4 posts tagged “work”
SpinVox and Me are off to Barcelona in about 12hrs or so for the biggest mobile event of the year, Mobile World Congress...
I'm going to be blogging all over the shop - a large chunk of it here, some more here, videoing a bit here and here as well as microblogging a little bit here too.
If you're going - see you there! If you're not - why not keep track of me here!
See ya!
:)
...make sure you know what you're talking about.
Whenever I'm asked to present and/or share a new idea with the team(s) at work I always get a flash of fear that, if I don't go in prepared, the whole thing will turn out a little bit like this:
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Shonkey - cross-posted from Why Don't Grownups Get It?
So far it has yet to happen... But it is a GREAT reference point.
This piece first appeared over at the SpinVox Blog in the early hours of this morning. But upon re-reading it this afternoon I figured I'd publish it here too on my VOX as I don't consider it a just another ad for them but rather a personal recommendation of some of their FREE services.
And anyway, it's my blog, I'll post what the hell I like!
;)
As ever, all comments welcome.
Enjoy..
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SpinVox For You - YES YOU! - cross-posted from The SpinVox Blog
That's right! You! There! Reading this!
:)
So I was chatting away to one of my peers the other day and I happened to mention I worked for SpinVox and their immediate (and rather dismissal) response was:
"Oh, that Voicemail thingy?"
And I said: "Well... Yeah.. but NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO! As well.."
Y'see - Whilst I do agree that one of the killer applications of the SpinVox product is Voicemail... (we'll come back to this one another time - it really has saved my life on more than one occasion) ...there are still SO MANY other ways you can have SpinVox in your life.
Allow me to outline three that I personally use quite regularly...1) Ok. Let's start with group text messaging. Know what that is? The 'one to many' thing yeah? No? Well look, let me tell you about Blast.
Blast through SpinVox
has two cool benefits: First up, (which I think is just damn cool on
its own), you can speak a text message. That's right. SPEAK. A. TEXT.
Cool as.
The second benefit is not only can you speak your SMS but
you can also set up a predefined list of up to TWENTY recipients.
That's right, Twenty.
That is cool. I honestly had no idea it was
that many... (I thought it was like five or something) ...I think I'm
going to have to review my account definitely.
I only have the
numbers of a couple of loved ones in my group at the moment. Maybe
I'll delete them and create a new group of blast buddies: "Pub friends"
- yeah, that'll work. :)
2) Next - You're out and about and you remember - (like me) - "Damn, I must remember to pack that thing for tomorrow" - so what do I do? I call my Memo through SpinVox number, leave myself a little reminder message, and then - when I get home - it's there in my email inbox: "Dude, don't forget to pack that thing for tomorrow".
Cool? Maybe.
Handy? Hell yeah!
Especially if you like to keep notes throughout the day and don't have time to write anything down.
3) Finally, one of my favourite applications of the SpinVox product: Blog through SpinVox.
Admittedly,
something I'm yet to demonstrate on this blog - (we're currently midway
through redesigning the place - I'll activate voice posting after that
goes live) - but I have used it before on my own blog and I'm glad to report it works very well.
You can literally blog from anywhere. Well... anywhere where you can make a phone call anyway... Mount Everest for instance!
Thing is, and this is what makes it a 'must-have' instead of a 'nice to have':
With Blog through SpinVox the 'I was' becomes 'I am'.
And that, to me, is just SO powerful.
Try it. I dare you.
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EDIT:
Early reports say that it ^ reads like a SpinVox ad.
Meh.
"I'm holding a phone! I work with phones. That counts as work"
Anywhoo - if that's the case then that's me over there
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Being busy.
:p
Ok ok ok - so I've been neglecting my VOX a little bit of late. I've had some good reasons mind. Most of which will hopefully become clear by the time you finish reading.
Er... that is if you finish reading at the end of this post. Not if you finish reading NOW for instance.
That'd be rubbish.
So let's crack on shall we?!
Right - the 'to-blog' list from my last-but-one post read a little something like this:
- My business trip to San Francisco, (well - everything that happened after the first 24hrs anyway)
- Social Networks through SpinVox
- And all of the news and coverage that followed that... Because it's NOW LIVE folks! Go! Get it!
- A couple of other blogging projects that I want to talk about
- Mobile Geeks of London III (I'm waiting on ONE PERSON to come back to me before we move ahead)
First up:
My business trip to San Francisco
I'm going to duck out at this point at say that it deserves a post all to itself. So I'm going to cheat a bit and defer that to another post. Not the best of starts.
Next:
Social Networks through SpinVox
Again - saving this for a separate post - it's a bit of a SpinVox love in to be honest - and I can't wait to share it!
(the news and coverage falls into this too)
What else:
Mobile Geeks of London III -
The plan was to get this out and done by the end of November - but what with it being two days until December you and I both know that that just is not going to happen. However, the ONE PERSON who I was waiting for DID get back to me - and we're making plans to get it up and running early 2008. So watch this space.
Finally:
The couple of other blogging projects that I've been working on - this is the thing that's been taking up my time - hence the VOX neglect - but hey - I'm back now huh?
First up - Remember how I told you that you could Blog through SpinVox?
Well - NOOOOOOW - Yours truly is now officially 'Editor-in-Chief' over at the new SpinVox Blog.
Wheeeeee! Which is just cool.
(remind me to change my email sig - hehe)
It's only been going for a little while now and, although I'm still finding my feet a little bit, I've got some great support from the team around me and hopefully it'll go from strength to strength. Got some great ideas for the next three months or so.... so do me a favour and add the SpinVox Blog Feed to your RSS reader today!
(and if you don't like the content - at least you know who to complain to!) ;)
Ok - so now - onto my other blogging project - and this kind of ties into my last post too - in that you've probably been waiting for 'part 2' of the review. Well - sorry to break it to you - but part 2 isn't coming...
What happened was my mate Ewan Macleod, Editor over at SMS Text News, saw my "Future of Mobile - Part 1" post (which I did, live, from my N95 - thank you VOX - haven't done that for a while), and dropped me a sneaky text asking if he could have a full write-up.
"Sure thing" I said. So he wrote a leading piece and then I followed it up with the full write up.
:)
All of which seemed to go down pretty well. Ewan's a top guy and I've done some things with him in the past so it was nice to actually sit down and properly contribute to his, quite frankly, fantastic site.
Anywhoo - this lead onto another conversation which in turn resulted with the following question -
"How about doing it regularly? Not reporting per se, but more of a weekly opinion piece... "
So with SpinVox' blessing (thanks guys!) "Whatley Wednesday" was born.
Subjects covered so far: Flashmobbing and the Nokia N81 8GB.
Again - quite a new project - but regular Whatleydude content, week in week out?! You can't complain!
;)
So where does that leave my VOX blog?
My SpinVox-y chatter has found a home and now it seems my Mobile chatter has found a home too.
Well as I've already said - I've still got stuff I want to write up - but if you remember - I originally started this VOX so I could blog the Glastonbury Festival LIVE from my mobile.
And even though that had geeky overtones - it was still more of a personal thing.
So... I'm gonna try and take this blog back to its roots!
After all - the address is on my Moo Card so I best make sure the content is up to date!
Until next time....
