Location-based, check-in type mobile applications have all been the rage recently, but intrepid developers are still coming up with interesting ways to find niche uses or audiences. The latest one we’ve heard about mashes up check-ins with corporate...
AT&T and One Economy held a contest challenging developers to create new mobile apps to help low-income Americans perform tasks such as working towards higher education, finding jobs, getting healthy, and managing their finances. Five winners...
Nonprofits pioneered social media. They were on Myspace and organizing via Facebook Groups years before corporate brands, higher education, and broadcast and print media. That said, I am starting to worry a little bit that nonprofits are falling...
The time is ripe for the early adopters in the nonprofit sector to embrace m-Advocacy, otherwise known as mobile advocacy. Odds are a year from now pitches to subscribe or join “Mobile Action Networks” will be commonly seen in Facebook Status...
QR Codes have finally taken solid root in the U.S. after years of success in Japan and Korea. If you’re a nonprofit marketer, you need to know what they are, how to use them, and how they’ll benefit your organization.
Back in January I talked about Quora and how it could be a resource to consumers who had questions about a cause marketing promotions, and an asset to causes that wanted to be more transparent about their programs. This month my fellow Dummies...
Mobile phones are more prevalent in the U.S. than ever before. Today, over 86% of the US population ages 13 and up owns a mobile phone . In the past decade, mobile users have grown from about 34 million to more than 203 million, and growth is...
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...
Mobile applications are flooding the market at a dizzying rate — more than 150,000 now for the iPhone and tens of thousands for Android and Blackberry. And it’s important to keep in mind that only 18 percent of the phones in the United States are...
2010 will go down as the year nonprofits began to understand the potential of mobile giving. From the Haiti earthquake to the Gulf oil spill to relief efforts in Pakistan and Chile, social change organizations have begun to harness the power of...
Imagine this: You visit your local supermarket and are asked to support a local food pantry. You a buy a pinup for a buck. On your receipt is message that you can learn more about the cause you just supported by scanning this barcode with your...
If you’re like most people working at a nonprofit, you probably had a “Holy Mobile!” moment in January, 2010, when an outpouring of donations followed the devastating Haiti quake. This, you expected.
If you haven’t noticed QR Codes yet, after you read this post and browse the QR Codes on Flickr you’re going to start to seeing them everywhere. In magazines, on flyers, tabletops, and conference materials. So, what are they?
Many nonprofits are experimenting with text-to-give fundraising, but thus far results have been mixed. Nonprofits that have the resources or connections to tap into media, celebrity or large e-mail lists have done well, but many others are simply...
The last few years haven’t been the happiest time for charities. The still-sullen economy forced foundations to cut back on their big donations, so micro donors—individuals who give small sums as the spirit moves them—are becoming an important...
Each year, the South by Southwest (SXSW) conference serves as a strong indicator of up and coming technologies - in previous years it has paved the way for applications such as Twitter and foursquare. This year while I was in Austin, it felt like...
As we've been reminded recently, mobile donations and text-to-give campaigns are quick and easy ways to ask people to give. This is especially true when natural disasters strike, and people are eager to help immediately. One of the drawbacks with...
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Judy Chang is the Senior Manager of Vertical Markets at PayPal, which means the nonprofit world falls under her purview.
WhatGives!? interviewed Judy recently at BlogWorld Expo 2010 after her...
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Mobile giving is spreading like wildfire across the nonprofit sector. Since January, text messaging campaigns for relief efforts for Haiti have raked in $43 million, according to the Mobile Giving...
We’ve all seen the advertisements: “Text WATER to 38279”, “Text FOOD to 18732”. You pull out your phone, you send a text, and VOILA! you’ve made a $5-10 donation.
Its simple, quick and easy, and it requires next to no effort. Heck, you don’t even...
MobileActive.org connects people, organizations, and resources using mobile technology for social change. We are committed to increasing the effectiveness of NGOs around the world who recognize that the more than 5 billion mobile phones provide...
Today, Mobile Accord / mGive is responsible for raising more than 85% of all funds raised to date through the mobile giving channel. Mobile Accord works with more than two hundred nonprofit clients, including many of the nation's top charities and...
The Foundation was created to combine the incredible scope and capabilities of the US wireless industry with a need for charitable organizations to find a new class of donors and newer, more intuitive methods of facilitating contributions....
CauseCast Mobile Fundraising is a mobile platform that offers real-time tracking, reporting, campaign creation, and mobile message broadcasting so that nonprofits can inspire, engage, and activate new supporters using mobile phones. Whether your...
Nicola Wells, organizer for the Fair Immigration Reform Movement, offers nonprofits a half dozen tips about how to get started with mobile and create an effective mobile campaign. The 11-minute interview was conducted just after we presented the...
