We all look forward to wish our loved one’s on special occasions be it birthdays or be it Thanksgiving. But because of the fast paced life we are into, sometimes we tend to miss out on sending our messages. 123Greetings.com, one of the world’s leading online greetings website seems to have taken an exclusive initiative to make our life simpler and easy.
With their newest initiative called 123Greetings Connect, users will be able to get benefited a lot more than just sending e-greetings. With a user base of millions of users, this unique service is going to boost up the user experience.
Here are some of the key features of 123Greetings Connect..
Get Birthday Reminders and Event Reminders
Connect comes with a free birthday reminder service that allows users to get notified about upcoming birthdays in their inbox. Once you start using Connect, it lets you add credentials such as name, email address and date of birth of the contacts and then opt to get alerted of upcoming birthdays in advance at specific time intervals. That’s just makes it easy to send birthday wishes much in advance, isn’t it?
Event Reminders lets you get alerted of popular upcoming events (like Halloween, Thanksgiving, Sweetest Day, Mother’s Day, etc.) incase you tend to forget their dates. Mind you this website celebrates more than 4000 events (almost every popular event you may think of)!
Unlike many paid reminder services (web based, mobile phone based), both these services are free.
If you are on Facebook I would recommend you to take a look at Social Calender for birthday reminder service.
Get Connected with your Friends and Loved Ones
Connect comes with an advanced address book (similar to Plaxo) where you can store all the contacts. You may import contacts from popular ESPs like Gamil, Yahoo! mail, etc. and store them in a secured environment too. This is an upgrade to their previous version of address book where all the contacts used to be stored in cookies and used to get deleted once a system cleaning software is run.
But that’s not all! If any of your contacts present in the address book is also using Connect, you will be connected to them and see their latest activities. If they haven’t started to use the service yet, you may even invite them to join you.
I feel this feature will let users to get socially connected to each other and ultimately may take the shape of a “ecard community” like Evite.
Earlier we saw New York Times launching TimesPeople, their own readers community. I have been using TemesPeople for a while now and it lets me get alerted of any important news buzzing around, thanks to the recommendation feature.
Other Helpful Features on Connect
Apart from the above mentioned features, you may track, edit or delete cards you have recently sent. Which means if you made any typos to the ecard sent, this feature gives you a second chance to rectify it before it is viewed. Also you may see which card is yet to be viewed or wish to delete one you mistakenly sent to someone else.
If you know of a similar birthday/event reminder service, drop by a line.
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