Mar 28, 2006
Have you tried LinkedIn? It’s a great professional networking tool that allows you to keep track of all your contacts. Mostly it’s for making sure you don’t loose touch with colleagues from previous jobs, but its also really helpful for a number of other things.
I like to use it as a full contact repository for backup purposes – if Outlook ever dies, I don’t loose all of my contacts. You can even set up the LinkedIn Outlook Toolbar, which makes the process completely seamless.
There are a number of other sites that do this kind of thing, but LinkedIn seems to be the best one for professional networking. If you sign up, make sure to drop me an invite at this address: miloa@miloco.com
I’ve been using Plaxo for a couple of years now … does the same stuff. Kinda cool, actually.
MG
Have you tried Ryze (http://www.ryze.com)? I used to be in Marketing (now in PR) and found it useful.
Thanks Sharlet! I’ll have to check it out…
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