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A Rolodex is a rotating card file device used to store business contact information. Its name, a
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File:Rolodex with Altered Cards.jpg, A decorative rolodex
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A Rolodex is a rotating card file device used to store business contact information. Its name, a portmanteau
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(usually as ''rolodex'') for any personal organizer
A personal organizer, datebook, date log, daybook, day planner, personal analog assistant, book planner, year planner, or agenda (from Latin ''agenda'' – things to do), is a small book or binder that is designed to be portable. It usually con ...
performing this function, or as a metonym for the total of an individual's accumulated business contacts. In this usage, it has generally come to describe an effect or characteristic of the small-world network
A small-world network is a type of mathematical graph in which most nodes are not neighbors of one another, but the neighbors of any given node are likely to be neighbors of each other and most nodes can be reached from every other node by a sm ...
of a business's investors, board of directors, or the value of a CEO's contacts, or in organizational structure
An organizational structure defines how activities such as task allocation, coordination, and supervision are directed toward the achievement of organizational aims.
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. The Rolodex is iconic enough as a piece of ubiquitous business furniture that it has been shown in the Smithsonian.
History
The Rolodex was invented in 1956 by Danish engineer Hildaur Neilsen, the chief engineer ofArnold Neustadter
Arnold Neustadter (25 August 1910 – 17 April 1996) was an American inventor and businessman. He invented the Rolodex
A Rolodex is a rotating card file device used to store business contact information. Its name, a portmanteau of the words ''rol ...
's company Zephyr American
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, a stationery manufacturer in New York. Neustadter was often credited with having invented it. First marketed in 1958, it was an improvement to an earlier design called the ''Wheeldex''. Zephyr American also invented, manufactured and sold the ''Autodex'', a spring-operated phone directory that automatically opened to the selected letter; ''Swivodex'', an inkwell that did not spill; ''Punchodex'', a paper hole puncher; and ''Clipodex'', an office aid that attached to a stenographer's knee. Neustadter retired and sold out to a larger firm in 1970.
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*Address book
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* Contact list
A contact list is a collection of screen names. It is a commonplace feature of instant messaging, Email clients, online games and mobile phones. It has various trademarked and proprietary names in different contexts.
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* Microsoft Cardfile
* Customer relationship management
Customer relationship management (CRM) is a process in which a business or other organization administers its interactions with customers, typically using data analysis to study big data, large amounts of information.
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