That’s right, we are giving away an iPad this month! We’re asking our awesome users to help us spread the word about Gist and one of our lucky users will win an iPad.

Here is how to enter to win:

Signup or login to Gist and use the invite feature shown below.

Every 5 invites = 1 entry to win the iPad. Enter as often as you like!

(ex. 50 invites = 10 entries)

We will be giving away the iPad the first week of October based on a random drawing from all of the entries.

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It was awesome to have Robert Scoble stop by the Gist office when he was in Seattle and do a quick interview with T.A. McCann and Steve Newman. The interview discusses a few different questions:

1. What is this monster screen on the wall?

2. What is Gist?

3. What is your business model?

4. What is coming down the pipeline for Gist?

5. How does Gist fit into Location?

Anyone is welcome to stop by the office and say hello if you are in town. Enjoy the interview and share your thoughts in the comments.

With a sleek new redesign and an even simplier interface, the Gist Gadget for Google Apps provides contact details, news, and status updates inside Gmail. If you haven’t tried the Gist Gadget yet, we would really love for you to give it a shot. (We promise you won’t be disappointed…)

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Four reasons why you will love Gist inside Gmail:

1. A face with every email.

2. All contact information.

3. Everyone you know in common.

4. Latest news and social updates.

Check out this video to see it in action:

Download the Gist Gadget for Google Apps here.

We are also excited to share with you a case study about Crucial Point LLC on the Google Apps Marketplace Blog that details the power of using Gist with Gmail. Just remember, to use the Gist Gadget you must use Google Apps. Check out the review here: http://solutionsmarketplace.blogspot.com/2010/08/crucial-point-llc-and-gist-gadget-for.html

We would love you to try out Gist here.

To find out exactly what Gist does, click here.

You can follow Gist on twitter here or join us on our facebook fan page here.

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This post was written by Shane Mac, Marketing Manager at Gist. Feel free to contact me anytime with questions, feedback, or if you just want to say hello at shanem@gist.com.

To all of our Gist iPhone app users out there, we have some awesome new enhancements. If you don’t have the Gist iPhone yet then go download it in the iTunes store here.

The Gist iPhone app brings together all of your contacts, updates them with the latest news, delivers it to you where and when you need it.

New Email Functionality

(We added more actions for contacting meeting attendees.)

When you connect your calendar to Gist you can see all of the latest information about the people you are about to meet with. On top of that, you can send a quick email directly from Gist to let the people you are meeting with know that you are running late, confirm the meeting beforehand, or send a follow up after. It is that easy with Gist.

Easily share contact info

(New My Profile view lets you easily share your contact info)

Business cards. Hello 1999? Use Gist to send a complete profile with all of your contact information to anyone in your network or someone you have just met. Simple, quick and easy.

Learn that Name

(An awesome new game to learn the names of all of our contacts)

Check out the video to see how it works.

We would love you to try out Gist here.

To find out exactly what Gist does, click here.

You can follow Gist on twitter here or join us on our facebook fan page here.

You can subscribe to the RSS feed here or have the latest post delivered to your email inbox here.

This post was written by Shane Mac, Marketing Manager at Gist. Feel free to contact me anytime with questions, feedback, or if you just want to say hello at shanem@gist.com.

We wanted to thank everyone who attended our August Webinar about Personal Branding. Look for an invite and details for our September webinar where we will be talking about using Twitter for Business.

We were lucky to have Dan Schawbel, recognized as a personal branding “guru” by the New York Times, as a guest for our webinar. He provided some awesome tips and insight on creating and managing your personal brand online. The video below is the entire webinar which we recorded if you were unable to make it or just wanted to watch it again. (It starts a few seconds late so we apologize for that…)

Dan talked about 4 different sections within the presentation. Here are the four sections as well as how Gist can help you build your personal brand. Enjoy!

4 steps to Personal Branding.

Discover
Create
Communicate
Maintain

With Gist, you will always be on top of everything that is being said about your personal brand. You can also publish content and connect with everyone in your network directly from the Gist dashboard as well. Basically, the 4 steps to personal branding can be easily conquered with Gist.

We would love you to try out Gist here.

To find out exactly what Gist does, click here.

You can follow Gist on twitter here or join us on our facebook fan page here.

You can subscribe to the RSS feed here or have the latest post delivered to your email inbox here.

This post was written by Shane Mac, Marketing Manager at Gist. Feel free to contact me anytime with questions, feedback, or if you just want to say hello at shanem@gist.com.