Hi all,
For the past few months I've been talking to a group of people who were to
the school for the blind here in Florida, using the Roger app on our smart
phones. It works like leaving a series of voice mails in a shared mailbox
which we all have access to, so when you get a minute you can listen to all
the messages you've not yet heard, and then you can add any of your own to
reply to questions and comments. It's been absolutely great because it's so
easy to get to know with casual conversation, people you may have emailed
for years, but never really become friends with.
Now that the Roger app is available for Android and Iphones, and is free,
and Liz has been thoughtful enough to set up a group for Tallahassee people,
I wanted to try and ask everyone to give it a try to see how nice it is just
to be able to talk to people any time, about any thing, whenever you feel
like it. It's easy, the audio quality is great, you can get help or
interesting con versation any time you want, and it's all free! And I
really meant we just talked about anything that was on our minds.
Just go get the Roger app and install it (get your activation number from
them and enter it), then open this message in your mail reader and click on
the link below which should make you a member of our TABI Roger group:
https://rogertalk.com/group/6CNI5LmmydUb
Then you can listen to all the messages posted in the last 48 hours. To
leave a message of your own just tap the "microphone" button to start
recording, and tap the same button (which now is labeled "done") to end the
recording, and it's automatically added. You also can send private messages
to anyone who's part of the group.
If you need help with Roger below is the original offer from Liz, and I know
Sila and Robert can help with Android, and I too don't mind helping. My
number is 570-2334.
Our FSDB group made an effort to get on every day just to say hello if
nothing else (a lot of people got on while drinking their first cup of
coffee of the day, so it was like having someone to share your morning
coffee with).
Since we all live around here, I think we'll have more than enough things to
talk about, and it's easier than tracking over to someone's house to talk!
Probably not a good idea to bring up politics, or anything really
controversial, but we even started thinking up "questions of the day" to try
and get people talking.
Looking forward to getting to know many of you,
Chip
-----Original Message-----
From: tabi-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:tabi-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf
Of Elizabeth Bowden
Sent: Monday, July 18, 2016 8:58 AM
To: tabi@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [tabi] On Roger
Hello all
I have created a profile on the Roger app to determine whether this kind of
process would be useful to others in our community for obtaining quicker
answers than emailing. Or just to put a voice behind the person we have been
seeing on TABI list s If, there is interest, a good response, I can
refine the name to indicate the purpose for now, let's just say that the
purpose is blind and visually impaired interests resources or questions.
Say you wanted to know whether a restaurant has braille menu but you needed
an answer quicker than email. Follow the link below to sign up.
Use this link to join our conversation!
https://rogertalk.com/group/6CNI5LmmydUb
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