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Send Reminders to Others?

Help me help the helpful!

I work at a non-profit and I have a group of volunteers to coordinate. This actually can eat up a chunk of my time. I already know that tasks that need to be done and I need a way to send out timed reminders to volunteers.

I want to be able to input all the future reminders at one time and trust that at the appointed time in the future, the volunteers will be duly reminded.

Barriers: volunteers use a host different e-mail services and also do not want to sign up for any more lists/services.

I have found many services that will remind one person but haven't found any that will remind others without their subscription to the service.

Can anyone help me with a suggestion?

Berko's picture

CC: Sandy

You could use Sandy to accomplish this. When you send the email about the thing to the participant(s), CC: Sandy and include appropriate reminder details about the thing. So, an example might go something like this:

From: Dave
To: Alvin, Simon, Theodore
CC: Sandy
Subject: Movie Premier

Body: Hey, guys, don't forget our movie premier on December 14 at 7:00 P.M. We're finally on the big screen!

Sandy, please remind us about this the day before.

Thanks,
Dave

Then, all of the participants are brought under management of your "virtual assistant" Sandy for this item only. If they are Sandy members, then they'll get their info about the item there. Otherwise, it'll come via email.

HTH

 
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