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Are Nonprofits Wasting Time Developing Mobile Apps?

Care2

According to a June 2010 Nielsen survey of 4,200 people who had downloaded an application in the past 30 days, games were the most downloaded and followed by music, social networking, news and weather, maps, search, video and movies. Consider what the most popular mobile apps are today. Here are five reasons why.

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Cool App Roundup: Disaster and Emergency Edition

Tech Soup

The FEMA app includes preparation guidelines for a variety of disasters, including checklists, safety tips, and local shelter maps. The FEMA app is available in the Android marketplace , with iPhone and Blackberry versions coming soon. The WISER mobile app is available for Apple, Windows, Blackberry and Palm devices.

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Goodbye iPhone – First 24 hours of Android

Judi Sohn

No clunky calendar sync application. The built-in Maps application is fantastic. Moving from iPhone to Android was so much easier than going from Blackberry to iPhone. You can jailbreak an iPhone to allow more applications/tweaks. You can root an Android phone to allow more applications/tweaks.

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Get Ready for Tax Season and Organize Your Finances with Mobile Apps

Tech Soup

If you have to travel a lot for your organization, this app, which uses your phone's GPS to log your trip on a map display, is a must-have. PayAnywhere (Android, BlackBerry, iOS) is a mobile and web-based payment processing service that lets you accept donations from just about anywhere. Payment Tools. More Resources.

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The Mobile Web: Consider the User

NTEN

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. For example, simple or pre-populated forms, maps and location information, simple advocacy tools such as petitions, or simple instructions such as consumer or medical information.

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Theatre Flashmobs on YouTube and Swarms of Theater Goers on FourSquare

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Build an application using the Foursquare  API. A Google maps, Twitter and Foursquare mashup that show’s where your event participants are checking in on a map and what they’re  talking about). Create a custom “leader board” to display on site at an event you are holding (e.g.

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Mobile Innovations for Social Good

NTEN

The Extraordinaries is smartphone software (iPhone, Blackberry, and more) that allows millions of people to perform brief micro-volunteer tasks on their smartphones in a few minutes of spare time. The N2Y4 Mobile Challenge called for innovative mobile applications supporting social good. Second Place: $15,000. The Process.

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