FYI MobileActive is "an all-volunteer community of people and organizations using mobile phones for social impact, committed to increasing the effectiveness of NGOs around the world who recognize that the 3.5 billion mobile phones provide unprecedented opportunities for organizing, communications, and service and information delivery."
 
In terms of texting and health literacy and promoting health, here are some interesting links for those interested:
 
See http://mobileactive.org/lets-talk-about-sex-baby-sexual-health-info-sms <http://mobileactive.org/lets-talk-about-sex-baby-sexual-health-info-sms> 
http://mobileactive.org/ask-about-sex-text-teenagers-learn-about-living-nigeria <http://mobileactive.org/ask-about-sex-text-teenagers-learn-about-living-nigeria> 

Lots of stuff here: http://mobileactive.org/wiki/Health <http://mobileactive.org/wiki/Health>  - for example: http://mobileactive.org/wiki/Dial-up_information_on_demand_via_mobile <http://mobileactive.org/wiki/Dial-up_information_on_demand_via_mobile> 
and see the entire section on health in this recent report: http://mobileactive.org/wireless-technology-social-change-trends-ngo-mobile-use <http://mobileactive.org/wireless-technology-social-change-trends-ngo-mobile-use> 

And finally, projects using mobiles for health info, patient monitoring, etc: http://mobileactive.org/taxonomy/term/1553 <http://mobileactive.org/taxonomy/term/1553>  from MobileActive's database....


 
 
 
Mindy Domb 
Director, SPHERE and The Statewide Homeless/HIV Integration Project (SH/HIP) programs of Health Care of Southeastern Massachusetts, Inc. 
PO Box 285 
Amherst, MA 01004 
Phone: 1-(800)-530-2770 ext.224 or (413)256-3406 
Fax: (413)256-6371 
E-Mail: mdomb at hcsm.org 
www.hcsm.org/sphere 
www.hcsm.org/shhip

________________________________

From: healthliteracy-bounces at nifl.gov on behalf of Jan Potter
Sent: Thu 5/22/2008 2:30 PM
To: healthliteracy at nifl.gov
Subject: [HealthLiteracy 2032] Wednesday Question: Writing and Texting



 

2 interesting articles on different aspects of this topic:

 

Nagging texts help teens remember to take meds

USA Today, 5/13/08

http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/techinnovations/2008-05-12-text-message-nagging_N.htm

 


>From literacy to digiracy


May 16th 2008
The Economist,  5/16/08

http://www.economist.com/science/displaystory.cfm?story_id=11392128 

 

 

Jan Potter, MSTC

Communications Specialist

Partnership for Health and Accountability

770-249-4549

www.gha.org/pha <http://www.gha.org/pha>  

 

Remember, Ginger Rogers did everything Fred Astaire did, but backwards and in high heels.
  - Faith Whittlesey

 

This Email is covered by the Electronic Communications Privacy Act, 18 U.S.C. §§ 2510-2521 and may be legally privileged. The information contained in this Email is intended only for use of the individual or entity named above. If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient, or the employee or agent responsible to deliver it to the intended recipient, please destroy the email after advising by reply that you erroneously received this.  If applicable, the receipt by anyone other than the designated recipient does not waive the attorney-client privilege, nor will it constitute a waiver of the work-product doctrine. If you are not the intended recipient, please delete this message and notify us via e-mail to (PHA at gha.org <mailto:PHA at gha.org> )

 

-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: not available
Type: application/ms-tnef
Size: 9669 bytes
Desc: not available
Url : http://www.nifl.gov/pipermail/healthliteracy/attachments/20080529/c5b8f07b/attachment.bin