Patent ID: 8503626

Claim:
A method for promoting corporate initiatives, said method comprising: storing a set of messages associated with a corporate initiative; identifying a network address of a telephone associated with at least one member of a group of individuals; selecting a message from the set of messages for displaying on an electronic display on the telephone; communicating the message to the network address for display on the electronic display of the telephone; converting the message from text to synthesized speech; communicating the synthesized speech to the telephone for audible communication to a user of the telephone during a period including one or more of during a ring tone, while the telephone is on hold, or after a third party hangs up the connection with the telephone, wherein the audible communication is whispered over the telephone to the user of the telephone during said period; receiving a vote or rating in response to the at least one member interactively responding to the message; and storing the vote or rating in association with the message.