The cost-effectiveness and flexibility afforded by mobile technology means many charities make use of such devices. Examples of mobile IT devices include:
• laptop computers
• palmtop computers or personal digital assistants
• mobile phones and 'smart phones' - high-end phones with more advanced capabilities
• global positioning system (GPS) devices
• wireless debit/credit card payment terminals
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World Vision has opted for a hosted two-factor authentication (2FA) service from Signify to give mobile and field staff secure access to its networks.
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Vodafone has followed O2 in reducing the cut it takes from text donations to charity so that the beneficiary charity will receive 90 per cent.
Bullying UK chief executive John Carnell has renewed his criticism of Apple, as the firm further tightens its criteria for accepting iPhone apps.
Mobile technology will leap in significance to charities over the coming year, according to a panel of experts attending the annual ‘Technology Trends Lunch’ hosted by IRIS NFP Solutions.
Microsoft is still far and away the most trusted IT brand among charities, according to new research from ASI Europe.
The Children’s Trust broadcast live web interviews with its fundraising runners competing in April's London Marathon using ipadio, a new live ‘phonecasting’ tool which allows people to stream content live onto the internet from their mobile phone, anywhere in the world. Armed with a mobile, the Children’s Trust fundraising director, Liz Haigh-Reeve, interviewed scores of runners at the Marathon. “In ipadio I may have just found a really quick and easy tool to add to my fundraising armoury,” said Haigh-Reeve. “It’s a tool that any fundraiser, professional or enthusiast, can use without special training, and being able to add a human voice to our stories makes this even more compelling.”
The web puts integration back on the agenda, says John Tate. Twenty years ago I left my job as a finance director in the commercial sector and set up an IT business. 1989 was the start of perhaps the last recession. Early clients in my IT business included organisations in the charity sector.
Save the Children received more than 115,000 text messages for its Gaza ceasefire petition over three days in January. The appeal ran under the strapline ‘Stop the suffering’ and appeared in The Guardian, Daily Mail and Sunday Times urging people to take action by texting CEASEFIRE to 81819. Supporters were sent return messages encouraging them to prompt others to text in too. The campaign was run by mobile marketing agency Incentivated.
Bliss has responded to in-house research highlighting text messaging as its beneficiaries’ preferred communication method by launching ‘Blisstext’ - a new text messaging helpline option. The special care baby charity enlisted the help of web-based text messaging solutions company, Text Messaging Centre (TMC) to allow young parents and families looking after babies requiring special care to stay in touch with Bliss via text.
The International Fund for Animal Welfare has found that its new SMS solution highlighting campaigns to protect endangered animals has resulted in more emails to parliament than ever before. The global animal welfare charity teamed up with Text Messaging Centre (TMC) for a text messaging campaign and is now contemplating picture messaging in a bid to increase calls to action by younger campaigners and supporters.
Oxfam is attempting to measure the success of its ‘Be Humankind’ by getting people to send a text message from their mobile phone whenever they encounter anything to do with the campaign brand. The study makes use of an evaluation method called TROI, developed by Mesh Planning. With text codes available for every medium from TV advertising to word of mouth, TROI allows for experiences to be captured as they occur, through instant text messages.
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