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Mobile phones are useful and creative tools that offer a broad variety of uses for national campaigns, street demonstrations, tageted political campaigns, and other forms of social action. MobileActive's five part series looks ways nonprofits have used mobile phones in their campaigns and the effective strategies deployed, and shares lessons learned.

NTEN and MobileActive.org recently announced the release of the second MobileActive Guide. It is packed with case studies and useful tips on how organizations and social change causes may deploy mobile phones in their work. The second MobileActive Guide focuses on using mobile phones in issue advocacy. This free publication is a joint project of NTEN, Green Media Toolshed, and MobileActive and funded by the Surdna Foundation.

Download the MobileActive Guide #2 here:
http://www.mobileactive.org/guides or at http://nten.org/research

If you are interested in learning more about cell phones for social change, the MobileActive.org site offers extensive resources, including a wiki, blog, and a community interested in mobile advocacy.

Beth Kanter, BlogHer Contributing Editor for NGOs and Social Change also blogs at Beth's Blog and Netsquared.