Submitted by: Linda Marrin, District Trainer
 
3 way calling on your own phone!
 
We sometime use Webinars for meetings involving 3 Rotarians.  Our Webinar system is a great tool; however you can use your cell phone for 3-way calls.  This is a quick and easy way to connect to 2 of your Rotary partners if you don’t have multiple documents to review.  There is no extra charge for this service. The process is the same on most smart phones:
 
  • Make a phone call to one person
  • Look at your phone ~ you may have never noticed but there is an Add Call button (+ sign). 
  • Touch Add Call to make the second call.  The person already on the line will be put on hold.
  • After connecting to the second person (be sure to greet them!), touch Merge Calls
  • You now have a 3-way call. 
  • Depending on your carrier you may be able to use this process to merge up to 5 calls! 
Our training committee is happy to organize webinars for large groups with multiple documents to be shared, and to help any district Rotarian learn to organize webinars. When there are just a few of you needing to talk the 3-way call is a simple option.
Looking forward: Each webinar I host has more members joining by phone.  We are researching conference call services to find a low or no cost service for conference calling for meetings that do not involve multiple documents to review.  We look forward to sharing this option with you! 
 
Linda Marrin, District trainer