20-Word Description
SocialMinder is an online assistant that helps you maintain relationships with your LinkedIn network.
CEO’s Pitch
Mashable's TakeSocialMinder seems to provide artificial intelligence for members of LinkedIn and Gmail by scanning the email headers and mapping them to their Linkedin network. It then analyzes the health status of your relationships and identifies those that need strengthening.
One of the most useful features is the way SocialMinder identifies recent business news to discuss with your contacts no matter how long it's been since you've touched base. The other handy feature is the smart weekly report that identifies the top opportunities to improve your network and relationships. The best thing about this service is that they do not ever contact anyone in your network or address book, unlike too many other services.
SocialMinder could be described as a social CRM service in a way. Whereas traditional CRM services focus on closing deals, SocialMinder instead concentrates on building those relationships which could ultimately lead to improved chances of success when it comes to working with those contacts in your network.
As far as constructive criticism goes, SocialMinder could become more useful and successful themselves if they eventually include the option to work with other email systems such as Yahoo Mail, MSN/Hotmail, and traditional Pop/IMAP mail services. It might also become beneficial if they someday provide the same intelligence for other social networking relationships such as on Twitter, Facebook, MySpace, etc. Over all, SocialMinder has developed something useful and full of potential.
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