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Jul 31
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Non Profit organizations have some special challenges these days. The need for funds is increasing but costs are rising, while in many cases memberships are under pressure and fundraising is declining or becoming more expensive.
Here’s a new and innovative approach for nonprofits and their fundraising effors. How about using your own iPhone app to stay in closer touch to your membership, contributors, donors, supporters, activists and everyone else you rely on for your stated mission?
Here are several ways a custom iPhone application can help a nonprofit and/or fundraising efforts:
* Awareness
* Fundraising
* Special promotions
* Membership renewals
* Wish list donations
* Special projects
* Social networking features within the app for your organization
Take a look at some sample non-profit organizations’ custom iPhone applications and think about how you might use a custom iPhone application to help meet your goals.
The Monterey Bay Aquarium partnered with Seafood Watch to produce an iPhone app that both promotes awareness and serves a useful consumer tool. The Salvation Army has an iPhone app that streams Christmas music and funds raised from sales of this app benefit the Salvation Army mission.
Creating a custom iPhone application for your nonprofit organization does have a cost, but this cost can be more than offset by sales of the application and increased donations/contributions through the app itself. Using an iPhone app as a portable portal to your nonprofit’s website so your members are always within a button touch. If the cost of making the app is not in your budget, why not add it to your wishlist? It would be sure to catch the eye of donors or sponsors who love the iPhone or who have high tech interests.
In addition, think of the publicity your organization will receive by having your own iPhone application – it will portray your organization as timely, forward thinking, tech enabled, hip, and more. What a great way to breathe new life and energy into your nonprofit organization while benefiting from a new fundraising opportunity.
Christopher Stolee writes about the iPhone and iPhone apps.
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Jul 30
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Here are my top 5 apps/ games for my ipod touch 2g/ 3g. I use these applications everyday and they’re really awesome! Top 5 in order: 5.) Real soccer 2010 – $4.99 4.) Homerun battle 3d – $4.99 3.) Angry Birds – $0.99 2.) Plants vs. zombies – $2.99 1.) BEEJIVE IM – $9.99 Please leave a comment below telling me what team your supporting for the world cup! Also, like the video 
Thanks a lot and hope you enjoy my top 5 apps.
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Jul 29
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Risposte di oggi, Nuove Iphone Apps, Blog divertenti
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Jul 28
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The business of radio has been in some turmoil even before the economic downturn of 2008-2009. There’s a lot of consolidation, competition, and less advertising to go around. Add in satellite radio and internet radio to the mix with earthbound stations and the pie seems to be getting cut up into more pieces. The Radio industry will have to look to new technologies and innovation to get healthy again. iPhone applications are one of these new innovations to watch for.
Radio is moving in a new direction with streaming audio on iPhone apps. The mother of all radio iPhone apps would be Clear Channel’s “I Heart Radio” application, which feeds off of Clear Channel’s “I Heart Radio online streaming website of 750+ radio stations. Last count showed 150+ stations streaming via I Heart Radio on the iPhone. But streaming individual stations on a giant aggregator app like this can sometimes be slow with lengthy buffering times.
Another option is for a radio station, either land based or online or satellite to have its own dedicated iphone app. Why be one of hundreds or thousands of radio stations on someone else’s app when you can have your own custom Streaming Radio iPhone app with its own icon on your listener’s iPhone screen? Your radio station gets one step closer to your audience, and your listeners have direct icon access to your streaming broadcast! Add advertising to your Radio Station iPhone app for increased revenue and social networking features to build your listener community.
A recent count in the iTunes App Store showed over 40 radio stations of all kinds with their own iPhone apps for streaming their broadcasts. From large organizations like Public Radio to smaller niche online stations like Classical Philippines Radio, streaming broadcasts via iPhone apps.
The cost to develop a streaming radio app is very reasonable if the station already has an MP3 or other compatible stream. A basic streaming radio app can cost as low as $1200.00 with optional upgraded features possible, or the app can be upgraded at a later date. The initial development cost can be offset by adding advertising, sponsorships, selling playlist music through iTunes, and more.
Will iPhone applications turn the radio industry around? Not by themselves, but this new technology should be seriously considered by any radio station that’s seeking to position themselves for the new era of broadcasting.
Christopher Stolee writes about the iPhone and iPhone apps.