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Communicating today: strategies and outlets for getting your message to patrons and student employees
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.
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- 1. Communicating today: strategiesand outlets for getting your message to patrons and student employees
- 2. About me ● OHIOILL ● UC 1000
- 3. We’ll cover.. ● textmessaging to communicate with student employees and patrons ● Facebook messaging ● QR code advertising ● ALAO-SSIG information
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- 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
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- 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?
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- 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 ● unbundledapp ● text messaging appearance ● future usage?
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- 29. Other messaging options ●Do you have experience messaging with student employees/patrons? ● What advice do you have?
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- 32. QR advertising ● linksdirectly to text sign up - for us ● on banners and desks ● can link to mobile pages
- 33. QR advertising ● fromour ILL QR code
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- 37. ALAO Information ● http://alaoweb.org/igs/ssig/index.html ●https://www.facebook. com/groups/473155646081030/
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