Prometheus Now Offers Mass Texting Capabilities to Our Clients

These days pretty much everyone worldwide - certainly everyone with mobile communications devices like cell phones, PDAs and handheld computers - has heard of text messaging. In many countries, and among young people everywhere, it is a primary method of long-distance communication. Among the advantages of texting is that it is quiet, fast, unobtrusive and can be done pretty much anywhere. Text messages can also be received almost anywhere - which is a particularly interesting development for union organizers.

Now Prometheus can offer your union the ability to blast text your members using an SMS module we can install to the websites we build using the Drupal open source content management system. SMS stands for "short message service" - and is the technology behind texting.

Over the last 25 years, SMS has become the dominant global standard for text communication and works on virtually all major mobile devices - regardless of which company owns the mobile networks that send or receive the text messages. And according to Wikipedia, "The connection between the phenomenon of text messaging and the underlying technology is so great that in parts of the world the term 'SMS' is used as a synonym for a text message or the act of sending a text message, even when a different protocol is being used."

A whole array of related technology has made it possible to use texting for a variety of useful purposes - including micro-blogging via services like Twitter. All-in-all texting is one of the most effective ways to communicate instantaneously with your union's members and staff, and allows savvy union leaders access to a host of new information distribution options for a very low cost.

If your union or labor-related organization is interested to learn more about adding SMS capabilities to your Drupal-based website, please contact us at 888-572-1301 at your earliest convenience.