This post originally appeared on ReadWriteWeb.

We are happy to announce the launch of our new SMS text messaging product!

In the spirit of election season, we’re releasing 8 tips for developing an online Political marketing strategy or GOTV campaign in the Cloud. We’re not experts in Political Marketing but we manage our share of virtual phone banks and polling around this time of the year. These tips are based on research and conversations we have with our valuable political clientele.

The Computer History Museum in Mountain View was packed last week with computer relics and hundreds of RWW Mobile Summit attendees to adore them. The unconference itself began with CallFire CEO Dinesh Ravishanker introducing the keynote speaker Richard MacManus, the Founder and CEO of ReadWriteWeb. Just before he handed things off to Richard, Dinesh had all attendees reach under their seats for the CallFire giveaway - a toll free number with 1000 IVR minutes.

Co-Founder and CTO, Vijesh Mehta speaks about his experience as an Entrepreneur at an APEX panel featuring professionals in various stages of their ventures.

1. Startups are risky.  Why do you do it?
2. How do you feel about funding?

Do you use a hosted-CRM application?  Do you use CallFire’s Cloud Call Center?  If your answer is "Yes" to both of these questions, your agents might benefit from a link to your CRM platform directly within the CallFire Agent Popup screen.

It’s official, the CallFire dev team will be attending the ReadWriteWeb Mobile Summit in Mountain View, California on May 7th, 2010!

Have you ever wanted a quick question answered via chat?  CallFire just released chat support for customers who are logged in as a CallFire administrators!

Using Chat Support is easy:

1) Log into CallFire.com

2) Look for the chat box on the lower right hand gutter of your browser, and will expand when clicked.

3) See if a support agent is available (it will say "Hi, I am around")