Looking for Ideas to facilitate group communication on the road

[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-discussion at stcaz.net>wrote:

> 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
> another GV number.
>
> I think you've hit upon the closest solution without paying for a
> business-oriented spam/marketing bulk SMS system.
> Have GV forward to an email account; parse that out to pull a tag
> (containing 0ga0/0gb0 usually works and it's fast(ish) to type on A9
> keypads) and forward to a list of SMS email endpoints based on the tag.  It
> might be good to also have unrecognized SMS forwarded to you so you can
> "reroute" when people goof up.
>
> There is an alternative if you don't mind locking an older phone to a
> computer back home for the duration of your trip (
> http://smslink.sourceforge.net/).  That system allows you to have an sms
> received on the attached phone forwarded to a customized email output, and
> you could, relatively easily, add support for sending back out via sms.
> It's a bit rough and not the most reliable, but it seems to work.
>
> On 06/06/2011 05:02 PM, Mark Phillips wrote:
> > Some feedback on the google voice idea....
> >
>



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Donn
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