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Last week, we wrote a blog post discussing SMS signatures and doing some analysis to see how common they are. This week, we decided to continue with the theme of text message processing and analyze opt-out requests. Background According to the Mobile Marketing Association’s best practices, text messaging providers are required to look for special [...]

Text Message Signatures

SMS Signature Overview Maybe you’ve seen them before. Every single text message you get from one of your friends ends with “<3 Stacee” or “Hugs&Kisses”. It’s called a text messages signature. They are just like email signatures; users setup their phones to automatically insert a message at the end of every text message. This can [...]

Dane Grams of HRC on their Mobile Successes

“You have one cell phone number and generally it does stay with you forever. A lot of folks on our file at HRC have 3, 4, 5 email addresses and it gets really complicated to match them and figure out who they all are, but they only have one cellphone.” – Dane Grams, HRC Dane [...]

Twitter & Facebook Integration

Our goal at Mobile Commons has always been to provide our customers with the best tools to run the most successful mobile campaigns. Today we’re pleased to announce both Twitter and Facebook integration into the Mobile Commons platform! Twitter has had phenomenal growth over the past year and organizations have been very quick to embrace [...]

Jonas Brothers Mobilize Teens for DoSomething.org

Teen heartthrobs the Jonas Brothers have an army of teens hanging on their every adorable word. What to do with all that power? They’re asking fans to volunteer – but not for just one cause. Instead, Nick, Joe and Kevin are working with DoSomething.org to make it easy for teens to find a wide variety [...]

New Java Library for Mobile Commons API

Mobile Commons exposes a lot of its functionality through a really simple REST API. Our customers have built lots of innovative applications on top of our platform, extending our functionality in ways we’ve never even thought of! Jeff, our intern from this past summer, wanted to hack away on an open-source project over his winter [...]

Introducing “Mobile Giving Insider”

At Mobile Commons, we are obviously very excited about the growing popularity of mobile donations and thrilled at how many organizations are embracing mobile technology. We get tons of questions about mobile giving, how it works, and what is required to get started. We’ve quickly realized that there is a lack of useful information currently [...]

Mobile Commons Resolves to Produce Results with Mobile Fundraising

Instead of creating a resolution for the nonprofit community, we thought we would take a look in the mirror and recruit the community to help us achieve a resolution together. We want you to help us improve Mobile Fundraising. 2008 was an exciting year for nonprofit mobile programs. Our friends at the Mobile Giving Foundation [...]

DCCC Fact-Checks John McCain’s Speeches, in Real Time

In 2008, the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC) wanted a way to react quickly to speeches made by the Republican Candidate John McCain. The DCCC had fact-checkers in place to evaluate the points McCain made, but how could they immediately respond to McCain’s every argument? They launched a text message campaign that allowed the DCCC [...]

More Open Source from Mobile Commons

We’ve had so much positive feedback on the release of our open source legislative lookup application that I’d like to announce a few more projects that we’ve open sourced this week: Mobile Giving Client for Ruby: Mobile Commons software enables non-profits to collect charitable donations over SMS. We partner with an organization called the Mobile [...]

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