The proper place to wear a pin- or clip-on badge is on your right side so that others may, when you shake hands, see it easily.  (This assumes certain abilities; the ADA and people with disabilities has been addressed here and will be again.)  

Lanyards, which are (to my dismay) the rage at all meetings, make your badge land, at best, in the middle of your chest but more often than not, a lanyard will make your badge fall near your pupik. (Scroll down to near the end to read about pupiks.)

While you may have your pupik well-covered, I fear for a time when someone with a more contemporary style of dress (and less tummy) than I, wears a badge on a lanyard - OY!  the view!

For years, I've been people I train of how best to wear a badge, even instructing how to tie a lanyard to make it more visible and how to not choke while doing so.  Susan RoAne, "The Mingling Maven", even tells groups the same when she teaches the art of networking. 

This thinking - and brain connection - lead me, prior to writing this, to search for information on industry relationships which lead to reading what Guy Kawasaki had to say about schmoozing. [There's a story in that too:  I read Guy's first book, "The Macintosh Way" and loved it.  A PC user, I none-the-less, wrote to Guy.  He wrote back .. immediately and thus began a now 14 year friendship. That and other like-lessons taught me to reach out to a person when you are interested in learning more.  The art of schmoozing, as Guy writes it, is worth doing.)

That lead me to find a good translation of "schmoozing" - a word so commonly used in my life that I forget it's Yiddish..but then you may not have known that either, so common is its usage.

Ah .. my brain - it makes the most interesting connections!

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