ERC requires a lot* of communication that goes on about it, and to make it easier now that we've switched from texting/SMS to GroupMe#.
The Twin Falls Bishop's Storehouse has been using GroupMe# or HF notifications on frequency shifts as well as band conditions, and has recommended we use GroupMe#. The Lord has inspired us to swtich to GroupMe#
Here's a few reasons why we're shifting:
1) Text messages don't always go through and we have no way of seeing who gets them or who doesn't.
3) There wasn't a way to remove people from a text group easily. There wasn't a way for people to remove themselves from it.
4) As admins we can remove people from a list easily or people can remove themselves, they can limit their notifications, and the ERC notifications aren't going in their main texting areas.
5) GroupMe# can be used with a web browser, or a cell-phone app. So it can be used on your desktop computer, with the internet, or over a cell-phone with cell-service. If cell service goes down, it can still be used over internet, and visa versa - it's a redundant system for communications.
6) We can send files way easier to a group using web-browsers than we ever could just using SMS/Text Messaging.
7) There's more versatility with what we can do and information we can exchange - larger files, larger pictures, storage libraries of media sent, searchable conversations, easier to identify everyone - it works!
8) It's easy to use, no cost.
9) We can add people who aren't members of the church who wish to work with us.
So! To be added, contact your ward or stake specialist to get the chats/conversations and they will get you in and we can get you approved!
But we're adding this to our lists of tools as we build!
This is how we're going to be doing this going forward!
73 - N7MDM