Stephen Fishbach

Stephen Fishbach writes marketing, communications, and press materials for Mobile Commons, including the Mobile Commons blog. Before joining Mobile Commons, Stephen worked as Director of Strategy at Massify.com, developing media campaigns for Lions Gate Films, After Dark Films, Epic Records, and more. Prior to Massify, Stephen was Senior Strategist at Big Spaceship, overseeing their work on mobile communications and contextual advertising. Stephen’s clients included Ford Motors, The Weinstein Company, and Sony Pictures. Stephen also helped launch mtvU, MTV’s college television channel. Stephen’s Full Bio »

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Come Visit Us in Booth 431 at mHealth!

Are you at the 2012 mHealth Summit in Washington, DC? If so, come visit us and say hello! We’re in Booth 431 – and we’ll be here through Wednesday. Over the past few years, mobile technology has revolutionized how doctors, governments, hospitals, and health care providers can connect with patients. At Mobile Commons, we’ve worked [...]

Happy 20th Birthday, Text Messaging!

Twenty years ago, on December 3rd, 1992, Neil Papworth sent the first ever text message. Papworth was an engineer working on a project for Vodafone, and used his computer to send the text to Vodafone Director Richard Jarvis. It read “Merry Christmas.” Text messaging actually was conceived in 1985, by a German communications researcher looking to [...]

Mobile Commons Press Highlights

It’s been a busy couple months at Mobile Commons. We were proud of our work with the Obama campaign and on the Sandy response, and delighted by all the great feedback we heard about those initiatives. But we’ve also been working with numerous other clients on their election outreach, on year-end mobile engagement campaigns, and on the daily [...]

Mobile Commons Nominated for a Mashable Innovation Award!

Mobile Commons has been nominated for a Mashable Innovation Award! Mashable today announced its “Innovation Index”, which “celebrates recent tech, digital and social innovations that have redefined your world.” The index is divided into 15 categories, including media, entertainment, gadgets, and social good. For each category, one expert curator has selected 5 nominees. Now it’s [...]

DoSomething.org Creates an Interactive SMS Game to Challenge Bullying

DoSomething.org has created a text message game to teach students about the consequences of bullying. “The Bully Text” is an interactive, Choose-Your-Own-Adventure-style SMS game meant to replicate a student’s first day at an average school. Participants are faced with different challenges—overhearing a student being called a slur, receiving a gossipy text, having to wait for [...]

Domino’s Teams with St. Jude for 8th Annual Thanks and Giving Campaign

Domino’s Pizza is teaming up with St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital to raise money for children with life-threatening illnesses and their families with the Domino’s Thanks and Giving Campaign. Beginning on November 12th, customers can order the St. Jude Thanks and Giving Combo from Domino’s (either in-store, over the phone, or online), which includes a [...]

Tech President on Occupy SMS: How Text Messaging Can Help in Disaster Relief

TechPresident has a great piece about the OccupySMS campaign, which uses text messaging to connect people in need after Hurricane Sandy with people who have the resources to help. The article discusses how, like many of the best ideas, Occupy SMS was built to fill a need: “It started with our actual experience in the [...]

Crain’s Features Mobile Commons on The Election and Sandy

Crain’s New York has a great feature on how Hurricane Sandy and the election gave Mobile Commons our biggest week ever. In an article entitled, “Text-messaging firm gets busy,” Crain’s describes how the concurrent events created a variety of vital public needs: The four-year-old Dumbo-based tech company, which runs text-messaging campaigns for businesses, nonprofits and [...]

Brooklyn Recovery Fund Turns a Nets Game into a Chance to Support Sandy Victims

The Brooklyn Recovery Fund is using a new text campaign to turn mobile donations into a mobilized community in the wake of Hurricane Sandy. The program is using text message donations from all over the country to support Brooklyn nonprofits that are working in the area to help those whose lives have been upended by [...]

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