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April 10th, 2007

Send Emails and Text Messages with a Phone Call with Jott

Have you ever been driving home when you just remembered something you forgot to do at work? Or a really rad idea that you know you will forget if you don’t write it down immediately? Now you can call a phone number, leave a voicemail, and it will be transcribed and sent to you via email or text. Set up contacts and groups on your account and you can also send messages to friends, co-workers, or colleagues by leaving a voicemail. That is how Jott works.

It is free to use (at this point) and although I have only used it over the past weekend, I plan to use it quite a bit. I also think that this has a lot of possibilities for bands and labels.  Here are a couple that I can immediately think of:

• Instead of texting my bands guest list requests on the day of the show, I will phone them in.
• You can set up groups so it is possible for bands to set up groups by City and phone in show reminders on tour to their entire phone/email list.
• When giving messages to band(s), you can make one phone call to get a message to everyone at the same time.
• I am an idea man and most of my ideas come to me when I don’t have pen and paper.
• Got a big press release, you can set up a group for press and make the big announcement through Jott.

This is just a small example of the possibilities. Feel free to comment on your experiences and/or plans for using Jott. If you speak clearly, Jott does an incredible job at transcribing the message. Man, I love technology!

Written by Virgil Dickerson