Posted by ken hawkins on May 28, 2008 at 7:27pm
Hi all. We're in the final stages of developing TheDigitel.com, a local news site, and I'm trying to decide on the best avenue to integrate e-mail and SMS subscriptions. Before I go installing a bunch on the test server, I thought I'd ask for your thoughts.
Ideally, we want to offer people the ability to subscribe to a daily or weekly digest (perhaps based of our RSS feed), or to subscribe to a particular topic (i.e. e-mail me when there's a new story tagged with "road development") or to say SMS me when there's a new top story or story tagged with "wreck".
A mouthful, I know. So, thoughts?
p.s. We're a small outfit and can do some code tweaking, but we're lacking a true programmer.
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SMS Framework!
Hi Ken,
We have been working on extending the SMS Framework module and I think this might be what you are looking for. You should be able to get out of the box support by adding Messaging and Notifications, although I haven't tried this myself yet.
This is something we are interested in, and will probably integrate soon, so I would like to hear how it works for you. Hope this helps!
Tylor
Thanks Tylor. Am toying with
Thanks Tylor. Am toying with the notifications module now. It seems quite competent.
The SMS stuff seems like it might not be doable for us at the moment (at least for how we want to use it). It seems we either risk getting blacklisted if we push too many messages through provider's web gateways, or if we go with the Clickatell integration we'd pay ~5¢ a pop.
As for content digests built
As for content digests built off of RSS feeds, FeedBurner offers that service. If you use Views to provide RSS feeds for tags, you can then offer emailings for particular tags as well.
If you get the email alerts worked out, you can "fake" the SMS part by having subscribers tell you their cell phone service provider in addition to their number. You can then use their carrier's email to SMS gateway to send them an SMS by actually sending an email to a particular address -- usually something along the lines of 1234567890@sms.service-provider.com .
The Boise Drupal Guy!
As a followup I see that
As a followup I see that Will White posted a blog entry relating to this: http://www.developmentseed.org/blog/2008/jun/04/sms-framework-notificati...