New Mobile Commons Platform Upgrade Makes it Even Easier to Run a Mobile Campaign

We’re announcing today a major step in our mission to make it easy for our customers to run their mobile campaigns. As of today, we are introducing an upgraded, simplified, and just plain better-looking version of the Mobile Commons platform. Read below for a few of our new features, as well as some screenshots of [...]

Mobile Commons Launches New Health Care Edition

We’re excited to announce today the launch of our new healthcare edition – Mobile Commons for Health. We’ve distilled the best practices learned from years of work in mobile health, and made it even easier for health care organizations to launch their mobile campaigns. The Incredible Potential of Mobile Health Over the last few years, [...]

National Cancer Institute’s SmokefreeTXT Helps Smokers Countdown to Quitting

We’ve been seeing a lot recently how tremendously successful text messages are as a tool for helping smokers quit. Text message campaigns are used in cities like New York and Louisville, and research shows how effective it is – sometimes even doubling quit rates. Now there’s a nationwide smoking cessation service that’s designed for teens and young adults in the [...]

The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Texts Healthy Eating Tips

Being a parent doesn’t come with instructions for how to get your kid to eat healthy. But now your cell phone does! The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the Time at the Table campaign are bringing their healthy eating platform right into every family’s dining room via text message. By enrolling in the text service, parents can get great [...]

Planned Parenthood of Wisconsin Lets You Text to Find the Closest Condom

The Wisconsin Planned Parenthood affiliate knows it isn’t always easy to make sexual health a priority – especially if you have limited resources. So their “No Condom, No Way” program has created a quick and simple solution. By texting NCNW to 69866, Wisconsin residents can get the nearest free condom location sent straight to their [...]

University of Maryland Helps Food Stamp Participants Make Healthy Choices

For those reliant on food stamps, healthy eating decisions are often sacrificed in favor of cost cutting. When getting enough food on your table is a daily challenge, quantity can trump quality. That’s why the University of Maryland launched its Food Supplement Nutrition Education program – or FSNE. The program helps low income families and [...]

Keep Contact Lenses Current with Acuvue’s Easy Text Reminders

If you’ve ever had contact lenses, you know that the refill process can be a pain – and if you forget your refill, you might spend a day or two walking around half-blind until you fix the problem! Contact lens manufacturer Acuvue has come up with an easy way to help people remember to get [...]

New York Presbyterian, Columbia University and Harlem Health Send Targeted Health Reminders over Text

Adolescents and young adults are known to be unreliable when it comes to taking their medicine. They’re four times more likely than adults to forget to take their medication or to take it at the wrong time. That can be a problem with any kind of illness – but is particularly life-threatening when the young [...]

Children’s Hospital Oakland’s Mobile Health Campaign Sends Safety Tips in English and Spanish

Children’s Hospital Oakland has been providing exceptional medical care to children in the Northern California region for almost 100 years. Over the past century, they have evolved from a converted stable in an old mansion to one of the premiere medical institutions in the nation devoted exclusively to children. In order to stay on the [...]

New Study Shows How Mobile Reminders Can Help HIV+ Patients

A new study out of Howard Brown Health Center shows that daily text message reminders helps HIV+ patients adhere to their medications. The 24-week study took a group of HIV+ patients, aged 14-29, with documented poor adherence to their antiretroviral therapy (ART). Every day, the patients received a personalized SMS reminder to take their medications. [...]