[Web4lib] SMS to webchat solutions

[Laura Krier]

Obtaining a Google Voice number for text reference would accomplish
this. You can receive texts and voicemails via a website and respond
from the same site.

Laura

On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 11:00 AM, Cindy Harper <charper at colgate.edu> wrote:
> http://www.ala.org/ala/aboutala/offices/library/libraryfactsheet/alalibraryfactsheet19.cfm
>
> This ALA Virtual reference fact sheet lists 3 products at the bottom.
>
> Cindy Harper, Systems Librarian
> Colgate University Libraries
> charper at colgate.edu
> 315-228-7363
>
>
>
> On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 12:38 PM, Jennifer Heise <jenne.heise at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> Hi!
>> My dean wants to know about solutions that would allow students to
>> text us from their cell phones and have it come up in a chat window on
>> the librarian computer. Ideally, of course, this would be Meebo, or,
>> even better, a library-specific embeddable chat widget but I haven't
>> found anything that indicates we can do that. I've looked at
>> text-a-librarian.com and the Google Labs SMS-to-gchat widget so far.
>> Any other leads?
>> Thanks.
>>
>> --
>> Jennifer Heise
>> Drew University
>>
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