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Low-Cost and Low-Barrier: Five (Grassroots) Ways to Get Started with Mobile

Posted by KatrinVerclas on Sep 19, 2008

What does it take for smaller organizations to adde a mobile strategy to advance the work?  What are some ways in which small organizations can get started in mobile, and get what they need for free or at very low cost to try the mobile medium for their work?

We were recently at the Institute for Nonprofits organized by the Bay Area Video Coalition to help a select group of organizations develop their social media strategy.

Lots of the groups at BAVC were interested in exploring how mobile phones fit into their work. Many work with constituents of color and lower-income communities in America that are more likely to be on a mobile than on the web. And of course, this is true around the world already. 

In that same vain, a reader asked recently: "How can I get started in mobile?" He wrote: