Interactive Voice Response
Interactive Voice response (IVR) provides you with an additional tool for outreach. On top of your text messaging platform you will have a toll-free number where supporters can get information on polling locations, take surveys, listen to your message, or record their own message. All audio can be then forwarded via text messaging.
Revolution will either build your IVR application to take advantage of text messaging efforts and architecture or build dedicated applications that exist only in the IVR context. Either way, your supporters benefit from a wealth of possibilities only IVR can enable.
In-Venue
Every major outreach effort goes beyond the desktop into rallies, stadiums, and concert venues. Revolution set a new bar for generating in-venue excitement via mobile during the 2008 campaign and beyond. From the Oprah rallies to the Inaugural balls, Revolution excited supporters with text-to-screen solutions that broadcast their “shout-out,” declared their home state or played trivia with 20,000 of their best friends. Revolution’s In-Venue platform can do the same for your organization and see that supporters at your event leave excited and, most importantly, connected with you.
Multimedia Messaging
Today’s cell phones can handle much more than text messaging, allowing users to send pictures and short videos. Revolution’s Multimedia Messaging platform empowers your supporters to send vibrant, rich media directly to you for presentation via Web site, redistribution to other supporters, or in-venue broadcast on the big screen.
Mobile Web
Your supporters are everywhere and your campaign information should be as well. While messaging is a useful and universal tool to gain supporters’ attention, Mobile Web provides the ideal medium for further information, both display it and gathering it. Revolution’s custom-built Mobile Web solutions will present your campaign’s need-to-know information in a format that’s easy to read on mobile devices. Going further, Revolution Mobile Web tools allow supporters to submit their contact information for follow-up or donate, further connecting your online presence to its mobile counterpart.
Applications
Today’s top mobile devices, including the iPhone, offer capabilities far beyond the standard cellphone. Revolution will empower you to leverage these capabilities for organization and action. The Obama Mobile iPhone application demonstrated the capability of that device to connect to supporters in a wholly new and powerful way. The application integrated with the device’s address book, offered location-based look-up of events (what’s happening near me right now?), and provided full access to the campaign’s issue papers, news updates, photos and video feeds. With Revolution’s downloadable client solutions, you can engage supporters in a full experience that takes advantage of their smart device capabilities, whether that device is an iPhone, a Blackberry, or Android-powered solution. Your supporters have devices capable of just about anything they might do on a computer and more — why not take advantage of it? Connect them to their favorite causes where they are right now instead of waiting for them and hoping they’ll still feel engaged later.
