Exploring Plaxo

Hello All & Happy Friday! Over the last month or so I have been playing around with Plaxo ... what in the world is Plaxo? Well, it's a lot of things - really!

According to Plaxo's Help Center:
Plaxo is a lot of things. It’s mostly about synchronizing the things that you and your friends do all across the web in a single place without you having you worry about any of it. It’s also about staying in touch with friends, colleagues and family on a daily basis. It’s the one place on the web where you can look and see what photos your sister posted of your cute baby niece on Picasa, while finding out that your colleague Tom blogged about how he proposed to his fiance, and seeing that your mom added another book to her Amazon wish list. Now with Pulse, Plaxo has become a fun and efficient way to communicate with all of your friends, family and business contacts.
One thing you should know ... Plaxo assumes that you and your family, friends and co-workers are online already - blogging, tweeting, flickring and more. By connecting with these folks through Plaxo, you get a steady stream of what your connections are doing. Plaxo has elements of Facebook and LinkedIn, even Twitter, but it is different.

I am looking at Plaxo for contact management. Since breaking up with Outlook over Christmas, I imported all of my contacts in Plaxo. Currently, I also have my Plaxo address book syncing with my Palm Centro and my Gmail contacts. I see a ton of potential here ...

In my address book, when I click on a contact, I get a pretty robust contact record. Tabs include: Home, Work, Notes, Other and History. I can add all sort of info, including notes on my latest conversations with the contact and more. If my communication with the contact is through Plaxo, that information is recorded automatically for me. Plaxo will remind me of birthdays and anniversaries too.

I have my account pulling in my Twitter feed and my blog feed, so my contacts see these as well.

One of the best things about Plaxo is how you connect with people - as family, friends or co-workers. Your connections can be in more than one group, but you chose what each group sees of your information.

You do not have to be connected with each of your contacts in order to make full use of the address book features. With an upgraded account ... at ~ $50/year you can get even more features. Still exploring that part!

Have a great weekend!