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How To: Put Technology to Use (November 2008)

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Hint: they don't.) Finally, if you're really into words, you should check out The Global Language Monitor , where you can learn that "obama" has entered the English language as a root, as in: obamacize, obamanomics, and (our favorite) obamarama. Write for the Web. Design for Web2.0.

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Listen to Your Data: Lessons from a Multilingual Text Message Campaign

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That can be incredibly exciting, as each new project we work on further hints at the radical way mobile messaging is reinventing communication. One of the things we got the most wrong came when we noticed RI4A hadn't been including opt-out language in enough of their text messages. Still, opt-out language is legally required.