How To Impact Non-Profits with WordPress, MS-Access and Twilio

I’M AN ATTORNEY I’M NOT YOUR ATTORNEY

IT since 1998• Acxiom Corp• Arkansas Children’s

Hospital

• Phyzit, Inc.• Chief Privacy

Officer

• Open Access Law Firm, co-founder

• Certified Information Privacy Professional

HARDWARD NIGHTMARE > TWILIO EXCELLENCE

DENVER DRUPAL DEVELOPER CONTESTTHE CHALLENGE: TWILIO + DRUPAL = EPIC MODULE

http://www.twilio.org/story/design-a-better-world-with-communications-2/

SAFEGUARD PRIVATE INFORMATION

Text Messaging to Communicate With Public Health Audiences:

How the HIPAA Security Rule Affects Practice

Hilary Karasz - Amy Eiden - Sharon Bogan

Am J Public Health American Journal of Public Health – 2013

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3673236/

FEDERAL LEGAL AID

Annual income <=125% federal poverty guidelines

2015

$14,713 individual

$30,313 family of 4

80% of America can’t afford attorneys.

THE JUSTICE GAP

1 in 5AmericansQualifyFor Legal Aid 63.6

MillionAmericansQualify

+50%Turned AwayNo Capacity +70%

UnrepresentedLitigantsBy Case Type

DOMESTIC VIOLENCE

9Seconds until a woman is

beaten

3rdCause of family

homeless

14.4Calls per minute 24/7

+$37,000,000Law enforcement, legal, medical/mental, lost

production

HOW CAN TECHNOLOGY HELP

“Legal aid technology IS hacking.”

- Vince Morris

NLADA 2014 Innovations in

Equal Justice Award Recipient; law professor, legal aid services and technology expert

:)I WON!

ATTACK WHERE WE CAN

“…Microsoft Excel and Access are the backbone that power many organizational processes in companies big and small…

Extending Office using VBA … is approachable by non-developers, easy to learn, and … add custom logic to Office applications.”

- Devin Rader, Twilio Evangelist

https://www.twilio.com/blog/2013/08/twilio-from-excel-and-access.html

https://github.com/devinrader/CallYourSpreadsheet

Published 2013; comments and code updates through April 2016

KEMPS CASE WORKS: MS-ACCESS WITH TWILIO INTEGRATION

Legal case management tool for legal aid offices

“Prime Office uses Microsoft SQL server to store data and Microsoft Office Access as a source of forms, reports, queries and menus.”

Legal Aidof Southeastern PALASP

APPOINTMENTS / COURT APPEARANCES/ CASE DOCUMENTS

Custom MS-Access forms:

On-demand text-to-sms

On-demand text-to-call

Scheduled voice and/or SMS

Meeting with Legal Aid Attorney

Court appearance: date, time, location

You have missing document(s)…

AZURE VM EXAMPLE OF PROJECTS

Text-to-SMSText-to-Voice

MS-Access front-end forms

AZURE VM EXAMPLE OF PROJECTS

Text-to-SMSText-to-Voice

MS-Access VBA

AZURE VM EXAMPLE OF PROJECTS

SMS reminders of missing documents

WORDPRESS / WORLDWIDE / POPULAR IN NON-PROFIT

60%ApproximateNumbe

rOf CMS Sites 26%ApproximateNumberOf Websites

$0BucksToGet Started 409

MillionMonthlyBlog Readers

WORDPRESS TWILIO PLUG-INS: CURRENT

22RepositoryPluginsUse Twilio

Recommend for learning

WP CoreA simple plugin to add SMS capability

Developer also sells ‘Vantage SMS’ theme

Joy Of TextSend SMS and voice messages

“Lite” version is free

“Pro” version is $39 and well worth it

o ReceiveInbound SMSStand-alone / Free

RECEIVING INBOUND SMS

Signal Send/Receive SMS Plugin-in Basic plugin setup

What is a plugin?

Hooks

Actions

Filters

Scripts and styles

Settings page

URL rewrite

RECEIVING INBOUND SMS

Created a separate, simple plugin

URL Rewrite

Tells WP “let my PHP file process requests to this URL”

Note, for production applications be sure to add code to protect against URL based attacks

PLUGINS ON GITHUB LATER TODAY 05/25/16

https://github.com/stewart-whaley/signal-silent-disco

stewart@openaccesslawfirm.com