Jott, episode 4. Sending a mass e-mail through Jott is really easy, all you need to do is go into your Jott account and set up the e-mail contacts. After you put the contacts in, you assigned the group a name. For example, my work name project of marketing is tight to all of my co-workers/employees accounts. Then, you call the 1-800 number and say project to marketing or the group name you set up. You record the message and it is sent to everybody, very easy, very effective, and it saves a ton of time. listen

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Jott episode 3.
Once again I am late in the office but I am going to be jotting, about how to jott to a blog. It’s really easy, when you go to jott account, you go to the add link section. There is an option to add to blogger live journal type add or word press, it’s really easy you just give it your log in credentials and then you can call jott after you’ve set it up. Record the messages like I am doing now and it will post it to your blog, it’s great, it’s free and it’s easy. Try it out. listen

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Jott blogs have NOT been edited. The below message is exactly as I Jotted, hence some minor errors. Comments that I have added after the original blog are italicized, as is this paragraph.

Jott episode two. Right now I’m on the light rail train headed down town Salt Lake City and I’m updating my blog with Jott. Let me text rapolate. As you can see from my last blog entry Jott is a really cool service with lots of free features. Today I’ll be covering the feature of reminders. To record reminder for yourself, you need to do two things. First sign up at jott.com that is www.jott.com. All you need is to give them your phone number and your e-mail, the second step leave you reminder. Call the 1-8… listen

So, It cut out after about 30 seconds. I believe that is the longest recording Jott will do. That means I need to be sure to Jott only short blogs, or Jott blogs in parts. Let me finish the blog with another Jott:

The second step is to leave your reminder call the 1-800 number and the Jott system will automatically detect to your phone number and read it back to you. A pleasant female voice will give you the voice prompt. What would you like to Jott? you say reminder then a female voice ask you a date and a time after you give the date and the time you can record a message. The message is then sent to your email box and also a form of text message to your phone 15 minutes before you leave a reminder. You should try it out. Jott is free and easy, it’s a great service I used all the time for my reminders. listen

While I was hiking in the nearby mountains today I decided that I am going to do a four part blog series on Jott, a free “over the phone” voice to text transcribing service. I’ve been using it for the past six months now, and it is extremely useful. While this series does stray somewhat from Marketing, it is a great business tool that I have used numerous times to record me ‘to do messages’ while away from the office.

The service can be a great tool for a number of different applications. The four parts of the series will be:

1. Introduction (recordings from today – see below)
2. How to leave yourself a reminder or a ‘to do’ message with Jott
3. How to post to your blog with Jott
4. How to send a mass email with Jott

Captured via cell phone:

I’ve found this great new service called the Jott. It lets me call in and record a message which is then transcribed and uploaded to my blog. I don’t have it completely setup right now, so it’s just going to email me this transcript and I will copy and paste it to my blog but I’m starting a week long review of Jott. I’ll be uploading all these to the blog and I hope you check them out. This is the first one and it is totally completed over the phone while I’m up here by this reservoir up above Cottonwood Canyon.

Captured later that day, via cell phone:

Okay, part two of the blog. I’m sitting here by a river so I’m not sure how well this is going to translate or transcribe out. But, during this week I plan on doing a blog entry about how businesses can use this. Also, about how it can be used to send mass emails, how it can be used to update blogs, how it can be used for a multitude of, for a variety of different options that are really valuable it’s a great tool so far. I’ve been using it for about six months, and I’ve been very pleased with it. So, I will be blogging from home some more.