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TEXT MESSAGING TIP OF THE DAY
You can forward your email to yourphone#@vtext.com and receive a text message with the subject, and possibly the first sentence or two of the email (before the 160 character limit kicks in). Set up an automtic forward within your email program - it varies by provider, but can be set up pretty easily for most email accounts.
For those of you that have Mobile email or a data plan and do your email on the phone, this is superfluous. For me, and anyone else who has texting but no data plan, and no email plan, it's a nice compromise. I have my own business, and I have my business email forwarded to my phone via text. When I am not at my computer (rare, but it does happen!), there are times I can glean enough info from the text to make a quick phone call and take care of things; at the least I get a text with a hint of what my email will contain when I get home to check it. I like it.
