A great app for saving time, learning more about your contacts and keeping up with the news! Gist’s easy-to-use customize dashboard keeps you up-to-date, not only on a contact’s resume, but on their social news as well. It also makes sharing information across email, twitter and faccebook a snap!
Gist finds and organizes social data and puts it at your finger tips.
Gist offers a number of ways to organize your contacts- tags, by importance/frequency of information flow and good old alphabetization. For each person, there are the standard fields for phone, address, etc., but Gist goes social by adding fields for LinkedIn, Twitter, Facebook, RSS feeds, etc. Their search engine is so powerful that in some cases, when adding in a new contact’s name it immediately finds their twitter and LinkedIn info and adds it automatically!
Suddenly you have an easy way to prep for meetings and a huge time saver. And did I mention that Gist is compatible with Outlook and integrates into Salesforce.com? It also works for my gmail and google apps accounts which makes me very happy.
What’s new with Gist?
- For Gist Rookies the Gist Tour- an entirely new introduction to Gist with videos to highlight features and functionality
- Much deeper integration with Salesforce.com
- A dashboard optimizer that lets you determine the number of people & companies’ news you can view at any given time.
- Speed improvements- especially for twitter, which was kind of pokey during private beta (we were a demanding bunch of beta users)
If you want to learn more about Gist, check out the “See How It Works” video on the Gist home page, or, once you create an account go to the Help button and click on “Show Tour.”
Finally, I have to say thanks to Gist for all the TLC they gave their beta-users: monthly calls, speedy responses to feedback and reaching out to users in the various cities they visited showed their strong commitment to building a community, not just creating a product.
Gist CEO, T.A. McCann, will be presenting at defrag this November. We look forward to hosting him here in Denver and learning more about Gist. In the meantime, you can contact Robert Pease, V.P. of Marketing at robert(at)gist(dot)com.
**Update for GoogleApps users Gist Gadget is now available in the Google Apps Marketplace. It brings the features of Gist right into your email!
This looks very cool!