Dear MilanIN-ers and guests!
After the first business day of ClubINcall in public has come closer to its end, I've already learnt a lot. Thanks to your questions and feedback I could fix one bug in ClubINtext and got another proof that writing non technical documents is not my strongest skill. Especially when it comes to Italian which is so beautiful, varied, multiform and non trivial that complicating the simplest things ever is not a challenge at all for me :). Therefor, I've decided to describe ClubINcall in English, hoping that if someone reads the original explanations in Italian then shakes his head and says "Ma.. .che serve questo aggeggio???" he will have a second chance ;) Or maybe someone who has succeed in extracting idea from the original will help me and will translate the English one (assuming it will be better than Italian).
Now then, what is ClubINcall? It is a service developed by me ad-hoc for Milan IN members that creates a small Contanct Center for a member profile accessible by other members and web site guests. This means that any visitor of your profile may contact you leaving a text or a voice message that will be delivered to you by e-mail.
It is really simple to use, all that is required from a visitor of your profile for leaving voice messages is to have a fixed phone line (landline) in one of the supported countries or a keyboard and creativity for typing a text message. Whenever this visitor gets to your profile or weblog, he can see a "Contact" link above your photo, clicking on it will open a small panel where he should enter his phone number (not your number, his number) and by clicking on the green button he will ask the Milan IN server to call him on the phone and record a voice message for you (the profile owner). This is absolutely gratis for both profile visitor and you since the phone call is offered by Milan IN. If the profile visitor does not have a phone line, or his country is not supported, he still can drop you a text note.
So, how to start using it, or how to make this thing to appear on your profile? Simple!
- login first, then go to your profile editor
- scroll down to the bottom of the page where you will see two options ClubINcall and ClubINtext, which respectively refer to the Voice Messages and Text Messages.
- check these boxes to enable it and verify the desired access rights, just like all the profile details your contact centre can be seen by either anybody (PUBLIC), Club Members (LOGGEDIN) or nobody but you (PRIVATE).
- click on the "save" and you have "Contact" above you profile picture!
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