Comments on: Group Text Messaging

By: David

David — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 22:56:18 +0000

http://www.EzTexting.com is a group text messaging service and used by Ministries around the country, you should consider as well

By: Glen Davis

Glen Davis — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 01:25:22 +0000

That’s a value-added self-plug. It looks like a great service! Thanks for sharing it.

By: jon

jon — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 20:42:08 +0000

Sorry for the self plug, but you may want to check out WeTxt. http://www.wetxt.com.

It provides free group text messaging in a variety of manners i.e. reply-to-all, reply-to-me, message-blasts. You can text from your phone, the web, or your email. It also provides various other services.

Hope this helps!

By: Glen Davis

Glen Davis — Sun, 06 Sep 2009 21:31:22 +0000

I just had someone recommend Chatterous to me. It's chat-focused (as opposed to announcement-focused like txtblaster), but is more accessible to people who don't have text plans on their cell phones.

By: Matt

Matt — Sat, 05 Sep 2009 02:12:16 +0000

I was just talking to Jen in the past two days about how it seems the facebook is waning among incoming freshmen — not drastically, but slowly, and probably irreversibly. I’ve actually found email to have renewed usefulness lately. However, you’re right on with texting, and I look forward to checking out txtblaster.

By: Glen Davis

Glen Davis — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 22:16:40 +0000

@steve — glad I could serve. Like your blog. Great post about being the visiting team.

@sdesocio — I hadn’t run across MobileStorm before. Thanks for bringing them to my attention.

@adrienne — I think you can accomplish this with http://dotgo.com (a recommendation I received in the Facebook comments on this note). You can do some other cool interactive things with http://www.polleverywhere.com/

And to summarize here what I’ve been seeing in the FB comments, txtblaster is getting props. The people who use it like it. http://www.eztexting.com was also mentioned.

By: Adrienne

Adrienne — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 17:25:33 +0000

I think it would be really helpful to have something that college students can use in the church service during announcements.

To be able to say, “We’re setting up campus small groups this week. If you want to participate, text “lifegroup” + your email address to ****** right now and we’ll send you signup info.”

“If you want to go on the Mexico Homebuild trip next weekend, text “mexico” + your email address right now to ****** and we’ll send you more info.”

Everyone has a phone with them. Make it work for Jesus

By: sdesocio

sdesocio — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 17:20:42 +0000

Our church is in Oakland, between CMU and Pitt we are thinking about some texting service. We are looking at http://www.mobilestorm.com/go/overview/ or Textmarks

By: Steve Lutz

Steve Lutz — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 16:58:44 +0000

Glen,
thanks for the shoutout. Great ideas on using some apps other than Twitter that are more geared for communicating within a ministry. I’ll be checking these out!