Hello World, I am back and blogging
Aloha to all you Chippy chipsters out there. It has been a long while since we blogged much about ChipIn or what the team is up to. Well, there is good reason. We have been very busy working on a new stealth project that will be unveiled at the DEMO conference on Jan 28th. I miss my normal rantings on this blog and have a bunch of postings Todd and I plan to write over the next couple of weeks that recap lessons learned from ChipIn that we hope will help others using widgets to fundraise and organize online advocacy. We just need to gather our thoughts and get things written down before unleashing them on the world.
We have been pretty open with our learnings here at ChipIn and today I thought I would share with you some stats from the past 12 months.
1) Our transactional volume each month grew from $20K to almost $300K
2) The number of new events grew from 600 to 2000 each month
3) The number of individual contributors grew from 500 to 7,500 per month
4) The number of new users at ChipIn.com grew from 500 to 1,700 per month
That’s pretty good growth for the site considering we have made no upgrades since we launched this version in Nov of 2006. We have big plans for a new version and about 75% of the code finished, but we don’t have the resources yet to make the final push to release the site. Maybe we should set up a ChipIn for ourselves?
One other funny fact to share with you all…. If ChipIn events selected the next president, then the following candidates are definitely in the lead (by number of ChipIn events set up for each candidate).
Dems
Obama - 20
Kucinich - 1
Clinton - 0
Edwards - 0
Richardson - 0
Repubs
Paul - 309 (!)
Guiliani - 0
Romney - 0
McCain - 0
Huckabee - 0