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Live blogging from the 2011 Millennial Donor Summit: Successfully Going Mobile

Amy Sample Ward

This session focuses on how to successfully get started with mobile technology, with Tonia Zampieri from Smart Online presenting. 1st generation raised on mobiles. 95% own mobile devices. 83% sleep with mobile at bedside. Why mobile? millions PCs in Q4 2010. Big 4 In Mobile. Mobile Websites.

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Blog Action Day 2010: Water

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As hand-held mobile devises connected to the internet spread to cities, villages, remote communities around the world, we need to continue finding ways to use these tools to make a positive impact. This past Sunday was October 10th, 2010 – also know as 101010, the Global Work Day for climate action supported by 350.org

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Great reads from around the web on September 16th

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." Internet Founder Tim Berners-Lee Details 4 Concerns About Future of Mobile Web (Nokia World 2010) – "This morning at Nokia World 2010 in London, Sir Tim Berners-Lee, widely known as the inventor of the Web, addressed the audience in a keynote speech where he spoke about the future of mobile technology, including both the positive impacts (..)

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Great reads from around the web on December 9th

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The Ultimate Go-To Resource on Mobile Data Collection (and growing…) | MobileActive.org – "Want to use mobiles for data collection? Don't know where to start your research or where to read evaluations of existing and past mobile data collection efforts? Get the Tagline Database and Report!"

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Great reads from around the web on January 15th

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Submissions close January 22, 2010." " » Your Mobile Giving by State – Wendy Harman at the American Red Cross has posted a map and data about the funds donated via texting "Haiti" to 90999 to support the victims in the Haiti earthquake crisis.

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Great reads from around the web on November 11th

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But as we conducted research projects in multiple domains (education, microfinance, agriculture, health care) and with various technologies (PCs, mobile phones, custom-designed electronics), a pattern, having little to do with the technologies themselves, emerged. The YMCA of Metro Chicago faced just this challenge in the summer of 2010.

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Citizen Tech: Social Media in Disaster Response

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Reports of violence and of peace efforts could be placed via the web or mobile phone. His mobile phone battery was nearly dead so he chose to send a message to twitter and ask for help as well as for those that couldn’t help to spread the message, instead of calling 911 in the chance that he would end up on hold.

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