Listen Up: Broadcast Messages
When a beneficial new opportunity comes up, Open Access Connections staff members communicate a broadcast message on the voice mail system that all participants may choose to hear. We carefully select the most valuable messages. For example:
- Information about services for a particular population, like free transportation for disabled veterans
- Information about voting and elections, the census, Earned Income Tax Credit, etc.
- Information about the digital divide, resources available to bridge this divide and ways to take action to end the divide.
- Updates about new toll-free helplines that can connect people to resources like food or shelter
- Reminders about upcoming meetings
- Information about issues that affect you and ways to take action on issues
We know you don’t have all day to use the phone, so we keep these messages very brief, plus you have the option to skip them right away. You can also reply to broadcast messages if you have feedback for us.
Listen for helpful broadcast messages about two or three times each month. And from time to time, we also include “Get Inspired” messages – moving quotes from voice mail participants as well as great thinkers and leaders like Martin Luther King, Jr.
Most Recent Broadcast
Netbook Lending Library
Listen to broadcast with player below or Download Here
As part of our netbook lending library, we have open computer labs where participants can learn basic skills such as using the mouse, getting an email address, find information on the internet. This broadcast was for our 50+ Generation members who will have a computer lab where technically skilled members will teach other members about computer skills.