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“Time To Talk Liam” caught my eye because it is a clear, well designed fundraising site, but there's no charity involvement - it’s a family fund for ABA therapy for a young boy with autism
"...show me a website I can’t navigate, read or interact with, and I will very quickly declare disinterest and get offline. A poorly designed website can turn you off the internet forever..." Ben Carpenter, Strategic Advisor at Race Online 2012
Data from September 2011 about social giving, and how much it’s growing in the UK, from Just Giving. Check out number of donations Vs average donation
"For years, sick and disabled people have been coming together through social media. Social networks can provide a community for those who find it harder to engage physically in society. The internet does not discriminate. A writer or campaigner is as good as their message, regardless of age or ability." "The report, Responsible Reform, is entirely written, researched, funded and supported by sick and disabled people."
Infographic shows how color influences when and if people decide to part with their money. Post shows how it relates to nonprofit direct mail, email & website design.
'So what are the advantages and changes down the track that organisations should be looking at?'
Verizon, Netflix, Bank Of America and more heard the roars of social media, and beat a hasty retreat.
"I've believed my entire career: that an online publication should become functional, like software, and that software should become informative and balanced, like a magazine
HTML5 restores to the public conscience all those prospects and possibilities we publishers lost sight of when we became bloggers..."
From 1971 (email created) to the present, lot's of great links to social media and fundraising goodies here...
"Everywhere you look, artists are taking more control over their own economic well being, in large part because the Internet has enabled them to do so. You see it in all forms of content, from books, to video to music."
If your family of four has an income of £26,000, you are in the richest 13% of the world's population
3 predictions for 2012 at the bottom of this infographic: Boom in data creation, download speeds to boost internet TV & mobile payment to be the norm
Can a user’s eyes provide clues to consumer behavior? Eye-tracking studies have been showing substantial data that any survey and sentiment analysis couldn’t provide.
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A great story with a fundriasing lesson from Mark Phillips: "The next night they returned for revenge and though he put up a fight, Omari was outnumbered, hit in the face with a machete and woke up in hospital. It was clear that the attacks would continue until the wooden fence protecting the orphanage and the small vegetable garden could be replaced with a high wall and barbed wire.
There were few donors to ask for help, so this simple appeal went out on Reddit..."
Blogger @LouLouK asks,
"Who am I?"
Call it what you want - "social listening", "keyword monitoring" – you can use social media to boost your charities fundraising. And it’s as easy as 1, 2, 3!
"Scott Harrison used to be a New York club promoter, making a living from selling people $16 drinks and $300 bottles of vodka." Now he runs Charity Water, the charity that functions like a start up
Today kidney donors and those waiting for a kidney are using social media to connect, specifically Facebook. A search of ‘need kidney’ on Facebook lists dozens of pages.
There's always been a tension on the Internet between humans and algorithms. In the early days, Yahoo was a human-curated index, remember? But humans couldn't keep up, and the algorithms took over.
The battle for the future of the innovation economy - The torrent of news and rumor surrounding Apple, Facebook, Google, and Amazon is already overwhelming, and it's only going to grow stronger. But viewing their moves through the lens of hardware, media, and data is the first step toward understanding their strategies.
Jeff Sonderman thinks these three trends will make a big mark on digital news in 2012: 1. A story is more than one writer’s words 2. Facebook is for news 3. Tablets and e-readers go mainstream
'...crowds, privacy, social, luxury, reputation, interfaces, transformation...' and other predictions from Ross Dawson
1) The inevitability of mobile access 2) The Rise of the App 3) Internet Video Takes Over 4) From social applications to social organizations 5) Location Based Marketing and the Point of Discovery 6) Do-It-Yourself Journalism 7) Making Sense of it all with Content Curation 8) SEO and Keyword Marketing Become Mandatory 9) Personal Branding Becomes Standard 10) Conversion, Measurement and ROI at the Heart of It All
One of the greatest challenges for non-profits today is how to increase donations. No matter what time of year it is, nonprofits are always faced with the challenge of raising funds. So I have several resources to share with you that I trust will help you find, craft, and share your stories better to make your fundraising more successful. There's a PowerPoint presentation and audio recording that go together talking about the how and why stories work in fundraising, worksheets to help you develop your non-profits core stories, and an academic article talking about what nonprofit stories must have in order for them to work. I just added (12/23) the audio file and improved PPT, along with additional resources & worksheets so go grab the latest stuff! Enjoy & happy holidays ...
Via Karen Dietz
1. Convergence Emergence 2. The Cult of Influence 3. Gamification Nation. 4. Social Sharing. 5. Social Television. 6. The Micro Economy.
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