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Voice Comments Are Open, Call in and Share Your Thoughts on Social Media

I promised you when the site lanched that we would use it as a place to experiment with new formats and concepts in co-created content. Here's one. Maybe it will fail miserably, we'll see.

If you click on the box below, powered by Google Voice, you can leave me a voicemail message. I will curate the best of these and post them to the site in a follow-up as MP3s. I am open on topics, but specifically would like to hear your thoughts on where you see social media going in the next year.

I got the idea from Arik Hesseldahl at BusinessWeek. Note that phone numbers won't be shared (you can keep it private if you want) and not all comments will make it on to the site - only the more interesting or, dare I say, entertaining ones. Also, please keep these brief if you can. Ideally, 60 seconds or less in length is best. Finally, note that by leaving a message you are giving me permission to pubish it here.

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Comments (8)

Jul 01, 2009
Steve Rubel said...
Believe it might be US only. Nuts!
Jul 01, 2009
Neville Hobson recently noted a service in the UK called ipadio.com (maybe you could try that out, or simply use a plain voicemail box -- that's what we do ;)
Jul 01, 2009
Tac Anderson said...
impressive. most impressive. well played.
Jul 01, 2009
ACK! You know you've got too many sites when you no longer know which ones they are -- LOL I meant http://CastLine.ORG << FML, ROFLMFAO + SMFH ;D
Jul 01, 2009
I decided to remove the comment above -- I really think that all so-called "social" websites should enable editing of ALL posts. :S

Here's the question I raised (+ that Steve responded to)

"Can I call in from outside the United States, or are only numbers within the States accepted?"

I also said: "I like this idea - I started a similar idea recently @ " (and then linked to the WRONG website! :O

Jul 01, 2009
Steve Rubel said...
I agree that you should be able to "own" your comments.
Jul 01, 2009
Paige Filler said...
Interesting idea, there was a similar thread on reddit.

http://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/8k7fl/anyone_want_to_help_me_test_the_google_voice/

This is my favorite part. ;)

http://igreiga.org/belair-transcript.mp3

*excuse the link drops

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