In preparation for MobileMe, I’m trying to get all my contacts in order. I’ve been using my local address book to store all my contacts like an idiot. Not only do I have hundreds of connections that become difficult to manage. But my information goes out of date with time, which is the beauty of online services like LinkedIn.

So I’ve begun the tedious process of getting all contacts moved over to LinkedIn and Plaxo. Chances are if we know each other, expect an auto-generated spam-bait connection message soon.

I wish that I only had to use one service, but LinkedIn seems to be place to go for most connections, better for capturing people you know, but not necessary your primary day-to-day contacts. And Plaxo, while a far better service with better tools to keep my contacts in sync, shows my activity stream to the folks that want to follow each other and have more than a casual connection.