Every organization should be looking for ways to leverage mobile technology. It’s time to start experimenting with lots of different techniques. Here is a list of tools you might choose to start your experiments.

Broadcast Text Alerts

• Tatango—a free, one-to-many text and voice messaging service.
• Notifu—a free, one-to-many text/phone/email/IM service.

SMS Polling/Text-to-Screen

• PollEverywhere—a simple text-to-screen voting application that works well for live audiences.
• iWall—an affordable text-to-screen software tool.
• Twitter—if you have an active community using Twitter, you might want to experiment with TwitterFountain or TweetChat.

Mobile Fundraising

• mGive—a service that allows your stakeholders to donate money to your organization by texting a keyword to a shortcode.

Backchannel/Text Groups

• Mozeo—a free group texting service.
• WeTxt—free group texting service with an event calendar component.
• Zemble—a free group texting service with a community component.
• Broadtexter—a free group texting service that also serves as a mobile fan club.

And what’s our go-to resource for learning all about best practices in mobile communication? Check out MobileActive.org.