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Technology's Impact on Disaster Relief

Tech Soup

Additionally, FEMA's apps for Apple, Android, and Blackberry provide weather information as well as tips for what to do during and after a hurricane. Government agencies, such as FEMA , also used Twitter to get the word out about the storm starting a week before it hit. TechSoup partner Esri.

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Cool App Roundup: Fundraising Edition

Tech Soup

PayAnywhere (Android, BlackBerry, iOS) is a mobile and web-based payment processing service that lets you accept donations from just about anywhere. Sage Mobile Payments (Android, BlackBerry, iOS) is another mobile payment service available through TechSoup. PayAnywhere is available from TechSoup, as well.

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

Amy Sample Ward

Be Smarter: they want to know how they are making an impact and what you’re doing with their money. 50% of Android users under 35, Apple use most under 44, RIM (Blackberry etc.) 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.

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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. Its searchable database includes material identification, health impacts, and recommendations for managing the incident. The WISER mobile app is available for Apple, Windows, Blackberry and Palm devices.

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The Mobile Web: Consider the User

NTEN

If you have a Blackberry, try asking an iPhone user if your phone is "smart" and prepare to be teased.). The technical and behavior differences between mobile phone web users and computer web users noted above impacts the ways in which your potential audience will discover the mobile site.

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

NTEN

Be Smarter: they want to know how they are making an impact and what you're doing with their money. 50% of Android users under 35, Apple use most under 44, RIM (Blackberry etc.) 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.

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My Lunch with Randi Zuckerberg at Facebook

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Each phone app - blackberry, Iphone, etc - does its own thing. We are headed in that direction and in the early early stages, but we want to make sure that whatever we do to do support nonprofits has impact and it is strategic. . When can I create a FB event from a remote system? James Young). We don't have control over them.

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