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New Integration Profiles
We are very pleased to announced four new integration partner profiles. All of these partners use PageGate to enhance their existing solutions.

Zetron - Terminal Manufacturer
https://www.notepage.net/zetron/zetron.htm

GroundProbe - Slope Monitoring Solution
https://www.notepage.net/groundprobe/groundprobe.htm

The Fire Horn - Public Safety Solution
https://www.notepage.net/firehorn/firehorn.htm

Spillman Autopage - Computer Aided Dispatch
https://www.notepage.net/streamline-solutions/streamline-solutions.htm

Did You Know PageGate Can be Used to Post Updates to Websites?
Did you know that PageGate can post updates to a website via CGI commands? The current version of PageGate can use the GET and POST methods of passing CGI variables to a web server, allowing you to pass updates to a website as part of your outbound messaging.
https://www.notepage.net/did-you-know-pagegate-can-post-updates-to-website.htm

Did You Know PageGate Can Update Twitter?
You can use an app like Tweetymail, TweetByMail or Tweetc to link an email address that PageGate can deliver traffic to. Every time an email gets delivered, it will post to your Twitter account. To configure PageGate to send an email, SMTP configurations vary from network to network. Some networks allow direct SMTP over port 25, others require that you relay your messages through a mail server.
https://www.notepage.net/did-you-know-pagegate-can-update-twitter.htm

Did You Know PageGate Can be Used Without Carrier Specific Information?
NotePage, Inc. is pleased to announce our PageGate software can now utilize a new carrier lookup service called Data24-7. Data24-7 is a carrier lookup service, which means you don't have to know the carrier of the cell phone numbers you would like PageGate to send messages to. With this service, PageGate can perform on the fly lookups of your cell phone numbers, matching them against the carrier list provided by Data24-7.
https://www.notepage.net/did-you-know-pagegate-can-be-used-without-carrier-specific-information.htm

How Texting Can Keep You Safe in Severe Weather
Most of us can recall a time when we wished we'd planned a little better during a big storm. After all, bad weather is an unavoidable fact of life, and all we can do when severe weather is expected is plan accordingly to stay warm, dry, and safe. Believe it or not, text messaging can help you do that: SMS weather alerts are perhaps the most powerful and effective tool to stay in the know, and therefore to plan right, for severe weather.
https://www.notepage.net/learning-center/how-texting-can-keep-you-safe-in-severe-weather.htm

Why Campus Security Needs Texting
With instances of gun violence and other emergency situations on college campuses making the news all too often, security systems at colleges and universities remain of the utmost importance. Campus security not only needs to be strong, but current to ensure the safety of students. Following the model of many of our world's functions today, many colleges and universities are looking to text messaging to keep campus safety as modern and powerful as possible.
https://www.notepage.net/learning-center/why-campus-security-needs-texting.htm

10 Ways to Cure Your Mobile Phone Bill
Cell phones are ubiquitous, and tend to be important if not necessary to own. Yet sometimes the cost of owning and using a mobile phone can get out of hand. And the prevalence of daunting cell phone bills only grows as more and more apps and functions that use data come into popular use.
https://www.notepage.net/learning-center/10-ways-to-cure-your-mobile-bill.htm

Tracking Animals with SMS
Oftentimes, we think of the conservation of the old as incongruous with the use of newer technology like mobile devices. This is far from the case; in fact, GPS technology is being combined with text messaging to track both wildlife and livestock, a useful tool to keep an eye on both the farm animals we depend on and the increasing number of endangered or threatened species.
https://www.notepage.net/learning-center/tracking-animals-with-sms.htm

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Groundprobe is a global company that deploys slope stability monitoring systems to the open cast mining environment. The systems utilise Windows as the operating platform. The clients rely on GroundProbe systems to provide them with 24/7 notifications if any thresholds are attained in the monitoring of pit wall movement, the options for a client to receive the notifications are a computer screen with alerts displayed for operators to see the alerts visually, the alerts can be sent via email..

PageGate can be used as the bridge between GroundProbe SSR Viewer to expand the notification functionality of GroundProbe. The notifications keep everyone informed about issues happening in the mining environment and action can be taken is a speedy manner if there is a safety issue.

GroundProbe

Hypertension health promotion via Short Message Service (SMS) at a Community Health Centre in South Africa: a mixed method study

1. What was the motivation behind your study?

Effective communication is key to public health. But in multilingual South Africa, where 70% of consultations occur across language barriers, communication in healthcare is a problem. Our research group works to address language barriers and advance access to health care. The motivation for this study was to find novel ways to communicate health information.

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You have to be careful with texts, especially if you can’t be sure who sent them. They could be scams intended to steal your money or your information.

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Texting has become a major mode of communication and coordination for many workplaces, allowing colleagues to exchange information rapidly and effectively. While SMS is of great aid to office environments, firms with more widely distributed work sites could benefit even more from the extensive and efficient communication network that texting affords. Construction firms are no exception, where text messaging is put to task as an effective way of keeping employees up to date and safe.

Using text messaging to perform basic employee coordination is especially important for construction firms, which may mobilize multiple teams of workers to a range of sites in one day.

How Construction Firms are Using Text Messaging

Top Carrier Settings for Sending Text Messages.

Need to send messages from Spillmans Computer Aided Dispatch Software? Use Spillman AutoPage, how the programs work together are detailed.

More on Spillman AutoPage

Musabyimana is one of this east African country’s 45,000 community health workers (CHW), including 15,000 dedicated to improving maternity support, who are helping transform healthcare. Elected by village committee, these volunteers have contributed significantly to Rwanda’s progress in reducing the deaths of mothers and young children. Between 2000 and 2015, this country of just under 12 million people achieved the highest average annual reduction in both the under-five mortality rate and the maternal mortality ratio in the world. The UN estimates 590,000 children have been saved, with child deaths now at 42 per 1,000 births compared with 300 in 1994. The figure for maternal deaths is 210 per 10,000, around a fifth of the rate in 2000.

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Digital communications psychologist Marion K. Underwood addressed a BYU audience about adolescent digital interactions on Thursday, Feb. 11. She said teen texting is not nearly as negative as many parents fear, and she recommended that parents actively learn about their children’s social media usage.

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As the chief marketing officer for DoSomething.org, Naomi Hirabayashi spent the last five years helping millions of young people take social change into their own hands. Her latest project, Shine Text, cofounded by DoSomething.org Director of Mobile Product & Messaging Marah Lidey, aims to offer help to its participants directly. The text message service is designed to send daily affirmations and messages of support to marginalized workers (including women and minorities, to name a couple).

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Many of us have tried leaving ourselves notes or setting alarms as reminders of appointments and meetings, with varying degrees of efficacy, but what about reminder texts? Scheduling text messages that remind you at opportune times of commitments could be an easy and effective way to help us avoid forgetting them. Reminder texts can also be a great alternative to the reminder mailings or phone calls many practices use to confirm appointments.

Why You Could Never Forget an Appointment Again, Thanks to Texting

The Fire Horn provides two functions: A Radio Bridge and a secure SMS Gateway.

The Fire Horn provides a secure SMS gateway that allows you to dispatch messages to responders' cell phones and have mapping data provided to the cell phone. The Fire Horn also provides a function called Radio Bridge that allows members to listen to radio traffic on their cell phones or land lines by initiating a phone call when a department is dispatched. Responses to calls can be monitored online using Response Monitor.

PageGate can be used to take messages from a CAD (Computer Aided Dispatch) system and pass them to the Fire Horn gateway. The Fire Horn gateway then passes the message with all relevant mapping data to the cell phones.

The Fire Horn