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

Amy Sample Ward

50% of Android users under 35, Apple use most under 44, RIM (Blackberry etc.) Millennials want basic information and tools for action. Using a mobile app allows you as a nonprofit to have a tool where you can push messages out about how to volunteer/give, what the impact is, etc. There’s currently very few applications.

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A Field Guide to Mobile Payments

Tech Soup

With mobile payment processing tools , you can accept mobile donations from anywhere, at any time. We've compiled tools and resources on mobile payments from TechSoup and beyond and explain some of the technologies out there. Mobile Payment Processing Tools. Not sure what your options are? The Deal with NFC.

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Cool App Roundup: Fundraising Edition

Tech Soup

We looked at mobile tools for fundraising as well as apps that incorporate some sort of fundraising into their platform. Mobile Fundraising Tools. These mobile tools help you fundraise on-the-go. Sage Mobile Payments (Android, BlackBerry, iOS) is another mobile payment service available through TechSoup.

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My iPhone 3G

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

I said: I will not be buying an iPhone until they sell an unlocked version that doesn’t need to be hacked to use third party applications. The phone interface is great, visual voicemail rocks, reading email is really good, and surfing the web is decent – way better than on a blackberry. by Apple, which is a mixed bag.

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Cool App Roundup: Disaster and Emergency Edition

Tech Soup

The FEMA app is available in the Android marketplace , with iPhone and Blackberry versions coming soon. The app was developed on the Windows Azure platform, a cloud-based platform for building and hosting web applications. The WISER mobile app is available for Apple, Windows, Blackberry and Palm devices. Photo: Lee Maguire.

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Apps for Managing and Maintaining Social Media

Tech Soup

HootSuite (Desktop, Android, BlackBerry, iOS) is a popular social media management tool. HootSuite is a bit pricey, but registered nonprofits can get a 20 percent discount by completing a Nonprofit Discount Application form. Hootsuite also recently acquired Seesmic , another social media manager.

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More good news from Google: Open Handset Alliance

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

We hope that this will spur development for more social applications and mashups as well as better distribution of these applications worldwide. I’ll be watching the Open Handset Alliance, and wondering when I can replace my Blackberry with an open phone. {

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