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Crowdfunding Controversies and How They Impact Nonprofits and Charities

Tech Soup

We've written quite a bit on the benefits of crowdfunding campaigns here on TechSoup, including a platform comparison and a webinar called The Wisdom of the Crowd(funding). Over on NTEN's blog , Neff writes that the Bill of Rights will generate trust and transparency between nonprofits and their donors. Neff of Lights.

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Case Study: Tools for Community Engagement

NTEN

By Amy Sample Ward, Membership Director, NTEN. By comparison, when Epic Change launched the original TweetsGiving in 2008 - when Stacey herself had far fewer followers & the Twitter ecosystem itself was exponentially smaller – the campaign generated over 3,000 tweets in just 48 hours. Epic Change is no different.

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Another Gold Star, FTW: A Look at Achievement Systems

NTEN

Early on in video games a score was awarded to a player to keep track of how well he/she had done both personally and in comparison to others. Like the Xbox Live achievement system, when you accomplish certain goals like your first checkin you get the “Newbie” badge. The badge and mayoral systems have made the check in fun.

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NpTech Tag: People Behind Tags, NpTech Timeline, Twitter, and More Widgets

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

" Gavin's idiosyncratic timeline of circuit riders, NTEN, and other things related to the NPTech community. The post on Twitter was Kurt Voelker's twitter@nten? So, here's NTEN's response. Charity Badges, Widgets, Virtual World Fundraising and More. NTEN does a comparison on Alexa of several social networking sites.

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