Hillary in KS Posted May 1, 2011 Share Posted May 1, 2011 We are hosting a debate tournament this week, and need to be able to send periodic text message "blasts" to parents there. I am DREADING the idea of manually entering each phone # each time. Surely there must be an easy way to do this. Does anyone know? Is there a program or a site I can do this from? Thanks! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AK_Mom4 Posted May 1, 2011 Share Posted May 1, 2011 The address book on my phone lets me create GROUPS. You would have to put all the parents' numbers into your contacts list, but then you could create a group in the address book for the parents. When you send the text message, you can send it to the whole group at once. There are PC apps for sending text messages (google "text from computer") but most of them require that you know which carrier the reciever is using. But I haven't researched them fully, so there may be ones that just let you enter numbers..... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hathersage Posted May 1, 2011 Share Posted May 1, 2011 I use my google voice number to send texts from my computer, if they are in my gmail adddress book, all i have to do is type a few letters or numbers of that person's name/phone number..It only lets you send a text to 5 people at a time though.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tohru Posted May 1, 2011 Share Posted May 1, 2011 If you want to send an email as text message, you'd have to find out their carrier. You'd enter their 10 digit phone number then one of the following endings. For example: Verizon carrier: 3035551234@vtext.com AT&T – cellnumber@txt.att.net Verizon – cellnumber@vtext.com T-Mobile – cellnumber@tmomail.net Sprint PCS - cellnumber@messaging.sprintpcs.com Virgin Mobile – cellnumber@vmobl.com US Cellular – cellnumber@email.uscc.net Nextel - cellnumber@messaging.nextel.com Boost - cellnumber@myboostmobile.com Alltel – cellnumber@message.alltel.com Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Margo out of lurking Posted May 1, 2011 Share Posted May 1, 2011 If you want to send an email as text message, you'd have to find out their carrier. You'd enter their 10 digit phone number then one of the following endings. For example: Verizon carrier: 3035551234@vtext.com AT&T – cellnumber@txt.att.net Verizon – cellnumber@vtext.com T-Mobile – cellnumber@tmomail.net Sprint PCS - cellnumber@messaging.sprintpcs.com Virgin Mobile – cellnumber@vmobl.com US Cellular – cellnumber@email.uscc.net Nextel - cellnumber@messaging.nextel.com Boost - cellnumber@myboostmobile.com Alltel – cellnumber@message.alltel.com This. I am tech challenged. I refuse to pay for texting on my cell phone. Dd has a text-only phone plan. I e-mail her phone number, and she text-replies to me. It comes back to my e-mail like any other e-mail. It's great! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
happypamama Posted May 1, 2011 Share Posted May 1, 2011 We do it all the time with Verizon -- phonenumber@vtext.com. I hate typing on my phone, so if I need to text DH, I use the computer and send it just like an e-mail. Bonus: before we had a texting plan and were paying per text, we'd pay twice, once for my phone to send it, and once for DH's phone to receive it. However, it's free to send from the computer, so we only had to pay once. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marylou Posted May 1, 2011 Share Posted May 1, 2011 Yahoo has a free text feature, too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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