Presentation from John Hamerlinck's March 29, 2011 webinar on using mobile phones in civic engagement efforts

1. John Hamerlinck

2. Agenda Why mobile? Some available options Ideas & more ideas

3. Numbers 97 % of U.S. college students own a cell phone www.campustechnology.com/articles/57155 80 % of phones that will integrate GPS by the end of 2011 www.isuppli.com % of people across all age groups who believe that they will get a quicker response from a text than from an email or voice message www.cellsigns.com 38 % of people who access the Internet via mobile phone www.pewinternet.org Photo By Giana Milazzo, http://my.hsj.org/

4. I’d rather text. http://www.onlineitdegree.com/cell-phone-usage/

5. You might use text messaging to. . . Collect data Advocacy Create Web content Push people to a website Crowdsource Raise Money www.broadtexter.com http://twitter.com

6. imagine adapt create some basics

7. Let’s start with the familiar

8. Don’t have a smartphone? http://www.google.com/intl/en_us/mobile/sms/

9. http://www.google.com/mobile/docs/

10. http://www.google.com/mobile/goggles/#text

11. A mashup is a webpage or application that integrates complementary elements from two or more sources. Image: http://thehalfpat.com

12. Google Maps Mania http://googlemapsmania.blogspot.com/ http://www.programmableweb.com/howto API (Application Program Interface) How can my program talk to your program?

13. http://code.google.com/apis/maps/index.html

16. www.walkscore.com

18. http://www.seeclickfix.com

19. www.citysourced.com

20. www.layar.com

21. data collection

22. Data Collection What data is to be collected? How will the system fit best with the work flow of data capturers? How will the data be analyzed? How will the data collection process be managed? Mobile Phones for Data Collection http://mobileactive.org/howtos/mobile-phones-data-collection

23. Data Collection www.rapidsms.org Text message framework that manages data collection using basic mobile phones Can present information on the Internet as soon as it is received Not constrained to any particular kind of mobile device End users don’t need to install any software on their phone Free, but requires a little technical knowledge to set up

24. Data Collection www.scanr.com

25. assessment & evaluation

27. Photo Essays time sequences | locations | ideas | events Useful Resource: “10 tips to craft a photo essay” by Leonard Goh http://asia.cnet.com/digitalliving/tips/0,3800004921,62053636,00.htm

28. Key Informant Interviews video or audio first person voice document process & outcomes - comfort of interviewee - be sincere - be conversational - open-ended questions - listen (The phone just records; it doesn’t listen.)

29. Use social networks privately for reflection and formative evaluation.

30. www.storify.com

31. www.storify.com

32. Citizen Journalism http://megafone.net

33. fundraising

34. Mobile Fundraising image: benedikt koehler | http://blog.metaroll.com image: benedikt koehler | http://blog.metaroll.com

35. www.chipin.com www.facebook.com/causes FOR REGISTERED NONPROFITS

36. Mobile Fundraising: Text-to-Give http://www.mgive.com 1 yr. contract, packages start at $199/month, plus a fee of .35 cents + 3.5% per text message gift A beginner’s guide to mobile fundraising http://www.socialbrite.org/2010/09/24/a-beginners-guide-to-mobile-fundraising/

37. Mobile Fundraising: Text-to-Pledge Vendor Examples http://textgiving.com/http://www.texttopledge.com/texttopledge/home/

38. more innovative mobile use

39. www.waterforpeople.org

40. mHealth http://www.slideshare.net/PSFK/psfk-presents-future-of-health

41. mHealth www.text4baby.org

42. Crowdsourcing/Communitysourcing http://crowdmap.com

43. QR Codes Geo-Historian Project, Kent State University http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EsPRpQfHYOY

44. Projector Phones Advocacy Information Sharing Research Sharp SH-05C Samsung Anycall CECT N70 Triband

45. adapting and creating socially responsible mobile phone apps

46. Does a smartphone app already exist? www.goodguide.com www.sparked.com (formerly “The Extraordinaries) http://catalista.net

47. Developing Your Own Smartphone Apps Ask someone.

48. DYI http://www.readwriteweb.com/mobile/2010/12/30-plus-tools-for-building-your-own-mobile-app.php Google App Inventor for Android http://appinventor.googlelabs.com/learn/gettingstarted.html

49. John Hamerlinck john@mncampuscompact.org 320-308-4271 Web www.mncampuscompact.org Blogs http://mncompact.wordpress.com http://cdce.wordpress.com Twitter http://twitter.com/mncompact Facebook www.facebook.com/mncampuscompact YouTube www.youtube.com/user/MNCompact Thank you for your time.