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 Description:Gist is a free (for now) service that imports users' contacts easily, then transparently collects news and information about them from what the company claims is tens of thousands of social networks, blogs and other online sources. Gist is designed to help users to easily manage (and grow) their network of online contacts across multiple social and professional networks. |
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Gist is great! |
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March 28, 2012
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Submitted By: Mike Martin Company Size: $1 Million - $5 Million in revenues |
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| Gist is one of the best social media aggregators available! I love the ability to get rich profile information about my contacts, right in my email (via the Chrome extension). | |
Gist is one of the greatest, free social CRM solutions |
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March 5, 2012
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Submitted By: Michael Dortch Company Size: $1 Million - $5 Million in revenues |
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| Setup: extremely easy, simply connecting your various "contacts" sources from either social networks, phones, computers. customer support is very inefficient when asking about custom requests. most of the time there is no need for any kind of support as it is very intuitive. Currently the only reason I say not 5 stars is the lack of good integration in Outlook. the Blackberry/iPhone integration is fantastic and will be even more on Blackberry 7.1 and above. what would be nice also is to benefit from the viral network of Gist and have contact details automatically updated if the contact owners updates his contact details (Plaxo does this for example). |
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Gist Review: The Best tool to view for all your business contacts. Manage LinkedIn, Outlook, Twitter, Facebook and Gmail with Gist. |
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February 24, 2012
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Submitted By: Leslie Barry Company Size: $1 Million - $5 Million in revenues |
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| So why am I religious about Gist? Simple. They solved the problem. simply. Gist takes all my relationship feeds – Outlook, Contacts, Gmail, Twitter, LinkedIn, Facebook, emails and calendar appointments and consolidates this intelligently into what I want – a filtered view of my RELEVANT contacts that I can consume in a short snapshot each day. And, after using the service for a while now, I can confirm that Gist is guessing/ ranking relevance correctly, meaning that the contacts Gist ranks highly are my REAL contacts. Recent Gist improvements Over the last few months I’ve noticed a few new features that I find very useful. Gist is now monitoring my contacts and suggesting additional profile information to add to specific contacts. Excellent, so now I don’t even have to troll around for Twitter, LinkedIn and Facebook id’s to add anymore! So what about privacy? Well, given that I lead a fairly open digital life, I don’t have any issues with Gist. All it’s doing is gathering publicly available data that’s relevant to my contacts, and permission based data (my Twitter friends or LinkedIn contacts) and consolidating it into a useful view. A practical example As a practical example of how I use Gist, I’ll quote my recent Quora reply “As an early user of Gist, I’ve been impressed how they have evolved by gradually zooming in on who my REAL contacts are and presenting that information as a priority. The newest killer feature for me is their recommendations of the broader social profiles and information that Gist continuously gathers. I use it daily to catch up on my real network and to monitor and track potential customers and interesting people and companies. It’s also a great way to sort through the noise and get relevant, targeted social media updates from Twitter and Facebook because, once again, Gist highlights the people I interact with most as a priority. A positive side effect of the service is the merging of my duplicate contact information. A practical example of how I use Gist would be that I would load up relevant people that I am meeting at a prospective client a few days before the meeting, and the day before, I’ll use the ‘Print Dossier’ feature to get a snapshot of their hard and soft profile, i.e, Their LinkedIn Professional view to the world and their Twitter and Facebook snapshot. It’s a great way to ‘understand’ what makes the person tick and discover their interests. ” So, if you’re struggling with managing your networks and there’s one change you make to your daily work routine in 2011, get Gist and you’ll be amazed how the noise disappears. Setup: Easy, Remove Data: Easy, Support: Excellent, Training: Not Needed, No additional resources needed. |
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Gist Review: Good with room for improvement |
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October 16, 2011
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Submitted By: Michael O'Hear Company Size: $0 - $1 Million in revenues |
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| I like Gist for its simplicity and functionality. Its so easy to link my social accounts to communicate behind the scenes to keep track of friends & colleagues activities around the social web. I really like having all the info I need in one place. Gist would benefit from some intel generated recommending features so that if something happens, Gist would be able to bring it to my attention, rather than basing it only on my all too often imprecise or random 1-100 importance rating. |
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Using Gist As A Social CRM |
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October 5, 2011
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Submitted By: Mark Anselmo Company Size: $0 - $1 Million in revenues |
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| Social Media creates connections with people and at times those connections go offline. When you add email addresses to your address book you need a profile for the person you are connecting with and how to keep up with their information. Gist is a product that has provided the means to manage several address books from gmail, Outlook and even uploading a CSV file. The best feature using Gist is how it pulls in the social media sites such as Twitter, Facebook, blogs and other relevant content areas associated to a contact. You can view your last email conversations adn anything they are discussing on Twitter, writing about on their blog or sharing on Facebook. This is useful if you are prospecting or keeping up with friends. Getting started with Gist is easy. The difficult part is getting to know how the system works and manage all the extra connection sites it will find for each contact. While this is useful information, I did find it pulls information that has nothing to do with a contact and there is no quick and easy way to "remove/dismiss all" in the event you only want to add you own information. On the upside, in the event you do have a question or need support its only an email or a Tweet away and the team is quick to assist! Overall, Gist is a great tool for contact management, social CRM, and business intelligence. |
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