Gist.

Exciting stuff to announce today about our newly shipped Gist features that will save you time and help you strengthen your network.

First off, we’ve updated the search functionality in Gist for Gmail and Gist for Outlook. Now you can more easily search and find the contacts you need to connect with around a specific event or interaction. Just click on the drop down menu for ‘People on My Calendar’ or ‘Recently Added’ to quickly fire off an email requesting more contact info, see where else you need to connect with them online, or review all of your meeting attender’s recent content.

Check out the short video below for a quick tutorial.

Group Email and Easy Tagging

This is a huge time saver! Now in Gist for Gmail and Gist for Outlook you can quickly add tags to a list of contacts to make them easier to find next time you need to get in touch, or to help you categorize your contacts into interest-based or project-based groups. Using tags you can send specific groups emails more quickly and find your interest-based contacts by a quick keyword search in Gist. Easy as pie.

Check out the video tutorial on tagging and group emails below.

Where can I get it?

You can check out Gist and download it from our tour page.

The Newest Version of Gist for Outlook

We know you’ve been waiting for Gist for Outlook, 64-bit version, and we’re happy to announce that it’s here!

Gist for Outlook takes all of your contacts, puts them in one place, and allows you to find them easily in Outlook. And because it works with your account at Gist.com, you get all of that information on the web and on your mobile too.

Whether you’re looking for a moment of insight right before you send the email; seeking the latest status update from a friend; or just like seeing the pictures of your friends in your Outlook, we can help! Gist gives you powerful search capabilities (by name and tag) and also makes it easier for you to manage traditional contact information like phone numbers (and newer contact information like social network handles and news, discovered for you automatically.)

Where to Get Gist for Outlook

You can download Gist for Outlook 2010 64-bit version here.

And if you’re using Outlook 2003, 2007, or 2010 32-bit version, you can also use Gist here.

Wouldn’t you rather spend less time looking for information and more time acting on it?

With our latest Gist Outlook Plugin release, you can now get rich person and company information BEFORE you send that next email or calendar invite.  Simply create a new message like you normally do and you will see profile information next to everyone you add – even if it is the first time.

Enhanced Outlook Experience (Tweet this)

Now you have all the most recent and relevant information at your fingertips as you compose, read, and respond to your emails.  Want to share something you see?  Simply highlight the news item, blog post, or tweet and drag it into the message body.

• Get updates about all your contacts and their companies inside Outlook
• Quickly find emails, links, and attachments
• Spend less time looking for information and more time acting on it

Click here to download the new Outlook Plugin now. (Make sure you’ve already activated your Gist account)

And with Outlook 2007, you can keep Gist open in the task pane so all this great information is always visible and within reach.

Are you Lotus Notes user?  The Gist Plugin for Lotus Notes is in limited release.  Sign up to join the waiting list.

We had another great webinar on Wednesday, February 17th and wanted to thank everyone who made the time to attend.  Look for an invite and details about our March webinar coming soon where we’ll be digging into the product and specific scenarios about using Gist to make the most of your professional network.

Here is the recording.  Enjoy!

Thanks to all of you who attended our first Gist webinar yesterday.

If you weren’t able to attend or want to review the content, we’ve posted the webinar and made it available for you.

We’ve also posted the webinar slides.

You asked some great questions and we will be adding a link in this post just as soon as we can answer the questions and post the responses out to our support site at http://support.gist.com.

Again, thanks for a great event. We plan to host these monthly and we’d like to hear any other ideas you have for webinars.

David did a recent video about Gist where he talked about how it makes your online life easier.  Leading up to that, he and Gist CEO T.A. McCann caught up via Skype to talk about Gist, entrepreneurship, and technology.  Here’s the video…

We wanted to share a few tips to help you get more out of Gist to make it part of your daily routine and will be conducting a webcast on Wednesday, January 20th at 9am PT.

We’ll talk about:

• How to become a Gist power user in 10 minutes
• Using Gist where you already spend your time (MS Outlook, iPhone, Salesforce.com)
• Engaging your professional network using Gist

We will also be sharing some new features and look forward to receiving your feedback on what we can do to improve.

Space is limited.
Reserve your Webinar seat now at:

https://www2.gotomeeting.com/register/160491323

Title:  Tips on Getting the Most Out of Gist

Date:  Wednesday, January 20, 2010

Time: 9:00AM – 10:00AM PST

After registering you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the Webinar.

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Happy New Year everyone!  As we look forward to 2010, we wanted to highlight a great post about technology trends for small business from Brent Leary.  We had a chat with Brent a couple weeks ago and he writes a great blog on Social CRM along with various other activities including doing podcasts.  His most recent post includes a conversation with Ramon Ray who publishes SmallBizTechnology.com.

Here is the link to the post and podcast.

We use many of the productivity tools discussed in this interview here at Gist.  The tools mentioned include:

• Tweetdeck
• Seesmic
• NutshellMail.com
• Gist
• Xobni
• Batchbook
• Zoho
• Intuit Customer Manager

Be sure to check them out if you are looking for new and innovative ways to be productive in the new year.  We, obviously, hope that you make Gist a big part of your day every day.

To help you ring in the New Year, we have released an updated version of our popular iPhone application.

Updates to v1.2 include:

• Add or edit notes for people and companies so you can capture next steps or to dos for your key contacts.
• Share contact information for people and companies with other Gist users.
• Invite others to Gist to help us spread the word and to give your friends and colleagues a way to save a little time and increase their productivity in the new year.

We continue to enhance the iPhone app based on your feedback so please send it early and often.  Thanks!