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9 Ways to Use Text Messaging for Your Virtual Fundraising Event

Nonprofit Tech for Good

By harnessing the convenience of the mobile phones donors use daily, you can transform your virtual fundraising events into engaging, revenue-boosting opportunities. Get event registrants hyped before the big day! Try it from your mobile phone now! Text messaging remains a surefire way to get more eyes on your communications.

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Is Instagram Useful for Nonprofit Marketing?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Instagram, the mobile photography app, has been getting a lot of attention lately. From critics saying it is killing photography to hype and hoopla from marketing pundits saying it is a must-have as part of your “visual marketing tool box.”

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Group Texting: Useful or Hype?

Care2

This year the buzz is about group texting , which allows users to text up to about 25 people at a time via a mobile phone. Users can usually create an unlimited number of texting groups via smartphones , a standard mobile phone using texting commands or even online through the vendors website. million monthly users.

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Apps for Going Green

Tech Soup

What happens to your mobile phone after it reaches its end of life? The Nokia Phone Recycler (Windows Phone) sheds some light on mobile waste and helps you find the safest way to recycle your old phone. Using this free app, you can take a photo of the junk mail you want to get rid of and PaperKarma will do the rest of the dirty work.

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Is Your Nonprofit Too Old To Barf Rainbows on Snapchat?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SnapChat has been around for a few years, but I have not focused on it because as a babyboomer I’m not the target demographic. Snapcha t is a mobile app that lets users exchange text messages, photos and videos that disappear in 24 hours. Instagram is for jealousy-inducing photos. This is called disposable media.

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Nonprofits Should Consider SMS Fundraising With Eyes Wide Open

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Photo by OxMour. It closely follows Gartner's Technology Hype Cycle. It may not make sense for your nonprofit to get mobile . He also encourages nonprofits to look at other ways to incorporate the use of mobile technology as part of a communications strategy or program delivery. Tags: mobile. Maybe I'm jaded.

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Can Nonprofits Benefit from Snapchat?

Tech Soup

Due to the hype, I decided to check it out myself to see if it had any use for nonprofits. Next, you're taken to a "Find Friends" screen where you input your mobile number. Once that's all set up, you can start sending vanishing photo and video messages (also known as Snaps) to your contacts.

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