Leng is going to University after Beth Kanter raised the $1000 dollars it will cost in less than 24 hours. This worked simply because Beth knows how to use online tools like ChipIn, asks us to contribute to an individual and most importantly is known and trusted by hundreds of people.

If Beth tells me that [...]

I’m agog at how effectively the US/UK non-profit People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals is at using online media combined with conventional marketing techniques.

They have produced a gorgeous looking advert (which is only available through their site and yes it is right by a donate button and some very slick lifestyle advice [...]

Hat tip to the queen of online fundraising, Beth Kanter and Jonathon Coleman of The Nature Conservancy (who uses partially online audio stories to build relationships with donors).  Beth’s wonders if this will make folk cringe in the future.  Should even a small portion of young people use their networks like this I expect it [...]

If you’re looking for support for your cause or charity get thee to a nightclub – or better still an online dating service. Why? Because people are more likely to be conspicuously generous when they’re nicely sexed up.

Experiments carried out by Geoffrey Miller at The University of New Mexico (and written about in [...]

I just wanted to mention a link I received in an email from a Friends of the Earth staffer.  It leads you to a very simple and clear page setting out the different ways individuals can support FOE.  Great example of the under rated problem of how to convert all those fresh and exciting new [...]

“99 bloggers and a troubled diva walked into a publisher. The first blogger said…”.  Well, details on how a network of bloggers is supporting Comic Relief and how to buy their book Shaggy Blog Stories from  Steve Bridger at nfp2.0.
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I was working yesterday with the Northfield Young People’s Forum (no website yet) here in Birmingham, looking at ways they can use online social networking to widen the conversation and attract more interest for what they do.

We explored youtube – citing the number of comments attracted by this Birmingham councillor for his film on graffiti [...]

Beth Kanter of the Sharing Foundation explains how they used the internet to raise $100,000 for children in Cambodia. I’ve known Beth through blogging for a few months now, but finally met her in Birmingham earlier this month.

She is an expert on the internet and non-profit organisations and in this podcast she [...]

 

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