Although I do most of my work in my office, I am constantly on the move, and as such I need to be able to move my office with me. If you are a consultant or a road warrior, or just want to be more efficient away from your primary workstation, I hope this post will offer some good suggestions for you. Running a mobile office should be simple, but can get a little tricky. Don’t be caught coming up short when travelling, just remember that today’s work is important, and in a recessive economy even a simple mistake like not being able to take a phone call when you don’t have a cell signal may cost you a job. As always, I welcome any tips or tricks you have, please drop a note in the comments to share. With that in mind, let’s get started! (more…)
I just wrote a new post on Mashable called “How To: Use Twitter On The Go“, it’s about browser based option for Twitter control, as well as voice to Twitter services like SpinVox. I think you will find some of the information useful, especially if you live in California and can no longer use your mobile device to type while driving.
Once you check it out, come find me on Twitter and say hi, I would love to hear your feedback.
Winner #3: Hurray for Los Angeles! Jungle[8]‘s wonderful Lainie Liberti gets to enjoy this one. You can find her on Twitter here.
Winner #4: Brent Hodges from the area I grew up, Southern Oregon! You and your Twitter profile are about to love your new visible voicemail!
Winner #5: I just DM’d you on Twitter. When you reply, the final free account is yours!
Do you want a free, no-strings-attached Spinvox account? It’s simple really, very little action required by you: I will give out a FREE Spinvox account for every 100 50 new followers I get on Twitter, starting when I hit 550. I will then use a program to generate a random number between 1 and 550 (or 600, 650, etc.) and that lucky person will get a free account. That’s it, nothing else to do. Simple, isn’t it? If you are already following me then you are already in the running!
These aren’t limited accounts that expire in 15 days, these are full accounts, ready to go with no set limits! A normal Spinvox account that converts 40 voice mails is $10/month, so at the very least each of these is worth $120 a year to you. No, this isn’t some cheap give away, this is the real deal!
If you’ve spent any time around me or have followed me online for a while, at some point or another you have heard me talk about the very best business tool that I have: Spinvox. Simply put, Spinvox is a service that converts your voice mail messages into text and sends them to you via email, SMS or IM. I have been using Spinvox since January 2007 and honestly cannot imagine working without it now. Typical scenario for me: I’m in a meeting and I want to give my full attention to the person or group I’m with. A call comes in that could be important. What did they say? I don’t have to excuse myself to listen to the voicemail because it comes to my email after just a few minutes. It’s easy enough to scan the message without missing a beat in my current meeting. For me this is a priceless service.
I recently did a write-up about the new partnership between Spinvox and Ping.fm. I got a lot of response via Twitter, people saying they wanted a Spinvox account but were on the fence about paying for it. Let me assure you that the service more than pays for itself…how much is your productivity worth in dollars and cents? That’s for you to decide. If you don’t want to wait around to win, you can go sign up for a new account here, it’s quick and painless and will tell you how to set it up on your phone in just minutes. BTW, if you do that you can STILL win, just give the account to a friend or colleage.
So…everybody that follows me on Twitter has five chances to win, so get your peeps to follow and maybe YOU will be the next winner. The only rule is that I won’t give away more than one account to the same person, so don’t create multiple accounts and if you are randomly picked twice, well, I’ll skip you the second time and pick another number.
Questions? Comments? Sarcastic Remarks? Comment below or email me, matt [at] mattsingley [dot] com.
A big thank you to the fine folks at Spinvox (especially Whatleydude) for the accounts to give away. You guys rock!
Sorry, I couldn’t help the “talking” pun in the title. Forgive me. But it is quite appropriate for this announcement.
I’ve been a fan of Spinvox since I signed up in January 2007. Since that point I have consistently said, blogged or texted that it is *the best* business tool that I have in my cache. I still stand by that, having my voicemails turned into text and then emailed and SMSd to me is hands down the most productive thing I have. Don’t take my word for it, Chris Brogan and Guy Kawasaki are both fans as well!
Now Spinvox and the one-stop-status-update service Ping.fm have announced a partnershipthat rocks. You can sign up for an account here, and then get to updating. Here is how it work: you call the phone number assigned to you after your initial sign up, speak your update then hang up. Through the magic of the internets, all of the social networks that you have assigned to ping.fm will be updated (Twitter, Facebook, WordPress, LiveJournal, Jaiku, etc). That’s it. One phone call, everything is up to speed.
I’ve done this a few times, and it works great. I would like to get the link to the original voice message off of my status updates though, it would save some space. We’ll see.
Did I mention that you don’t even need a SpinVox account to do this? It’s true. Just sign up for the service via Ping.fm and you are set. Of course, being the thinking person I know you are,you should also sign up for SpinVox because it truly will make your life a lot easier.
Go give this a try, I don’t think you’ll be disappointed.
I am the Senior Director of Social Media Strategy for M80 in Los Angeles, however everything I write here is my own opinion and not that of my employer. I hope they're close though!
Although I do most of my work in my office, I am constantly on the move, and as such I need to be able to move my office with me. If you are a consultant or a road warrior, or just want to be more efficient away from your primary workstation, I hope this post will offer some good suggestions for you. Running a mobile office should be simple, but can get a little tricky. Don’t be caught coming up short when travelling, just remember that today’s work is important, and in a recessive economy even a simple mistake like not being able to take a phone call when you don’t have a cell signal may cost you a job. As always, I welcome any tips or tricks you have, please drop a note in the comments to share. With that in mind, let’s get started! (more…)
