I whole-heartedly agree. My company doesn't take this very seriously- since we're all contractors working on-site, the business cards we are given have no real personal information about us, or useful information about the company- just phone/fax for the corporate office, and our corporate emails that we never use. I think I need to make some comments about this to our corporate business development folks, since this is not a winning combo!

Meanwhile, you do bring up a good point that I should have my own business cards for my non-professional work, if I ever want to get that off the ground. Nice topical post!