FrontlineSMS allows you to text message with large groups of people anywhere there is a mobile signal.
Extending FrontlineSMS (Part 1)
These are some thoughts I've had about how the External Commands functionality of FrontlineSMS can be used to develop all sorts of cool performance support applications. In addition, I can't help but wonder how the tool might be used also to develop mobile communities of practice. And why think just about a single instance of FrontlineSMS? Why couldn't one develop entire networks of individual nodes, connected to each other, to extend the reach of communication and support?
Video by James BonTempo
http://frontlinesms.ning.com/profile/JamesBonTempo
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Comment by Ben Whitaker on May 15, 2009 at 1:32pm -
Thanks James for making the video - it's really well done and amazingly useful for developers and slightly less programming experienced people to understand what the external commands can be used for.
You'll love the new external HTTP and command line interfaces that we're adding which allow external web sites and executables to initiate SMS messages, not just respond to incoming ones. That should give even more of your ideas room to grow.
The whole philosophy is to make FrontlineSMS quite a general tool that allows implementers like you to build it into whatever system you want, without needing to get into the tricky bits around phone management. We'll never think of as many things to do with FrontlineSMS as the end users will.
Again, thanks for your work on this, and thanks for sending it in to help other users!
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Comment by kiwanja on April 28, 2009 at 5:20pm -
Nice work, James
The "External commands" functionality works out-of-the-box and, as you say, is highly flexible (kudos to Masabi - the developers - for this). It's great to hear your thoughts on the kinds of things that could be done!
Thanks for posting and sharing!
Ken
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