Soocial VS Plaxo – How to sync contacts between Google Apps domains, Gmail and Hotmail

Posted by Erik Rudling on June 22, 2011 in Social | 7 comments

I also replied to some questions regarding this subject on Quora here and here.

There’s a notable lack of good software to bring all the different contacts on several different platforms available today such as mobile, desktop and multiple Google Apps accounts. Even though contact enriching services such as Gist tries to do this it fails on a couple of points that are critical to me.

• No two way sync with for e.g Google Contacts (this is a MUST!)
• Slow and bulky UI

Today I use Google Contacts on my primary Google Apps domain as my base, my one point of sync for mobile (iPhone) and desktop devices. My first encounter with the need to sync between several Google Apps domains occurred when I started up another business and wanted to have my business contacts on more than one Google Apps domain.

Nimble Review – A very nimble Social CRM

Posted by Erik Rudling on March 1, 2011 in CRM | 3 comments

Introduction and the Competition

Nimble is a social CRM (#sCRM) and after spending some time with it I can say that this is one of the better online social CRM systems I’ve tried and I have tried quite a few the last couple of months. In this article I will initially compare Nimble to one of its competitors that I have also spent some time with, namely Gist…