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Scanning for Good: 5 Reasons QR Codes Are a Safe Option for Nonprofits

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When scanned, QR codes often take users to a mobile web page. In addition to web URLs, QR codes can contain SMS messages, plain text, contact info, event invites, Google Maps locations, YouTube videos, or social content. If you have BlackBerry Messenger 5.0, People are using them! QR Codes Can Do a Lot.

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10 Essential Tools for the Nonprofit New Media Manager on the Go

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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). Twitter Apps for Android and Blackberry are also available. Foursquare.

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Mobile Web vs. Mobile Apps: Taking Your Content on the Road

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Frank Barry recently blogged about the increasing use of mobile devices to access the web and how nonprofits should adapt their strategies to accommodate for this. Mobile apps need to be developed separately for each type of device (iPhone, Blackberry, Android, Palm, etc.) Mobile Websites.

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Which is a better investment for your nonprofit – an iPhone App or a mobile website?

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iPhones and AT&T are also expensive, so your user demographics will be narrow in comparison to the general web community. Also, 57 million Americans now regularly access the mobile web, and that’s a June 2009 stat. The mobile web is exploding – especially for social networking sites. There are 4.1

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HOW TO: Launch a Mobile Photo-Sharing Campaign for Your Nonprofit

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Odds are a Web-based version of Instagram is coming, as well as apps for Android, BlackBerry, etc. Most mobile photo-sharing tools are integrated into Twitter, so your first step should be getting familiar with tweeting on the go.

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The Rise of Mobile

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iPhones, Thunderbolts, Blackberrys, etc are becoming commonplace in a lot of ways. of time spent on the web. and loading a variety of applications. Oh, and you can perform multiple tasks at once. billion subscriptions), from 53 per cent of total mobile subscriptions at the end of 2005 to an estimated 73 per cent at the end of 2010.

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Social Media is Going Mobile, and So Should Your Nonprofit

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As the Web goes mobile , so does social media… and so should your nonprofit. If there is one thing I have learned over ten years of using the Internet for fundraising and social change, those nonprofits that can embrace change quickly, empower their visionaries, and adopt new Web trends, reap the benefits of being early adopters.