Mobile Donations? Yes, please!

According to In The Works, A Google Mobile Payment Service, banking and finance companies (like Visa, Wells Fargo and Paypal), telecommunications companies (T-Mobile and Verizon), and tech giant Google are all testing and developing mobile payment services with launch dates expected over the next 2 years. These services could prove extremely beneficial to non-profit development departments across the globe as payments will be able to be accepted with virtually no staff time required. In an economic climate where layoffs at arst institutions seem to be happening more often than not, arts professionals are being forced to absorb more work than ever before---if technology like this can make things a bit easier for development departments, I'm all for it.