We use AlertNow as our emergency communication system. It has email,
voice and SMS and the cost is very reasonable. We have recently used it
to send a few text messages to students and it worked well.
Melissa Tredenick
Director of Technology
Christ School
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Subject: mass cellphone text messaging to students
Has anyone deployed text messaging as a means to reach students/parents
for emergency notification (or to announce school closings, etc.)? If
so, which hosted service or software product?=20
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Dave Aykroid
Director of Information Technology
Lake Forest Academy
1500 W. Kennedy Rd.
Lake Forest IL 60045
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Fax 847.615.4861
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