The document discusses various strategies for communicating with student employees and patrons using text messaging and social media. It focuses on the remind101 service, which allows instructors to send one-way text messages to groups without the ability to reply. The document also discusses using email to carrier gateways to send texts, Facebook messaging, and QR codes to provide links to sign up for text messages. Overall, the key strategies presented are using remind101 and text messaging through email to notify students and patrons of events, shifts, announcements, and material availability through one-way communication methods.

1. Communicating today: strategies and outlets for
getting your message to patrons and student
employees

2. About me
● OHIO ILL
● UC 1000

3. We’ll cover..
● text messaging to communicate with
student employees and patrons
● Facebook messaging
● QR code advertising
● ALAO-SSIG information

4. What do you bring?

5. Smartphone?
92.44%

6. How do you communicate?

7. Texting
82.62%

8. remind101.com

9. remind101.com
● instructor/supervisor control
● 1-way text messaging
● safe

10. remind101.com
Ideas for use:
● event notices for students/student employees
● posting of shifts for student employees
● important announcements for employees (closures, fire
alarm, etc.)
● messages can be sent to individuals, but no reply
options

11. remind101.com
trial?

12. remind101.com

13. remind101.com
● iPhone 5 view

14. remind101.com
● reply example

15. Other texting options
● phone numbers have emails associated with
them
● at OHIO ILL we use 5 carrier emails in our
text sign-up
● AT&T, Boost, Sprint, T-Mobile, Verizon

16. Other texting options
● @txt.att.net
● @myboostmobile.com
● @pm.sprint.com
● @tmomail.net
● @vtext.com
Example: 7405551234@txt.att.net

17. Other texting options
● student employee group text - but they can
respond
● email text option for you
● text patrons for material availability

18. Other texting options
● note character limits when sending group
texts and notifications (140)
● Verizon Limit

19. Other texting options
● we greatly reduced the amount of text we
send out for ILL notifications
● why?

20. Other texting options

22. Other texting options

23. Other texting options

24. Other texting options

25. Other texting options
● for more information about texting via email,
or through ILLiad, visit: http://www.
slideshare.net/derekryma/the-right-txt-
implementation-of-text-messaging-for-
interlibrary-loan-at-ohio-university

26. Facebook messaging
● username@facebook.com
● a lot of notification options
● unreliable?

27. Facebook messaging
● unbundled app
● text messaging appearance
● future usage?

28. Facebook messaging

29. Other messaging options
● Do you have experience messaging with
student employees/patrons?
● What advice do you have?

30. QR Advertising
92.44%

31. QR advertising

32. QR advertising
● links directly to text sign up - for us
● on banners and desks
● can link to mobile pages

33. QR advertising
● from our ILL QR code

34. QR advertising
● http://www.qrstuff.com/

35. ALAO information

36. ALAO information

37. ALAO Information
● http://alaoweb.org/igs/ssig/index.html
● https://www.facebook.
com/groups/473155646081030/

38. Questions?
Derek Malone
maloned@ohio.edu
740-593-2691