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Creating a Micro Podcast using Jott

I have been experimenting with Jott lately. Jott is a service that let's you translate voice messages to many different services like SMS text messages, Twitter messages, and blog posts. I just tested the Jott to Blog functionality. Since Jott messages cannot exceed 30 seconds, I refer to this as "Micro Podcasting". Is this useful? The jury is still out, but it is simple to do.

So below is a transcript of my voice message. You can see that Jott butchered my message. Luckily, it creates a blog post in draft mode which gives the blog author a chance to touch it up. For the sake of showing how this works, I am leaving the transcript unedited. At the end of the micro podcast you can click on the link to listen to the actual message. Enjoy!

This is my first test of what I am calling micro podcasting, what that is it is using jott we have short podcast and it will go right in your phone into your ____ account, it's pretty cool stuff. I checked this out last night and sent my first twitt using jott and in twitter there is a turn called micro blogging and that sending out short information ___ to blogs, here I am doing micro podcasting leaving out short messages, voice messages, so that's it for today my first micro podcast. listen

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I have created many Jott's and most of them translate very well. For some reason this Jott did not translate well. The key is to speak clearly and slow enough so that Jott can create a clean translation. With all that aside, it is pretty cool that I can speak into a phone and create a blog post that has both a transcript of my voice mail and a link to the actual voice message.

Twitter & Jott: Look Ma, no hands!

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I am going to regret ever trying this but I was talking with my friend Dennis Stevenson on Google Talk tonight and we were admiring how social networking has opened so many doors for us from a networking standpoint. In our conversation I mentioned half jokingly that all we need is to be able to send Tweets by phone. Then I remember trying out Jott several months ago which is a service that converts voice to SMS text messages from any phone. So I figured that I could hack up something to intercept the SMS text message to send to my blog which automatically feeds new blog posts to my twitter page.

When I went to Jott, which I had written off as a tool that I had no use for, I was pleasantly surprised to find that the smart folks at Jott where one step ahead of me. They already had Jott integrated with Twitter. I simply called the Jott number, said Twitter, and then spoke a short message. Within a few minutes I had a Tweet on Twitter with a tinyurl link to my message.

Then I found that Jott is integrated with Blogger, Wordpress, Google Calendar, and many others. Imagine being on the road and you remember that you have an appointment at 2pm the next day. You can call the Jott number (mine is voice activated) and tell Jott to call Google Calendar. Then simply speak into the phone to set up your appointment in your Google Calendar and you are done.

I probably will now be responsible for many car accidents for sharing this. But seriously, the possibilities with Jott are endless!