Instead of watching the royal wedding, we here at CallFire have been following the devastating events in the American South. Nearly 300 people are dead across six states (213 of those in Alabama), and thousands more have been injured. People's homes, belongings, and entire lives have been destroyed in a matter of a couple of days. Now that the tornadoes have passed through and search and rescue operations begin to wind down, it is time to start focusing on recovery.

This last Wednesday, April 20th, CallFire hosted a webinar with the help of TMCNet titled "SMS, Voice & Video Mobile Messaging for Small Businesses." The webinar focused on how companies can utilize CallFire to market their business and get results through the simple, yet powerful, communication method of mobile messaging.

Tonight, President Obama visited Southern California. He stopped off at Sony Pictures in Culver City, near where our designer Ed To lives. He's at the end of this KTLA clip. Unfortunately, the camera cropped out his awesome CallFire t-shirt :)

With the devastation caused by the earthquake and tsunami in Japan, you've no doubt seen or heard calls to text a word to a short code (such as "Text JAPAN to 50555"), and a donation will automatically be added to your cell phone bill. To date, over $2 million has been raised via this single mobile giving campaign.

by Natalia Klishina


The topic for this article was actually a suggestion from one of our employees. He thought it would be interesting for you guys to get an idea of what keeps us grounded and balanced, so that we can be happy, functioning human beings here at the office. It's weird how much, or how little, some of us have in common. Anyway, without further ado, and in no particular order...