Pinger for Productivity
I’ve been using a free tool from www.pinger.com. It’s a handy way to use your telephone to send email - and - so far - it’s free!
Here’s how it works: You hit the Pinger website to create your free account, enter the name and email address of a contact or two, and they verify your phone number and email address - and then they send you a local telephone number to use. When you call, it asks you “who do you want to message” and you just say the name of the person you’d like to contact. You just speak your message and hang up - and Pinger delivers a small sound file to their inbox! Pretty nifty.
Why would a nonprofit want to use that? Besides the usual reasons (wanting to leave a detailed message but you aren’t near your computer, thought of something while driving your car that you don’t want to forget to mention, want to leave a message for someone that might be in a meeting), you can create groups. That means you can send an email message to an entire group of people all at the same time. If your audience is connected at the hip to their email - this might be a great way to send a personal sounding note (your voice, after all) to them all at once.
Lately, here in Seattle - that message might be something like “Let’s postpone our meeting due to the snow!”
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