Looking for Ideas to facilitate group communication on the road

[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
<mark at phillipsmarketing.biz> wrote:
> 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
> don't get an error message, nor an invite,  nor a message via sms. The help
> screens are not very.......helpful..;-)
>
> Do you use this service? Any ideas on what I am missing?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Mark
>
> On Sun, Jun 5, 2011 at 12:39 PM, Alan Dayley <adayley at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> 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
>> <mark at phillipsmarketing.biz> wrote:
>> > 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 point, I have been
>> > running a private group email list that everyone can use to send and
>> > receive
>> > emails for the group. But not everyone has Internet or email on their
>> > phone,
>> > so the group email list is not the best option for everyone. My android
>> > phone can send a text message to a group, so I can handle the issue of
>> > schedule changes. But, not everyone's phone on the two teams can send a
>> > group text, which makes those impromptu 'team lunch' difficult for
>> > someone
>> > in the group to schedule, unless I become the group sms operator, which
>> > is
>> > **not** something I want to do! I am wondering if there is some open
>> > source
>> > technology that can help us....
>> >
>> > My requirements
>> > 1. Send sms to a whole group, part of a group, or individually
>> > 2. Work on low end cell phones - ie no Internet plan or email
>> > 3. Does not require a lot of setup, either for me or for each person
>> > going.
>> > The people on the trip are not techies, but parents of 11-15 year old
>> > softball players (and the players as well).
>> > 4. Free, or really low cost as I only need it for ~10 days.
>> >
>> > I have a Debian server on Linode for our web site, so I could add some
>> > more
>> > software....
>> >
>> > I thought of these ideas:
>> > 1. pass out a cell phone list to everyone. That solves individual sms
>> > messages, but not group/sub group messaging for those who don't have
>> > that on
>> > their phone
>> > 2. twitter - maybe a private group? I have not used twitter before, but
>> > I
>> > will have challenges getting everyone to sign up for an account.
>> > 3. some other sms micro-blog app on my own server?
>> > 4. Face to face communication.....how old fashion!
>> > 5. Phone trees......from my experience, only works in an emergency.
>> >
>> > I am focused on sms only because it seems to be available to every
>> > player
>> > and parent on the trip. I am open to any other suggestions y'all may
>> > have!
>> >
>> > Thanks,
>> >
>> > Mark
>> >
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