Last week I presented at the NCTech4Good conference here in North Carolina. Our session, “Mobile for Today’s Nonprofits,” was a combination of recent discussions held at last month’s NTEN conference on the big four of mobile as well as an overview of findings from our recently published whitepaper on consumers’ use of smartphones titled, “A Mobile World: How supporters are using their smartphones, and why you should care.”
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Scenes from the Where 2.0 mobile conference
I caught a fair chunk of the Where 2.0 conference in Santa Clara, Calif. I think it’s fair to say this is the best annual gathering of thought leaders in the mobile space — people from the future who beam in to bring us up to speed on where this whole mobile revolution is taking us.
Community Code-a-thon comes to SF on May 6-7
One Economy, SF Goodwill, SF Dept. of Tech, Code for America & Socialbrite team up to develop mobile apps for social good Save the date! On May 6 and 7, several public-spirited organizations — One Economy, San Francisco Goodwill Industries, Code for America, Socialbrite as well as the City of San Francisco’s Department of Technology […]
FrontlineSMS founder wins award for software in public interest
Ken Banks accepting the award at the Nonprofit Technology Conference. (Photo by JD Lasica) Socialbrite partner Ken Banks honored at nonprofit conference Guest post by Florence Scialom Community Co-Ordinator, FrontlineSMS Ken Banks, the founder of FrontlineSMS and a partner in Socialbrite, has been widely recognized for his work in giving grassroots groups the world over […]
New report: Nonprofit numbers for social media, advocacy, fundraising
Email outreach still dwarfs social media and mobile. Benchmarks study: How does your nonprofit stack up? At the Nonprofit Technology Conference in Washington D.C. the other day, I was one of 50 attendees who got a sneak preview of the fascinating 2011 eNonprofit Benchmarks Study, the big annual study that shows how nonprofits are using […]