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HOW TO: Launch a Group Text Messaging Campaign for Your Nonprofit for Free

Nonprofit Tech for Good

I like to think of group text messaging campaigns as the e-newsletter of the Mobile Web – just much shorter. Text-to-Give and custom smartphones App vendors are still relatively expensive, but there are many free or low-cost mobile website and group texting vendors out there today. and to keep supporters informed and engaged.

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11 TwtPoll Results Nonprofits Can Use to Plan 2010 Communications Strategies

Nonprofit Tech for Good

The TwtPoll results are often surprising and can be very useful for nonprofits as they forge ahead with their 2010 communications strategies. 7) Is your nonprofit monitoring your Website stats to see how much traffic is coming from Facebook, Twitter, MySpace, LinkedIn Groups, etc.? [ [link] ]. 39% Yes… it’s in the works.

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Is the Humane Society the First Nonprofit to Link to a Mobile Website in a Group Text Alert?

Nonprofit Tech for Good

They were also one of the first nonprofits to utilize Myspace back in 2005 and Facebook Groups in 2006. For example, and as much as I love Sea Shepherd and appreciate their effort to be an early adopter in group text messaging, so far all of their text alerts have linked to their desktop site. I’d love to know of others?

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HOW TO: Launch an iPhone App for Your Nonprofit for $25 a Month [Offer Extended to July 31, 2010]

Nonprofit Tech for Good

In the meantime, and thanks to an article by CNBC yesterday called Your Smartphone Can Change the World, One Dollar at a Time , SwebApps has extended the free set-up offer to nonprofits to 7/31/2010. We saw that with social media in 2008 and 2009, and the same will be true of mobile technology in 2010.

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Group Texting: Useful or Hype?

Care2

In 2010 it was location based apps like Foursquare and Gowalla. This year the buzz is about group texting , which allows users to text up to about 25 people at a time via a mobile phone. TextPlus , a group texting vendor says they ha ve 7.7 Can Nonprofits Benefit From Using Group Texting ? How Group Texting Works.

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Email Communication in 2010

NetWits

A report by technology market research firm The Radicati Group estimates that there are 1.4 Email is still a powerful way to communicate with your constituents. billion email users in 2009, expected to rise to 1.9 billion by 2013. The same source suggests that some 247 billion emails are sent each day in 2009.

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Nonprofits of the Month :: February 2010 :: Healing Haiti

Nonprofit Tech for Good

for Nonprofit Organizations LinkedIn Group. The nonprofits above are featured throughout the month of January on the Nonprofit Organizations Twitter Profile , the Nonprofit Organizations Facebook Page , the Nonprofit Organizations YouTube Channel , the Nonprofit Organizations MySpace , and the Web 2.0

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