Comments on: Using Twitter for Distributed Fundraising

By: sscheper

sscheper — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 16:04:53 +0000

You may also want to check out yonkly. It’s the first “create your own” microblog to integrate with Twitter: http://yonkly.com

By: Beth Kanter

Beth Kanter — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 04:34:13 +0000

Twitter makes raising money fast. I was amazed last August when I was able to raise $2,500 in 90 minutes with Twitter
http://www.fastcompany.com/blog/saabira-chaudhuri/itinerant-mind/innovative-giving-leveraging-your-twitter-network

What is interesting to me is the rise of people outside of nonprofit organizations doing the fundraising – free agent fundraisers. It will be interesting to see how nonprofit work with this energy and spirit – and if continues beyond the holiday season.

By: Tre

Tre — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 20:11:13 +0000

Thanks Mike for this post. While relatively new to twitter and social media,I read a tweet from @bethkanter about@wellwishes just days after @bethkanter and @bobcollins call to action at Boston’s Social Media Breafast (org’d by @gradontripp) to promote Tyson foods’promise of 100lbs of food to Greater Boston Food Bank per each comment received on its blog. (3 hours, 700+comments and 2 truckloads of food later or 700,000lbs, Tyson closed the offer)…all this from just tweets and emails. Whether @wellwishes campaign for Charity:Water or Beth’s/Gradon’s/ food drive http://tinyurl.com/5cn9vv these microsharing/donating campaigns make it so simple for all of us to tangibly support our communities–locally/globally and give from the heart in ways that are lasting and sustaining. I’d go build that well and hand deliver all the food if it was practical. I wrote about it here:
http://tinyurl.com/7cdofp
Fascinated by all this…and looking fwd to learning how to keep perpetuating these efforts. Thanks for your summary! And here’s to making microsharing the norm to make 2009 a prosperous year for all of us! Tre~

By: Laura "Pistachio" Fitton

Laura "Pistachio" Fitton — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 19:32:06 +0000

Thanks for covering our experiment and my fondest Christmas wish. Asking for $2 from 12,500 people is a little insane, but I truly believe micropayments and microdonations will come to seem quite normal in the future.

Your readers should also know they can support The Salvation Army using Twitter payments too. Just use the tools you mentioned and direct the payments to @tsaredkettle (http://www.twitter.com/tsaredkettle).

This even has the potential to influence media and publishing. When it is simple to pay for quality content at the moment it is consumed, those with editorial skills will be able to curate excellent content streams from within mobile enabled tools like Twitter and Friendfeed for consumption anywhere & everywhere. ‘Follow-me publishing’ with sustainable microrevenues…