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Share In this day of texting and emoticons, we communicators often mourn the demise of our beloved language. How can the beauty and importance of tiny little parts of speech like prepositions survive in a world too busy to bother with whole sentences? Stop by madame.furie, on Flickr Well, the importance of a preposition just got [...] December 9th, 2010 | Tags: emoticons, language, preposition, school bus, texting, Virginia | Categories: Design & Editorial
2 comments | Share: Share Earlier this year, Maria Enie discussed the impact of texting on the English language in this blog post. While I understand that texting and micro-blogging is part of an evolution of the English language, I am concerned that the informal texting language is becoming the English language for Millennials. This Ragan.com article discusses the [...] September 13th, 2010 | Tags: communication, language, microblogging, Millennials, Pew Research Center, public relations, texting, tweeting, Twitter, writing | Categories: Design & Editorial, Integrated Media Services
4 comments | Share: My almost-teenager demonstrates what a new study from the Pew Research Center confirms–youth ages 12-17 aren’t using e-mail anymore. Headlines earlier this week focused on the hundreds of texts that teens send daily, but I found their lack of e-mail use even more fascinating. The study showed that 58 percent of teens text, while only 11 percent use e-mail. In fact, more teens are using landlines (33 percent) than e-mail. Is e-mail the new snail [...] April 28th, 2010 | Tags: audience, audience research, cell phones, children, communication, cultural competency, e-mail, InSites, Justin Bieber, landlines, marketing, mobile, Pew, Pew Research Center, PR, public relations, social media, technology, teens, text, texting, Twilight, Vanguard Communications, Washington DC, youth | Categories: Integrated Media Services, Multicultural Outreach, Social Marketing
Leave a comment | Share: Share I’m getting ready to live blog from the Progressive Communicators of Washington, D.C. event at WWF on mobile communications tactics for progressive communicators. UPDATE: The live event has concluded. The archived video of this panel discussion is available here: Presenters (left to right): Jeff Lee; Jed Alpert, Mobile Commons; Rachel Labruyere, Reform Immigration FOR America Campaign; [...] April 27th, 2010 | Tags: audience outreach, cell phones, communication, integrated media strategy, live, marketing, mobile, PCDC, progressive, short code, smart phones, SMS, streaming, technology, texting, Washington DC, WWF | Categories: Integrated Media Services
3 comments | Share: Share Will the increasingly popular use of text message language (e.g. LOL, BRB, BTW, etc.) have a lasting effect on the English language? Ammon Shea explores this issue in a recent New York Times Magazine article, “The Keypad Solution.” The language gap between parents and their children is nothing new. Slang like “groovy” and “far out” [...] February 4th, 2010 | Tags: American Literacy Council, communication, keypad language, linguistics, literacy, mobile, New York Times Magazine, slang, social media, SoundSpel, spelling reform, text language, text messaging, texting, textisms, Twitter | Categories: Integrated Media Services, Media Relations, Multicultural Outreach, Social Marketing
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