We're finding that less and less of our students check their e-mail. Most are on facebook and/or twitter. It would be great for the student to be able to link a Populi app from facebook that would receive messages pushed by the school through Populi (e-mail, the feed, activity feed, bulletin board). We use a webbased app www.planningcenteronline.com that has this capability (as an example).
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Allan Crowson Although I voted for this as well, I suspect it will not give us the results we hope, even if the app already existed.
- Facebook is notorious for changing how it interacts with external apps. Keeping up with all the changes could end up taking an enormous amount of the Populi staff time.
- Facebook users can filter what shows up on their pages, setting up another point of failure in the notification process.
- Facebook itself does not always show 100% of relevant posts, but seems to select a subset of the available posts instead.
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Brendan O'Donnell Interesting thought. Allan's right about the uncertainties involved with Facebook. I, for one, prefer Twitter for this sort of thing, but we'd have to get involved with a URL shortener and every link would get stopped at Populi's login page.
More than likely, the route we'd go for the kind of broadcasting you're after would be via text/SMS (which is planned: http://support.populiweb.com/entries/192503-txt-sms-message-integration-for-emergency-notification).
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