The Tea Party movement, with its message of encouraging citizen-legislators, the broader anti-incumbent mood and the sheer amount of turnover — at least 60 House seats will change hands in January — combined to put into office doctors, small-business owners, a dentist, a pilot, a youth minister and a popular local pizza man, among others.
Text messaging has the advantage, he says, that "it is a widely used, chargeable service that is available now".Can operators exploit the success of text messaging to encourage users to switch to more advanced 3G services in future?
Her gospel, a kind of "Our Curls, Ourselves" message of empowerment, encourages the curly-haired to try "straightening out their heads instead of their hair," and to "find their inner curl".
Display posters, banners, signs and sandwich boards (as permitted) around campus with various messages to encourage voting, remind of absentee ballot request deadlines, educate about what to bring the poll.
It has drawn him scores of encouraging e-mail messages.
The group also will use text-messaging to encourage parents to learn the signs of autism.
"There are all of these different messages around encouraging people to eat less meat.
For example, there was no difference between messaging based on the Theory of Reasoned Action and general informational messaging in encouraging young men to perform testicular self-examinations [ 44].
These participants received two weeks of Pre-Quit messages aimed at encouraging them to clarify reasons for quitting and to understand their smoking patterns, in addition to their tempting situations, triggers and urges.
He said his main message was to encourage victims of sexual abuse to report incidents to police.
Findings from the study suggest that parents were aware of dietary messages encouraging them to eat more fruit and vegetables, particularly the 'Eat 5 a Day' message, but no parent mentioned the social marketing initiative Change4Life, championed by the government at national and community-level.
