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About the Mobile Commons Platform

A mobile marketing campaign can have incredible results – but how exactly does it work? In this video, we give you a brief overview of the Mobile Commons platform. We show you how simple it is to start sending and receiving text messages with your target audience. Check it out!

WNYC’s New Tech City Interviews Jed Alpert about Our Polling Place Locator

This morning, WNYC’s New Tech City interviewed our CEO Jed Alpert. Reporter Manoush Zomorodi asked about how our polling place locator was providing accurate information in the wake of Sandy. The two also discussed how texting is a useful resource in any crisis situation. Read a transcript of the full interview below, or listen to [...]

Reminders to Help Your Subscribers Keep Safe & Dry

We hope you’re staying dry, safe and out of Sandy’s way. Despite the impending storm, Mobile Commons is hard at work to make sure all our clients have the proper tools to reach their mobile subscribers on the East Coast. In times of natural disasters or emergencies, SMS is a very effective way to reach [...]

WNYC’s New Tech City Features Bus Time

Last week, WNYC’s radio show New Tech City focused on how New York is integrating new technologies into our city’s transit systems. We were delighted that they featured the MTA’s Bus Time. Host Manoush Zomorodi asked Transportation Nation’s Alex Goldmark, “What about people like my mom, who don’t have a smart phone?” Goldmark responds, “Does [...]

Learn More About Your Users with a Text Message Survey

“When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen,” Ernest Hemingway said. That can be as true in mobile messaging campaigns as it is in interpersonal relationships. Sometimes it can be incredibly valuable to step back and listen to your subscribers, to find out what they really think about your mobile outreach. A Mobile Commons [...]

Jed Alpert on Tech Talk with Craig Peterson

On Sunday, our CEO Jed Alpert appeared on the radio show Tech Talk with Craig Peterson to discuss how mobile is transforming marketing both for businesses and consumers. The conversation was centered around Jed’s book, The Mobile Marketing Revolution, in which he explores some of the sweeping changes that mobile has facilitated in the ways [...]

DoSomething.org Integrates Text Messaging Throughout Its Annual Awards

Last night on VH1, our client DoSomething.org aired their annual awards ceremony – honoring not just socially responsible celebrities, but also young people who are taking action in their communities. And like just about everything DoSomething does, the Awards show had text messages integrated seamlessly throughout the event. Teenagers were given a variety of options [...]

Celebrate the Summer with Event Information Texts from WNYC

In a city where there’s so much to do, sometimes it can be hard to keep on top of all the exciting cultural events. So WNYC has launched a text message campaign to send New Yorkers the precise time and location information for all the city’s major summer concert and performance series. Now New Yorkers [...]

WBUR Makes a Mobile Map of Coyote Sightings in Boston

After a winter filled with coyote sightings throughout the Boston metropolitan area, citizens were concerned about what all the wildlife meant for them. While animal experts assured the populace that coyotes aren’t dangerous for people, Bostonians still worried about their children and their pets. WBUR, NPR’s news station in the Boston area, wanted to help [...]

KCRW Sends Angelenos Restaurant Tips over Text Message

The Los Angeles public radio station KCRW is dedicated to keeping its listeners informed about the issues that matter most to them. And what matters more to a city dweller than where to find good food? That’s why KCRW has launched a mobile program to provide Angelenos with restaurant recommendations over text message. Every week, [...]

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