WHS WEB S IT NEWY?Including Mobile Phone Users in the Loop

Adrian Tribe, Web Managera.tribe@bbk.ac.uk

Please make sure that

your mobile phone is

switched ON!

NOTICE!

Questions?• If you think of a question during the session but don’t

want to interrupt, text your question to 60300 in the format ‘iwmw2005 ask [your question]’ e.g. text

iwmw2005 ask What does it cost to send an SMS through the API that you use?

to 60300

Your question will be posted live on a web page and answered at the end (time permitting!)

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Introduction I’m a simple man, so this is not ‘cutting edge’ stuff, just

examples of simple but potentially useful things that you can do with SMS APIs and web interfaces etc

What’s right for Birkbeck may not be right for you- think about what YOUR institution needs and if any of today’s examples are relevant then go for it. If not, ignore it, but make sure you can dress that up in ‘management speak’ when a zealous senior manager says she thinks it would be a good idea!

A (very) brief primer SMS MMS SMS/MMS Gateways and APIs Web interfaces/Data interfaces WAP/Location services/Mapping Short codes/long numbers/dedicated

numbers

What can we do? How good is your imagination? Marketing News alerts (e.g. Birkbeck’s School of History, Classics and Archaeology system) Questions/Feedback (e.g. for this workshop) Voting (e.g. Borough Green Bypass)

Fieldtrip reports and photos System monitoring and alerts Etc

Questions and Quiz Any questions? (check questions page)

Quiz – win a full iTAGG plus £10 of message credit(total prize value = £186)