3 creative ways to use LGL Forms with your smartphone

Smartphone technology makes working in LGL Forms even more powerful. See some examples of how you can make the work of managing your donor data even easier by using LGL Forms with your smartphone.

3 ways to use LGL Forms with your smartphone

Use email notifications to prompt easy follow-up strategies

Little Green Light user Stephanie Grutman, formerly of the University of Florida Hillel, shared a tip she found to be highly effective in securing a second gift (and stewarding her donors). UF Hillel began an online donation appeal using LGL Forms. Donors were asked to provide their telephone number when completing the form. Stephanie used the email notification feature to send an alert to her mobile phone as soon as a donation came in. Because the phone number was clickable on her phone, it was easy for her to dial the donor and offer a prompt and personal thank you call. Stephanie credits this strategy with a tremendous increase in securing a second gift and raising even more money for her organization.

Enter contact reports right from your mobile device

Do you sometimes struggle with convincing the head of your organization or the chair of your board to log in to Little Green Light to document an important conversation they had with one of your constituents? Consider providing them with a link to a form that they can complete right from their mobile device. Saving the form as an icon on their device’s homepage is simple for both iPhone and Android users.

iPhone users, follow these steps:

• Navigate to your LGL form link, and open it in Safari

• Click the 3 dots on bottom of phone screen to open menu

• Click the Share option

• Click the “Add to Home Screen” option

• Click the Add button and icon is added to your iPhone screen

Android users, follow these steps:

• Navigate to your LGL form in your default browser, and click the 3 dots on top-right hand corner of your screen to open menu: 

• Click on Star to “save as bookmark”

• Scroll down the menu and select the “Add to Home Screen” option:

• On the Create shortcut screen, click the Add button to place the form icon on your phone screen:

Use your smartphone’s speech recognition function to enter data into forms

Use this idea (also applicable to LGL itself) to help you or others take advantage of your smartphone’s great technology for speech recognition and get data into LGL Forms from wherever you are.

On either an iPhone or an Android device, navigate to your form (or use the shortcut from above) and when you are faced with a text box your phone will show you the keyboard. On nearly all devices (except iPhones pre-Siri), there should be a microphone on your keyboard. Click that microphone and start talking. Text will appear and can be saved to LGL once the form is complete.