Take 5 for Digital Organizing: Sandi Fox from Tectonica Studios. This September, I had the opportunity to chat with Ned Howey at Tectonica Digital Campaign Solutions in Barcelona about digital organizing and the important role mobile tools play in how effective campaigns can […]
Every year M+R Strategies releases its Nonprofit Benchmarks Study and for the first time they’ve included text messaging and patch-through calling data in their findings thanks to their partnership with Upland Mobile Commons. Here are some of the topline findings: […]
Over the last five years, I’ve noticed certain text messaging mistakes that are consistently made by organizations. It doesn’t matter if they’ve been running their mobile programs for several years or just launched one. Many of these groups aren’t instructed […]
Note: This blog post ONLY applies to broadcast SMS or Application-to-Person text messaging. It does not apply to peer-to-peer or one-on-one SMS. I’ve lost track of the number of times I’ve had to tell someone that sending broadcast text messages […]
When the 2016 Election results came in an era of resistance was ushered in. This era has been accompanied by marches and rallies every other weekend to fight for our communities, friends, and families. Events like the first Women’s March […]
Campaigns are continually looking for new ways to engage supporters and reach voters. In 2015, mobile data tracking firm Infomate’s International Smartphone Mobility Report found that the average American spends 26 minutes a day texting as opposed to six minutes […]