Help and Info is Only a Text Away Yesterday Scarleteen, a free sexuality information resource for teens and young adults went live with their Text Scarleteen service. I’ve been quite impressed by the buzz already surrounding their launch of the service in the first day (and their graphic, above, is great as well). Owned and […]
Category Archives: Text Messaging for Schools
Texting the Library – Beyond Reference Services
Text the Library With Comments, Feedback and Suggestions Enabling libraries to set up mobile text messaging reference services so patrons can ask questions has been the primary use of our technology to date. In fact, mobile questions and answers is our business, it’s what we geek out on every day at work. But there’s another […]
Facts and Figures: Mobile Text Messaging Usage in the U.S. (An Opportunity for Libraries)
We hear a lot of feedback regarding text messaging from both ends of the spectrum. Some understand and are part of the mobile messaging explosion in the U.S. and others need a little more convincing. While we don’t send 470 text messages per day (we have plenty of work to do around here), we love […]