Jigsaw is the New LinkedIn

OK, so this post’s title is a little bit indicative of LinkedIn being “out-dated”…that’s not entirely the case. Linkedin is still a great place to find other professionals and to be found. The truth is, there is always an innovator out there trying to outsmart the competition and Jigsaw has done a good job at becoming a formidable adversary.

Jigsaw is a company owned by Salesforce, the mega-giant in CRM technology. Their platform is clean and organized with a sensible revenue-generating model backing it up. Jigsaw fuses Linkedin’s idea of creating a company and/or personal profile with a Wiki which allows users to update a company’s description for other users. This allows the user to best understand a potential client, competitor, or colleague.

To offer a personal experience, I was recently trying to contact customer service call center managers. These are very elusive creatures I’ll have you know. First of all, call centers are the shadowy-brethren of their mother company or outsourced client. They are supposed to be “a department” within the organization, that way when you are transferred within the phone system it offers the illusion that you just had your call transfered down the hall. Hence the shadowy perception – they don’t want to be noticed, recognized, or identified. Jigsaw changed all of that for me in a matter of minutes.

Give it a try for free, just be aware that you may get pulled into it’s powerful vortex much like I did and find yourself plopping down your credit card to upgrade to the full user account. Oh, and did I mention it’s on a points system? Kind of like ActiveRain. So, be sure to click the little logo on this page so I get 5 more points. Thanks.