Feb. 4, 2015 Update Please join our friends at Cyberwise.org for a BlogTalk convo with Lauren Galley of Real Talk, Real Teens, Real Issues on Feb. 5, 2015 as texting and driving survivor Liz Marks shares her harrowing firsthand experience that changed her life forever. Parents, this is a media moment where teens might just LISTEN. Tune in for storytelling that can make a … [Read more...]
Behind The Wheel Texting: What Works to Drive Behavioral Change?
Filed Under: Advertising, Counter-marketing, Emerging trends & STEM, Growing up too soon, Marketing Shaping Youth, Media Literacy, Mobile Media, Apps & Gaming, Positive Picks, Pro-Social & Positive Picks, Product Placement, Shaping Youth, Viral & Buzz Media Tagged With: Amy-Jussel, AT&T mobile, Auto safety, barking robot, BJ-Fogg, Car and Driver, cellphone-use-teens, child safety, Derek Baird, distracted driving, Distraction.gov, DMV, DMV-CA-Cellphone-youth-laws, DOT, driver safety, driver's ed, driving while texting, DWI, Education World, GPS, Hands-Free-Cellphone-Law, handsfree-mobile, highway safety, intervention, Jane Lynch, Lesson Plans, Mobile Youth, mobile-youth-trends, N2Y4, no phone zone, Oprah pledge, risk prevention, road warriors, Standards-Based Curriculum, T-Mobile DriveSmart, teen auto fatalities, Teens Texting, text ed, texting-while-driving, The Last Text, under the influence, using mobile to mobilize, YPulse
Free for the Asking: ChaCha Answers, Texted to Your Phone
At the YPulse Mashup, I thought I might see mobile search companies like Thrumm MMS (multimedia messaging service/cameraphones) ChaCha the human-search engine in beta, and even Yap voice to text speech recognition to keep those "66% of teens who text while driving" safely at bay... Especially since mobile search texting answers to your phone seems like a natural for this … [Read more...]
Filed Under: Advertising, Emerging trends & STEM, Marketing Shaping Youth, Media Literacy, Mobile Media, Apps & Gaming, Shaping Youth, Viral & Buzz Media Tagged With: cameraphone-search, cellphone-use-teens, Cha-Cha, ChaCha, Google-411, Google-competition, HopeLab, human-search, mobile-search, net-lingo, Next-great-thing, SMS-code, Social-search, teen-librarian, Teen-texting, TellMe, text-answers, Thrumm-MMS, tweens-texting, virtual-reference, walt-mossberg, youth-mobile