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What is mobile? (part 1)

March 26, 2007 - 0 Comment(s)

A long time ago (at least in Internet time - you know, like 10 years ago), when people used the terms “mobile” or “mobility”, they were referring to laptop computers. More recently, mobility has become synonymous with mobile phone. Google the term “mobile” and 7 of the top 10 results are related to mobile phones.

Here at clearTXT, we love mobile phones…as you can imagine. However, we view mobile a little differently than other companies (differently than most people, I suspect). To us, mobility is not just about the mobile phone — it’s about the freedom to be connected with your information, groups, and peers no matter where you go or what device you carry.

I’m not talking about the ability to logon with some device and “go get” your information (i.e., on demand), but rather, the things you say are important to you are delivered to you wherever you are…period.

In the coming days, weeks, and months, I’ll write more about this concept and discuss how this concept relates to clearTXT. With the upcoming release of our newest product, I thought it was time to get the conversation started.

Teaching and Learning With Technology Conference Presentation

March 21, 2007 - 0 Comment(s)

I’ll be speaking at the 2007 Teaching and Learning with Technology Conference tomorrow in Raleigh, NC. Yes, I know this is incredibly last minute, but I do have my reasons…not the least of which is we just moved this blog onto a brand new server and it was down during the migration. Here’s some info about the presentation…

TITLE: E-mail Is Dead? What’s A Teacher to Do?”

DESCRIPTION: By now you’ve read the stories ¬ e-mail is OUT and text messaging is IN. There are now more than 200 million mobile phone owners in the US who send more than 12 billion text messages a month (yes, that¹s billion, with a “b”). What, you don’t send and receive text messages? Your students sure do—a lot! Many students check their email just once a week, but send thousands of text messages every month. If you want to reach your students, you need to reach them on their mobile phones. This presentation will introduce you to clearTXT, the easiest and most effective system for communicating with your students and delivering alerts, announcements, assignments, and other information right to their mobile phones.

The presentation is at 5:30. Hope to see you there