[itdiscuss] texting

[Glenn Kelley]

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IAN - your onto something there for sure.

Of course - it really stinks when twitter is unable to tweet due to an outage...
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On Jan 7, 2010, at 9:56 AM, Ian Beyer wrote:

> Another medium for communicating to your members via SMS is Twitter. You publish the alerts on your twitter stream, and participation is completely opt-in and people can decide whether or not they want it to go to their devices or not. Added bonus: it doesn’t cost the church anything.
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> Ian Beyer
> Network Administrator
> United Methodist Church of the Resurrection (Map)
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> From: discuss-bounces at itdiscuss.org [mailto:discuss-bounces at itdiscuss.org] On Behalf Of Bobby Stewart
> Sent: Wednesday, January 06, 2010 7:03 PM
> To: IT Discussion Forum
> Subject: Re: [itdiscuss] texting
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> Please see my last post to this forum. All three of these packages include the ability to text.
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> Pros or cons: If you don’t have permission to send texting you could get some real static from those constituents who are charged for texting.
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> Bobby
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> From: discuss-bounces at itdiscuss.org [mailto:discuss-bounces at itdiscuss.org] On Behalf Of Julianna Hutchins
> Sent: Wednesday, January 06, 2010 1:55 PM
> To: 'IT Discussion Forum'
> Subject: [itdiscuss] texting
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> We’ve talked about phone messages, but what about phone texting.  The largest percentage of people are going to get a text faster than leaving a message on the phone.  I have been looking into the texting packages.
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> Does anyone have any preferences or experience with any packages?
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> Pro’s or Con’s on using a texting method for use in the church environment?
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> Julianna Hutchins
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