NotePage SMS, Texting and Messaging Blogs

The spread of cell phones coupled with the ease and efficiency of text messaging helps people save, spend, and invest their money more wisely. Text messages and mobile apps improve health outcomes by teaching people about nutrition and reminding patients to take their medication. They also further education by helping students learn more effectively through virtual tutoring.

We now have evidence that text messages improve civic engagement in emerging countries by encouraging people to vote. A recent study I conducted in Kenya with Benjamin Marx, an economist at MIT, and Vincent Pons, of Harvard Business School, found that get-out-the-vote text messages increased Election Day turnout by as much as 2 percentage points.

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I decided to conduct a fun little exercise while writing this column, which is about the cyber security of your text messages. I went back and reviewed the last twenty texts that I had sent, to see how I would feel if they were broadcast to the world.

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This research was conducted in families with a preschool-aged child recently diagnosed as overweight or obese by their primary care provider. Parents were coached on skills to promote healthy lifestyle behaviors using cognitive behavior therapy. All of the skills were supported using tailored, adaptive text messaging. The novel feature of this program is that the parents helped to create messages that spoke to them. Using an automated software application messages were delivered based on desired content, timing, and frequency to support behavior change or skills practice at home.

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The text-messaging service and app gives women in out-of-the-way rural communities free health advice, sending reminders about prenatal check-ups and childrens vaccinations. It tells users when and where to get the treatment they need, and gives them access to doctors who can answer health-related questions.

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Zetron is one of the largest paging terminal manufacturer in the world. Zetron is a manufacturer of award-winning communication systems for control rooms, manufacturers and those who need critical communications. Zetron terminals are used in factories, hospitals, and telecom carriers all over the world.

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The current version of PageGate can use the GET and POST methods of passing CGI variables to a web server, allowing you to pass updates to a website as part of your outbound messaging.

Did You Know PageGate Can Post Updates to a Webpage?

The standard Android and iOS messaging apps—you know, the app you use for trading all those text messages, photos and videos—can do much more than you might think. Not only can you forward any text messages you receive, you can also (depending on whether you're using an iPhone or Android phone) find out when a given message was sent or received, shush an annoying group thread, or lock a message that s particularly important.

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Since the birth of the smartphone, people have relied less on traditional calls and text messages and more on other messaging services and apps. This increased demand has created a slew of apps, from companies big and small, that handle billions and billions of messages per day. The total volume of SMS messages sent daily is around 20 billion; at the start of last year WhatsApp, the messaging app owned by Facebook, said it had surpassed that with its users sending over 30 billion messages a day. Other chat apps, such as Kik, are also seeing phenomenal growth.

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The National Institute of Health has announced that it will be supporting a study at UNC about how marijuana relates to academic motivation and performance. Over the next three years, Kristina Phillips and Michael Phillips, professors of psychology, and Trent Lalonde, a professor of applied statistics and research methods, will study 150 UNC students who use marijuana.

According to Kristina Phillips, the application process for the study was extensive. The main component of the application was writing a proposal based on scientific research. This included reviewing past research on the topic, what gaps there may be in the current literature and considerations about how the study would attend to those gaps. They also had to discuss data that they had already collected on the topic.

The Phillips and Lalonde have hypothesized that the more cravings students have for marijuana, the more they will use it—impacting their focus and academic work. Kristina Phillips explained that there has been almost no prior research on the consequences of heavy marijuana use in relation to academics, even though a number of studies on adolescents have shown there to be an inverse relationship between the two.

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Anyone who has been up close and personal with pregnancy, be it their own or a family members, friends, or partners, knows that it's a lot to keep track of. After all, a pregnant person needs to meet the care demands of two bodies, and must heed very particular self-care and lifestyle guidelines in order to do so. A major interest in developing modern health solutions is helping young people look after the health of themselves and their pregnancies.

Can Text Messaging Boost Prenatal Care?

If you are diagnosed with a chronic disease, chances are you will have to manage it for the rest of your life. This means changing your lifestyle and taking medications as directed.

Many find this challenging. In fact, within a year of being diagnosed with a chronic condition, only 50% of patients still take their medications correctly.

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A text messaging mix-up resulted in a memorable moment for some new parents in Georgia.

Mark and Lindsey Lashley welcomed their first child on Saturday.

During all the excitement, they realized their family had included a wrong number on a text message announcement about the birth.

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New Integration Profiles
We are very pleased to announced four new integration partner profiles. All of these partners use PageGate to enhance their existing solutions.

Zetron - Terminal Manufacturer
https://www.notepage.net/zetron/zetron.htm

GroundProbe - Slope Monitoring Solution
https://www.notepage.net/groundprobe/groundprobe.htm

The Fire Horn - Public Safety Solution
https://www.notepage.net/firehorn/firehorn.htm

Spillman Autopage - Computer Aided Dispatch
https://www.notepage.net/streamline-solutions/streamline-solutions.htm

Did You Know PageGate Can be Used to Post Updates to Websites?
Did you know that PageGate can post updates to a website via CGI commands? The current version of PageGate can use the GET and POST methods of passing CGI variables to a web server, allowing you to pass updates to a website as part of your outbound messaging.
https://www.notepage.net/did-you-know-pagegate-can-post-updates-to-website.htm

Did You Know PageGate Can Update Twitter?
You can use an app like Tweetymail, TweetByMail or Tweetc to link an email address that PageGate can deliver traffic to. Every time an email gets delivered, it will post to your Twitter account. To configure PageGate to send an email, SMTP configurations vary from network to network. Some networks allow direct SMTP over port 25, others require that you relay your messages through a mail server.
https://www.notepage.net/did-you-know-pagegate-can-update-twitter.htm

Did You Know PageGate Can be Used Without Carrier Specific Information?
NotePage, Inc. is pleased to announce our PageGate software can now utilize a new carrier lookup service called Data24-7. Data24-7 is a carrier lookup service, which means you don't have to know the carrier of the cell phone numbers you would like PageGate to send messages to. With this service, PageGate can perform on the fly lookups of your cell phone numbers, matching them against the carrier list provided by Data24-7.
https://www.notepage.net/did-you-know-pagegate-can-be-used-without-carrier-specific-information.htm

How Texting Can Keep You Safe in Severe Weather
Most of us can recall a time when we wished we'd planned a little better during a big storm. After all, bad weather is an unavoidable fact of life, and all we can do when severe weather is expected is plan accordingly to stay warm, dry, and safe. Believe it or not, text messaging can help you do that: SMS weather alerts are perhaps the most powerful and effective tool to stay in the know, and therefore to plan right, for severe weather.
https://www.notepage.net/learning-center/how-texting-can-keep-you-safe-in-severe-weather.htm

Why Campus Security Needs Texting
With instances of gun violence and other emergency situations on college campuses making the news all too often, security systems at colleges and universities remain of the utmost importance. Campus security not only needs to be strong, but current to ensure the safety of students. Following the model of many of our world's functions today, many colleges and universities are looking to text messaging to keep campus safety as modern and powerful as possible.
https://www.notepage.net/learning-center/why-campus-security-needs-texting.htm

10 Ways to Cure Your Mobile Phone Bill
Cell phones are ubiquitous, and tend to be important if not necessary to own. Yet sometimes the cost of owning and using a mobile phone can get out of hand. And the prevalence of daunting cell phone bills only grows as more and more apps and functions that use data come into popular use.
https://www.notepage.net/learning-center/10-ways-to-cure-your-mobile-bill.htm

Tracking Animals with SMS
Oftentimes, we think of the conservation of the old as incongruous with the use of newer technology like mobile devices. This is far from the case; in fact, GPS technology is being combined with text messaging to track both wildlife and livestock, a useful tool to keep an eye on both the farm animals we depend on and the increasing number of endangered or threatened species.
https://www.notepage.net/learning-center/tracking-animals-with-sms.htm

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