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Author: Areski Belaid

2026

  1. Voice Broadcast or SMS Broadcast? Picking the Right Channel for Every Message

    When a voice broadcast beats a text, when SMS wins, and when to send both. A practical guide by message type: reminders, alerts, collections, lead generation.

2019

  1. Vicidial vs Goautodial vs Newfies-Dialer

    Vicidial vs Goautodial vs Newfies-Dialer: how the three best-known auto dialing solutions compare on technology, support and maintenance.

2017

  1. Auto Dialer Newfies-Dialer Documentation of Version 3.9

    Documentation for Newfies-Dialer 3.9, the auto dialer and voice broadcasting system for press-1 campaigns, lead generation and phone surveys.

2016

  1. Political robocalls

    How political robocalls help campaigns reach voters at scale, and what makes political robocall software effective.

  2. Newfies-Dialer – A Callfire Alternative

    A Callfire alternative: with Newfies-Dialer you use your own carriers and pay cost price for calls, instead of high per-minute or per-transfer fees.

  3. Newfies-Dialer Robocall Software with Billing Capabilities

    Newfies-Dialer robocall software adds billing with PayPal and Braintree payments, so you can bill clients for robocalls on a pre-paid basis.

  4. Auto Dialer Software & FreeSWITCH Billing

    Newfies-Dialer adds SMS and VoIP billing: set a per-minute rate and billing increment for each customer to run an auto dialer SaaS platform.

  5. Newfies Dialer V3.2 – Automated phone system

    Newfies-Dialer 3.2, the automated phone system for telemarketing and phone surveys: revamped dashboard, caller ID rotation and faster performance.

  6. Using Lua in PostgreSQL – PLLua

    How we sped up Newfies-Dialer with stored procedures written in PL/Lua for PostgreSQL, and how PL/Lua compares with other procedural languages.

  7. Live Monitoring FreeSWITCH & Newfies-Dialer with Grafana, InfluxDB & Telegraf

    How we built live monitoring for FreeSWITCH and Newfies-Dialer with Grafana, InfluxDB and Telegraf: CPU, memory, concurrent calls and CPS.

  8. Newfies Dialer V3.0 – Voice Broadcasting IVR Platform

    We are really excited to bring our newest release of Newfies-Dialer, this is a major milestone for our team and we are looking forward to you using it.

2014

  1. Newfies-Dialer Major Release: version 2.15

    Newfies-Dialer 2.15: a campaign timeline, more comprehensive reporting, Django 1.7 support, RabbitMQ for better performance and many bug fixes.

  2. Newfies-Dialer Version 2.13 released

    Newfies-Dialer 2.13 supports FreeSWITCH 1.4 and Lua 5.2, with a more robust CDR event collector, better performance and many bug fixes.

  3. Chinese language added to Newfies-Dialer

    Newfies-Dialer 语音拨号以及自动拨号软件通过电话发送信息 Newfies-Dialer可以透过云端在多个服务器中，每天即时拨打上百万通电话。

  4. Newfies-Dialer Version 2.11 released

    Newfies-Dialer 2.11: support for Debian Wheezy, PostgreSQL 9.3 and code optimisation, alongside a redesigned website and lower hosting prices.

  5. SMS and Appointment Reminders for Newfies-Dialer 2.10

    The latest version of Newfies-Dialer, 2.10 brings both Appointment Reminders and SMS support to Newfies-Dialer.

2013

  1. Heads up on Appointment Reminder module

    A preview of the Newfies-Dialer appointment reminder module: trigger voice calls, SMS or emails at a preset time for each contact.

  2. Auto-dialer

    Auto dialer software from Newfies-Dialer: process multiple calls simultaneously, detect answering machines, and route live answers to agents.

  3. Press 1 Live Call Transfer and DNC list – Release V2.1

    Newfies-Dialer 2.1 adds live call transfers for press-one campaigns, a Do Not Call list contacts can join by key press, and call conferencing.

  4. Newfies-Dialer V2.0 Released

    Newfies-Dialer 2.0 brings answering machine detection, reusable survey templates, retry logic and improved survey branching and reporting.

  5. Newfies-Dialer V2 Screencast – Phone blasting made easy

    A screencast of Newfies-Dialer V2 showing how easy phone blasting is: create a campaign, upload contacts and start calling in a few clicks.

2012

  1. Continuous Integration with Travis-CI

    We wanted to speak about Travis-CI, this project makes Continuous Integration simple. It comes with some amazing features!

  2. Newfies-Dialer 1.5 released – Mobile & Phone Survey

    Newfies-Dialer 1.5 adds survey branching and voice recording, making it an ideal solution for mobile and phone surveys, polls and voting.

  3. Demo video of our new Survey Branching

    A short video demo showing branching logic in a Newfies-Dialer phone survey.

  4. Newfies-Dialer v1.2 released

    We are pleased to announce the latest release of Newfies-Dialer, version 1.2, our free and open source voice broadcasting and auto-dialer software.

  5. Survey and Polling Module Released with Newfies-Dialer v1.1

    Newfies-Dialer 1.1 adds a survey and polling module, a new Twitter Bootstrap interface and an audio file module for MP3, WAV and OGG uploads.

  6. Django Country and Dialcode

    Django-country-dialcode, a Django module released with Newfies-Dialer for developers building telephony applications with countries and dial codes.

2011

  1. Django-audiofield, upload, convert and play audio files in your web application

    Django-audiofield, a Django module to upload audio files, convert them to MP3, WAV or OGG and play them in your web application with SoundManager2.

  2. Origin of Newfies-Dialer – bulk dialer solution

    How Newfies-Dialer began: a bulk dialer built for Kubatana and the Freedom Fone project in Zimbabwe, calling people with health information.

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