(CNN) -- A day before President Obama was to give a widely anticipated speech in Cairo, Egypt, the administration was using online networking tools to further reach out to the Muslim world.
This government site invites people to receive highlights of the president's speech via text message.
"In the spirit of engagement, we invited the international audience to submit comments via text message," reads a page at America.gov, which will begin posting messages as soon as Obama's speech begins, about 6:10 a.m. ET Thursday.
People at the site may also sign up to receive text-message highlights from the speech. The service is available only for people living outside the United States.
The form is available in English, Arabic, Persian and Urdu.
Obama's speech, which he will deliver at the Great Hall at Cairo University to an anticipated crowd of about 3,000, will be an effort to improve the image of the United States among Muslims. That image has been tarnished in the eyes of many of the world's estimated 1 billion Muslims who have been critical of the U.S. role in the Middle East over the past few years.
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