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Speaking in Whispers: Creating a “Whisper” Dialog Using a Tropo Conference

We often get a common request to create a “whisper” dialog, where an inbound call is transferred to a second contact, and that contact has the option to decline the call or accept it. While our transfer doesn’t have that level of functionality, there is a relatively straightforward method using a conference to mimic it. [...]

Speaking in Whispers: Creating a “Whisper” Dialog Using a Tropo Conference

We often get a common request to create a “whisper” dialog, where an inbound call is transferred to a second contact, and that contact has the option to decline the call or accept it. While our transfer doesn’t have that level of functionality, there is a relatively straightforward method using a conference to mimic it. [...]

Speaking in Whispers: Creating a “Whisper” Dialog Using a Tropo Conference

We often get a common request to create a “whisper” dialog, where an inbound call is transferred to a second contact, and that contact has the option to decline the call or accept it. While our transfer doesn’t have that level of functionality, there is a relatively straightforward method using a conference to mimic it. [...]

Speaking in Whispers: Creating a “Whisper” Dialog Using a Tropo Conference

We often get a common request to create a “whisper” dialog, where an inbound call is transferred to a second contact, and that contact has the option to decline the call or accept it. While our transfer doesn’t have that level of functionality, there is a relatively straightforward method using a conference to mimic it. [...]

Speaking in Whispers: Creating a “Whisper” Dialog Using a Tropo Conference

We often get a common request to create a “whisper” dialog, where an inbound call is transferred to a second contact, and that contact has the option to decline the call or accept it. While our transfer doesn’t have that level of functionality, there is a relatively straightforward method using a conference to mimic it. [...]

Speaking in Whispers: Creating a “Whisper” Dialog Using a Tropo Conference

We often get a common request to create a “whisper” dialog, where an inbound call is transferred to a second contact, and that contact has the option to decline the call or accept it. While our transfer doesn’t have that level of functionality, there is a relatively straightforward method using a conference to mimic it. [...]

Winner of the MadisonRuby Conference Ticket

Over the weekend, we kicked off a MadisonRuby Conference ticket give-away promotion sponsored by Tropo.  We were excited to see 23 participants in our tweet-for-a-ticket contest!  So how to you randomly select a winner for a Ruby conference giveaway? You write a quick Ruby script, Duh!  With the help of BigTiger, the MadisonRuby conference organizer, [...]

Winner of the MadisonRuby Conference Ticket

Over the weekend, we kicked off a MadisonRuby Conference ticket give-away promotion sponsored by Tropo. We were excited to see 23 participants in our tweet-for-a-ticket contest! So how to you randomly select a winner for a Ruby conference giveaway? You write a quick Ruby script, Duh! With the help of BigTiger, the MadisonRuby conference organizer, [...]

The Conference Pop-In Timer

Have you ever wanted to set a timer on a conference call and pop-in at a certain time to either: 1) announce something, say, every 15 minutes; 2) let participants know that they have 2 minutes remaining; or 3) ask them a question or survey? This is easy to do by connecting Tropo applications! I [...]

Building a full-featured conference call application with Tropo and PHP

Tropo’s conference function makes it easy for you to join multiple callers onto a single call together. One line of code and you have a conference call… <?php conference(‘someid’); ?> That’s it. A basic conference line. Use that as your application and everyone calling into your number will be joined into a single conference call. [...]