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Mobile apps are a waste of time for associations.

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I’ve been thinking about this a lot lately, and my thinking has been influenced by research, including the September Pew Internet report on “The Rise of App Culture,&# and a r eport on global mobile statistics from MobiThinking. I believe that associations need to get mobile right, and fast. Here are five reasons why.

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Google, Android, and the evolution of mobile

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They also did a demo of the mobile products they are developing, which inspired this post. The metaphor they used–your mobile phone now has eyes, ears, skin, a voice, and it knows your location. Another stat they shared: roughly two-thirds of the population has mobile access. But the progress is staggering.

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Online & mobile disaster relief efforts for Japan

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There was a question on an ASAE listserve last week from a Japanese AMC looking for online/mobile examples of what associations and nonprofits could do to help with Japanese relief efforts following the earthquake a couple of weeks ago. Here’s a nice reminder of how mobile apps can help (got a flashlight app on your phone?

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Everything you might want to know about QR Codes.

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In the association world, we’ve seen these barcode-like images that, when scanned on a mobile device, takes you to a particular webpage, used most frequently in the conference context. Tips for using QR codes in marketing (Mobile Commerce Daily). Tags: Implementation mobile QR Codes social media marketing. For marketing.

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Eleven Digital Trends to Watch In 2011

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Lots of orgs are, for example, talking to WordPress or other blog platforms about developing their blogs and talking to mobile app developers about their apps. Ubiquitous Social Computing – As competition heats up mobile devices, consumers closer to being socially connected anywhere. Mobile, mobile, mobile.

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Get yer free SocialFish app now!

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Right now it’s only on the iPhone – other mobile platforms are on the to-do list, I promise.). Tags: Featured apps iphone mobile. Our app is very simple, containing a feed from our blog, the Twitter search feed for socialfish (send a tweet with the word “socialfish&# and your tweets will appear!)

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New #asaetech monthly chat for association techies!

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Mobile apps: value/return. The chat is aimed at association technology people, who could of course be from IT and any other department, but the topics will specifically be technology-related, as opposed to the more general association-management related #assnchat which happens every Tuesday at 2 pm. Who owns your AMS?