Comments on: While We're Talking Contact Management…

By: Daniel

Daniel — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 17:13:25 +0000

I really do think that palm pilot is a very wise investment especially if you buy it via wholesale please note that he password manager Roboform can import contacts from Outlook express.

By: Hana

Hana — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 15:27:56 +0000

You should take the risk and go with the online crm solution. They usually look way better than the software you download. Seems that you are all about look of the database, so go ahead and check http://www.salesnexus.com

By: Greg

Greg — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 19:36:52 +0000

I was just visiting this contact app. site before landing on your post about contact management. Perhaps you may want to check this site out. I have no affliation, so just something passed along. Good luck. http://www.batchblue.com/index.html

By: Brent Hopkins

Brent Hopkins — Sun, 16 Nov 2008 23:16:14 +0000

Here’s a little-known ‘secret:’ the password manager Roboform can import contacts from Outlook. I use the portable version Roboform2go. It encrypts everything with a master password so no worries if you lose it.

By: sunita

sunita — Sat, 15 Nov 2008 09:16:44 +0000

Well you could not have rounded up better.

Sunita

By: Pamela Poole

Pamela Poole — Sat, 15 Nov 2008 08:36:05 +0000

Hi Tom. Thanks for the tip on Palm Desktop. I wouldn’t have thought of that. It looks like it has potential but for now you have to jump through hoops to export data to an iPhone, which might make me hesitate since I will be going that way in the near future.

Since you can now run Windows on Macs, and the Mac Address Book is so dreamy, I’m pretty convinced that anything Apple is the Holy Grail…

By: Pamela Poole

Pamela Poole — Sat, 15 Nov 2008 08:26:49 +0000

Hi Heather. Lucky girl! Definitely a tasty gadget and nice features too. Something to keep in mind for sure. Thanks!

By: Pamela Poole

Pamela Poole — Sat, 15 Nov 2008 08:23:35 +0000

Hi Fernando. You’re right, somebody could take my bag. It’s giant and orange and probably has “target” written all over it too!

Thanks for the missing features list. Hopefully someone will hear our plea!

By: Pamela Poole

Pamela Poole — Sat, 15 Nov 2008 08:21:04 +0000

Hi Bill. Thanks for your comments. In general, as I said, I have entrusted my personal info to the cloud and its gatekeepers with little or no hesitation because I know you all basically have to offer security to your users if you want to survive!

There’s just the question of other people’s judgment; would you want someone who may not be Internet savvy deciding where to store info about you? You say “many times” the cloud is safer, and I know that, but it’s the few times it may not be that make it wrong (in my view) to make that call for info that you don’t own.

I have a low-level password on my PC. Trusted geeks assured me this was much harder to crack than the Windows password.

By: Tom

Tom — Sat, 15 Nov 2008 04:27:18 +0000

Pamela, all I can say is: ME TOO! You may want to check out the free Palm Desktop (even if you don’t use a PDA). It’s definitely not a CRM but it’s a decent address book with plenty of fields for multiple phones etc., plus a Notes field for free-form contact info. (It also has a to-do list and calendar but you don’t *have* to use them…)

Good luck and let me know if you find the Holy Grail!

Tom