Getting Contact Info into a Joomla Article

The problem here was very straight-forward: a number of articles/pages on a Joomla website needed to display the contact information for a single "role" (name/title/phonenumber).  We needed one place to manage that data, and the Joomla "Contacts" seemed the logical choice.  I had set out to write a plugin, but in doing the research I found this problem had already been solved.

http://www.digitalgreys.com/free-software/44-contact-information is a very nice plugin that does exactly that: allows you to insert contact information pretty much anywhere in Joomla by referenceing the Joomla contact ID and field(s) you wish to render.

I still want to write a plugin, however that problem was already nicely solved!