We just finished launching our new blog at Network Hippo (http://blog.networkhippo.com) where we took all of the CRM-related posts from this blog and imported them there.  Now that “the Hippo has legs” we’ll be blogging on CRM, networking, and product development from that site, and using this one to continue to discuss general technology trends.

There’s a new post there now called “Networking made icky“.

I hope you’ll check out the new blog, and update your bookmarks.  The feed for the new site is: http://feeds.feedburner.com/NetworkHippo

Today we announced the integration of Network Hippo and Mail Chimp – a great campaign management system that will help you stay in contact with important people more often.

Mail Chimp is an easy-to-use email campaign management system that is perfect for startups as you can get up and running quickly, get awesome reporting, and really see the impact of your mail messages.

Now you can export your contact lists – the whole list, or by custom groups or tags – from directly within Network Hippo.

Here’s how it works:

1. Go to “settings for this network”
2. Click on “integrations”
3. Click on MailChimp and enter your API (found in the account settings of Mail Chimp) and click save
4. Return to your contact list
5. Select a group, tag, or “all” from contacts
6. Click on “import/export” and then “export”
7. Select MailChimp as the export type, and then select which list you want to add your contacts to from your mailchimp account

It’s super simple.  Below is a short video showing you how easy it is.

We plan on extending our partnership with MailChimp by adding reporting features on the dashboard and within user records, so stay tuned!