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Find Out Where to Vote via Text Message

Fact 1: In 2008, an estimated 1.9 million citizens did not vote simply because they didn’t know where to go Fact 2: 93% of Americans have a mobile phone Fact 3: A text message reminder on Election Day increases likelihood of voting by 4-5% Mobile Commons is pleased to announce our new Mobile Polling Place [...]

The Mobile Web: Consider the User

Thirty-eight percent of American mobile phone users — 120 million people — access the web via their mobile device; fewer than 30 million are iPhones or Android phones. (Mobile Access 2010 Pew Internet and American Life Project). This percentage increases dramatically among the under-served 30% of the population without reliable non-mobile Internet access (Pew). The [...]

Personalize Your Text Messages using Mail Merge

We’re all familiar with getting form letters and emails that are addressed to us personally. For example, “Dear Benjamin, we have a special offer for you.” But did you know you can do that with your text messages too? When composing outgoing text message in Mobile Commons, you can add special characters to the message [...]

2010 Knight-Batten Award Winner: Sourcing Through Texting

Congratulations to The Takeaway, WNYC, Public Radio International, Public Insight Journalism and WDET Detroit on their 2010 Knight-Batten Award for the Sourcing through Texting project. From the official site: A team from The Takeaway radio show joined journalists from WDET Detroit in a successful experiment that prompted residents to text tips about particular stories from [...]

Squeeze Those Web Links into 160 Characters

With only 160 characters, it’s sometimes tough to fit those long URLs into your messages. Popular services like bit.ly and tinyurl.com can help shorten your long web links for you, but did you know that Mobile Commons can do it too? Mobile Commons takes link shortening to the next level: every phone gets their own [...]

Mobile Commons Helps Non-Profit Organizations Responding to the Chile Earthquake

AmeriCares, Catholic Relief Services and Habitat for Humanity adopt mobile for engaging supporters and fundraising NEW YORK – March 8, 2010 – In the aftermath of the 8.8-magnitude earthquake that struck off the coast of Chile, nonprofit organizations raced to mobilize aid and plan recovery efforts, while also raising resources and funds to support their [...]

Chile 8.8 Earthquake – Mobile Giving

A massive 8.8 earthquake has hit the South American country of Chile early Saturday morning. Relief organizations are immediately mobilizing to provide supplies, logistics and care. The massive earthquake was centered just off the Pacific coast, causing a Tsunami that will strike various spots across the Pacific, including Hawaii. Relief organizations, already under pressure and [...]

Super Bowl, Saints and Text Donations!

The Super Bowl is one of America's biggest marketing events (a record 150 million viewers in 2009). This year's matchup between the New Orleans Saints and the Indianapolis Colts will likely break that record. Leading up to the game, Americans will be spending $175M on potato chips and buying nearly 50M cases of beer. Wow... For the people of New Orleans, the Saints march to the Super Bowl has helped soothe some of the pain that persists from Hurricane Katrina. Still, entire neighborhoods remain devastated, houses unclaimed and residents displaced - especially in the Lower 9th Ward.

Mobile Giving: Organizations Collecting Donations by Text

As disaster relief organizations across the country set out to raise funds for supplies and aid to Haiti, they turned to mobile phones and text messaging as a quick and easy way for people to give money. The response of generous donors across the country was a watershed moment for mobile fund raising with millions [...]

Californians Txt 4 Flu Info

MOBILE COMMONS’ MOBILE MESSAGING PLATFORM PROVIDES ADDITIONAL LINE OF DEFENSE THIS FLU SEASON Text FLU and your address to 30644 to find the closest H1N1 vaccine in California Mobile Commons, Inc., a pioneer of easy-to-use technology for mobile messaging, today announced its partnership with the California Department of Public Health (CDPH) to power a unique, [...]

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