What's the method for sharing the task of phoning round a group of people called, please?

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What I'm looking for is a method of assigning every member of our club with about three members to ring for those rare occasions when we have to cancel a fixture at the last minute.

It's too slow and unfair to expect the secretary to do all the ringing. We have a group email address, but that's not as good as actually speaking to everyone.

I'm suffering from "Internet vocabulary problem" (a term of my invention which I encourage you to adopt) - if I knew the name for the system of assigning names to each member then I could search for it and hopefully find some kind person who's posted the method for me to copy.

As it is, "phone cascade" and "round-robin phoning" both failed to lead me anywhere useful.

Hopefully I'm about to give someone a nice easy 10 points :-)

Anonymous · Accepted Answer

That's a phone tree.

wishnuwelltoo · Answer

Well the schools I work for call it a phone tree.  So the secretary calls people who work in the office, library, food service director and bus mechanic.  Principal calls the head of each department.  Then the food service director calls all the cooks, the bus mechanic calls all the bus drivers, the head of math, calls all the math teachers, the head of English department calls all the English teachers and so on.  In the military we called it a recall roster, it was the same theory.  I guess it doesn't really matter what you call it, the people at the top are notified, and they notify their troops and you say you are sorry to the person you left off the list, because someone always seems to get left off the list.

Anonymous · Answer

I'd simply call it contingency control and leave it at that.

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What's the method for sharing the task of phoning round a group of people called, please?

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