FrontlineSMS: The NGO Twitter?
June 30, 2008 by Jayvee Fernandez
Filed under Apps
So there’s Twitter – a social crowd control tool that by chance just grew into that sort of thing.
Here’s something similar in effect but different in execution: FrontlineSMS is a desktop client that resembles a good mass SMS client that’s specifically meant for keeping a huge number of people up to date with activities. FrontlineSMS has been used mostly by NGOs in elections, event organizing, updating students with school curricula, and the like. The possibilities are varied with your fully customizable campaign. Best of all, the client is free!
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Check out what others are saying about this post...[...] Cellphone 9 described FrontlineSMS as “The NGO Twitter”, while Unthinkingly thought it was “a thoroughly wonderful idea in many ways … If you’re into international rural research with mobile phones. A tool worth watching very closely, it’s what I think is the leading platform of the mobile research ‘industry’ if there is such a thing”. Chromosome LK won the Dramatic Headline competition with their “FrontlineSMS and Sri Lankan Gays” (referring to its use in Sri Lanka by a gay rights group), while Aydin Design decided that one of the really exciting things about FrontlineSMS was “the speed of development – with low resources, putting it in the hands of people now – so they can do things to improve their lives – now”, which is exactly what it is trying to do. Isis-Inc – who’s strap line is “Technically, it’s about sex” (?) – concluded their coverage with “Yay FrontlineSMS!! Access meets elegance!!”. [...]