A survey about mobile text messaging found that 86% of donors said they would donate again in the future, either through text messages or some other form of online giving. Most people had a positive experience with donating through a mobile phone and would like to recieve notices about the charity they were donating to. Future predictions say mobile phone donating is going to continue to grow in popularity.

President Barack Obama, the CEOs of Dell Inc. and IBM Corp came up with an agenda for the federal government that will end up saving one trillion dollars by 2020. Some of the ways they could save billions of dollars are by reducing energy use, consolidate IT infrastructure, streamline government supply chains, and by monetizing government assets. The administration is going to work on coporate tax structure and free trade. Obama said he will support this as long as the deficit is neutral.

Facebook revised its terms and conditions regarding state and local governements. The revised conditions will allow for broader use of facebook throughout the government. Many individual agencies have created their own facebook pages and the new conditions have allowed for state and local governments to be more confident and assured in their use of facebook.

This article discusses how Buffalo City Mission, which helps with the needs of poor and homeless families is teaming up with SofTrek Corporation. SofTrek corporation helps many nonprofits by providing donor management software, online marketing and fundraising tools, business services, and technology solutions. It's great that there are corporations out there that work with nonprofits to help them achieve their mission.

There is a Tech for Good contest for nonprofits to show how they are using Microsoft software to do good and Microsoft is donating $5000 in cash/up to $100,000 in new software to the winner.