Re: Looking for Ideas to facilitate group communication on the road

2011-06-07 Thread Mark Phillips
Their Talk product looks exactly like what I needhowever, it is under development now, so it is not available.darn! Thanks for the suggestion! Mark On Mon, Jun 6, 2011 at 8:10 PM, Ariel Gold arielqg...@gmail.com wrote: Haven't used it, but http://betwext.com/ is a local startup based

Re: Looking for Ideas to facilitate group communication on the road

2011-06-06 Thread Mark Phillips
JD, I am not trying to convert an email to sms. I am looking for an sms group list, where anyone on the list can send an sms to everyone else on the list. Something like a google groups email list, but just for sms. Email is not an option, only sms. Mark On Sun, Jun 5, 2011 at 8:43 PM, JD

RE: Looking for Ideas to facilitate group communication on the road

2011-06-06 Thread Bob Elzer
Have you thought of getting a google voice number, and adding everyone's cell phone number to it, but just use the number for texting that way one text would go to all phones. There may be some issues to work out, but it might work _ From:

Re: Looking for Ideas to facilitate group communication on the road

2011-06-06 Thread Mark Phillips
Some feedback on the google voice idea A. I set up a new phone number and tried to add other phone numbers for forwarded texting. The only hitch is that the new phone number requires a verification code be sent from an sms on that phone. It makes sense, or someone would use google voice to

Re: Looking for Ideas to facilitate group communication on the road

2011-06-06 Thread Joseph Sinclair
There are other issues with GV too; the biggest being that a number cannot be assigned as a mobile number on more than one account; so if anyone in the group uses GV, they won't want to have their number disconnected from their GV just to use your setup. Also, you cannot have GV forward to

Re: Looking for Ideas to facilitate group communication on the road

2011-06-06 Thread Donn
Just saw this website and thought of your request. It might be a simple solution. http://www.textmob.co/ On Mon, Jun 6, 2011 at 7:41 PM, Joseph Sinclair plug-discuss...@stcaz.netwrote: There are other issues with GV too; the biggest being that a number cannot be assigned as a mobile number on

Re: Looking for Ideas to facilitate group communication on the road

2011-06-06 Thread Ariel Gold
Haven't used it, but http://betwext.com/ is a local startup based out of gangplank On Mon, Jun 6, 2011 at 8:06 PM, Donn dlshum...@gmail.com wrote: Just saw this website and thought of your request. It might be a simple solution. http://www.textmob.co/ On Mon, Jun 6, 2011 at 7:41 PM,

Looking for Ideas to facilitate group communication on the road

2011-06-05 Thread Mark Phillips
This group always has great suggestions for my odd requirements, so here I go again;-) My two club softball teams are going to out of town for nationals at the end of June (~26 families). (We might even make ESPN...) We need a way to send messages to each other, and as a group. Up to this

Re: Looking for Ideas to facilitate group communication on the road

2011-06-05 Thread Alan Dayley
http://belugapods.com/ While they showcase the iOS and Android apps, works fine with just a text messaging phone too. Alan On Sun, Jun 5, 2011 at 12:32 PM, Mark Phillips m...@phillipsmarketing.biz wrote: This group always has great suggestions for my odd requirements, so here I go

Re: Looking for Ideas to facilitate group communication on the road

2011-06-05 Thread Eric Shubert
Most (all?) have email to sms gateways. http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/email-to-sms/ http://sms411.net/how-to-send-email-to-a-phone/ You should be able to use any sort of email list software to send a message to list members' SMS addresses. I'm not sure about sending from SMS to email though.

Re: Looking for Ideas to facilitate group communication on the road

2011-06-05 Thread Mark Phillips
Eric, You are correct, I can send am email to sms. The problem is enabling everyone in the group, with only SMS on the phone, to send messages to everyone else, or a sub group, using just sms. Mark On Sun, Jun 5, 2011 at 1:02 PM, Eric Shubert e...@shubes.net wrote: Most (all?) have email to

Re: Looking for Ideas to facilitate group communication on the road

2011-06-05 Thread Mark Phillips
Alan, I signed up for an account on belugapods - I used one email address and then added two others as members of a pod. I get messages to these email addresses. I don't see how to invite a cell # as opposed to an email address, and when I just type in my cell # instead of the email address, I

Re: Looking for Ideas to facilitate group communication on the road

2011-06-05 Thread Alan Dayley
My experience consists of someone on a team I work with signing me up and me getting text messages. So I don't know the details you are asking, just that our team has used the service very successfully. Alan On Sun, Jun 5, 2011 at 3:04 PM, Mark Phillips m...@phillipsmarketing.biz wrote: Alan,

Re: Looking for Ideas to facilitate group communication on the road

2011-06-05 Thread JD Austin
it isn't difficult to send email that gets converted to sms you just need to know how to format the TO address (#@address.com); this should cover it (will require some imput from the people you want to send sms/email to ( quick google search...):