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Keith Ferrazzi’s Blog, Never Eat Alone, is a great source of networking tips. For Thanksgiving, Keith lists some of his top tips. Tip #3 strikes at the heart of what we are trying to do.

Tip #3. Become a knowledge broker: Share information, by blog, by email, by Twitter, over lunch or however else. But in particular, focus on sharing information that helps people solve problems… Never Eat Alone - Thanksgiving Special

Using Zentact helps you become a knowledge broker by providing insight, allowing you to gather context and making the sharing of information easy.

• Insight is provided by making you aware of all of the relevant information on web pages you are browsing
• Context is gained by insuring that the relationship betweens your network and the information is exposed
• Sharing is simply a click away via either twitter or email

Happy Thanksgiving!

I have 255 connections on LinkedIN. Glancing through the list, probably 50% of the most important contacts I haven’t touched base with in at least a year - some probably two or three years. Zentact is helping solve this problem by making it easy for me to stay in touch.

You can leverage this functionality as well. To do this, the first step is to add contacts from LinkedIN . On the right hand column of LinkedIN, Look for the “Add to Zentact” Link. You can find it between “Send a message” and “Recommend this person”. It will only appear on first degree contacts.

Next step, add tags. Companies, interests and schools all work well. Personal connections work even better.

Then just browse the web. When a match is found, you can reach out in one click.

With the last release, we have added the ability to import contacts from various email services. The process is simple. Just click import contacts, choose a service, log in and away you go.

Contacts are automatically added into Zentact. You can find them in your contacts. New contacts will have zero tags - [0 tags] - and will be marked with a red dot indicating you have not contacted them. To add tags, just click on a contact.

Even without tags, we will alert you of an opportunity to connect based on your contacts first and last name.

So go, Network Better!

We pushed an updated website late Monday evening and a new Firefox extension Tuesday morning. The release gets us closer to our public beta. For those of you using the service, things to look for include:

• Contact importing from Gmail, Yahoo and Hotmail/Livemail
• One click contact addition from LinkedIN.
• Post email contact addition/modification in Yahoo Mail
• Inline contact management in Gmail - add or modify contacts within the page
• Automatic invitation linkage

It is a big release. Give the new features a try and let us know what you think. We will be posting more details on each feature over the next few days.

If you don’t have an account yet, please Request an Invitation and we’ll get you an invite shortly.