Oh - I absolutely agree Marc! It was the model of fund-drive that struck me as effective. I wouldn't change a thing about netbehaviour and furtherfield except if I could wave a magic wand to give you and Ruth more resources to do great stuff... cheers michael
--- On Sun, 1/9/11, marc garrett <marc.garr...@furtherfield.org> wrote: From: marc garrett <marc.garr...@furtherfield.org> Subject: Re: [NetBehaviour] Supporting Furtherfield To: "NetBehaviour for networked distributed creativity" <netbehaviour@netbehaviour.org> Date: Sunday, January 9, 2011, 5:19 PM Hi Michael, I do like this idea, but do not want to go down the route like some do when people do not pay, as in - not allow them access to the community. This form of economical blackmail is wrong. marc > I think the "community campaign", perhaps yearly, model that a number > of organisations use is actually a good one -it focusses people's > minds into actually pressing that button and donating & provides a > hook to reach out to new people ... > michael > > --- On *Sun, 1/9/11, Ruth Catlow /<ruth.cat...@furtherfield.org>/* wrote: > > > From: Ruth Catlow <ruth.cat...@furtherfield.org> > Subject: Re: [NetBehaviour] Supporting Furtherfield > To: "NetBehaviour for networked distributed creativity" > <netbehaviour@netbehaviour.org> > Cc: "Edward Picot" <edw...@edwardpicot.com> > Date: Sunday, January 9, 2011, 12:54 PM > > Hi All, > > Thanks for your ongoing thoughts on this. > > We have found no up-and-running, "clean" way to gather donations. > The visa and paypal button is the portal to a pervasive network- > and that is where the problems lie. There are some good starts in > thinking about this here http://www.dyndy.net/bank/ > ...and we will be keeping our ears open- so do tell if you find > things. > > Our approach will be 3-fold once the new website goes live. > > For the first 2 options, our focus will be to raise money to run > and develop the website. So we will be asking people for money and > feedback: ) > > 1) The first is Visa and Paypal-free! (for the donor at least) - > We will be asking people to send their old mobile phones to us- we > will then send them off to be green-recycled for cash! > > 2) We will probably have a Paypal button for straight donations > too : ( > > 3) for project funding http://www.kickstarter.com/ looks good. > This uses the amazon visa payment mechanism. Donors only make the > payment if the amount pledged reaches its goal. > > This is also an interesting micro-payment facility- not quite > right for us at the moment though it could be in the future if we > start to organised differently http://flattr.com/ > > > Cheers! > Ruth > > > -----Inline Attachment Follows----- > > _______________________________________________ > NetBehaviour mailing list > netbehavi...@netbehaviour.org > ><http://us.mc1145.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=netbehavi...@netbehaviour.org> > http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour > > > _______________________________________________ > NetBehaviour mailing list > NetBehaviour@netbehaviour.org > http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour _______________________________________________ NetBehaviour mailing list NetBehaviour@netbehaviour.org http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
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