Beth’s Distributed Fundraising Experiment
We launched ChipIn with the concept that individuals and organizations can use our system as a distributed fundraising platform to extend and enhance efforts across the social media space. Our good friend Beth has gone ahead and started her own experiment of how it all works. I am trying to help track the progress here:
Day 1 (Nov 11th, 2006): Beth sets up one of the first accounts on the live (non-beta) ChipIn site and reserves her own domain name at sharingfoundation.chipin.com. Her first event is to raise $750 for a scholarship for Leng Sopharath in Cambodia.
Day 2 The first $25 comes in (1 contributor).. $725 more dollars are needed by Jan 1st. Beth adds pictures and letters from Leng to her ChipIn page.
Day 3: Beth adds YouTube video to her ChipIn page.
Day 4 $75 raised (3 contributors). Beth tell folks to head over to Katya Andresen’s blog where she is a guest blogger. She describes her experiment and invites readers to give her suggestions on how to expand her fundraising efforts.
Day 5: $241 raised (6 contributors). The ChipIn widget has spread to other blogs such as The Bamboo Project Crowdfunding.com First-of-its-kind Nonprofit Blog Exchange If I missed any please drop it in the comments and I will update this list.
Day 6: $262 rasied (1 contributor) as of 10 a.m. PST. Another widget was placed on the second life blog. Beth also writes up a nice summery of her distributed fundraising experience so far. Michael Stein wrote an excellent article entitled “ChipIn: Online Fundraising’s Next Frontier” and references an excellent article written by Peter’s excellent guide on how to use ChipIn. Netsquared has two entries now on ChipIn, one by beth and the other by peter. Ok.. another posting by Britt Bravo at Blogher and see what’s out there.
Day 7: $331 raised (2 contributors) as of 7:45 a.m. PST. Beth is 44% of the way to her goal! A new blog posting at theSmArts $ Culture
Day 10: $381 raised (1 contributor) as of 3 pm PST. Beth is now 50% of the way to her goal! Lisa Canter made the contribution that pushed the campaign over the half way mark. Beth made an excellent blog post today on her sharing foundation ChipIn campaign so far.
Beth made a nice screencast of how to embed the ChipIn widget on a blog posting:
November 15th, 2006 at 7:27 pm
Carnet:
You got them except for two Cambodian bloggers also linked to the Campaign page, but didn’t cut and paste in the widget code. (yet)