Communicating with a group via text and email?
November 13, 2008 2:42 PM Subscribe
Communicating with a group via text and email? How can a group of 7 communicate via text and email. 3 are email only, 4 are text only, the idea is any member can send a single text or email which is delivered to all 7 as an email or text as appropriate. Does this exist? Alternate suggestions welcome.
To make it more complex, everyone has different email and phone services (and won't/can't change), and most are not techie enough to send an email from their phone. UK based if relevant.
To make it more complex, everyone has different email and phone services (and won't/can't change), and most are not techie enough to send an email from their phone. UK based if relevant.
I know that some american cell providers have an email-to-SMS interface. If these UK providers do the same, then than solves half your problem.
posted by kickingtheground at 3:13 PM on November 13, 2008
posted by kickingtheground at 3:13 PM on November 13, 2008
Response by poster: Jott looked very promising but is only available in the US and Canada, thanks anyway. Similarly the email to SMS interface seems limited in the UK. I was hoping for a prepackaged solution, exploring MatJ's response may be my last resort.
Thanks all so far, any other suggestions would be very welcome.
posted by zingzangzung at 5:27 PM on November 13, 2008
Thanks all so far, any other suggestions would be very welcome.
posted by zingzangzung at 5:27 PM on November 13, 2008
email-to-SMS gateways should be available world-wide though not necessarily free. Once you have that, you can just create a mailing list with mailman or whatever and subscribe the phonenumber@gateway addresses to it.
If you can't do an email/SMS conversion and people can't read email on their phones then you can't do it.
posted by polyglot at 8:58 PM on November 13, 2008
If you can't do an email/SMS conversion and people can't read email on their phones then you can't do it.
posted by polyglot at 8:58 PM on November 13, 2008
I have email to SMS with vodafone in Europe. It's free. I'd be pretty surprised if it's not available with all the carriers in the UK.
posted by sero_venientibus_ossa at 4:22 AM on November 14, 2008
posted by sero_venientibus_ossa at 4:22 AM on November 14, 2008
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Using a SQL Server database interacting with a web service to send & receive text messages. Building a VB Macro over Outlook to receive/log emails, and the xpsendmail function to send plain text emails.
Add a user setup table to hold people's preferences & have a couple of Stored Procedures over the top to manage all the workflow.
Easy enough conceptually. Find someone close by with database & application development skills.
posted by MatJ at 3:04 PM on November 13, 2008