Pilot Discussion Forum of the Community Health Global Network (www.chgn.org)

To contribute: EMAIL (incl' pics etc.) to post@chgn.posterous.com or TEXT "CHGN" and your message to a mobile number (see right). Queries: EMAIL Nickh at chgn.org or TEXT “CHGNHELP” with your message. 



August 28, 2009

Message to Valarie about FrontlineSMS

Message to Valerie,
I know you contacted me a month ago - and I've not replied - because I didn't think that you'd probably subscribed to this blog!
Well - here I am replying to you (and everyone else who's subscribed) too.
 
Yes, I am working on this SMS-based forum - piloting it via a FrontlineSMS hub in Kathmandu, with contacts in Nepal.
I'd be glad to discuss what we've done so far (and our use of Clickatell to get responses back to contributors)
 
Please email me.
 
Yours
Nick Henwood
nickh at chgn.org

Posted by email 
August 7, 2009

SMS contribution from Nepal

Hello chgn +977... mobile number deleted

Posted by email 
July 2, 2009

From the U.S....

What is the non-U.K. number?

Posted by email 
June 30, 2009

Ken Banks recommended I talk to you

Hello Nick,

I want to know how to use FrontlineSMS to connect to web Forums. I will be working with remote communities in Africa and South America. And I'm wondering if using SMS may incur phone service provider fees. (Do you know any free program I can use to avoid the service provider fees)

I'm developing a non-profit project. I am hoping to mobilize and engage grassroot communities through an integrated web-based social networking and cellular micro-blogging service. This will be a web-based social network where participants with access to the internet will have access to all the social media networking services.

I want to know more about your FrontlineSMS experience; and how to post SMS in real time to a blog on the website.
(of course without service provider fees :))

And how mobile participants can get feed back from the web discussions.

I have not yet joined FrontlineSMS. I'm in the process of incorporating my non-profit and I'm hoping to register the non-profit with FrontlineSMS soon.

Thanks!
Cheers, Valerie

Posted by email 
June 26, 2009

Message from Nick Henwood

Posterous blog contribution via email - contributors can make longer contributions, and add photos, videos and links. (As an example, I've uploaded 2 images from our fund-raising day)

To avoid your lengthy signature information appearing at the end of the message you can add the term hashend (using the # of course). Then everything after that will not be displayed in the blog.

If you attach photos, videos, MP3s or the like they will be displayed.
Links should also work, for example to www.chgn.org

I hope that we'll be able to arrange to send a daily digest by email to those who wish to subscribe to us that way, and a summary daily digest to SMS users.

This system employs FrontlineSMS - as the interface between an ordinary UK network mobile phone and the internet (via email).

Once we've got this working we'll liaise with various international frontlineSMS users in countries where there are chgn members so they should be able to participate in forum discussions via a local cost sms text.

Zan and Ted, please give me some feedback and ideas - so we can make this a living discussion for a few days to test it out. (I will also be engaging with Zannah's contact who I hope will help us to refine the sms - internet interface. My dream is that we might be able to integrate the members' database that this communication system needs with the main CHGN membership database.

Yours
Nick

   
Click here to download:
Message_from_Nick_Henwood.zip (4447 KB)

Posted by Ted, Zannah and Nick, Community Health Global Network 
June 26, 2009

SMS contribution from {sender_name} in the UK

This is an sms contribution 2 the root CHGN forum. We could have 1 forum 4 each topic. Sms limits us to 160 charact. Sender's name should b subject.

Posted by Ted, Zannah and Nick, Community Health Global Network