I saw a presentation by Dawn DeBruyn on her service WeMeUs. This has the potential to be my contact manager. The system is a web service with your data in the cloud, so you can access the data anywhere. It is meant to do what Goldmine and other similar desktop contact manager does. Features include tags, logs, and action reminders on individual contacts, also grouping of contacts, import/export, esp. with LinkedIn. These features are free. WeMeUs has more capabilities than Outlook, but is not as complex as CRM system, like Saleforce or SugarCRM. Nor is it a social network like LinkedIn or Facebook (which apparently could do not do import/export of contacts), so only you have access to your data, which Dawn said is “your relationship IP”.
I’m in the limited beta. Hopefully this is better than MS Business Contact Manager 2007, which I had encountered problems even trying to start on both 32-bit and 64-bit versions of Vista, after installation.
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