Dear All,
Gram Vaani is delighted to update you on the recent enhancements of
GRINS. While many of you know about GRINS, for those who don't, GRINS is
a unique radio automation system designed specifically for Community
Radio stations by Gram Vaani. Among other things GRINS includes complete
telephony integration, content management, playlist scheduling, and live
speech recording. Thanks to the support of everyone in the CR movement
GRINS is now being used at 26 CR stations in India and 5 CR stations in
Africa.
We have been busy adding new features to GRINS based on requests from
many of the CR stations. As a result of the latest updates, CR stations
can now send and receive SMS and export them to an Excel file. With the
new Polls feature, stations can now conduct polls and get listeners to
vote on anything: from a local folk song competition to the best farming
idea. Thanks to Maraa, GRINS now has a whole new interface for listening
to and categorizing calls received on the GRINS answering machine.
Finally, we have been able to bring down GRINS installation costs by Rs.
15,000 by being able to work with standard USB dongles for
making/receiving calls and SMS.
Other features that are in the pipeline include:
- Upgrade of GRINS to much more stable Ubuntu 12.04
- Ability to view call and broadcast statistics in the form of graphs
- In-built logger software
- A new suite of mobile based applications to better engage with the
listeners
More details about the latest features of GRINS are available at:
http://gramvaani.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/GRINS-introduction-June-2012.pdf
regards
Aaditeshwar
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