Audio “one to many” tool: YackPack
In “The Huckleberry Sin Pre-Episode #4” I brought up an audio one to many tool that could be used in stead of a podcast. The name of that service is YackPack. I was sceptical of it at first, thinking it was probably just another “wanna be” web service in the ever growing land of Web 2.0 web sites.
But YackPack is not only unique, I can see it being tremendously useful in situations where you need to communicate to a group or community on the fly, with audio. Now the context that I am most familiar with when it comes to smaller communities are youth ministries between 15 and 100 students. In that context there are a number of ways that YackPack could be used:
- To communicate to Parents (events, updates, details of events and activities, etc.)
- To communicate to your Volunteer team
- To communicate to your student leaders, or groups of students
Actually, most of the ideas that Josh and I had on the podcast. But here is the only catch, but it is a biggie. With podcasts, all people have to do is click on a link and subscribe through iTunes - which many of them already use and have. There is no “new” adoption of a new technology. And with YackPack anyone who is going to connect to the service has to be signed up to use YackPack. There are ways to embed “running conversations” with some YackPack features that might work well. But the hurdle of having people adopt a new tool, when they aren’t asking for one, usually ends in it never happening.
Anyways, I mentioned it on the podcast, and I am using YackPack in a couple of ways and wanted to share!
[Oh and the reason why audio communication should appeal to most guys in ministry is because they are primarily verbal communicators!]
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