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Re: A New Way to Scout
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Originally Posted by Chadfrom308
Really? I have never experienced any lag or slowness from google drive, and it has been up 100% of the time...
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Has anybody tried using IFTTT to text(SMS) data to a shared spreadsheet? Anyone with a cell phone could contribute to the data pool.
Scouters would need to open an IFTTT account and give it access to receive SMS/Texts (normal messaging rates apply), and Google account information to write to their Google Drive.
A Master Scout would need to designate a Spread Sheet file and share it with the other scouts. (All scouters would also automatically have access to the raw data in their Google Drive as well.)
If crowd scouting: On Thursday set up a scouting kiosk with a cellular hot spot for potential scouters to set up their account... or have the regional director e-mail all the teams ahead of time the set-up instructions.
PS. You can opt in the recipe to send/collect the phone number of the SMS sender. This would allow the master scout to text back anybody who is doing it wrong, or sort out all of their data and remove it from the pool. This would also release the phone numbers of the scouting participants to each other (no names attached). Not sure if that is a problem.
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