River Alerts!!
What are River Alerts?
http://www.irishwhitewater.com/river_alerts/
River Alerts is a system that aims to give Irish kayakers a warning about dangers on rivers or anything related (river warnings). River Alerts also uses posts from Irishfreestyle.com (river warnings).
The system aims to accessible from anywhere, via mobile phone internet, SMS texts, RSS and internet.
Example: http://www.smellykayaker.com/
To spread river alerts and to make them even more accessible, river alerts can be embedded on any website, viewed on any phone or available by SMS text (for free).
Ways to get river alerts
- · Free SMS alerts automatically sent to your phoneTo sign up for free alert texts* Set up a twitter account at www.twitter.com Add your phone number (verify it too) andTurn on text notifications.Then following http://twitter.com/iww_alert make sure to turn notifications on for this.
- · On your mobile phone you can visit the alerts mobile site: http://alerts.irishwhitewater.com
- · Webmasters can place the embed alerts html code on your web page.
Ways to make a River Alert
- · Visit http://irishwhitewater.com/river_alerts
- · Visit http://www.irishfreestyle.com/forums/info/riverwarnings
- · Coming soon: submit by SMS text.
Some things to note: 1. Do not rely on this system!
2. This is only the start of this system; we have big plans in the future.
3. If you have any questions, problems or suggestions, please feel free to email or post a question on Irish freestyle or Irishwhitewater.com. admin@irishwhitewater.com
4. Please tell me about an errors or problems, thanks.
*twitter is a free service now, and it has been for the past year, who knows if this will change. I don’t think this will be an issue in the short term.
HOWTO_river_alerts_from_twitter.pdf
Have a read of this to find out how you get the free sms alerts.
Hey folks,
We've all been getting a plethora of webtexts now that it's raining and everyone's hitting the rivers, but some texts are pretty much worthless due to the limits of the text service.
The maximum amount of characters in a text message is 160, but some posts are going over that, which means that I get a text saying something about the Dargle, but I've to log on here to read what it's about.
I don't want to discourage people posting warnings up at all, but if you're doing so for the purposes of having them sent out via IWW's text alert service, then could you edit it accordingly to keep it concise?
