Gist

Know more about who you know. Gist for BlackBerry® smartphones enables you to access all of your contacts in one place and see updates for each contact from various sources including email, social networks and other online content.

Gist reviews the volume of communication that you have with each and every person in your network, the frequency of communication and the number of account connections for each contact to establish an 'importance' ranking.  

Gist adds a 'Get the Gist' menu item to your BlackBerry's Messages, Calendar and Contacts applications.  When you are viewing an item in one of those applications, you can select 'Get the Gist' from the menu to see the Gist profile of that person.

Here’s what you can do with Gist for BlackBerry smartphones:

- See a unified contact list across email, social networks and other sources.
- Get news, status updates and contact details for everyone in your network.
- 'Get the Gist' for a contact directly from a message or calendar event by using the BlackBerry main menu.
- Easily share a social update or news item via email, Twitter or Facebook.
- See a photo for each contact and start a text message, email, phone or BBM conversation directly from Gist.
- Sort contacts by ‘Importance’ to highlight the people you're emailing and meeting with the most.
- Add contacts to Gist from your BlackBerry Contacts, Google Apps, Facebook and Twitter.


Details for this version:
- View the people on your calendar by using the ‘Meeting this Week’ feature.
- Easily view and connect with people ‘Recently Added’ to your network.
- Better manage your calendar by using the ‘Confirm’, ‘I’m Running Late’ and ‘Follow Up’ features in Gist.
- Easily send an email to all attendees to 'Confirm' a meeting.
- Let meeting attendees know via email that you are running late with the ‘Running Late’ feature.
- Quickly and easily ‘Follow Up’ with contacts via email after a meeting.

"Using Gist to learn about my contacts was completely effortless and really added a new dimension to communication." –Jeff Grosse, @CRMFYI

The Gist Promise:
 
- Your data is wholly owned and controlled by you. At no time is your data shared with other Gist users unless specifically granted by you.
- Your data is secure. We take great lengths to secure all user data and ensure your data privacy and confidentiality.
- The level of data integration that Gist performs is fully under your control. You can use Gist without including any existing accounts, or connect your email, calendar, contact and social network accounts for full integration.
- We will never use your data to reach out to your contacts. Again, you are in full control.
- At any time, you can give the command to wipe all your data from our systems.