Ask HN: Stay in touch with professional friends or former colleagues

Re:Ask HN: Stay in touch with professional friends or former... by exolymph on Wednesday September 14, 2016 @07:24PM (#12502080)

If I had a system to organize this, here's what it would be:

1) Add all new professional contacts to a Google Doc along with the date of the last time I spoke to them, with the most recent contact dates at the bottom.

2) Contact one person every week or [insert appropriate time interval].

3) Move the person I just contacted to the bottom of the list.

4) Rinse and repeat.

But instead of doing that I just have Twitter and a dash of Facebook. People pop up in my feed and I interact with them on the fly.

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Re:Ask HN: Stay in touch with professional friends or former... by mattm on Thursday September 15, 2016 @06:20PM (#12510325)

As part of my tool - https://touchingbase.io - I offer something similar to this where our algorithm determines who you should get back in touch with. If anyone's interested, I'd be happy to show a demo.

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Re:Ask HN: Stay in touch with professional friends or former... by curuinor on Thursday September 15, 2016 @02:20AM (#12503857)

I've done this with custom tools for a few years. Works pretty well.

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Re:Ask HN: Stay in touch with professional friends or former... by recmend on Thursday September 15, 2016 @11:17AM (#12506871)

do you mind sharing your workflow / tools?

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Re:Ask HN: Stay in touch with professional friends or former... by recmend on Wednesday September 14, 2016 @07:54PM (#12502283)

So all of your professional relationships lives in twitter + facebook?

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Re:Ask HN: Stay in touch with professional friends or former... by exolymph on Thursday September 15, 2016 @01:39AM (#12503711)

Also email and face-to-face, but all of my "keeping up with people I'm not actively working with" happens through Twitter and Facebook.

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