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Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen. – Winston Churchill

Oct 11, 2009 1

Playing with Gist CRM

I have been playing with Gist today. Gist is a CRM that brings in contact data from all over the web to help you keep track of all your contacts and what they are doing. Nice idea but it’s still too labor intensive to get set up and the stream reading interface is not as nice as google reader.. but its beta so growing pains are to be expected.

The idea is good, aggregate the blog feeds, twitter updates, linkedin profile updates, facebook updates, company website news from all your contacts in one place. Save you bouncing between Tweetdeck, google reader and facebook to find out what people are doing.

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Oct 7, 2009 2

TwitScoop Buzzin.. just for me?

The TwitScoop tag cloud in TweetDeck is cool, but its a bit… global.

One of the columns you can select to view is called “Buzzin..”, powered by TwitScoop. TwitScoop tracks all Traffic on titter and allows you to see how much there is for each phrase or word that is “hot” NOW.

Click on a word and you can see a trend graph on the TweetDeck homepage showing when the word hit, how it spiked and how “hot” it is. It’s interesting how quick things spike and die on the twittersphere. You really don’t get 15 minutes any more.

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