Vontoo Voice Messaging

Do you remember last week when those terrible storms came rolling across the midwest? Well, they brought a lot of destruction to the area and with a grandchild in school it was a surprise to get a recorded message from the School Superintendent letting me know that my "student" was safe at school and ready to be picked up. I was impressed that they managed to take the time to get this message out to all of us parents who were worried.

I was also wondering how they managed to put that together so quickly, and after a little investigation I found that services like Vontoo voice messaging do just this. You set up an account and upload your "call list" and then in just minutes you create your phone message and send the message out to all of your contacts. Or, you can create the message and schedule a time in the future for it to be sent out.

Do you remember LaKisha Jones from American Idol? She worked with a promotion going on at a local nightclub--if your phone rang--and you answered it--it was her voice telling you all about the upcoming event at the nightclub. How brilliant is that? Get a star to take 3 minutes out of her day--and your message is recieved by thousands! I think she should have used the service to call everyone and tell them to vote for her on American Idol.

For emergencies, this really was a nice system to have in place-I just hope they don't need to use it for anything worse than a storm warning.