Using Text Messaging & Voicemail to Communicate with Many Students – Tatango
Imagine that you are managing a large event at the park with international students. Just as you arrive, a huge storm suddenly hits. It is too late to use e-mail or Facebook and many of yours students don’t even know what twitter is. Actually, they hardly every use e-mail anyway so that won’t help. You need a way to contact them to tell them the new plan. You know they all use text messaging and probably have their mobile/cell phone but there are hundreds of them and only one of you. What can you do?
In steps Tatango, as Craig Agranoff from Rev2.org website puts it.
With Tatango, you can send ad-sponsored SMS texts to entire groups for free. Leave voice messages en masse. Even upgrade to business class options so you can s holler at your homies through a super-streamlined messaging platform. The site and service, formerly known as networkText, has gained traction with sports teams, schools, celebs and even churches, according to Tatango. There is also a blog, Twitter page and Facebook profile.
Students are even able to subscribe to your group themselves so they can receive your text alerts.
The free version sends a link to a website with your message. This is good if you know your recipients have web enabled phones for the text version, you need to pay from $9.95/month (These economic times made the formerly free ad supported option less than viable). As text messaging becomes more and more the main way students communicate, it becomes more and more important to find a way to send mass text messages to them quickly and easily.
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I have a friend that has a business that can do the same thing but better and cheaper. He is a Christian friend in Fla. The name of his Co. is myTXTRA.
Here is how it works, try this on your cell: put my name in the text and for the phone # put 3275X. The first time you will get his ad for his business and then my info. Also try ISI in the text and the same # 32757. Now I can send text to all of my students by phone or off of my computer at one time. For more information on this you can email Travis Priest tlpriest@sundropsystems.com Now for the best part $10.00 per year!
J.D. – ISI St. Louis