I've tried to mitigate this problem by having cards I hand out with my name, telephone number, email address, website, and basic information about myself on them, and they work both as harder to discard than a scrap of paper (they're on pink cardstock, of course, because I am me) and a conversation starter.

Ooh, clever. What do you put down as "basic information about myself"?

Did you and Diane do the Pokemon trainers thing?