The Best Ways to Market Your Charity on Mobile Phones
When was the last time you saw a non-profit set up at a busy intersection asking for signatures on a petition? If you don’t remember, you’re not alone. Just like the rest of the world, the face of...
View ArticleTwitter becomes “places” aware with Foursquare and Gowalla
Twitter is going live this week with its “places” feature. This new style of location aware tweeting allows you to tie a named location like a shop, cafe or cinema to your tweets. The old location...
View ArticleMobile Twitter gets redesigned
Twitter is on a bit of a roll of late with lots of new features being added to the service, but Twitter hasn’t forgotten mobile users of Twitter and is launching a redesigned mobile.twitter.com...
View ArticleHow to make money with your mobile website
The mobile web is about to explode, thanks to the rise of smart phones and social media, but one of the biggest challenges for charities is how to make it cost-effective when traditionally the mobile...
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QuickMark iPhone / Android barcode reader
If there’s one thing the iPhone isn’t short of, its QR barcode scanners, so it’s great to finally see a barcode scanner for the iPhone that cuts above the rest and offers a key feature found on all the...
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Easy way to create a mobile site for your charity
The web is quickly moving from the confines of the desktop or laptop and onto the mobile phones of users all over the world. It’s taken a long time to get to this point but now more and more users are...
View ArticleHow to use Twitter Cards for your Charity Mobile app
Twitter have launched new functionality that will make everyone’s Twitter stream just a little bit more engaging. Taking a leaf out of Google Plus, Twitter has now expanded its “Cards” functionality to...
View ArticleCharities losing £460 million a year on greetings cards
Registered charities are losing out on an estimated £460 million each year because they focus too much on Christmas cards – and don’t supply greeting cards all year round.An October 2010 Mintel report...
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Introduction to mobile barcode QR technology
The mobile web has been a long held promise but finally the first wave of mobile web devices like the iPhone and Android devices allow for more advanced ways to get online. New to Europe are QR...
View ArticleMofuse offer 20% charity discount
In our look at how Bullying UK launched a mobile website in 24 hours we talked extensively about the Mofuse platform and how easy it is for a charity to create a mobile version of their website just...
View ArticleKidney Research on Twitter and awareness
What is your charity’s name and mission?Kidney Research UK, our mission is to fund life-saving research into kidney disease, to improve the quality of life of those with the kidney disorders and to...
View ArticleBullying UK launch cyber bullying mobile advice site
Children being bullied online can now get instant help from Bullying UK using their mobile phone.The charity has devised a mobile version of its award-winning website with special emphasis on cyber...
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JustGiving goes iPhone, Fundraising 2.0
This is probably the best news we’ve heard all year for digital fundraising. JustGiving, the UK‘s leading charity donation site, has just launched an iPhone app.The app has a number of very useful...
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Apple donation button campaign gets coverage #AppleDonateFail
The Civil Society have picked-up on our calls for Apple to consider letting charities have direct donation buttons in their apps or passing along 100% of the app fee to the charity / non-profit.Time as...
View ArticleDonations from your iPhone app? Forget it say Apple #appledonatefail
Bullying UK recently released version 1 of its iPhone app to much applause from many people. We got to work on version 2 using the excellent AppMakr. We figured for the next version we would add a...
View ArticleWhy we love QR mobile barcodes
Mobile QR barcodes are becoming the best way to link the offline world and online world via mobile phones. Any mobile phone with a camera should be capable of reading a QR code and accessing the...
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