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| Page 1 of 1 | Previous | Next | MOBILE COMMONS DECEMBER 8, 2011 Alabama Coalition for Immigrant Justice Uses Texts to Fights for Rights The ACIJ has been at the forefront of the fight, organizing a wide variety of events and actions. The confirmation text also asks them to forward the message on to five friends – so the movement keeps growing, from cell phone to cell phone. nonprofit Text Messages Use CasesThe Alabama Coalition for Immigrant Justice is embroiled in a battle against Alabama’s HB 56 law – which a recent article from Worker’s World called “the harshest of the various state anti-immigrant laws.” They’ve also created a mobile campaign to get their message out. | MOBILE COMMONS MARCH 28, 2013  Three New Features Make Mobile Commons Advocacy Even More Powerful Earlier this month, we launched Mobile Commons Advocacy, a plug-and-play tool that makes it simple for organizations to drive phone calls to Congress and affect legislators’ opinions. The best way to encourage people to make advocacy phone calls is to make the process simple. There’s no need to target senators with an overflow of phone calls if they already support your bill. | | | | | |
| MOBILE COMMONS DECEMBER 20, 2011 5 Mobile Ideas for Your End of Year Fundraising People can then access your donation page right from their phones. 4) Try mobile giving : Mobile giving allows your users to text in donations of $5 or $10 that are automatically added to their cell phone bills. We hope these ideas spur some inspiration for how you can use mobile to meet your organization’s year-end goals. Blog Inspirations Mobile Resources and Research nonprofitWe know that the close of the year is peak fundraising time for many non-profits. But Never fear – mobile can help! mCommons). mCommons). MGF Fundraising). mCommons). | | MOBILE COMMONS JANUARY 26, 2012 Mobile Commons & New York MTA Launch Bus Time – Press Release New York, NY – January 26, 2012 – Mobile Commons has partnered with the Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) to provide the text messaging capability of MTA Bus Time — the MTA’s new public bus tracking system that allows riders on more than 50 New York City bus routes to track real-time bus locations on the Internet, via smart phones and by text message. When commuters text a bus stop code or intersection to 511-123 on their cell phones, they receive a text back stating how many stops away the next bus is. Riders Get Location of Next Bus in Real-Time Via Text . | MLEARNOPEDIA DELICIOUS SEPTEMBER 4, 2009  NetFamilyNews based nonprofit organization that runs the annual nationwide Speak Up study. Cellphones everywhere The Speak Up study found that about 77% of students in grades 9-12 have mobile phones (55% have access to laptops), indicating that leveraging that installed base by teaching with cellphones would be economical in terms of both time and money. at ConnectSafely.org. MORE >> | | | | | | | |
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MOBILE COMMONS | SATURDAY, MAY 7, 2011  Listen to Your Data: Lessons from a Multilingual Text Message Campaign
It’s only in the last few years that cell phones have become widely-adopted enough to create a truly pervasive mobile campaign. At Mobile Commons, we keep track of every single action a user takes – from sending a text message to making a phone call to clicking on a link. We’ve had the good fortune to work extensively with the nonprofit Reform Immigration 4 America (RI4A) on a mobile campaign that the New York Times has described as “the envy of non-profits.&# When your user’s phone buzzes, you capture their attention. Please Forward. MORE >> -
MOBILE COMMONS | WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 2009  Dane Grams of HRC on their Mobile Successes
“You have one cell phone number and generally it does stay with you forever. Dane Grams of HRC gave a presentation at the DMA 2009 Washington Nonprofit Conference session titled “New Media Channels — Adding Text Messaging, Social Networks and Media to the Marketing Mix&# last Friday. One of the main points that Dane addresses is that organizations have causes that matter and can run highly effective campaigns even though they don’t have Obama as their figurehead. We’ve embedded the full 8-minute video below. MORE >> -
MOBILE COMMONS | WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 2009  Dane Grams of HRC on their Mobile Successes
“You have one cell phone number and generally it does stay with you forever. Dane Grams of HRC gave a presentation at the DMA 2009 Washington Nonprofit Conference session titled “New Media Channels — Adding Text Messaging, Social Networks and Media to the Marketing Mix&# last Friday. One of the main points that Dane addresses is that organizations have causes that matter and can run highly effective campaigns even though they don’t have Obama as their figurehead. We’ve embedded the full 8-minute video below. MORE >> -
MOBILE COMMONS | WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 2009  Dane Grams of HRC on their Mobile Successes
“You have one cell phone number and generally it does stay with you forever. Dane Grams of HRC gave a presentation at the DMA 2009 Washington Nonprofit Conference session titled “New Media Channels — Adding Text Messaging, Social Networks and Media to the Marketing Mix&# last Friday. One of the main points that Dane addresses is that organizations have causes that matter and can run highly effective campaigns even though they don’t have Obama as their figurehead. We’ve embedded the full 8-minute video below. MORE >>
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