Move Beyond a Business Card.
We are very excited to share the details on our latest release with you all. We constantly seek to improve Gist and incorporate your feedback and requests and this month the team focused on enhancing and improving Gist Profiles – making it easier for people to know more about you online. There are many new capabilities including one we are really proud of – a crowdsourcing capability that will really enhance your use of Gist.
Gist helps you learn more about the most important people in your network, and help you find all of the news about those people from many different sources (not just email.) Here are a few highlights of our current release, focused on making you more effective at managing and connecting to your contacts and staying up to date (we’d love to know what you think about it – let us know at feedback@gist.com.)
Leveraging the Gist Community to Make Your Profiles Even Better
In this release of Gist, we’re introducing a new capability that will allow you to gain from the wisdom of the crowd by suggesting which data is relevant for a person. We’re starting with Twitter handles, and you’ll now see a Suggest checkbox when editing a Contact or Company Twitter handle or when reviewing Suggested Profile Information in Gist. This is a powerful crowdsourcing capability that will make it easier for you to build accurate and relevant Contact and Company profiles automatically.
Gist Suggests Information for You
We’re also excited to introduce the Suggested Profile Information pane, a new way to enhance your Contact and Company records that takes advantage of the magic going on behind the scenes at Gist. We are constantly looking for new information about your contacts and companies, and in the past Gist added this information automatically. The Suggested Information pane now shows you all the data we’ve found and allows you to accept or reject each piece of information. We even provide background information on where we found the data as well as our confidence that the data is accurate.
Improved Display and Editing for Contact and Company Records
We continually add new sources and types of data to the Gist Contact and Company detail pages, and this release we’ve improved display and editing for these pages.
We optimized the Contact and Company pages for two primary activities:
1. Quickly referencing contact details
2. Reading, responding, and connecting with the latest news and social network posts by and about your contacts and companies.
Information You Need with Contact Details and News Prioritized
When you visit a Gist Contact or Company page, you’ll now see basic contact detail, immediately followed by the What’s New section. All the rich profile data gathered by Gist is still available with one click, and it’s no longer visible on every contact view (unless you want it to expand). We’ve left the actions on the top of a profile page to allow you easily to share contact information, request a profile, or invite a friend to use Gist.
We’ve added new enhancements to people and company detail pages:
Twitter details for your contacts
You’ll now see the follows/followers counts for each Twitter handle listed in a Contact or Company detail page and on the Gist Public Profile.
Facebook Work History, imported automatically
If you’ve connected your Facebook account to Gist, we now import Facebook Work History into Contact detail pages. (Note: if you had already connected Gist to your Facebook account, you’ll need to reauthorize Gist to get this additional data. Simply go to your Accounts page, click on Social Networks and click the Reauthorize… link next to your Facebook account)
Pick your preferred phone number formatting
Visit the Account Setting page to configure your preferred formatting for phone numbers.
Editing details is faster
We made editing contact details into a single form, allowing you to quickly update many fields at once. (And sped up the overall page load so you can do what you need to do faster.)
Gist Now Finds Contact Details in Email Signatures
Another new and interesting feature in Gist is the ability to automatically find contact details in the emails your contacts send to you. Cool! If you’ve connected Gist to your email account and configured “email body” content to be uploaded to Gist, we’ll now examine emails you’ve received from your contacts and look for email signatures that contain contact data. When our system discovers this data, it automatically breaks up the data and associates the appropriate fields in the profile record. So, in addition to all the data you’re used to Gist finding for you, you’ll now start to see phone numbers, addresses, company names and titles pulled from email signatures!
Move Beyond a Business Card
Gist makes it easy publish the most up-to-date version of you so that other people can find out more about you. We call this a Gist Public Profile — it’s a single place for people to find your complete contact details and a customized news and social network data feed, customized just for you. In this release, we redesigned the look of Gist Public Profiles to show off your latest news, blogs and tweets and the ability for people to connect with you on Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn right from your Public Profile Page (see CEO T.A. McCann’s profile at http://gist.com/tamccann). You can claim your own Gist Public Profile today – don’t forget to customize the news feed and social network sources to automatically keep your profile fresh with content.
Wow, A Lot Has Changed!
We are a small and mighty team, and want to hear how these changes are making your Gist experience even better. Please let us know what you think at feedback@gist.com, and if you have great ideas for features for future Gist versions, be sure to contribute your idea on our support site.
Here is a video from our CEO, T.A. McCann, that describes some of the new features in more detail.
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