Our Facebook “Join My List” application has really been taking off recently so I thought I’d take the time to look at our most successful users of the app and figure out why they have been successful and pass some tips and tricks on to you.
All this week, Constant Contact will be at TechCrunch Disrupt. Throughout the week (Mon-Wed), I’ll be updating the presentations and what the buzz is through our blog. Stay tuned for updates if you aren’t able to be there! I’ll be commenting on the technology and how it will impact Small Businesses and Organizations.
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I attended the Social Graph Symposium 2010 http://socialgraphsymp.com/ last week. This was an event hosted by Microsoft & Rapleaf rapleaf.com and was a full day focused on a range of topics and issues involving social media, social networking, the overall social graph and societal implications. There was some great discussion and some conflicting opinions on where this will be leading us. I think it is safe to say that everyone there agrees that the implications of the social graph are significant for business, for politics and for society in general.

With the massive amount of information to sort through, finding everything that you need becomes a difficult and tedious task, especially when that information is dispersed across several different places. Alongside the data mining project that we are currently working on, the problem of contact management has always intrigued us. With some of our customers having well over 25,000 contacts being managed by Constant Contact, and most likely even more information about these contacts and others spread out amongst several other mediums, there had to be a better way to do things, to easily extract valuable information out of that.
Learned new tools from my business.