Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

What's New in Green Mobile Phones. If you're in the market for a new cell phone or smartphone, there are some green models that you've probably never heard of like the Sony Ericsson GreenHeart , Samsung Reclaim , Samsung Blue Earth , Nokia Evolve , and the Motorola Renew. Tags: GreenTech.

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NTEN

APRIL 15, 2010

The explosion of mobile devices has allowed us to collect and analyze data with more accuracy and speed than we ever thought possible. But to fuel the speed, we need software that works on all kinds of phones, not just our fancy $400 phones. Tags: 10NTC Advocacy Mobile Pizzigati Program.

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 13, 2010

If you’re like most people working at a nonprofit, you probably had a “Holy Mobile!” But what you may not have anticipated was that $41m of these dollars flowed through mobile phones via “premium text messages.” Did you miss mobile? Mobile giving is just about five years young. This, you expected. You breathed in.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 9, 2009

Hold the phone! The mobile phone industry has decided to do something about this. Tags: GreenTech Hardware Telecom Services.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 5, 2009

As the Web goes mobile , so does social media… and so should your nonprofit. There are more than 65 million active users currently accessing Facebook through their mobile devices and that number grows daily. MySpace estimates that 50% of its Website traffic will be mobile within 24 months. Do you have a mobile Website?

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NTEN

JULY 2, 2010

I attended this week's AMA / Aquent webcast with Chi Modu from Diverse Insights and DiDigital.net on mobile marketing. Chi has been the brains behind the development and implementation of a number of successful mobile marketing campaigns, including an awareness building campaign for the Bowery Mission of NYC.

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 31, 2009

That’s right: this is your last week to submit ideas to the N2Y4 Mobile Challenge ! Submissions can be for any mobile platform, at any stage of development (whether it is an idea, a prototype or a working application). Why should you participate in the N2Y4 Mobile Challenge? billion people around the world.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 3, 2009

This Challenge encourages innovations for mobile technologies in human rights investigations and advocacy. Learn more about the HRC Mobile Challenge. About the HRC Mobile Challenge. Cell phones, combined with GPS, cameras, video, audio, and SMS are transforming the way the world understands and responds to emerging crises.

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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 10, 2009

Save Your Seat: N2Y4 Mobile Challenge Conference is almost here! The organizers of this year’s N2Y4 Mobile Challenge & Conference tell us there are still a few seats left for the 2-day event convening the best and brightest from an inter-disciplinary field of hackers, entrepreneurs, activists and philanthropists. REGISTER here!

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 20, 2018

Videos with Mobile In Mind. Since the vast majority of social media consumption is done on mobile devices, mobile-friendly video formats like square and vertical are a must. Square videos provide 78% more space in social feeds than landscape and they don’t require that the user tilt their phone to view it in full-screen.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 26, 2011

Note from Beth: I’ve been looking for good examples of nonprofit mobile strategies. So, moving to a mobile phone app makes sense for Seafood watch, so they can catch consumers at the point of decision-making. Your organization was one of the early adopters of mobile phone apps. Tell me about Seafood Watch.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 8, 2020

Digital storytelling enables nonprofits to tell their stories across multiple media, potentially in multiple languages, and to reach unknown readers and viewers through the power of tagging and amplification. Recent data indicates that there are in excess of 1.5

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 3, 2010

In Pocket Change , author Dan Macasi points us to osaifu keitai , the Japanese phrase that means cell-phone wallet. An NFC chip -- that's near-field communications -- is placed on your existing cell phone, or is built into new phones. Another downside: when you lose you phone, you also lose your wallet.

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Judi Sohn

JUNE 25, 2009

That is the day that my 2 year contract with Sprint will be fulfilled, and I can freely cancel my mobile data plan. I can get a lot done with the iPhone alone, but there are times that working off a phone just won’t do. Mobile broadband is a nice-to-have if I can find a reasonable option. It served me well.

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Judi Sohn

JUNE 25, 2009

That is the day that my 2 year contract with Sprint will be fulfilled, and I can freely cancel my mobile data plan. I can get a lot done with the iPhone alone, but there are times that working off a phone just won’t do. Mobile broadband is a nice-to-have if I can find a reasonable option. It served me well.

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Wild Apricot

JANUARY 7, 2010

Welcome to the decade of the Mobile Internet. Is your nonprofit blog or website ready for readers who do their web surfing by phone? Tags: Non-profit technology nptech Google Non-profit Communications RSS Accessibility mobile. read more ).

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Nonprofits Source

APRIL 15, 2024

For major donors, start with a phone call and then send out an official email or printed invitation with the registration information. Make sure your registration page is simple to fill out and mobile-friendly. As you prepare to market your gala, be sure to include: Mobile-optimized ticket sales. Segment your communications.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 25, 2014

Our lead story in this issue of TechSoup’s Nonprofit Technology News is the creation of the Mobile Giving Alliance that will help charities develop their mobile giving. Help for Charities to Develop a Mobile Giving Campaign. Fund for UNICEF, and United Way Worldwide to bring more mobile technology resources charities.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 25, 2013

Thankfully, with the power of mobile apps, you can be a photographer, videographer, social media promoter, and a liveblogger for your events. You can give real-time updates from fundraisers or liveblog featured speakers at events from your laptop or mobile device. Nonprofits can also benefit from this easy-to-use program.

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Wild Apricot

DECEMBER 21, 2009

Try audio blogging: Speak your piece, grab a quick interview, or capture the vibes of a live event with your mobile phone - then quickly post the audio online to share with your organization's members and supporters.( Tags: Non-profit technology nptech Blogging Social networking Non-profit Communications application audio.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 2, 2010

mobile phone collector and aggregator. They have multiple collection channels, often through retailers like Best Buy, and also through mobile phone retailers, wireless service providers, and free mail in programs. The stats in the mobile phone world are pretty staggering: read more.

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CauseVox

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

Optimize Mobile Giving. With over 95% of Gen Z members owning smartphones (the average receiving their first phone before the age of 10), making your campaigns mobile-friendly isn’t just trendy, it’s a necessity. Optimizing mobile giving doesn’t just apply to your website or campaign page. We can’t stress this one enough.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 14, 2010

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). Some nonprofits have begun to lay a foundation for their mobile communications strategies.

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NTEN

JULY 28, 2010

Jed Alpert, Mobile Commons. 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. Mobile Access 2010 Pew Internet and American Life Project). Not so with the mobile web.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 7, 2010

I like to think of group text messaging campaigns as the e-newsletter of the Mobile Web – just much shorter. Now that same concept is emerging in mobile communications. Text messaging campaigns help keep supporters engaged and informed, and can significantly increase traffic to nonprofit mobile websites and smartphone Apps.

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Care2

JANUARY 15, 2010

83% of adults have cell phones or smartphones. 35% of users have accessed the Internet via their phone, according to a December 2009 report by Pew. So in times of natural disasters like the catastrophic earthquake that hit Haiti and affected more then two million people, can a mobile strategy help raise money in times of crisis?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 6, 2010

CauseWorld empower users earn “karma points” when they walk into stores and check in with their cell phone. It’s a creative mobile adaptation of cause marketing that speaks to the power and possibilities of geolocation for social good. 3) Volunteerism :: The Extraordinaries. poverty around the world for Christel.

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Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

For example, if your donor chooses to hear about volunteer opportunities, you can add a conditional logic field to ask for their phone number or other details. Optimize for mobile Use your donation pages to reach donors no matter where they are by optimizing your donation pages for mobile devices.

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Care2

FEBRUARY 17, 2010

Will constituents easily offer their cell phone numbers now that nonprofits are looking at mobile fundraising more seriously? In part two of this series, Frogloop will explore strategies to optimize mobile campaigns. Should Nonprofits Require Mobile Numbers on their Registration Forms? Tags: Mobile.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 17, 2010

Add their address, phone and Twitter ID (search their website and Google to see what their Twitter ID is). Add the “nonprofit&# tag as well as the city and state the nonprofit is located in tag. Tags: FourSquare Mobile Marketing Mobile Technology. Make sure you spell out the name of the nonprofit.

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Care2

MAY 10, 2010

Recently, the Progressive Communicators of Washington, DC (PCDC) held a panel discussion on Mobile Communications for Progressives at the World Wildlife Fund here in DC. The purpose was to bring together some of the leading thinkers and practitioners in the area of mobile campaigns and to find out what is working for nonprofits.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 28, 2010

Web 3.0 = Mobile Websites, Text Campaigns and Smartphone Apps. It’s the Internet on the go fueled by mobile phones and tablets. Mobile websites must be designed to be easily read on mobile devices. to drive traffic to your mobile website. to drive traffic to your mobile website. You use your Web 2.0

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 18, 2010

Whether we look at mapping tools, fundraising, or missing person systems, the social media response to the January earthquakes in Haiti all leverage the powerful technology we can hold in our hands: our mobile phones. Tags: fundraising maps mobile disaster haiti nten red cross the extraordinaries ushahidi.

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NTEN

AUGUST 31, 2010

The revolution that has allowed ICT services to transition to a point of real uptake and impact -- or as Heeks describes, from a tool of development to a “platform for development” --is the mobile phone. . Mobile phones have made the uptake of ICT services achievable because they have become incredibly available.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 8, 2010

Text alerts can also be used to drive traffic to an organization’s mobile website and to ask people to Text-to Give. The SEIU also uses more than just a subscribe web page to build their mobile list. They also Tweet and post on Facebook: Text SEIU to 787753 for mobile updates! text4baby :: Subscribe.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 13, 2010

I like it better than my smart phone because I don't need 300x reading glasses to read the screen and it is nice and light. . Tags: mobile. I also admit that the first app I downloaded was one for google analytics - it's great for browsing data.

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Qgiv

JUNE 9, 2021

Organization names, logos, and tag lines matter. Even the right tag line can quickly help inform a potential supporter and motivate them to want to learn more. Text-to-donate harnesses our mobile devices to allow supporters to easily give anywhere at any time. DBA’s can help correct a poor name choice made prior.

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