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March 18, 2019March 18, 2019

5 Reasons Text Messaging is the Best Tool for your Event Surveys

5 Reasons Text Messaging is the Best Tool for your Event Surveys

Did you hear the news? Text messaging is now the best tool for your event surveys, and fortunately, the trend isn’t going away anytime soon. Event organizers understand that collecting data and feedback from attendees is extremely important, but were you aware that text messaging is the best way to complete this important task? We won’t put you on the spot for too long, instead, we will share the top five reasons text messaging is definitely the most effective tool for your event surveys.

Reach Participants Anytime, Anywhere

Let’s get real: We carry our phones with us everywhere we go. Since most attendees also keep their mobile phones with them at all times, using text messaging for event surveys just makes sense.

Makes Completing Surveys Easy

Due to the accessibility of mobile phones, text messaging is an extremely easy way for attendees to respond to survey questions. Most participants would agree that receiving conference survey questions via text sure does beat getting them through phone or email!

Experience Quick Response Times

When you make responding to an event evaluation easy, now is the time to get excited because you’ll be on your way to experiencing rapid response times in collecting valuable feedback.

Obtain More Survey Results

Did you know that text messaging is the preferred method of communication by virtually all consumers of every demographic? Given this well-know fact, there’s a greater chance that participants will actually complete the surveys if they are sent by text message.

Maintain Easy, Ongoing Communications

After using text messaging to collect data from participants, you’ll be able to keep in touch with them much easier. To ensure that the communication remains ongoing, remember to include a simple call to action at the end of the survey such as asking participants to subscribe to lists or visit your company on social media.

Don’t Miss These Tips For Developing Great Event Survey Questions!

Now that you have read all of this great information, don’t you agree that using text messaging for an event evaluation makes perfect sense? Before you dash off to integrate text messaging into your surveys, just remember to keep these important things in mind when creating your event questions.

– Keep the meeting, event or conference survey questions short and sweet

– Ensure that your collected data will be organized by using multiple choice questions

– Make sure that the last question is a free response so that attendees will feel comfortable sharing unlimited honest feedback

– Send a brief thank you message to participants and then encourage them to check out your social media or website in the text

– Use software that enables you to send SMS surveys or a link to a mobile web survey for smartphone users.
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August 23, 2017March 11, 2019

Mobile Messaging News: Mobile Trends, Truth in Texting, Teen Customer Service Text Messaging

BRDSNBZ NORTH CAROLINA TEXT LINE FOR TEENS

Shift NC powers a wonderful “warm line” for teens and young adults via text messaging. From their website:

“The BrdsNBz North Carolina Text Line provides confidential, factually accurate answers to sexual health questions via text message. A young person simply texts a question, and a trained health educator responds within 24 hours.”

OMG! Texting ups truthfulness, new study suggests

Study shows that people are more honest when they reply through text rather than answering a phone call. Researchers found that people who are less tensed tend to say the truth in texting because they are not in time-pressured situation which is most likely observed in phone interviews.

How new technology is helping deliver sexual health services

Technology is seemingly becoming the new way of young generation in communicating with its peers. Mobile applications and other social networks allow teenagers to get results in a jiffy. As a result of this innovations, sex education can further be propagated to young people conveniently by providing them advice and factual information.

Text Messaging Helping to Keep People Healthy

Text Messaging proves to be an effective medium of delivering health service to a larger percentage of people. A good example is a successful vaccination program to those children whose parents earn a relatively small income.

Texting Has Health Benefits (Take That Mom and Dad)

There are several advantages people can get through text messaging. A simple text of encouragement can help patients suffering from depression feel better about themselves. Texting provides information for pregnant women about better prenatal care. And also, it allows patients who were admitted for high level of alcohol to receive advice through text message on how to limit their drinking habit.

Texting Dominates As Teens And Young Adults Make Fewer Phone Calls

Teens and Young Adults are now more into Texting than Calling. Study shows that the trend in younger generations nowadays is visiting social networking via their mobile and using more of their fingers in texting messages rather than just mere holding it for voice calls.

Teen Stores Try Texts as Gr8 Nu Way to Reach Out

Texting has become the gateway of retailers in advertising their products to younger generation effectively. Marketing their items to young customers by mobile texting of pictures and video can increase their chances of getting known quickly.

Tech trends: Mobile changes everything

Hotel establishments are in demand of mobile devices in increasing their guest attendance. Mobile technology can help promote innovations in amenities and services a hotel has to offer. It enables guest to engage in any applications the hotel provides in their own convenience.

Reports: Mobile trends in travel technology

According to study, 58% of American consumers aging from 12- 64 have their own smartphone device which translate that they are becoming more mobile. This can pave way for travel technology to increase its sales and maybe sooner or later consumers will be booking travel via mobile as well.

5 Text Messaging Tactics Restaurant Owners Can Use To Attract Customers

Restaurant found a new way in attracting customers through Text Messaging. The current way of enticing people to visit once restaurant is via text message marketing. There are 5 tips of doing it: text subscribers before meals to provide them options before dining, advertise specials online, surprise rewards to customers like free appetizers, instantly-redeemable coupons and lastly interact with subscribers to know their feedback about the food, service and ambience of the restaurant.

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September 4, 2013March 12, 2019

5 Reasons Texting With Counselors Could Reduce Anxiety

Those suffering from anxiety, including anxiety attacks, panic disorder, social anxiety, generalized anxiety disorder, or even just an especially stressful period, could often use help in managing the anxiety more promptly. Here are 5 reasons that being able to text counselors could be an answer to improving the anxiety.

1. Immediate Help – Texting could be an effective means of short-term, immediate help for people suffering an anxiety attack, be it in the moment or just after. This would enable the client to receive the help they needed when they needed it.

2. A Little Extra Help – There are hundreds of self-help anxiety apps already available, such as SAM, which help users to manage their own anxiety. When a client needs a a little more guidance than what their trusty self-help app offers, however, being able to simply close the app and text a counselor would be tremendously helpful and increase the chances that they client is addressing their anxiety.

3. Easy Access to Help – Even without a smartphone or special app, 91% of adults in the U.S. have a cell phone. For many people, that cell phone rarely leaves their sight and goes with them everywhere. Being able to seek help anywhere at a moment’s notice – literally at your fingertips – is invaluable.

4. Improved Anxiety Monitoring – The flexible, fast, and easy use of texting would allow a client to notify their counselor of an anxiety attack. From there, they could move up their appointment if they need urgent counseling, make a new appointment, or simply make a note of needing to address the anxiety attack in the next appointment.

5. Texting is CBT-Friendly – Internet-based Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy has proven effective for treating social anxiety disorder, treating panic disorder, reducing the number of doctor visits required, and generally improving physical health. It is not a far cry to think that texting, with its ease of use and accessibility, could be effective as a supplemental means to treat anxiety.

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July 1, 2013March 12, 2019

Text Messaging News: How to Improve Post-Sales Support through Mobile, Healthy heart a smartphone away, How smartphones are making customer care hi-tech

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Smartphone apps automating customer care work with analytics, reducing workload on staff

Because of the connectedness of smartphone technology, it becomes extremely easy to send, share and view files across large groups of people when everybody has a smartphone in their hand. Enterprises in India are taking advantage of this by offering statistics and information straight to staff smartphones, allowing members of a company to quickly check information whilst doing other tasks. This is helpful for many different areas of business, but this article seems to highlight the potential benefits for jobs in customer service and support.

California goes mobile to educate farm workers on pesticide safety

A system in California has been put in place to help farmers ensure they are safely tending to their crops by providing educational videos readily available on smartphones to teach them about the dangers of mistreating pesticide and the plants they are growing. This system first started by offering farmers with text messages to help them do farming the right way, but this new video approach will help those who prefer to watch instead of read, and is also available in multiple languages to help with farmers who do not speak decent English.

How to Improve Post-Sales Support through Mobile

Healthy heart a smartphone away

How smartphones are making customer care hi-tech

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June 24, 2013March 12, 2019

Text Messaging News: Health reminders by text, Emergency text messages a click away after city implements system, Hospital offers parents digital updates on their preemies

Emergency text messages a click away after city implements system

Health reminders by text

mHealth doesn’t have to be all about radical new technology and brand new shiny smartphones. Something as simple as a text message that can be sent to a cheap mobile phone could be considered mHealth, and a text messaging mHealth campaign in Southland and Otago is already on a roll. Those using the service can receive text messages about appointments with general practitioners and can also receive other important information about any medicine or health routines they may need to follow.

Hospital offers parents digital updates on their preemies

Being a first-time parent can be a very demanding experience, and many parents of new born babies often take the leverage of their shoulders by discussing their baby’s health with a doctor. This can be helpful for a parent but it is sometimes inconvenient for doctors and any other patients they may have. A new technology has been made to ensure that parents can get the information they need about their baby’s healthy digitally to help ease the pressure on both the new mother and father and the doctor.

Tech can help urban pediatric clinics better connect with caregivers

Emergency text messages a click away after city implements system

Timeline: Smartphone-enabled health devices

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June 17, 2013March 12, 2019

How Text Messaging and the Mobile Web Improve Academic Research – Public Health, Clinical Trials, etc.

In an economy where grants and funding are few and far between, success in research trials is vital. As blogger Mike the Mad Biologist points out, it is almost as hard to get an NIH grant, as it is to get into Harvard (6% acceptance rate for the class of 2016). Paylines for 2013 R01 grants are currently set at 8 percentile for non-new PIs and 12 percentile for new PIs.

When academic researchers are expected to teach classes, hold office hours, and apply for funding, all while completing research, what can be done to increase the rate of overall success?

Mobile healthcare technologies now enable researchers to expedite enrollment for studies, provide automated reminders to patients, and remotely complete surveys, forms, and diaries.

Pre-Qualification Surveys

Flyers for studies can include a phone number for potential research subjects to text to complete a short pre-qualification survey. Based on their responses, follow-up can be performed to recruit patients onto studies. Academic researchers can then save time in the recruitment process for studies, and focus more on enrollment, study visits, and obtaining data.

Automated Patient Reminders

Text message reminders can be sent out to patients on an automated schedule, allowing researchers to increase compliance and retention effectively and nearly effortlessly. These reminders are helpful for medication compliance, appointment attendance, diary completion, and more, especially on college campuses where, as Sprint studied, more than 98.8% of students have a cell phone, and 97% of students use texting as their main form of communication.

Text Message and Mobile Web ePRO

To minimize time-consuming, additional patient visits, both text messaging and the mobile web enable ePRO to be completed remotely and at any time of day. Text message surveys are available with various types of formatting, such as multiple choice answers. Mobile web surveys are also available for longer diary entries, patient satisfaction surveys, and study forms.

Mosio for Research provides mHealth support for academic research studies. To learn more, visit http://www.mosio.com/research.

Author: Emily Waller holds an Honors B.S. in Biomedical Engineering, has worked on numerous clinical trials, and as a medical & technical writer. She writes to promote innovative ideas in healthcare, technology, and research within the online community. She also loves photography, neuroscience, and household DIY projects.

June 17, 2013March 12, 2019

Text Messaging News: Texting program targets new moms, Health messages to be sent via cellphone, LAUSD Students Share HIV/STD Statuses Via Text Message

Texting program targets new moms

A new texting program gives tips and information for new upcoming mothers to ensure that they have the best start they need to looking after their first baby. It can be a daunting process, and any help that a mother can get is often needed. The new texting program aims to provide three text messages a week to mothers in New Mexico in the attempt to help mothers keep an eye on the health of themselves and their babies. The texts are also sent out for free, which is always a great thing.

Social Media, Texting Best Ways to Talk to Young People About Mental Illness

Mental health is an issue that in our opinion needs to be discussed with young people more often so that they understand why they may be feeling a certain way when growing up and why they should be considerate of others that may be feeling a certain way as well. It is not often easy to teach young people about certain topics when their minds are often elsewhere, but it seems the best way to communicate about topics such as mental health is through what young people know best- texting and social media platforms.

Health messages to be sent via cellphone

LAUSD Students Share HIV/STD Statuses Via Text Message

Customer Service Seen as Top Benefit of Mobility

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June 10, 2013March 12, 2019

Text Messaging News: Texting service for expecting moms, Digital Way to Share STD Status Now Available in LAUSD, Service lets kids report bullying via text message

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Digital Way to Share STD Status Now Available in LAUSD

A new service has been created to help sexually active people have safe sex. Users of the service will be able to share with one another their own status in regards to sexually transmitted diseases straight from their mobile with the tap of a button. This service has been mainly targeted at young people who may not yet understand the importance of having safe sex. By using smartphones to share this information with one another, young people will feel right at home.

Service lets kids report bullying via text message

Bullying is never a nice thing to experience, and many helplines out there are available to help those in need of help. A new service will allow children to quietly report to school officials if they are being bullied or if they’ve witnessed bullying themselves through the use of their own cell phones. Kids will be able to text a number for free to alert teachers about any bullying occurring. We think this is a great step to take as children at school can often feel pressured and too scared to make contact with an adult in person.

Texting service for expecting moms

Ozark Center takes counseling via texting community wide

Mobile phones revolutionise youth creativity

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May 27, 2013March 18, 2019

Text Messaging News: Texting for better health, Tips to be taken via text, Text reminders help seniors improve medication adherence

Tips to be taken via text

If you live in Monmouth and want to lend a helping hand to your community you can now text in to the County Sheriff and “tip” them of anything you may think seems a little dodgy in your area. Although the Monmouth police department still advises to call 911 when involved in a crime in progress, you can text to report less serious crimes and advise police officers about anything you may think needs checking. Whether someone has stolen your bike, or there’s an argument over the road that sounds a little too aggressive, you can text in anonymously and your tip will be sent to a computer at the police department.

Whatever way you look at it, texting can build business

Although Txting lyk ths isn’t going to help your business anytime soon, being able to text within your business to those working with you can help speed things up around the office. Whether you need someone to bring up your coffee from downstairs, or need to quickly relay some information to another colleague, using SMS is a sure-fire way to get your message across as soon as possible. The cost is also a whole lot cheaper than many other forms of communication, and there are even plenty of free IM alternatives designed for smartphone too.

Texting for better health

Text reminders help seniors improve medication adherence

Emergency? In Fairfax, There’s a Text for That

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May 20, 2013March 13, 2019

mHealth News Byte: In South Africa – Using Mobile Technology to Improve Maternal Health Access, Mobile Technology Is Transforming Healthcare, Growing ‘App’etite for Mobile Health

In South Africa, Using Mobile Technology to Improve Maternal Health Access

This article highlights an amazing story about a first time mother in South Africa that uses routine text messages from her local doctor to learn more about how to look after her child and what the best tips and hints are to look after her child the best way she can. There are also some messages to help teach mothers how to determine whether their baby is ill or not. The mother manages to save time by not going to the doctors each time she has a question, as most of them are answered in the text messages. This technology could be adapted and used worldwide, and could even send different text messages depending on the stage of development in the babies life.

Mobile health technologies to rapidly test and track infectious diseases

Many around the world will say that prevention is the best form of cure, and it is very true. The earlier you can spot signs of an illness and deal with it, the less time the illness has time to spread to other people. Scientists in in Newcastle are developing a technology that can work as an early warning system that can use the internet and mobile phones to help track serious infectious diseases.

Mobile Technology Is Transforming Healthcare

Brazil slum study says mobile health technology could provide savings, improved care for poor

Growing ‘App’etite for Mobile Health

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May 13, 2013March 13, 2019

Text Messaging News: A Text Message a Day Keeps the Asthma Attack Away, Flexible phone’s corners curl to tell you who’s calling, How Text Messaging Can Drive App Engagement and Revenues

Photo: Researchers from the College of Computing at Georgia Tech have found that a text message a day may keep asthma attacks away, at least in teenagers. -- http://c.gatech.edu/18u1GD

A Text Message a Day Keeps the Asthma Attack Away

A simple text message a day can help asthma sufferers keep track of their illness and treat it appropriately. A new study in Georgia has shown that those that receive just one text message a day that asks whether the user has had an asthma attack that day can help the sufferers to stay in tune with their illness. It’s easy to forget that you have asthma after not having an asthma attack for a long time, and because of this, many people may leave their respirators at home, and this could prove to be a bad choice when a sudden unexpected asthma attack hits. These daily texts will remind sufferers to keep their respirators with them to stay safe.

Collier schools to start encouraging smartphones in the classroom

Most schools have a strict “no phones in the classroom” mentality. And when they can serve as a distraction to the owner of the phone and those around them, this is understandable, but as smartphones have emerged, some schools have decided to change their policies for the greater good. In Collier County, schools are actively encouraging students to use their smartphones as a tool in class and education instead of a device for social and recreational purposes. Each smartphone could potentially serve as a students personal computer and in the future we could even replace traditional school note books and planners with a simple school smartphone app.

Next Generation device: Flexible phone’s corners curl to tell you who’s calling

How Text Messaging Can Drive App Engagement and Revenues

Smartphone Physicals Becoming Real Possibility

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May 6, 2013March 13, 2019

Text Messaging Newsbyte: Treating Asthma With Text Messages And Autism With Social Media, Mobile App Helps in Weight Loss Program, Using Mobile Phone Technology to Ensure Fair Voting in the Middle East

Treating Asthma With Text Messages And Autism With Social Media

By using a simple text reminder, asthma sufferers are reminded to take care of their condition and take any medicine if they need it. This little reminder also makes sure that anybody with asthma isn’t left without their inhaler. Social media is also being used to help those with autism by slowly integrating them into social environments through controlled social websites like groupMe. This is proving to be very handy for those with types of autism like Asperger’s syndrome that limits a persons wants or needs to involved socially.

Text messages and peer mentoring help the college transition

By allowing students to contact each other for help through text messaging, peers can mentor other students on how to keep up with the transition to college. Text messaging is usually a private ordeal so it allows students to talk to people who they may feel uncomfortable talking to in person when on college grounds and this gives space for students to discuss issues with peer mentors and then hopefully feel more comfortable with living in the environment they study in.

County to expand texting program for mothers

Mobile App Helps in Weight Loss Program

Using Mobile Phone Technology to Ensure Fair Voting in the Middle East

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May 6, 2013March 13, 2019

Mobile Health Newsbyte: Beleaguered caregivers getting help from apps, Docs develop app to help pregnant women, Africa: Using Technology to Save Lives At the Community Level

Beleaguered caregivers getting help from apps

Taking care of an ill person can be a very demanding task, and if it is a serious illness or condition, a caregiver’s job can become very stressful and hard to deal with. Thanks to smartphone apps though, caregiver’s lives around the world could be improved. Apps can now help caregivers to monitor certain medicinal supplement diets, keep track of the whereabouts of those they are looking after and provide tips from doctors on how to look after another person as best they can.

Africa: Using Technology to Save Lives At the Community Level

Anything that can save lives is a hero in our books, and for that reason technology should be thought of as a rising hero. When used in the right hands, technology can be one of man’s greatest tools. Thanks to the growing usage of mobile phones in Africa, it is now becoming easier to track data through text messaging and other mobile methods and this makes it easier for officials to take note of disease trends and other important information for their communities.

There’s An App for That: How mHealth Technologies Are Benefitting Patients

Docs develop app to help pregnant women

The Future of Mobile Technology in Medicine: Innovative Medical Apps

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April 29, 2013March 13, 2019

Text Messaging News: Solving the customer service gap through mobile innovation, Texting Becomes a Health Tool in Kenya, Schools turn to smart phone apps in bid to identify bullies and help victims

Text Messaging Tip Program Launches in Monmouth County

Mobile-enabled payment systems improve services revenue collection

Currently shaking an expensive smartphone in the air does nothing other than provide a friend for the shiny watch that may be sitting on your wrist, however many businesses are looking in to making a show of your smartphone even more meaningful. By using NFC, or near field communications, businesses like the water utility company in this article will be able to receive payments through a simple physical exchange from a smartphone. There are a lot of issues to deal with before making this a safe system, but mobile payment could become debit and credit cards of the future.

Texting Becomes a Health Tool in Kenya

Thanks to mobile phones, and in particular inexpensive text messaging, those living in Kenya and other parts of Africa can now communicate quickly with one another. This becomes a very important tool for many reasons, but the most emerging use for texting involves health. By sending messages back and forth, Kenyans can keep an eye on one another’s health and make sure they are doing the best they can to stay healthy.

Monmouth County Sheriff’s Office launches text messaging tip line

Solving the customer service gap through mobile innovation

Schools turn to smart phone apps in bid to identify bullies and help victims

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April 29, 2013March 13, 2019

mHealth News: mHealth-As-A-Service Could Change Mobile Health, Smartphones Are Revolutionizing Home Care For Alzheimer’s And Autism Patients, CDC proposes smartphone surveys for quicker reads on public health

CDC proposes smartphone surveys for quicker reads on public health

What better way to gather data than to ask those you’re looking for data from to answer questions about their health straight from their smartphones? Smartphones are a piece of technology that are immediately available to millions of us worldwide, and a large percent of us today use our smartphones on a daily basis and keep them very close to us. Because of this it’s incredibly easy to gather information not only on a large scale but very quickly as well. This could prove to be extremely handy in the medical world where doctors rely on information from the masses to understand illnesses better.

mHealth-As-A-Service Could Change Mobile Health

By building specific apps capable of targeting a wide range of patients through communication and information, mhealth may be the only viable and most cost effective way to go when it comes to health care. Smartphone apps have already been proven to be very helpful in the health industry, but soon hospitals may need to up their game and get app development underway. By using a mobile health service instead of hiring an app developer to develop a standalone app, hospitals can save a considerate amount of money and patients can use an integrated app that looks similar no matter what hospital they are using it with.

The VA is testing iPads to improve home care for war-wounded veterans

mhealth technology helps to provide care to remote U.K. patients

How Smartphones Are Revolutionizing Home Care For Alzheimer’s And Autism Patients

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