Posted by inWorship | Under Twitter, iPhone, tech
Friday Nov 28, 2008
I am a text person. I love email and texting. It’s quick, easy, I’m always connected to it and there’s a paper trail. Plus, it’s all dealt with on my own time. It’s one of the reason’s I love Twitter as well
Voicemail, however, can drive me nuts! I find myself needing to deal with it right away. Depending on the phone you own. There is either a flashing light or a beep that doesn’t go away until you listen to or erase your voicemail. Once I started using the iPhone, most of my worries went away. The visual voicemail system on the iPhone is brilliant. Deal with it when I want. Refer back to it over and over and pick and choose which messages I want to listen to. No menus, waiting through messages or accidental deletions.
I thought I was set…until now!
Enter Spinvox. My buddy Matt Singley was giving away free subscriptions to Spinvox for being a Twitter friend. Needless to say, I was entered in the drawing and walked away with one of the subscriptions.
So what is Spinvox? Simply put, it’s voice to text. In other words, it takes my voicemails, transcribes them and sends me a text version. No dealing with flashing lights, or annoying beeps. No dealing with menus or wading through messages. Instead, all of that, is replaced with neat, efficiant text copies of my voicemails. I love it!!!
I now recieve my voicemails in email and text. Once a voicemail is recieved, it took less than a minute to recieve a text on my phone and about 2 minutes to recieve an email copy of the voicemail. This is awesome! I use Google email and using a filter has now made this even more beautiful.
So how can you get into Spinvox? It’s easy. Check out Spinvox on the web. Sign up. Setup. And, your done! Setup literally took me about 2 minutes. The sign up process is easy and painless. And the cost? A couple of cups of coffee per a month.
So, if you are interested. Head right now to Spinvox and sign up for a trial. Give it a shot. You will love it I am sure! If you try it out. Let me know what you think.
I’ve talked to you before about me love affair with Twitter. I really enjoy the conversations, challenges and resources I receive through the Twitter world.
So my buddy Matt Singley has a little give away going on right now. Starting today, Matt started giving out free, unlimited subscriptions to SpinVox. SpinVox is a killer resource that turns your voicemail into email or text. I don’t know about you, but voicemail can eat up my day and being able to put it into text form is a much easier, faster and more relaible way of handling it.
So here is the catch. If you want a free subscription to Spinvox, all you have to do is follow Matt on Twitter and your name goes into the drawing. If you haven’t joined Twitter yet, go for it. You could get a cool service for free and you’d be following rthe Tweets of a great guy.
Tomorrow I leave town for 3 days. Two other Pastors and I are headed up to Portland to attend a simulcast of the Willow Creek Leadership Summit. I am looking forward to a couple of days out of town with friends as well as the opportunity to catch up with Tyler and others in Portland. The conference is set to be an incredibly challenging time as well.
I have some posts set up to go up on Thursday and Friday. I will do my best to follow up on comments, but if I don’t, feel free to hijack the blog and enjoy yourself
Are any of you attending the conference? If you are in the northwest and are headed to the Portland simulcast, drop me an email. I’d love to say hey. We are meeting Thursday evening at McMenamins.
You can follow me on Twitter as well and enjoy the trip with me. I’ll be posting updates and pics.
So the first day has ended. A ton of you joined me on twitter to follow everything going on. That’s awesome. If you still want to join me, head over here.
I promised that each night I would give you some updates. No big revelations for today. It was kind of mellow I had only one full band and my day consisted mostly of Bluegrass. That’s fine, but only 2 of the 5 Bluegrass bands, actually knew how to play bluegrass. The highlight today was the Emmon’s Sisters. 4 Sisters aged 13-18. Great voices and great musicians. I get to mix them again on Thursday.
Anyway, here are some pics of the day…
My office for the week…
This was my opening band. They define themselves as an “Old School Hillbilly Bluegrass” band. The median age is 92 and there is no on in charge. Welcome to the fair
This was my dinner tonight. I get fed by the main stage and headline artists. Whatever is going on catering wise for them, I get to enjoy. Tonight was Salmon, Rice, Chicken w/Pasta, fruit and an amazing chocolate cake. Very nice. Not like this…
This is seriously 18 inches long. Fair food is a work of art. Only one person was eating this (yes, I asked if I could take a pic). I plan to give you a pic a day of the amazing Jackson County Fair cuisine.
Fireworks ended the night. They also do fireworks the closing night.
Well, there’s a bit of day 1. Come on back tomorrow for some more updates and pics. I may even be working in some video…we’ll see
There I said it and I’m not ashamed. I’ve been Tweeting for the last 6 months and I love it. Some of you have no clue what Twitter is. Well here is a great video that describes it. But the main reason I Twitter is because of this!
Community! Twitter is an amazing community. I have met some amazing people, communicated with some I would never have access to through email or phone and been a part of ups, downs and everything in between with those who have chosen to share their life with me.
If I am not enjoying all of you on my blog, I am on Twitter. You should join and come follow me!
So what was my 2000th Twitter?
@mattsingley was given the honor of participating in my 2000th. Thanks Matt
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