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Scanning for Good: 5 Reasons QR Codes Are a Safe Option for Nonprofits

NetWits

When scanned, QR codes often take users to a mobile web page. In addition to web URLs, QR codes can contain SMS messages, plain text, contact info, event invites, Google Maps locations, YouTube videos, or social content. If you have BlackBerry Messenger 5.0, People are using them! QR Codes Can Do a Lot.

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10 Essential Tools for the Nonprofit New Media Manager on the Go

Nonprofit Tech for Good

The advent of the Mobile Web is slowly starting to permeate and transform nonprofit communications. Just like social media transformed the nonprofit sector and how it communicates with its supporters, so will the Mobile Web (even more so). Twitter Apps for Android and Blackberry are also available. Foursquare.

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The Mobile Web: Consider the User

NTEN

Thirty-eight percent of American mobile phone users -- 120 million people -- access the web via their mobile device; fewer than 30 million are iPhones or Android phones. The growth of the mobile web will continue to be very rapid in the coming years -- and will have substantially more reach than iPhone or Android applications.

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A Better Way to Produce Nonprofit Annual Reports

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

My main takeaway was that nonprofits need to think differently about content. There are different media forms that mandate different types of content — and nonprofits must consider this as part of the online content strategy. Treesaver divides content into pages, automatically adjusting to the size of any screen.

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Stay Productive On the Road, In the Field, and Away from the Office

Tech Soup

for Android and iOS integrates with your web-based ClickTime time-tracking service , so you can track time, expenses, and receipts while you're on the road, without cracking open your computer. SkyDrive can be accessed via a free Android or iOS app or via mobile web browsers. GoToAssist. The ClickTime mobile app. DonorPerfect.

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Fusing Mobile Fundraising with Email & Social Media Outreach

NTEN

There are a few readily available methods that will allow you to start accepting donations via the mobile web in association with email and social media outreach. This method basically reformats and converts the page content into a mobile experience. If properly designed, it can work efficiently on any web enabled mobile device.

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10 Tips for Optimizing Mobile Email Marketing

Care2

While web-based email went down in 2010, mobile email went up 36% in the US as we reported last week on Frogloop. While action alerts or appeals may look great on the IPhone it could look messed up on a Blackberry. And remember don’t write crappy content. Nonprofits can no longer afford to ignore mobile email.

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