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RI4A Drives 60,000 Calls to Congress And Brings Immigration Debate to the Senate Floor

Since the start of 2013, Reform Immigration 4 America has driven 60,000 phone calls to Congress in support of immigration reform. Last week, that outpouring of direct advocacy paid off, as the Senate introduced a comprehensive immigration reform bill, moving RI4A one step closer to their legislative goals. There’s been a national debate about immigration reform [...]

Piers Morgan on Mobile Commons Advocacy: “I Love This Idea. This is Direct Action.”

Two days ago, Rachel Maddow called Mobile Commons Advocacy a “smart” tool that can put political pressure on legislative decision makers in Washington. Last night, CNN host Piers Morgan also had praise for our Advocacy product. “I love this idea,” he said. “This is direct action.” Morgan was joined by legendary singer Tony Bennett and [...]

The Pregnancy Text Campaign Won a Smarty!

We won a Smarty! Last night, the Mobile Marketing Association held its annual Smarties Awards – honoring the best mobile campaigns from across the globe. And we were delighted that DoSomething.org and Mobile Commons won a beautiful statuette for the Pregnancy Text campaign. Pregnancy Text was part of DoSomething.org’s initiative to fight teen pregnancy. They [...]

Simon & Schuster’s Lucky Winner Rocks Her New Guitar

Earlier this summer at Comic-Con, Simon & Schuster launched a mobile campaign to connect young adult authors with their fans. As part of the launch, S&S raffled off a bunch of exclusive prizes – including a guitar themed around The Blessed, the new novel from Tonya Hurley. We just had to post this follow-up picture [...]

Time Magazine Features Mobile Commons

As part of its Wireless Issue, Time featured Mobile Commons and our CEO, Jed Alpert. In an article entitled “Doing Good By Texting,” Time writer Kate Pickert explores how mobile can be used to bring about social change. She writes, To understand what makes the cell phone such a uniquely powerful tool for community organizing [...]

MTA Bus Time Hits 1 Million Texts – A Press Roundup

We announced earlier in the week that the MTA’s revolutionary Bus Time program had passed a major milestone – one million incoming texts. As Bus Time spreads from Staten Island throughout New York’s 5 boroughs, the milestone proves that the program is being adopted and used by commuters. Below are a few of the press highlights. [...]

MTA Bus Time™ Hits 1 Million Text Requests – press release

The MTA’s revolutionary Bus Time™ initiative – the mobile service that provides customers with real-time information on the nearest bus – has just passed a major milestone. Since the service launched its first borough-wide expansion in January 2012, riders have sent 1 million text messages requesting transit info. When commuters text a bus stop code [...]

National Cancer Institute and Mobile Commons for Health – A Press Roundup

Last month, as part of the launch of Mobile Commons for Health, we also debuted a new partnership with the National Cancer Institute to run their SmokefreeTXT campaign. The innovative program targets individual users according to their quit dates – and also takes into account smokers’ moods and craving levels. Our new health care platform, [...]

New York Presbyterian, Columbia University and Harlem Health Send Targeted Health Reminders over Text

Adolescents and young adults are known to be unreliable when it comes to taking their medicine. They’re four times more likely than adults to forget to take their medication or to take it at the wrong time. That can be a problem with any kind of illness – but is particularly life-threatening when the young [...]

New Study Shows How Mobile Reminders Can Help HIV+ Patients

A new study out of Howard Brown Health Center shows that daily text message reminders helps HIV+ patients adhere to their medications. The 24-week study took a group of HIV+ patients, aged 14-29, with documented poor adherence to their antiretroviral therapy (ART). Every day, the patients received a personalized SMS reminder to take their medications. [...]

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