I’m sitting in with Craig Rairdin, who wrote the original Quickverse software for windows.  He seems to have a toaster habit.

I’ve texted Craig via aim – I don’t pay for texting, I’m cheap and they’re gouging.

Why use texting – it’s good for time-sensitive information.  E-mail needs people to actively check their box, and phones are fast but no one answers them and then you need messages to be passed on.

Can someone explain to my wife that I need to pay for unlimited texting?

Criag’s Pitch (ABCNJ Take note)

• $25/month for an account (3 groups up to 300 messages per month).
• Members opt in by texting the group name to 564646  (Join #name#)
• You can send messages via the phone or web-site
• 25% at attendance for meeting by texting reminders 2 hours before the meeting (average age, 50).
• You can actually vote on things through the service.  Yes, oh yes oh yes.

Votes can be tracked real-time and charts can be embedded on web-sites (votes cost $.05 a piece – could get costly).  Hey CBC, would unlimted texting be legitimate for reimbursements?

Ever wonder what a SMS network looks like?  I’ve now seen a map.  Cool.

Here’s the service Craig is part of: http://www.churchtextingmanager.com/

Using a SMS aggregator is worth it, because the time and pain involved in setting up your own service takes a LOT of time.

Discount sign-up available – ask Craig (I’m not posting the code to the world).

I spent the last 10 minutes only partly listening – needed to beat iPhoto/image capture into submision, sorry oh intriqued listeners.