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		<title>Go Mobile &#8212; An Interview with Katrin Verclas</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Our excellent colleagues at Big Duck (which is an erstwhile communications firm working with nonprofits) recently conducted an interview with me for their podcast series.  We chat about mobile strategies, some things mobiles are good (and not so good for) and how people can think about getting started who want to reach their constituents where [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://calderstrategies.com/wordpress/2008/09/26/go-mobile-an-interview-with-katrin-verclas/</link>
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		<title>Calder Strategies at Personal Democracy Forum</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Catherine and Katrin will both be speaking at Personal Democracy Forum in New York June 23 and 24.  Katrin will be moderating and Catherine will be a participant in a panel on mobile politics that will be examining what has and hasn&#8217;t been successful for mobile political organizing this year. We&#8217;ll also explore what [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://calderstrategies.com/wordpress/2008/05/14/calder-strategies-at-personal-democracy-forum/</link>
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		<title>Katrin Verclas: Wireless Technology for Social Change Report released by UN Foundation</title>
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Katrin is the co-author of the new Wireless Technology for Social Change:
Trends in NGO Mobile Use, released by the United Nations Foundation and The Vodafone Group Foundation.
Wireless Technology for Social Change: Trends in NGO Mobile Use was written by Sheila Kinkade (ShareIdeas.org) and Katrin Verclas (MobileActive.org), and commissioned by the United Nations Foundation-Vodafone Group Foundation [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://calderstrategies.com/wordpress/2008/05/06/katrin-verclas-wireless-technology-for-social-change-report-released-by-un-foundation/</link>
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		<title>Mobile Advocacy Do&#8217;s and Don&#8217;ts</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Mobile advocacy efforts are just beginning around the world but it fast becoming clear from these emergent campaigns what works and what does not in using mobile phones to advance a cause or an issue. Advocacy organizations should start to pay attention. There is increasing evidence that mobile social marketing works in increasing brand awareness and moving people to actions. It is also becming an increasingly effective way to engage users and constituents. Here are a few pointers.]]></description>
		<link>http://calderstrategies.com/wordpress/2008/04/22/mobile-advocacy-dos-and-donts/</link>
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		<title>A wild week of press for Calder&#8217;s Catherine Geanuracos and Katrin Verclas</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Given that we have launched barely a month ago, we have been getting, thanks to our various projects, some great press this week.   The Canadian Boradcasting recently aired an hour-long documentary about the cell phone revolution that gives a nice global overview of mobile culture.  Katrin Verclas from Calder Strategies and MobileActive.org [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://calderstrategies.com/wordpress/2008/04/12/a-wild-week-of-press-for-calders-catherine-geanuracos-and-katrin-verclas/</link>
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		<title>YrMama4Obama in the New York Times - A Viral Youth Text Message Campaign</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Twist Their Arms? The New York Times today features YrMama4Obama, a viral site that uses mobile marketing for young people to convince their parents to vote for Obama.  The site was developed by Catherine Geanuracos, a principal at Calder Strategies. The site asks people, for example:
Is yr Mama 4 Obama? We need our parents [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://calderstrategies.com/wordpress/2008/04/08/yrmama4obama-in-the-new-york-times-a-viral-youth-text-message-campaign/</link>
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		<title>Women Who Tech - Mobile Activism</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We will be presenting a session during the Women Who Tech teleconference on Monday March 31 at 5:15 PM on Mobile Activism.  We&#8217;ll be presenting an introduction to mobile activism, fundraising, and campaigns, discussing some mobile campaigns that worked well, and some that didn&#8217;t - and working with session participants to answer questions specific [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://calderstrategies.com/wordpress/2008/03/26/women-who-tech-mobile-activism/</link>
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		<title>Catherine is a Women Who Techs (and Rocks&#8230;)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[My most excellent colleague and partner here at Calder Strategies, Catherine Geanuracos, is an amazing Woman Who Techs. And if you did not already know that, well, here is the testimonial:
 Live Earth rallied millions of people across the world to take personal action to help reverse the global climate crisis using a 24-hour music [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://calderstrategies.com/wordpress/2008/03/25/catherine-is-a-women-who-techs-and-rocks/</link>
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		<title>Text Messaging in the Chronicle of Philanthropy</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In our workshop at the Nonprofit Technology Conference in New Orleans on mobile fundraising, our fabulous colleague Dane Grams from the Human Rights Campaign discussed the organization&#8217;s mobile efforts and how HRC is building an integrated advocacy and fundraising mobile program.  Nicole Wallace from the Chronicle of Philanthropy was in attendance, and since she [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://calderstrategies.com/wordpress/2008/03/25/text-messaging-in-the-chronicle-of-philanthropy/</link>
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		<title>NTEN Wrapup!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Calder Strategies&#8217; Thursday late-night launch party was a great success - we looked over the lights of New Orleans and the Mississippi from the 49th floor, shared champagne with friends (and future clients!) and toasted new beginnings, for us and for New Orleans.
During the conference, Katrin and Catherine teamed up with Jed Alpert from Mobile [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://calderstrategies.com/wordpress/2008/03/24/nten-wrapup/</link>
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