{"id":139,"date":"2010-11-08T17:54:00","date_gmt":"2010-11-08T17:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sedcclint.com\/groupme-free-alternative-to-textmarks-for-sma"},"modified":"2010-11-08T17:54:00","modified_gmt":"2010-11-08T17:54:00","slug":"groupme-free-alternative-to-textmarks-for-sma","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sedcclint.com\/index.php\/2010\/11\/08\/groupme-free-alternative-to-textmarks-for-sma\/","title":{"rendered":"GroupMe &#8211; Free Alternative to TextMarks for Small Groups"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"posterous_bookmarklet_entry\">\n<div class=\"posterous_quote_citation\">Check out this website I found at <a href=\"http:\/\/groupme.com\/\">groupme.com<\/a><\/div>\n<p>Now that TextMarks has limited free groups to one-per-user, <a href=\"http:\/\/groupme.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">GroupMe<\/a> might be a good alternative for classroom-sized groups.<\/p>\n<p>Each group created has it&#8217;s own unique phone number and will accomodate up to 25 members of a group. You can update the group by sending a text to the group phone number. You can also pretty much manage anything you need to do with your group from your phone by sending #commands to the group number&#8230; For example:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>#add name phone &#8211; adds a new group member<\/li>\n<li>#list &#8211; shows all names and numbers of group members<\/li>\n<li>#topic topic &#8211; changes the discussion topic of the group, or really the name of the group<\/li>\n<li>#name name &#8211; changes your name within the group<\/li>\n<li>#mute &#8211; stops updates from the group. Send #mute again, and you are back in the conversation<\/li>\n<li>#remove name or number &#8211; removes this person or number from the group (only works if you are the group creator)<\/li>\n<li>#exit &#8211; removes me from the group<\/li>\n<li>#help &#8211; sends you a list of commands<\/li>\n<li>#new topic &#8211; creates a whole new group with the name or topic that you enter. You&#8217;ll be texted with the new phone number for the new group.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>If you have a SmartPhone, they also have apps for <a href=\"http:\/\/groupme.com\/iphone\/download\" target=\"_blank\">iPhone<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.groupme.com\/post\/1471165332\/groupme-for-android\" target=\"_blank\">Android<\/a>. Give it a shot!<\/p>\n<ul><\/ul>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Check out this website I found at groupme.com Now that TextMarks has limited free groups to one-per-user, GroupMe might be a good alternative for classroom-sized groups. Each group created has it&#8217;s own unique phone number and will accomodate up to&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[1],"tags":[41,138,269,291],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7O78S-2f","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sedcclint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sedcclint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sedcclint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sedcclint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sedcclint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=139"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sedcclint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sedcclint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sedcclint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sedcclint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}