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Social Media is Going Mobile, and So Should Your Nonprofit

Nonprofit Tech for Good

If there is one thing I have learned over ten years of using the Internet for fundraising and social change, those nonprofits that can embrace change quickly, empower their visionaries, and adopt new Web trends, reap the benefits of being early adopters. As the Web goes mobile , so does social media… and so should your nonprofit.

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Losing Mobile Users? Easy Mobile-Website Builder Can Help You: New TechSoup Program

Tech Soup

With an exponential increase in people accessing the Internet on mobile devices, the nonprofits, charities, and libraries that don't have a website optimized for mobile devices or that haven't created a separate mobile website risk irritating — or losing — their supporters. Ever experienced this on a smartphone or tablet?

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Mobile websites vs. apps - what's right for you?

Connection Cafe

World Wildlife Fund. They are also generally faster at lookup functions - depending on the speed of the internet connection, looking something up via 3G or wireless could take longer. There's also Blackberry, Palm, Windows Mobile, and Symbian. There's also Blackberry, Palm, Windows Mobile, and Symbian.

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Veterans Organic Garden: An Off-the-Grid Jobs Program

Tech Soup

The garden's organic produce will be sold at local farmers' markets to fund project activities. We plan to grow organic tomatoes, cucumbers, peppers, potatoes, onions, garlic, shallots, peas, blackberries, blueberries, strawberries, figs, and grapes." acre garden utilizes organic and permaculture gardening principles.

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7 Ways for Nonprofits to Use Mobile Phones to Rake in Cash Monies

NTEN

Did a fantastic fund-raising opportunity pass you by? How can you use a mobile phone to fundraise without collecting funds via the mobile phone? Other apps in this category are Bliss (for Blackberry), Phospho , and Pet Earth (both for iPhone). The Red Cross received 4.1 You breathed in. Did you miss mobile? Text message warmers.

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NpTech Summary: VTvigils Online, Netsquared Announces 21 Featured Projects, and Happiness Hacking

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Netsquared Innovation Fund Netsquared Announces the 21 Featured Projects and solicits for feedback. on the interplay of newspapers and internet content. AFP Blog points a story about a blackberry service outage that left millions of users without wireless e-mail access. The site was developed by Democracy in Action.

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Mobile Web vs. Mobile Apps: Taking Your Content on the Road

NetWits

Some advantages to mobile apps are that you have full control over the user interface; your app can use all of the mobile device capabilities; performance is dependent on the mobile device rather than internet service; and a well-developed app can raise awareness (and sometimes revenue) for your organization. So, what do you think?

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