MWM recently established a new Mensa Phone at zero cost, thanks to Google Voice. For anyone who has questions which relate to MWM, you can call and leave a message on our voicemail. (You can give a shot with questions which relate to AML writ large, and I'll likely refer you to someone outside our chapter, depending on what the question is.) Thanks to Google Voice, not only will a semi-accurate transcript of the message be forwarded to the entire ExComm, but paired with it will be the audio file itself, so we needn't rely on the behind-the-scenes transcription software (which does come up with some amusing garbles). We will then be able to figure out amongst ourselves who on the ExComm is the most appropriate person to handle the message.
By the same token, as you will be reaching a recording, we can utilize the outgoing message as a way of announcing urgent messages, such as the change of venue for the New Members Open House that happened for earlier today or, if we have the same winter we did last year, the cancellation of an increasing number of events (including two ExComm meetings) due to weather conditions.
That number? 202-OK-MENSA
And, no, that's not short for Oklahoma, even though it is the postal abbreviation.
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