Gist: A Power Networker’s Dream…Come True

Hugh Macken • Mar 30, 2010

On April 9th at 1pm EDT I‘ll be chatting it up with venture capitalist T.A. McCann and technology innovator Buzz Bruggeman (on Blog Talk Radio) about a useful and increasingly popular tool for networking and online business intelligence gathering: Gist.com. Gist is an online application that helps you to “know more about who you know.” […] The post Gist: A Power Networker’s Dream…Come True appeared first on VMR. Gist: A Power Networker’s Dream…Come True was first posted on March 30, 2010 at 10:38 am.©2015 "VMR". Use of this feed is for personal non-commercial use only. If you are not reading this article in your feed reader, then the site is guilty of copyright infringement. Please contact me at hugh@vmrcommunications.com

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On April 9th at 1pm EDT I ‘ll be chatting it up with venture capitalist T.A. McCann and technology innovator Buzz Bruggeman (on Blog Talk Radio) about a useful and increasingly popular tool for networking and online business intelligence gathering: Gist.com.

T.A. McCann

Long story short:  This is one interview you will absolutely positively not want to miss. Both TA and Buzz are extremely sharp, well-rounded and experienced businessmen. So whether you decide to use the Gist service (which is currently in beta and free) or not, I suspect the insights we will collectively gain about how to improve our networking and relationship building skills will be well worth the 30 minutes of your time and mine.

T.A.’s past experience includes Vulcan Capital and Polaris Venture Partners where he was an entrepreneur-in-residence. Prior to Polaris, he held senior positions at Microsoft , leading product planning for the Exchange Server Group and developing the Service Delivery Platforms group focused on mobile applications.  He currently serves on the board of Art with Heart and is an advisor to Wishpot, Asset Archives and Notary One. Did I mention, T.A. is a founder of  Jump2Go – providing innovative solutions for the radio industry, HelpShare – a web Q&A company and Soft Labour, a web design and development consultancy. Somehow in the midst of accomplishing so much T.A. squeezed in sailing around the world and winning the oldest active trophy in international sport -the  America’s Cup.

I’ve listened to T.A. a few times online and the one thing that really impresses me is his determination, confidence and focus. But along the way, T.A. has, evidently, not forgotten about the importance of building and cultivating relationships with people by knowing what is going on and matters most in their world.

Buzz Bruggeman

One of those people is technologist  Buzz Bruggeman , who is a big enough fan of Gist to share his personal experiences using the application with us next Friday. Buzz is one of the co-founders of ActiveWords , e.g.  http://www.activewords.com/. He graduated with honors from Coe College and from Duke University Law School. He runs the outward facing aspects of ActiveWords, and as such is responsible for evangelizing ActiveWords to everyone he meets. Buzz has spoken at many tech industry events, has been on the advisory board of the Demo Conference, e.g.  www.demo.com , won a Demo god award, and has been featured in books by Dan Gillmor and Robert Scoble. Buzz has been a long time participant in the blogging community, and routinely speaks on using new media tools to market and evangelize software.

One more important note: If you’d like to share your experience using Gist here or you have questions you’d like me to ask T.A. or Buzz, be sure to jott me a comment here.  Rest assured, I will be listening!

If you’re curious as to how Gist works, this video provides a good overview:

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