Team Communication Solutions

[Trent B]

A little discussion among captains we have come up wtih emailing and also making a bulk email to phone list (eg 5555555555@vtext.com and the similar services for other carriers) to notify people that they need to check their email or the site as well as of meetings in advance and a second reminder the day of.

We have also decided to get rid of the email@team2502.com except for captains and mentors who want it.

Now we are trying to figure out the best way to have discussions.

[Dancin103]

I'm just making a quick suggestion, especially with urgent messages or even reminders. Our team uses something called alert now! The school has the system for school snow days and delays. You just input any and all phone numbers you want called and it places a phone call to the numbers with an automated update message. It works for us and you can easily monitor it. If you want additional information please PM me.

Cass

[Andrew Schreiber]

Originally Posted by keehun

We can't call everyone! We can't text everyone... Our team is about 30 people.

2 words, Phone Tree. With 30 people each person would only have to call 2 people and it would be ~5 levels deep. Or you could call 3 people and it would be 4 deep. Gotta love trees.

[MasterRobot]

Originally Posted by Trent B

We have also been looking at 37signals "Basecamp" has anyone used this product before?

I've used some of 37 signal's products, and they do work very nicely and are quite professional. You may want to look at other solutions that might be free (we use google groups, and were using a project plan based off of Google Docs + Google Forms), but from what I've heard and seen, Basecamp is actually fairly comprehensive in project planning, discussions etc. If you're willing to pay per month, and can make sure students use and check it, it looks like it is a good system to use.