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12 Useful, Well-Designed, Worth-Downloading iPhone Apps Created by Nonprofits

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Help animals while on the go with PETA’s mobile app. Designed specifically for the iPhone and iPod touch, National Geographic’s new and improved World Atlas puts our best maps in the palm of your hand. Through the Incident Report feature, you can also easily notify Wildlife Alliance when you see illegal trade occurring.

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Case Study: Providing Event Attendees with Wireless Internet via Mobile Broadband

NTEN

A September 2011 industry report published by the Professional Convention Management Association found that respondents spent an average of over $7,000 on internet access, and only 37% provided free WiFi to attendees. Our plan of attack going in was to bring nine mobile broadband devices. The approach.

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Is your site optimized for mobile?

Connection Cafe

Continuing the theme of "busy mom" from last month , I wanted to take a moment to talk about the need for organizations to optimize their sites for use with mobile devices. Nielsen reports that as of Q1 2010 , 23% of people with mobile devices now have a smartphone instead of a regular old boring/dumb cell phone.

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New on SSIR: It’s not about Apple – It’s about Community

Amy Sample Ward

In Jake’s post, he notes that Apple is essentially denying nonprofits “the most powerful direct-payment platform in the mobile marketplace&# by denying access to 1-click payments. This is where things start to spark for me.

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Benetech: President's Update

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Read2Go Bookshare goes mobile! With our Read2Go app, Bookshare members can now search, download and read Bookshare books and periodicals on their iPad, iPhone and iPod touch devices. Now I can report that the two policemen were convicted and sentenced to forty years each for the disappearance of Edgar Fernando García.

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The End of the Beginning of Online Giving

Connection Cafe

Here is a short list of innovations that happened after online giving began in 1999: Airbnb, Android, Bitcoin, Chrome, Dropbox, Etsy, Facebook, Github, Hashtags, iPod, iPhone, iPad, jQuery, Kindle, LinkedIn, MySpace, Netflix, Oculus Rift, Pinterest, Reddit, Slack, Tesla, Twitter, USB Flash Drive, Venmo, Wii, Xbox, YouTube, and the Zettabyte.

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10NTC Science Fair Preview - Giveaways, More Giveaways and Free Apple iPads

NTEN

We will be raffling off an iPod Touch at the booth. Want to know how non-profit organizations are using geographic analysis and the power of maps to support their missions, report to stakeholders and funders, apply for grants more effectively, or conduct fundraising and marketing gap analyzes? Raffling off an iPod at the Science Fair.

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