On Jan. 16, [email protected] is offering a free webinar on the basics of mobile for community engagement. Find out why your community information and engagement project needs to go mobile right now, how to assess your local mobile market, how to make your website mobile-friendly, and how to leverage existing mobile platforms and services.

Register now!

Resources related to this webinar include:

• Funding Mobile Strategies for Social Impact
• Mobile-friendly site example: Clear Air Challenge
• Content Strategy for Mobile e-book
• Text alerts: Text4Baby program. SMS vendors, services: RedOxygen, Twilio, Mobile Commons
• Crowdsourcing/mapping: SeeClickFix, Ushahidi
• Mobile story-filing apps: Posterous, MePorter
• Custom community engagement app: Philly311
• Mobile-friendly data-driven service journalism: Propublica dialysis facility tracker
• Subcompact Publishing (and a response to Subcompact Publishing)
• How to create a responsive mobile-first wordpress theme
• Mobile Marketing Association: Mobile advertising guidelines