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Glasnost 21 and Virtual Assistants – The perfect match ?

If you are a Virtual Assistant then Glasnost has a lot to offer you and could really turbo charge your productivity.
For a start the whole service is available online, so wherever you or your colleagues, clients or suppliers are, everyone can access the same information.
Also the service was specifically designed for working with people [...]

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Glasnost 21 integrates with Google News and Google Blogs

Following the integration of real time Twitter search into Glasnost’s Contact Management Module, and the further availability of direct linkage to 3rd party data feeds, we are pleased to announce that we’ve added real time search results from Google News and Google Blogs.
So now, as an example, if you have Microsoft as a contact [...]

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Add / Edit / View Comments – handy new feature

At Glasnost we always aim to avoid ‘bloatware’. Adding endless functionality can seriously damage the user experience. We’ve aimed from inception to avoid the problems so many of us have experienced with products from …. sssh you know who !
But we do respond to our users, and several have said that whilst they appreciate [...]

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“How do I know thee? Let me count the ways.”

Sorry to misquote Elizabeth Barrett Browning but we’ve added a number of new ways for you to keep informed about your contacts.
It is now possible to add a URL as a named contact method. So if your contact has a Linkedin profile you can now create a contact method of ‘Linkedin’, specify it requires [...]

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Glasnost 21 integrates with 3rd party data feeds

Following the integration with Twitter, Glasnost21 has today launched the availability of two 3rd party datasets, directly linked into the Contact Management module.

High value subscription services covering the commercial property market, cityoffices.net and Metropolis data can now be accessed on the same screen as company data. So, for example, if you are on the [...]

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Glasnost 21 adds support for vCards

Starting today, Glasnost users can update all their colleagues to new additions or edits they make in the Contact Management module, by automatically sending multiple vCards by email.
To explain the benefits of this, here is the process one of our clients uses to manage their contacts amongst a dispersed team.
This Management Consultant has a [...]

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Glasnost 21 introduces Twitter integration

We are pleased to announce that Glasnost 21’s Contact Management module now integrates, in real time, with Twitter. This allows you to supplement your own data with up to the moment data pulled in from Twitter.
How does it work?

When you add or edit a new Company in the Contact Management module you can [...]

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Why does Glasnost do what it does?

Glasnost started out as a way to help us run our own web software business. First as an HTML system but now as an Adobe Flex Rich Internet Application.
In our business we need:
Contact Management to:
1. Manage many companies details
2. Manage and interact with many contacts
3. Track all comments, assign tasks and store documents relating [...]

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Glasnost reporting options

Glasnost provides various reporting options.
Contact Management
You can perform a contact or company search (simple keyword, by tag or using the advanced option) and then when the pop up results are shown you can click on ‘Export to Excel’.
You can create task reports. To do this click on search tasks in the left hand menu [...]

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IE6 – Not an issue here !

As many people know the dreaded browser Internet Explorer 6 is still used by 20% or so of Internet users. Admittedly this is more in a corporate environment than amongst home users, but nevertheless it is, to the developer community, an astonishing figure.
Eight years old it is has not only been superceded by IE7 [...]

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