Between October 29 – November 1, 2008 we helped the DOCTRAIN East Conference with their mobile communications. We were part of the event’s daily communication strategy as well as providing a method for the conference to communicate last minute updates and changes to attendees.

Attendees received approximately 5 text messages a day reminding them of sessions, lunches and special events. At the end of the conference 7 subscribers were randomly chosen via our system to receive door prizes from conference sponsors.

When attendees were asked about the text message program comments ranged from, “really smart and useful” to “way cool” and “another reason I look forward to attending DocTrain events, you guys always are up-to-date with the latest technologies.”

We look forward to continuing our relationship with DOCTRAIN and providing them the same high level of service for each of their events.

DOCTRAIN East is an annual Conference and the theme this year was Producing Quality Content. There were 275 attendees and presentations were given by many leaders in the Content Generation, and Document Management/Preparation software Industries. For more information on Content Management visit thecontentwrangler.com.

This past Saturday the inaugural Indianapolis Monumental Marathon took place in downtown Indianapolis. You couldn’t have asked for a better day for an event. The weather was incredible-not too cold and not too hot. We’ve had the opportunity to provide text results for a number of Ken Long and Associates events and love the response that they get. For this event, there were nearly 3000 participants and over 50% of the total opted to get their results via a text message.  Nearly a week later and people are still texting in to get their results on their phone.  Wish we could capture the number of messages that were forwarded…I’m sure it was a lot!

St. Francis Hospital was the Presenting Sponsor for this event and also the Text Sponsor.

The 2nd annual marathon has been scheduled for November 7, 2009. For more details on this event, visit www.monumentalmarathon.com.

Photo courtesy of Capstone Photography.

Last weekend we provided text messaging services to Ken Long & Associates and through them the Hoosiers Outrun Cancer race in Bloomington, Indiana. This was a great opportunity for us to demonstrate our event texting services. For this particular type of event we deliver the race results via text message. The event participants text in a 3 letter code and their bib number to get the results, in this case HOC10000 would have been bib number 10000. If the participant does it before the race they get a response that tells them the results will be delivered once they come in. If the participant does it after the race they get the results immediately.

Race Results typically look like this on your phone:
John Doe
Bib#: 261
Place: 1
Pace: 05:06.9
Time: 15:51.5
See all Results at mydomain.com
Sponsored By: Our Event Sponsor

We have done a few races for Ken Long & Associates and with each one we see greater participation rates than the last.   We look forward to doing the inaugural Indianapolis Monumental Marathon and Half-Marathon with them on November 1, 2008.  If you’re signed up be sure to text your bib # in (example:  IMM1000) to 71813.