Posts with the tag Cell Phones

Cell Phone Recycling Program

Bob Tilden — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 10:55:41 EST

We may all have issues with the reasons we're involved in a Middle East war, but I think most agree that our soldiers are doing the best that they can and that they and their families are bearing the heaviest burden. President Obama will do everything he can to expedite the return of our troops, but for those who are still serving away from home, there's something we can all do to help connect them with their families.

You can provide these soldiers with a calling card so that so that every military member in Iraq can make a free 20-minute phone call home. If you have an old cell phone kicking around the house or office, you can recycle it in exchange for a calling card for soldiers serving away from home.

TXT for Change

Xavier Lopez-Ayala — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 16:23:37 EDT

Barack has inspired millions of young Americans to believe in their power to make America great again. Many of these young people have joined Students for Obama chapters on their campus.

Andrew Zucker, the Minnesota Youth Vote Director:

Text messaging is an important part of our campaign to make sure every school in Minnesota goes blue for Barack! If you wanna stay connected, join our text message program and hear breaking news straight from the campaign itself. Just text your college's code to 62262 and you'll stay in the loop. Together, let's Barack the vote!

The Minnesota Campaign for Change has set up text codes for several campuses across the state. See the list of supported campuses below. To sign up for campus updates, text your campus code to 62262.

School Code Unniversity of Minnesota GOPHERS University of Minnesota - Duluth UMDULUTH Augsburg College AUGSBURG Carleton College CARLETONC Hamline University HAMLINE St. Cloud State University STCLOUDST Winona State University WINSU University of St. Thomas UST

If you don't see your campus on the list, you can still text MN to 62262 to get campaign updates and event announcements.

By signing up, you can expect periodic updates from the campaign as well as advance notice about on-campus Obama events and important updates about Barack's public appearances

*Standard message rates apply.

California Cell Phone Law and Obama's Christianity

Silvia Mayers — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 19:32:31 EDT

On July 1st, the State of California began inforcing drivers to use hands free devices while using their cell phones during drive time. Every news story that I read or watched were either focused on the best headsets to use (because you can't live in Silicon Valley and not know the best technology out there) or what the law exactly meant (which basically goes like this: you can not have the actual cell phone to your ear while driving, but you can still text and dial phone numbers, unless you are under the age of 18, which means you can't do any of the above but drive with both hands on the wheel).

So I have a couple of questions: 1. If you can still text and dial numbers, is the California government saying that these two fucntions are not as distracting, if not more than having a phone glued to your ear?? Have they ever noticed how impossibly small the keyboard pads on cells are these days? and the most important...2. Why, in any of these so called news reports, does no one bring up the question "How necessary is it to use your cell phone while driving?"

Now granted, before I became a mother, I never thought twice about using my cell in the car. But now that I am a paranoid mother of one who is particularly irked by the rampant distracted drivers in this overpopulated city, I only use it in case of emergency. I know, someone give me a cookie, but that's one less distracted driver on the road! Thank me later.

On a completely unrelated note, I've also been keeping up with the 2008 election and this week, the press has been particularly interested in what Barack Obama is doing to reach out to the "evangelical vote." Sen. Obama has been hitting the trail and telling voters that he's a proud Christian and American. (Mostly, this is to debunk any rumors that the man is NOT a Muslim.)
And in report after report, it is left to be understood that "Senator Obama is a Christian man." Why does no one, including the Obama camp, want to address the bigger problem here and that is that whomever is spinning rumors about his religious ideologies has a definite agenda: That is to scare the public into believing that Obama is not truly American because he is not a White Christian man, and to continue to propogate the belief that all Muslims are inherintly evil, by ACCUSING the man of being a Muslim.

I can't imagine what it is to be a Muslim living in America these days, though, being a person of color gives me some insight. I understand that Sen. Obama is trying to win a campaign and not "alienate" certain voters, so he's coming out and saying "Look, I'm a Christian like most of America." But could he at least sprinkle a little Seinfeld in there by adding, "I am not a Muslim....not that there's anything wrong with that!"

Obama Foneshows

Erik — Thu, 22 May 2008 20:26:04 EDT

I've been getting Obama audio media (commercials, speeches and the like) sent to my cell phone from a service called Foneshow.

You can too by clicking this button

FWD: Where Was The Text Message?

Melissa Conrad — Wed, 14 May 2008 13:10:08 EDT

Show of hands. How many of you have forwarded a text message on your cell phone? Ever? Not the kind of text message that will curse you if you don't forward it to 12 of your closest friends in the next 12 seconds but, the kind of message that generally informs or entertains. Is your hand up?

Ok. Imagine it was election day in Indiana. You were registered with the Obama campaign online as a supporter. They had your cell phone number. And, still there was no text message that day urging you to support Barack Obama today at the polls. Imagine that you could forward this message, if in fact you had received it, to other voters in your state. Imagine if that text message was even biggied up a bit and it had a sound bite of Barack Obama and a video or photo of him from the huge get out the vote rally the nite before.

Yea. That would be good. It's time to turn our dreams into reality. Do what I did on election day. Make up your own text message and send it to everyone you know. Surprisingly, I got several back from (Yikes) Republicans saying that for the first time in their lives they had requested a Democrat ballot so that they could support Barack Obama. Hopefully the campaign has or will have a text message program running in the upcoming primaries and in the general election. Campaigning and elections are changing in America and it's time we take the message to where the people are and utilize the communications device we all touch the most...cell phones.

Text your support America...FWD...

Take Barack's Message With You

Tobin Van Ostern — Mon, 25 Jun 2007 13:08:54 EDT

A few days ago we launched a mobile text messaging program. Not only can you sign up for texts, you can also download wallpaper and ringtones for your cellphone (try texting ringtone1 to OBAMA).

The ringtones are an innovative way to get Senator Obama’s message out there. As John Della Volpe, director of polling at Harvard University’s Institute of Politics and founder of SocialSphere Strategies, puts it the ringtone is “going to create conversations.” When it plays while you are out in public and someone asks you about it, just ask them to text GO to OBAMA and they will get more information about Senator Obama.

We hope you will find these ringtones fun and enjoyable. For those times when your cell might ring out at an inopportune moment, such as class, I suspect that teachers might be a bit more lenient when they realize that its public policy and civic participation coming out of your cellphone.

Jon Stewart has gotten the Obama ringtone fever ( Daily Show clip). Shortly after our launch he did a hilarious segment highlighting the new ringtones in a variety of means from referencing a bus equipped with spinning rims adorned with Obama logos to Stewart himself dancing to the beats. Stewart’s glowstick dance moves paired with Obama’s ringtones must have been a hit –downloads of the ringtones doubled following the show’s airing.