Do you need to keep a group of people in touch with one another? Email’s old hat; try Twitter, as I explain in a post on my own blog:

When a small group in separate locations is working together on a project they miss out on the camaraderie and instant feedback available when they’re all in the same room. Often they try to use email to make up the lack.

Email’s too slow

The days when we compared email to letters and found email quick are long gone. Now we compare email to Instant Messaging, txting and Twitter and it seems oh so slow, oh so 1900s.

In 2008 the free service provided by Twitter is the surprise entrant in helping groups collaborate.

[Read more : Surprise service to support groups.]

If you're new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!

Share this post

Hide Sites

I have no experience with FrontlineSMS, but it is designed for community organisations:

FrontlineSMS is the first text messaging system to be conceived, designed and written firmly with the needs of the non-profit sector in mind.

Are you a locally- or internationally-based NGO looking at the potential to use mobile phone text messages to reach specific groups of individuals within a target community? Or to run an awareness raising campaign? Or to run a competition, or carry out a text-based survey? Or to simply keep in touch with your fieldworkers?

Do you want to provide text-based information services such as bus times, prices, goods availability etc?

[Via : The Cute Cat Theory Talk at ETech.]

If you’ve used FrontlineSMS, please leave a comment with your opinions about it.

Share this post

Hide Sites