Hey everyone, my department is looking into getting a texting service to send notifications out to the people in the program. The students have actually asked for it over email, and my advisor wants me to check into options.

Does anyone have any experience with Simple Texting? It seems pretty well-priced since we wouldn't need all that many. Or if anyone has any other suggestions?

9/18/2012 8:19:50 PM

http://www.twilio.com/

9/18/2012 8:32:45 PM

Seconding http://www.twilio.com

One of the Community Managers there is an NC State alum. Might be able to make a connection for you.

9/18/2012 9:57:23 PM

Thanks for the heads up - I will pass it along to the boss. I may take you up on the offer - thanks.

9/18/2012 10:20:06 PM

How many people?

I send myself texts via email to alert my of computer hardware problems for the equipment in my lab.

9/19/2012 9:33:28 AM

We use an enterprise version of this: http://bit.ly/wjlHC

Works really well and is super cheap.

9/19/2012 1:00:49 PM

It's for sending texts to about 50 people at a time and there are 2 groups--1st and 2nd years in the program

9/19/2012 1:32:07 PM

if you want to go super cheap and have the technical knowledge to implement and support it, you can find some google voice automation scripts out there too

9/19/2012 3:10:52 PM