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Re: group texting solution
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Brian Gibson)
Tue Feb 21 10:53:19 2012
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Hi Jim,
I think GroupMe is the way we are going to go, my colleague has been
doing testing on it with his iPhone and we'll test it out with some
Android users soon. I went to try and download it for my Windows Phone
but apparently the version for that platform is not out yet..... some
day my phone will be popular :-(
Thanks again to all that have replied.
On 2/21/2012 10:40 AM, Rizzo, Jim wrote:
> I have used GroupMe for activities that were not work-related. It's a
> really awesome solution to this problem. It has an iPhone app that
> lets you control it, but it also works well on standard phones that
> only do texting (we had at least one of those in our group). The only
> problem we had was a large number of texts (which can cost people
> money if they don't have a texting plan), but because of what we were
> using it for (I'll be honest, it was for Phish tour), the texting got
> out of hand at times.
>
> Jim
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> From: Eric Lemmons <eric.lemmons@acu.edu <mailto:eric.lemmons@acu.edu>>
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> Date: Fri, 17 Feb 2012 08:17:52 -0600
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> Subject: Re: [RESNET-L] group texting solution
>
> GroupMe. (groupme.com <http://groupme.com>)
>
> I use it for my student leadership team, with full time folks, and
> with personal friends. There is also an iPhone app that will let you
> receive them as Push notifications instead of Texts if you prefer.
>
> On Fri, Feb 17, 2012 at 7:54 AM, Chuck Steel <chuck.steel@gmail.com
> <mailto:chuck.steel@gmail.com>> wrote:
>
> I haven't used any of these services but I have heard of them from
> other folks:
>
> http://lifehacker.com/5799695/five-best-apps-to-send-group-text-messages-on-the-cheap
>
>
> On Fri, Feb 17, 2012 at 8:37 AM, Brian Gibson
> <gibson_brian@wheatoncollege.edu
> <mailto:gibson_brian@wheatoncollege.edu>> wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > Has anyone found a good solution for easily texting a group of
> people? I
> > know you can create a texting group on certain phone models but
> I'd rather
> > have it so you only need one telephone number entry in your
> phone's contact
> > list that you have to text to that distributes the message out to
> a handful
> > of people? I tried going the mailing list route where you send an
> email
> > (instead of a text) and the mailing list distributes a copy of
> the message
> > to a special address that gets converted to a text (each carrier
> has their
> > own email address convention) but different carriers handled
> replying to
> > that text different and it got confusing.
> >
> > Thanks for any suggestions!
> >
> >
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> > Wheaton College
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Hi Jim,<br>
<br>
I think GroupMe is the way we are going to go, my colleague has been
doing testing on it with his iPhone and we'll test it out with some
Android users soon. I went to try and download it for my Windows
Phone but apparently the version for that platform is not out
yet..... some day my phone will be popular <span
class="moz-smiley-s2"><span> :-( </span></span><br>
<br>
Thanks again to all that have replied.<br>
<br>
On 2/21/2012 10:40 AM, Rizzo, Jim wrote:
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<div>I have used GroupMe for activities that were not
work-related. It's a really awesome solution to this
problem. It has an iPhone app that lets you control it, but
it also works well on standard phones that only do texting
(we had at least one of those in our group). The only
problem we had was a large number of texts (which can cost
people money if they don't have a texting plan), but because
of what we were using it for (I'll be honest, it was for
Phish tour), the texting got out of hand at times.</div>
<div><br>
</div>
<div>Jim</div>
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<div>Jim Rizzo</div>
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<div>GroupMe. (<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://groupme.com">groupme.com</a>)</div>
<div><br>
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<div>I use it for my student leadership team, with full time
folks, and with personal friends. There is also an iPhone app
that will let you receive them as Push notifications instead
of Texts if you prefer.<br>
<div><br>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Feb 17, 2012 at 7:54 AM,
Chuck Steel <span dir="ltr">
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href="mailto:chuck.steel@gmail.com">chuck.steel@gmail.com</a>></span>
wrote:<br>
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I haven't used any of these services but I have heard of
them from other folks:<br>
<br>
<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://lifehacker.com/5799695/five-best-apps-to-send-group-text-messages-on-the-cheap"
target="_blank">http://lifehacker.com/5799695/five-best-apps-to-send-group-text-messages-on-the-cheap</a><br>
<div class="HOEnZb">
<div class="h5"><br>
<br>
On Fri, Feb 17, 2012 at 8:37 AM, Brian Gibson<br>
<<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="mailto:gibson_brian@wheatoncollege.edu">gibson_brian@wheatoncollege.edu</a>>
wrote:<br>
> Hi all,<br>
><br>
> Has anyone found a good solution for easily
texting a group of people? I<br>
> know you can create a texting group on certain
phone models but I'd rather<br>
> have it so you only need one telephone number
entry in your phone's contact<br>
> list that you have to text to that distributes
the message out to a handful<br>
> of people? I tried going the mailing list route
where you send an email<br>
> (instead of a text) and the mailing list
distributes a copy of the message<br>
> to a special address that gets converted to a
text (each carrier has their<br>
> own email address convention) but different
carriers handled replying to<br>
> that text different and it got confusing.<br>
><br>
> Thanks for any suggestions!<br>
><br>
><br>
> --<br>
><br>
> ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++<br>
> Brian Gibson<br>
> Systems Administrator<br>
> Wheaton College<br>
><br>
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Online music site at<br>
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and listen & contribute<br>
><br>
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