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What is the future for Membership organisations within our networked society?
Submitted by bryanmiller on 25 September, 2008 - 19:00.
I recently came across a very interesting 'open source' project initiated by folks from the RSA and NCVO Third Sector Foresight Unit - exploring how networked society consumers may engage with membership-based non-profits in the future.
Co-ordinated through a multi-user blog at commonspace.org.uk, anyone with an active interest in the subject can share their thinking on such questions as what the impact on membership subscriptions might be now that Web 2.0-savvy consumers can get information and share ideas without the need for a traditional mediating organisation.
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New pet lovers social network launches with viral talking pets campaign
Submitted by bryanmiller on 30 July, 2008 - 20:03.
At the moment it seems like there’s a new niche social network launching every couple of weeks, and this week it’s the turn of animal welfare charity The Blue Cross to enter the Web 2.0 world.
Finerday, an older folks social network, set to launch next week
Submitted by bryanmiller on 26 June, 2008 - 18:39.
Contrary to the countdown on the Finerday holding page (which seems to have gone wrong as it currently suggests that it won't be live for over 106 years) this new social networking site aimed at 'older people and their families' is apparently all set to launch next Friday, 4th July.
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22% of broadband users expected to be active in virtual worlds within ten years
Submitted by bryanmiller on 25 June, 2008 - 19:17.
Here in London we're experiencing a rare combination of happenings this week - it's the start of the Wimbledon Tennis Championships AND the sun is shining!
In contrast, this time last year I remember floating about in Second Life visiting IBM's virtual tennis championships and chatting online to the developers about how they were able to replicate the real world happenings at Wimbledon in Second Life - including the rain.
Which charity will be first to make use of YouTube 'Annotations' interactivity?
Submitted by bryanmiller on 5 June, 2008 - 19:26.
Earlier this week YouTube released a new feature called 'Annotations' that allows you not only to annotate your uploaded video with captions, but also to create links within the video to other video clips or to your YouTube channel.
Easy captioning is a handy function, but it is the interactivity offered by the embedded links that makes this new feature particularly interesting.
Causes Facebook App celebrates 1st birthday - but surely there's more potential for Facebook fundraising?
Submitted by bryanmiller on 30 May, 2008 - 20:59.
Last Saturday was an important anniversary in Social Networking terms, marking one year since Facebook launched Facebook Platform, the toolkit that enables the development of 3rd party Applications (Apps) that integrate directly with Facebook user data.
The same day was also the first anniversary of the biggest non-profit Facebook App, 'Causes' from Project Agape (now also available on MySpace) – and Project Agape marked the date with the release of statistics on its first year's activity.
Online fundraising tips and tricks
Submitted by bryanmiller on 28 May, 2008 - 20:03.
It's my turn to host the Carnival of Nonprofit Consultants this week, and it's all about 'Insights, tips and tricks for online fundraising'. So, without further ado, here are seven online fundraising insights, tips and tricks for you.
Online fundraising and the Hype Cycle
Submitted by bryanmiller on 28 May, 2008 - 19:52.
The other day I got chatting with a colleague about the 'Hype Cycle', used by technology consultancy Gartner to illustrate the adoption of technologies, and it started me thinking about just where different aspects of online fundraising are on the Hype Cycle.
A quick Community Fundraising 2.0 conference session plug
Submitted by bryanmiller on 20 May, 2008 - 06:39.
There was some great feedback following my Community Fundraising 2.0 session at the Institute of Fundraising's Direct Marketing Conference back in February. So I thought I'd post a quick plug for a couple more conference's I'll be speaking at later this year - not just as an invitation to anyone attending to come-along and say 'hello', but also to see if anyone has relevant case studies of online fundraising that they'd like to share.
Could QR Codes be big for online fundraising?
Submitted by bryanmiller on 20 May, 2008 - 06:27.
I've started to see quite a few little black 'maze' icons on advertisements in papers and magazines here in the UK. They look like the latest evolution of the Sudoku craze, but are actually QR Codes (QR = Quick Response) - bar codes containing details of a web address, which can be read by your mobile phone.
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