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by Dave Garrett
New technologies, concepts, and Web 2.0 tools are popping up everywhere. How can you use them to help your project team collaborate, communicate - or just give your project an extra boost? [Contact Dave]
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Situation: You want to improve your "not so photographic" memory...
People used to "suction-cup" note-pads to the inside of their windshields, so that if they wanted to jot down a note ... (well you get it)
Jot, a new free service on the web accomplishes that for you in a really effective, easy to use way. Yes, you're using your cell phone, but at least youre not trying to write while driving. The idea is that you dial an 800 #, talk into the phone and hang up. Everything you say is transcribed and sent to your email account. Messages can also be sent via text message to your phone OR to a distribution list. So if you are running late for a meeting, you could pick up the phone, dial Jot's #, and say "team - I'm going to be 20 minutes late" . A text message then goes to each of your team members letting them know what's going on. How efficient is that!
I've really got to say I'm excited about this one. I'm constantly looking for easy ways to remember the thousands of things I need to catch up on every day. I'm sure many of you feel the same.
Posted on: February 16, 2007 12:32 PM |
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Dave Garrett
PMI Team Member
Senior Advisor to the CEO| PMI
Sterling, Va, United States
Recent upgrade...
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From: Jott Networks [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Wednesday, April 11, 2007 2:01 PM
To: Dave Garrett
Subject: Announcing Jott Beta 2!
Dear Jotters,
We’ve had an amazing couple of months at Jott. We’ve seen great press, including the Wall Street Journal, Law.com, Yahoo! Tech, Lifehacker.com, and many others. Jott’s been hailed as “insanely clever” and a “godsend”.
Best of all, Jott has proven itself useful for a huge variety of things: hard core legal work to sales to blogging to rapping. It’s what we dreamed about.
Perhaps you jotted briefly, or have used it for much longer. Regardless of which group you’re in, thank you. You’ve been a big part of our evolution.
We have recently rolled out a much improved version of Jott. There are small changes and big ones. If you haven’t given Jott a try recently, this release makes it worth your while. Handy link: http://www.jott.com
Highlights
Just Jott. Jott creates email and text messages completely hands free. No more driving with your knees as you type (please!). With V2, you simply Jott — to yourself, other people, or groups. This means there is a change in our voice menu: we simply ask “Who do you want to Jott?”... For a jott to yourself, just say “Myself”.
Instant Jotts. If your message to someone has to get there immediately, use Instant Jott. Simply press 1 after recording a message to someone, and we will deliver the jott as audio right away, with no transcription.
As for Groups... Do you hate having to make phone calls to multiple people saying the same thing? Has the soccer game shifted to another location? Jott “Soccer Team”. Flight delayed? Jott “The office”. A little late filling the tank? Jott “carpool”. With V2, simply say the name of a group you’ve created, say your Jott, and you’re done.
Contact import. We now have a tool which makes contact importing trivial. It works with Outlook, Gmail, AOL, Yahoo, Hotmail and others. Having your contact list up to date unlocks the power of Jott; it’s a voice powered address book at the other end of a simple phone call.
Better User Interface. We’re fanatical about simplicity, and we think our new web inbox is both easy to use, and keeps your jotts better organized.
Access for Canadian customers. We’ve received many, many requests for this. We now have it. Just dial (647) 724 5814.
OK, enough for now. Quick tours of all of this are at http://www.jott.com/jottinaction.aspx.
Thanks for jotting and spread the word!
John
John Pollard
Founder and CEO, Jott.com
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