Text a Librarian Video Tours and Tutorials

Videos showing demos of a product or service are the best! We now have video tours / tutorials of Mosio’s Text a Librarian available on the Text a Librarian website. They were made as a way of showing how the service works for those unfamiliar with it, but also as a video training guide for […]

More Information About QR Codes – Are You Getting the Message?

The hype surrounding QR codes is T–H–I–C–K! In libraries and even more so in marketing and advertising. It makes sense that everyone is excited about them. QR codes fairly easy to create, time making them is the only cost and even though one cannot track how many times they’ve been scanned (a big bummer in […]

Reasons to Use Mosio for SMS Text Message Reference at Your Library

This is a re-formatted version of our presentation that can be viewed on Slideshare, providing you with some basic information as to why more librarians choose Mosio to equip their libraries to communicate with patrons on the go. The full presentation is embedded below. Reasons to Use Mosio’s Text a Librarian Mobile Carrier Approved Text […]

New TaL Feature: Holiday Auto Responders

Holiday Auto Responders…you can use them for anything, not just holidays! In preparation for the upcoming holidays, the Mosio development team has been hard at work improving the Text a Librarian experience. Today we’d like to introduce a simple but helpful new feature: Holiday/One-time Auto Responders. Everything is explained below as well as in your […]

Library Mobile Apps: Developing an iPhone app is more expensive than most people think.

Reposted for Libraries from Mosio’s Company Blog A colleague sent me a stack overflow thread today entitled “How much does it cost to develop iPhone applications?” It’s worth taking a look at, most interesting is an answer suggesting around $10,000 ($50/hr for a Developer and $50/hr for a Graphic Designer x 200 total hours), which […]

Mosio CEO Interview on UNTETHER.tv Discussing Text Messaging in the Mobile Workforce and Text a Librarian

I was interviewed by Rob Woodbridge @RobWoodbridge last week on UTETHER.tv (conversations with mobile industry rock stars). In the interview we discuss how Jay Sachdev and I got into the mobile business, our flagship product “Text a Librarian” and our new mobile software as a service product for mobile workforce automation, FieldForce Mobile. Thanks Rob […]

Client Testimonial: Mosio’s Mobile Text Messaging Services for Events and Conferences

We absolutely love when clients are happy with our service. It might sound a bit cliche, but it’s true. We love happy clients because they make our job so much easier. With a few of us as parents or parents-to-be, we’re proud to have the PTA as a client. Taken from an article entitled PTA: […]

Shiny New Things: Beware of Early Adoption When Implementing Technologies at Your Library

This post is from an entry I did a few months back for Attack!, a guerrilla and event marketing services agency I co-founded and where I served as President before co-founding Mosio, but the fundamental ideas are the same: new technologies and gadgets are great for those of us who love the newest shiny things […]

Patron Relationship Management (PRM) – Mosio’s Future in Libraries

As we gear up for another ALA Annual the company has had some interesting discussions on new announcements and our directions in the world of library software. A couple of weeks ago I had a great meeting/conversation with one of our partners and the discussion of library customer service came up. At the end of […]

Mosio and Text a Librarian’s Post to Facebook Function: Now Live!

In February we launched a “Post to Twitter” function within the Mosio mobile messaging platform and Mosio’s Text a Librarian. We wrote a blog post about why this was good for libraries: user generated marketing. I’ve pasted the original blog post about why it was good for libraries below. It’s great for every business and […]