Text Message Notification

Nowadays email mailing lists are not nearly as popular or hip as text message lists.  There are service providers out there that charge you an arm and a leg for text messaging.  There are also free services like Twitter but it requires you join the twitter network.  I needed a quick an easy way to notify our technicans and managers of technology issues or outages.  I wrote this simple web application that allows you to send text messages based on subscribed categories. It is built in Dreamweaver using Classic ASP and runs on a Microsoft Access Database.

Download Zip File

License: Open Source (GNU General Public License)

Demo Site
username: admin@admin.com
password: password

Note: This demo is intended to display the features and user interface. The ability to update the database has been removed.

Installation: On a windows server, unzip, upload, change permissions on the database to write and you're good to go.

Instructions:
1) Set your Categories
Categories are items that a user may want to be notifed about. 

Example:

• ITS - You may want to set up your categories as different technology items (servers, phones, email, etc...)
  
• Clubs & Services - You may want to set up your categories for different clubs and services services and notify students or users of upcoming events. 
  
• Emergency - Categories can be different types of emergency notification.  However, given this is running off of an access database I wouldn't run it with more than 100 users.
  

2) Create Users

3) Select which users should be notified about which categories.

How it Works:  It's actually very simple.  It uses CDOSYS to send emails to the user's cell phone provider text message service. 

Enjoy and donations to my college fund are welcome =)