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Social Media is Going Mobile, and So Should Your Nonprofit

Nonprofit Tech for Good

As the Web goes mobile , so does social media… and so should your nonprofit. 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.

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Cool App Roundup: Fundraising Edition

Tech Soup

Transforming Communities is a Microsoft-funded initiative that builds on what TechSoup and Microsoft already learned through the first App It Up project. PayAnywhere (Android, BlackBerry, iOS) is a mobile and web-based payment processing service that lets you accept donations from just about anywhere. Mobile Fundraising Tools.

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

Tech Soup

The solution is mobile optimization or responsive web design. For orgs that lack the funding to redesign or overhaul their existing websites, a separate website that is specially designed for mobile devices does the trick quickly and affordably. Don't miss this roundup of tools and articles devoted to web design resources.

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

Connection Cafe

Combine that with this nugget: by 2014 more people will view web pages using a mobile device than a computer. Perhaps most compelling is the pervasive nature of the web and web browsers - a web browser comes built into a smartphone. World Wildlife Fund. There's also Blackberry, Palm, Windows Mobile, and Symbian.

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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? These methods are: Text message donations Text to voice donations Text message warmers Mobile Web site donations App sales In-app sales Sponsored apps. How can you use a mobile phone to fundraise without collecting funds via the mobile phone? Mobile Web site donations.

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How to Set Up Bitcoin for Your Nonprofit

Tech Soup

Just last year, United Way, the world's largest privately funded nonprofit, started accepting Bitcoin donations, and it's not alone. Bitcoin's instant transfers can make an immediate difference in funding the efforts of nonprofits with very time-sensitive missions, such as disaster relief. " Quick Donations.

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

NetWits

Frank Barry recently blogged about the increasing use of mobile devices to access the web and how nonprofits should adapt their strategies to accommodate for this. Mobile apps need to be developed separately for each type of device (iPhone, Blackberry, Android, Palm, etc.) Mobile Websites. So, what do you think?

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