Anchor Lisa Mullins explains that President Obama isn't just making a speech tomorrow to the Muslim world. He's also sending out text messages about the speech -- in a host of languages, including English, Arabic, Urdu, and Persian.
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LISA MULLINS: When Mr. Obama delivers his speech in Cairo tomorrow, his thoughts will carry far and wide – and not just through TV and radio. The US State Department is making use of new media. It's putting up a special website. Sign up for it, and you can get text messages about the President's speech tomorrow, just as Mr. Obama is delivering it. Specify, please, English, Arabic, Urdu, or Persian. You can reply with your own comments, which the State Department will post. The speech will be translated into 13 languages in all. The social networking site Facebook is doing a special promotion of the speech as well, in the Muslim world.
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President Obama's Cairo Speech SMS / Text Messaging Service.