Mobile Monday London to be precise.

Before I talk about what SpinVox are doing there - here’s a little bit about the guys over at Mobile Monday(or ‘MoMo’ for short):

“Mobile Monday is a global community of mobile industry visionaries, developers and influentials fostering cooperation and cross-border business development through virtual and live networking events to share ideas, best practices and trends from global markets.

Mobile Monday has the following objectives:

- To encourage innovation within the mobile sector.

- To facilitate networking between small and large companies, and between local and foreign.

- To help local companies effectively participate in international initiatives through the import and export of visions, concepts, technologies, know-how and best practices.

- To present innovative visions, trends, studies and forecasts from the mobile marketplace.

- To facilitate and create partnerships.

- To contribute to the education of the broader public through its publications, online presence and media partnerships.

Mobile Monday is organized by a group of dedicated volunteers from around the world. Originating in Helsinki, Finland, in the year 2000, Mobile Monday has grown into the world’s leading mobile community.“�

Got that? Cool. Now then - why are SpinVox attending? Well this Monday’s theme is all about Voice; “Voice 2.0“� to be precise.

What is the future of voice in this great new mobile/digital space we’re all carving out?
What does it look like and what can it do?

The industry is constantly buzzing about the advent of the Mobile Web and all the great things you can do from your handset - from location based services via GPS to starting your car over bluetooth. Amongst all this digital noise and futuristic navel gazing it’s easy to forget what your phone is actually for: To make and receive phone calls.

What, in this new digital age, can your voice do for you? If your opinion matters, how can you make sure it is heard?

To quote: “What you say, and how you say it, is a wonderful and powerful thing.“�

So, keeping that in mind, let’s look to the future of voice and how, we think, that in the years to come it will change the very nature of human behaviour.

To do this - our very own Simon Crowfoot (more info on him here - scroll down a bit when you get there) will be at Mobile Monday London on December 3rd to speak about all of the above and more.If you can make it - then I guess we’ll see you there, (I’m going too).

If not, then no worries - I’ll make notes for you and write it up next week!

Until next time.

PS - Had some Speech Mob news in this morning - we’re heading to Canada - more to follow!

Are you a sheep or are you a shepherd?
Do you set trends or do you follow them?

May be you do neither; maybe you HUNT trends down in the middle of the night and make them your own!
Well if you did do that, if trend hunting was your thing…
Then you’d probably read something like TRENDHUNTER.COM

“That’s all well and good…“� I hear you cry “…but what the hell as that got to do with SpinVox?“�

Well, I’m glad you asked!
Those lovely people over at the aforementioned website of cool have gone and written a rather stonking article about turning your voicemail into text (that’ll be our area of expertise then) as well as enabling ‘talking to the web’.

Here’s a snippet of what they had to say:

“There has been all sorts of fuss lately from players such as Microsoft, Google and Apple about bringing the web to a mobile environment by using speech, the oldest form of communication. However, this is exactly why I think SpinVox should be mentioned as they have been doing this for over four years. They are experts in “talking” to the web or turning your voice mails into text, something which is becoming a very hot trend indeed.“�

Nice work!

You can read the rest of the article here, so I’d put on my trendiest pair of shoes and hotfoot it over there sharpish if only for the fantastic picture they’ve used to accompany the piece…

Y’see - now you’ve just got to click.

Go on.
Click!

Right then - we all know what Flashmobbing is right?

No?
*sigh*
Do pay attention Bond…!

Ok - “FlashMobbing“.

A quick wiki-check gives us:

…ahem…

“A large group of people who assemble suddenly in a public place, perform an unusual action for a brief period of time, then quickly disperse.“

For instance - you could use this ‘Finger Gun Shoot Out!’ as an example that happened at the Tate Modern this very weekend…

…that a certain Editor-in-Chief may have attended…

Anywhoo - so that’s Flashmobbing covered. Right? Right.

So - “SpeechMobbing“

It’s very similar - but allow me to try and define it for you:

“A large group of people* who assemble suddenly in a public place, perform an unusual action for a brief period of time**, then quickly disperse.“

*By “people“ obviously we mean our “Spinning Heads“. Y’know? Go to our homepage and click ‘try now’ - you’ll see.
**And of course by “unusual action“ we mean “delivering messages, dancing and generally being quite boisterous“.

Still not sure what we mean?
Ok - well thanks to the guys over at animoto.com - we knocked up this little video for you…

Now do you get it?!

Look out for the SpeechMob events - they’ve happened a few times now in various different places - we’ll be uploading more pics too soon.

Until next time..

PS - If you’re here looking for the Figures of Speech transcriptions that we promised in our last post, apologies - we’re still working on getting them to you.They’ve been caught up in customs somewhere between here and the US.We’ll get them, don’t you worry!

As we say on our homepage SpinVox believes that “What we say, and how we say it, is a wonderful and powerful thing.“�

SpinVox captures thoughts and emotions spoken in the moment as voice messages and turns them into text. SpinVox then delivers that text to a destination of your choice – screen, inbox, blog, walls and spaces – within minutes.
So those moments are moments that can be read, preserved and cherished forever.

That’s who we are and that’s what we do.

So what about our blog?

Well we already have a PR section on our website. This blog is not about PR. This blog is about SpinVox. And SpinVox is about Speaking Freely.
Therefore, aside from content from around the world about SpinVox and our Speech-Mobbing events (which are kinda like Flash Mobbing events, but SpinVox style), we would also like to use this platform to enable and empower Speaking Freely.

Punctuating our blog-posts with some real emotion and real words; captured, in the moment and brought to you through SpinVox.

How are we going to do this?
Well, SpinVox would like to introduce “Figures of Speech“�.

The “Figures of Speech“� is a brand new format created by the Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA), the UK based and internationally-renowned home of pioneering arts and ideas.
As part of the SpinVox launch stateside, the ICA put together two evenings of dynamic presentations. One in New York and the other in San Francisco. These events each contained six speakers who were given the challenge of concisely introducing and explaining the one thing they could not live without. Drawing from an infinite array of objects and experiences, each speaker had to deliver their narrative in only five minutes, no more, no less.

Since its inception, twelve different “Figures of Speech“� have already spoken freely about their object of choice and, every week, the SpinVox blog will be where you can read what they had to say and what they had to say it about.

See you back here next Monday where will introduce our first speaker.

In the meantime, keep checking back to find out more about SpinVox, our vision, our Speech Mobbing and much, much more!