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Mobile Commons Legislative Lookup Project

Today I’m pleased to announce the first phase of a really exciting upcoming Mobile Commons project. Mobile Commons’ platform is a complete tool for nonprofits mobile programs—people can raise money, generate huge responses, and participate in effective advocacy. One of the best ways to generate telephone calls for fundraising or advocacy is mConnect, our product [...]

Ready to Vote? Use Text to Find Out Where to Go

Get-out-the-vote efforts are going mobile, and the League of Young Voters are on the cutting edge with a mobile polling place locator that makes finding a voting booth as easy as sending a text. Studies show that many Americans don’t vote simply because they don’t know where to go – an estimated 1.9 million citizens [...]

Where Do I Vote? via txt Message

We just launched a new mData that we are very proud of. In partnership with Credo Mobile and the New Organizing Institute, we are now providing polling place locations via txt message. text pp then your street address and zip to 69866 (eg: pp 101 market st 94105) Our system will respond with the appropriate [...]

An Update from the Engineers

The engineers at Mobile Commons have been working very hard on our latest release and they’ve done a great job! I just wanted to take a minute to highlight some of the exciting new under-the-hood improvements. Usage of the Mobile Commons platform has been growing tremendously this year. As with many software applications, as they [...]

txt-ing out the vote

First of all, I would like to introduce myself; I’m Nathan Woodhull. I joined the Mobile Commons team as a Software Developer a month and a half ago, and have been busy adding features and working to improve the performance of the platform ever since. I came here to New York from the Boston area [...]

Human Rights Campaign’s Mobile Voter’s Guide Lets You Text to Learn Your Candidate’s Positions

Voting is complicated. With so many candidates taking a wide variety of positions, it can require an overwhelming amount of research for a voter to figure out where politicians stand on the issues that are most important to them. To make the whole process a little easier, the Human Rights Campaign has created a mobile [...]

When Lo-fi Becomes Cool

Blue Ocean‘s FishPhone program, powered by Mobile Commons and mData, just got mentioned on Cool Hunting! We’ve always thought that one of the best ways to delight our customers and their constituents is to come up with simple solutions that get the job done—they don’t need to be flashy. FishPhone has been a runaway SMS [...]

CSPAN: It counts as being on TV, I think.

The Mobile Future coalition hosted a panel yesterday on mobile and elections at the National Press Club in D.C. And, yes, it was live on CSPAN . Michelle Mayorga from Rock The Vote’s Mobile Programs; Casey O’Shea, DCCC National Field Director; and Katie Harbath, former Deputy eCampaign Director, Giuliani for President and I discuss the [...]

Rock the Vote Executive Director on Mobile

Jordan just put up a great post on the Convio Connection Cafe about Rock the Vote’s results with text messaging. An excerpt and video are below: Rock the Vote’s Executive Director Heather Smith shared one of the organization’s most effective strategies on a panel earlier this year: fueling the youth movement on the “4th screen” to mobilize [...]

Interview with Jim Manis of the MGF

Recently, we had a chance to chat with Jim Manis, the Chairman and CEO of the Mobile Giving Foundation. Mobile Commons has been working with the Mobile Giving Foundation (MGF) to bring mobile donations to our 501(c)3 customers. Mobile Fundraising is new, and has tremendous potential to change the way that microdonations are collected and [...]

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