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View the Live Feed of City & State’s RealPolitech Event Now!

Today, City & State is hosting RealPolitch, a forum to discuss how technology is affecting government policy and news media in New York. According to the website, City & State’s #RealPolitech forum (a play on RealPolitik) will inform and encourage practical and material uses of technology in government, campaigns, media, and the industries that operate [...]

Lessons from RootsCamp: How Long-Term Mobile Engagement Can Set You Up for “Big-Bang” Wins

Sam McKelvie is the head of Mobile Strategy, dedicated to helping customers use text messaging to accomplish their goals. On Friday, November 30th, she and Mal McKay, Lead Developer, presented at RootsCamp 2012. Coming out of this year’s election, RootsCamp was supercharged with activists and technologists gathered to share best practices in political organizing. More [...]

Learn How to Run a Mobile Campaign with our Mobile Marketing Webinar

“When you receive a text message, your heart rate goes up until you check it.” That’s just one insight among many in Michael Sabat’s mobile marketing webinar. As our VP of Business Development, and one of Mobile Commons’ longest-serving employees, Michael has seen the evolution of mobile marketing from a nascent medium into one of [...]

St. Jude and Expedia Feature the Story of one Survivor

Our client St. Jude has the heartbreaking, inspiring mission of working to save children with life-threatening illnesses. This week, they launched a new video with their partner Expedia, providing a snapshot into the story behind one girl they saved – and how her life was touched by a friend she met who passed. As a [...]

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 [...]

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