{"id":2345,"date":"2009-09-04T06:22:34","date_gmt":"2009-09-04T14:22:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/?p=2345"},"modified":"2009-09-04T06:23:54","modified_gmt":"2009-09-04T14:23:54","slug":"group-text-messaging","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2009\/09\/04\/group-text-messaging","title":{"rendered":"Group Text Messaging"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"7001<\/a>
\nFor a few years, Face\u00adbook was one of the best ways to con\u00adnect with col\u00adlege stu\u00addents. Not any more. It\u2019s still use\u00adful, but not near\u00adly as use\u00adful as it used to be. The nov\u00adel\u00adty has worn off and so stu\u00addents aren\u2019t as respon\u00adsive on it.<\/p>\n

So like Steve Lutz<\/a> I\u2019ve been think\u00ading about text mes\u00adsag\u00ading late\u00adly. My younger stu\u00addents (frosh and sopho\u00admores) seem to be much more like\u00adly to have unlim\u00adit\u00aded tex\u00adting plans than my upper\u00adclass\u00admen and grad stu\u00addents.<\/p>\n

In the past I\u2019ve just texted peo\u00adple indi\u00advid\u00adu\u00adal\u00adly, but now I\u2019m exper\u00adi\u00adment\u00ading with group text mes\u00adsag\u00ading ser\u00advices. <\/p>\n

I con\u00adsid\u00adered using Twit\u00adter and telling peo\u00adple to sub\u00adscribe via text<\/a>. A few prob\u00adlems:
\na) Col\u00adlege stu\u00addents don\u2019t use twit\u00adter.
\nb) It cen\u00adtral\u00adizes the com\u00admu\u00adni\u00adca\u00adtion too much.
\nc) I don\u2019t feel con\u00adfi\u00addent in twit\u00adter\u2019s reli\u00ada\u00adbil\u00adi\u00adty.
\nd) The verb \u201ctweet\u201d.<\/p>\n

So I\u2019ve been look\u00ading into oth\u00ader ser\u00advices. So far I\u2019m drawn to txtBlaster<\/a>. The thing I like best is that I can dep\u00adu\u00adtize as many of the sub\u00adscribers as I want and allow them to text the entire group, so I can make this a stu\u00addent-dri\u00adven thing. It\u2019s a free (ad-sup\u00adport\u00aded) ser\u00advice. They claim to screen their ads care\u00adful\u00adly and to tar\u00adget them based on the type of group you set up. So far so good on that front. <\/p>\n

Do you have
\na) any thoughts on using text mes\u00adsag\u00ading effec\u00adtive\u00adly as a min\u00adistry tool?
\nb) anoth\u00ader ser\u00advice to rec\u00adom\u00admend (such as TextMarks<\/a> or txtSig\u00adnal<\/a> or even the maligned Twit\u00adter<\/a>)?<\/p>\n

P.S. If you want to see txtBlaster in action, feel free to text xas\u00adtan\u00adford<\/strong> to 25278<\/strong>. I\u2019ll be play\u00ading around with it for the next few days.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

For a few years, Face\u00adbook was one of the best ways to con\u00adnect with col\u00adlege stu\u00addents. Not any more. It\u2019s still use\u00adful, but not near\u00adly as use\u00adful as it used to be. The nov\u00adel\u00adty has worn off and so stu\u00addents aren\u2019t as respon\u00adsive on it. So like Steve Lutz I\u2019ve been think\u00ading about text mes\u00adsag\u00ading \u2026 Con\u00adtin\u00adue read\u00ading \u201cGroup Text Mes\u00adsag\u00ading\u201d<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wp_typography_post_enhancements_disabled":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[17,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2345","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geek","category-resources-reviews"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Ded-BP","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2345","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2345"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2345\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2361,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2345\/revisions\/2361"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2345"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2345"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2345"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}