On Mon, Jun 6, 2011 at 4:48 PM, Mark Phillips <[email protected]> wrote: > I have a club softball team, and we are going to nationals at the end of > June. We communicate very well using an email list, but when we are on the > road not everyone has access to email. I am looking for a simple way to > > A. allow a member to send a broadcast SMS to everyone in the group. Not all > members have Internet services on their phone, so email is not an option. > B. allow a member to send an sms to a subset of the group, or an individual > member of the group. > > I thought of this scenario, but it seems rather clumsy: > For A: > 1. Use a google voice phone number as the broadcast number > 2. have google voice send the sms message to an email address > 3. have a python script forward the email via each carrier's email to sms > email address > For B: > 4. modify the python script to look for a tag in the sms body (e.g. > "to:sammy"), and the just send the sms message to sammy, not the whole group > > I am sure there is a better way to do this. I only need this capability for > 10 days, so I really don't want to spend a lot of money on it. My users are > not technically savvy, so signing up for a twitter account is probably more > effort than they want to expend. If I give them a phone number and say "Send > text messages to this number", they will probably do it. > > Thanks for any suggestions you may have!
If you were going to be in India you could use google smschannels, but it only works for Indian mobile numbers. http://labs.google.co.in/smschannels/help?cr=in#create_channel This company gives you a $10 credit to test their system. It might be enough to get through a week. http://www.groupflier.com/how.html Bill _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
