Top 10 reasons why my organization should care about Mobile
Thanks to Hima Batavia, working with us on the Mobile Technology Training event, we have a comprehensive list of good reasons to sign up before Wednesday June 9.
After reading this list, if you are still unconvinced that “going mobile” is a good idea for your organization, watch this terrific 3 min video featuring Corinne Rusch-Drutz from YWCA Canada. Last week they launched their first app! Watch here
- At the end of December 2009, Canadian wireless phone subscribers numbered 22.8 million.
- Wireless phones are amongst the fastest growing consumer product in history
- Canadians send 122 million text messages EACH day
- Over $27 million was raised for the Haiti earthquake through text message donations alone
- The Mobile Giving Foundation now exists in Canada – making mobile fundraising easier to set up
- An organization’s blog is to an organization’s email list as Twitter is to an organization’s SMS campaign
- Consumers have a one-to-one 24 hour 7 days a week relationship with their mobile phone. Real-time all the time.
- 6.61 billion mobile applications are expected to be downloaded in 2010
- A recent study found that call-in advocacy text messages were nearly 6x more effective than call-in advocacy emails
- NGOs can communicate with people in new ways (text alerts, applications, surveys) and can reach people that they could not reach before
Now that you have good reason to sign up, register for our 1 day training workshop here. See you next Wednesday.
Tags: Canada, charity, fundraising, Mobile, mobile tech, MT4SC, net change week, non-profit organization, training, YWCA
