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Mobile apps are a waste of time for associations.

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App users heavily favor games, followed by news/weather, maps, social networking (inflated by FB, LI, and Twitter’s successful apps), and music. According to Pew, only 29 percent of adults with cell phones use apps on their phone, compared with 72 percent who use SMS (text messaging) and 38 percent who access the internet.

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Online & mobile disaster relief efforts for Japan

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. - This post on SmartBlog on Social Media is an interview with the Mgive Foundation, which helps nonprofits implement fundraising campaigns using mobile and SMS. Twitter’s Hope140 blog provides information on Twitter-related resources. uberShare is a startup technology company that has also set up relief efforts.

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Preparing for the Next Disaster: The Future of #crisisdata

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I’ve always evangelized the potential of tools like Facebook and Twitter to create meaningful communities and collaborations, but now realize the true opportunity for all of us who spend our days mixing up cocktails of mission and technology: social tools + people = lives saved. Please send someone to get her out.&#.

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