SMS Provides Solutions for School District
“We deal with people’s most precious possession--their children. And if something happens, we have to be able to tell them what we’re doing with their children.”
- Guy Bliesner, Safety & Security Coordinator
Challenge
Rocky Mountain Middle School serves 11,000 seventh and eighth graders in Idaho Falls, ID. The school needed a timely and accurate mass communication method in case of emergencies. It also needed to be flexible enough to send simple short messages about...
The Easy-to-Understand Guide To SMS Aggregators, Carriers, and Providers
With 2 million blog posts written everyday, the internet is flooded with information about how mobile companies work and operate. If you’re anything like me, all that technical jargon is really confusing and it can sometimes feel like you might as well try to be reading a Russian copy of War and Peace.
Don’t worry. We've taken all that information and put it in terms that normal people use, so you can understand exactly what we do here at Txtwire. The industry has four main players...
Beginner’s Guide to Mobile Marketing
Why are companies like Instagram being sold for 1 BILLION dollars? It's because mobile marketing gets results. At the Mobile World Congress, held in Barcelona in February 2010, the CEO of Google, Eric Schmidt, announced that Google will consider “mobile first” in all future endeavors.
Mobile and You
By now you have probably heard about this whole mobile thing. Maybe you are in love with apps, thinking of starting a text list, or maybe you just like the convenience of sending...