Phree Phone Trees with Pheeder

Pheeder

While it seems like this is really meant to be a site for keeping up with your enormous social calendar, it seems to me that this could be a nice free service for schools to take advantage of.

Pheeder is basically a free phone tree service.

Just call Pheeder, leave a message, hang up, and seconds later all of your friends receive the message at the very same instant on their phones. Then, if they want, they can reply to your message, or forward your message on to their friends.

Pretty simple. The first thing I thought of when I read about it was an emergency/snow day service that we had bought into at my old school. I don’t remember how much we paid for the service, but it didn’t come cheap. We put in all the phone numbers from our community, and then in the case of an emergency, we called in a message which got relayed to every phone.

This site seems to do the exact same thing. Not sure how expensive it is, but if it’s free and reliable, it’s certainly an option for pushing out time sensitive information to a group of people.

Of course, you probably couldn’t rely on it as your sole method of getting that info out, but if you don’t have a phone system, it’s worth checking in to!