East Coast Trip - Forgot to mention . . .

Hey East Coast Trip families,

First of all, GREAT meeting tonight, and thank you so much for your attention and enthusiasm. I got so excited about the Twitter Fast Follow thing (where you can receive alerts on your cell phone without needing a Twitter account or a smartphone), I forgot to mention a couple things:

1. When you sign up to follow me "FOLLOW IPPTRIP," the first time it will ask you if you want to "Join the Conversation" by setting up a Twitter account. You don't NEED to do that (or anything else, for that matter). You'll know you're getting my alerts if you get a confirmation that says something like "you are now following IppTrip." The great thing about this Twitter Fast Follow system is there is no need to do anything else. No sign up. No account or further action needed. Nothing. Standard text message rates apply, so it's helpful to have unlimited texting.

2. If you get sick of my tweets now, or sometime down the road, you can UNdo the process by UNfollowing me. To do that, simply reply to that same number (40404) with two words: UNFOLLOW IPPTRIP or OFF IPPTRIP. If you started following Justin Bieber and Lady Gaga and Ashton Kutcher and it's all starting to get out of hand and you want to stop it altogether, simply reply to 40404 with the word STOP (you may be asked to confirm with STOP again) and all updates will cease.

If you have a group or organization (youth, school, church, book club, family, whatever) and you think they could benefit from you being able to send out one message that can reach dozens (or hundreds or thousands) via text message for free, then Twitter Fast Follow could be a good solution. In addition to the East Coast Trip, I also use it in my classroom to connect with students and parents to provide homework reminders, quiz and test reminders, and other class announcements. There's an article here from Twitter: http://blog.twitter.com/2010/08/introducing-fast-follow-and-other-sms.html and then I've written an article as well: http://www.ronippolito.com/2011/12/setting-up-twitter-fast-follow-at-your.html

Cheers,

Mr. Ippolito