Ideas that Impact
  • Ideas that Impact
  • SE101: Socent

Contaxt: Human-centered Contact Managers {idea post}

1/3/2012

0 Comments

 
What if contacts, such as those stored in one's email, linked in or iCal/Outlook, were captured around relatedness?  

Who? 
When/where did you meet? 
When/where did you last meet? 
What are key conversation points to remember for next time?   
What are your connections?  (professional, personal, revolutions, passion, volunteer, issues, mutual friends, family, etc)

What are keywords to associate with this person?
What are his/her touchpoints (usual contact data)

Click to drop in relevant work information from linked in and personal info from FB.

The reason is that it could make connecting people much easier.  Imagine that I have lunch with Doug, who has a new project. I want to introduce Doug to Christine as a potential collaborator.  I could click on Doug's name, where we met, relevant work experience, a couple of keywords, preferred contact info and click on Christine, where we met, relevant work experience, a couple of keywords, preferred contact info.  Add one sentence and they would receive information about each other based on my relationship with each of them that would provide context to the introduction as well as each other's contact information.

I would call this app "Contaxt" It could be fun to make the business of contact info as much fun as meeting the people!  
0 Comments



Leave a Reply.

    part of Kate's Mural

    idea incubator & 
    prototype lab 
     . . . architecting hope . . .  


    Featured
    Guest Posts
    101
    21st Century Career
    Changemakers
    Creative
    Design
    Ethics
    Learning
    Leadership
    Life Lessons
    Social Impact

    Sectors
    Aging
    Education
    Health
    Macroscope
    Social Enterprise

    Themes
    Wildflower (thoughts)
    Idea (seeds)
    Prototype (experiments)

    Failures
    Fun
    Future/Innovation

    About this blog
    About Kate
    View my profile on LinkedIn
    Picture
    All writing licensed by
    Kate Michi Ettinger and guest contributors under a
    Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States License.

    RSS Feed

    Archives

    April 2016
    March 2015
    January 2015
    March 2014
    February 2014
    January 2014
    October 2013
    May 2013
    April 2013
    February 2013
    November 2012
    August 2012
    April 2012
    March 2012
    February 2012
    January 2012
    December 2011
    March 2011
    September 2010
    August 2010
    June 2010
    November 2009
    October 2009
    July 2008
    May 2008
    April 2008
    March 2008
    February 2008
    October 2007
    July 2007
    June 2007