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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 [...]

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 [...]

Congress in Recess? Call Their District Offices

The House and Senate may have left Washington DC for their summer recess, but nobody else is resting! Don’t forget that you can still reach your representatives at their district offices too. With so much important legislation being debated this summer, it’s critical that your constituents and supporters have their voices heard. One of the [...]

A “Starbucks Locator” for the Rest of Us

A couple years ago, Starbucks rolled out a popular SMS application. Users could text their zip code to MYSBUX and they would get back the closest Starbucks location. Google has an SMS service that lets you text in to GOOGLE and get back weather, directions, sports scores and more. Mobile Commons has a similar application [...]

Location, Location, Location

Over the past few months, we’ve slowly been incorporating location information to all parts of the Mobile Commons application. Every phone & profile in our database is now associated with a geographical location and location is added for all new users. (Note: we aren’t tracking users in real-time; just their address). Locations can be as [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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