At work, we’re well along in experimenting with Plaxo, an online resource for managing your address book, calendars, and other things. One of the founders is the Napster guy. It’s a very cool resource. If a minister is a Plaxo members and updates his/her Plaxo contact info, that info is updated in our records and filters back to the Address Book. When we added our address book (over 1000 names) to Plaxo, we discovered that 29 of those persons were already Plaxo members.

Plaxo works very nice with the Mac Address Book, and also interfaces with Gmail, LinkedIn, and many other popular sites.

Speaking of LinkedIn: I also have a profile there. LinkedIn is very cool, and enables you to build a thorough profile. There are 17 million members so far, putting it just behind Myspace and Facebook. But unlike those sites, LinkedIn is designed for professionals, and particularly for networking.

In LinkedIn, you can find connections with people based on colleges and high schools you attended, plus organizations you’re part of. In Plaxo, you can import your LinkedIn connections.

I invite you to sign up for either of these, and then link up with me.