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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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HOW TO: Launch a Mobile Photo-Sharing Campaign for Your Nonprofit

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Odds are a Web-based version of Instagram is coming, as well as apps for Android, BlackBerry, etc. Most mobile photo-sharing tools are integrated into Twitter, so your first step should be getting familiar with tweeting on the go.

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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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Nonprofit Tech 2.0 iPhone App :: Version 2.0!

Nonprofit Tech for Good

3) The Mobile Web has exploded over the last 12 months, so more than ever it is very important that your organization have a mobile website that you can link to inside of your iPhone App! 2) The Dashboard is new and improved and much easier to use. of all smartphone App downloads in 2009 were iPhone Apps.

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A Better Way to Produce Nonprofit Annual Reports

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Treesaver is a new open source web platform for publishing that uses the new HTML5 standard to create narrative experiences—with text, pictures and video. It works on any device that has a web browser. actually a terrible way to put content on the web. Not to mention Blackberry users and all these new tablet computers.”.

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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.