Concept: Preconfigured list of people to notify during a personal emergency
Who do you call when you have an emergency or when you make it out of Labor and Delivery healthy with a new bundle of joy? It’s usually your significant other, another family member or a friend who then takes on the responsibility of letting all of your “people” know the all is well. But they don’t always know who all of your people are.
So what do you do? You give them a list of contacts in advance and they fire off an email or start smiling and dialing. But that’s so 1990. In this age of social networking, always on connectivity and the permanent cell phone appendage, there has to be a better way…a site where you can register all of your “special people” when something important happens. And when it does, with a few keystrokes, your appointed family member or friend could use the site to notify everyone on your list, in the way most appropriate way based on each person’s lifestyle – email, broadcast phone message, text message, Facebook wall posting, etc. That done, you would be able to rest comfortably, knowing that all is well in the world.
Like many of the ideas on this blog, this may not work as a standalone service. It may need to be bundled into someone ’ offering (GrandCentral, Facebook, an Insurance provider, etc). The idea may not have legs at all. But I’m putting it out there, nonetheless, for you, oh faithful readers, to ponder and debate.
Filed under: social networking Tagged: | emergency contacts, friend list, web service
