as comprehensive searches of loyalty programs and then sent to the customer's mobile phone.
Nationwide's hardline stance emerged as a consumer revolt over "illegal" bank and credit card charges gathered pace this week.
Last year, Michel Blanchandin, 74, who worked on the American base straight from school operating an I.B.M. punch card machine, gathered with about 150 other former employees to form an association, to keep alive the memory of those years.
If he decides to count cards and gather data, he can use that information to increase his chances of winning.
So I buy packages of cards, and gather up all the ones sent to me for free by wildlife groups as thank-you gifts for donations.
Similarly, British food retailer Tesco, by using frequent-shopper cards to gather data about the ongoing purchases of 7 million customers, has generated new management information that enables it to update its marketing programs weekly, in light of shoppers' changing behavior, always catching customers where they live, so to speak.
