Effective Online Fundraising – in China

      Chinese actor Jet Li It was only a question of time for populations outside the West to systematically start their own philanthropic efforts and use the Internet for their fundraising. As a cultural anthropologist I have been following developments in the Peoples Republic of China for many years and am still very [...]
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Tags: Jet Li, One Foundation, online fundraising

Let’s Experiment

Since this morning we have replaced the “Dialogue” section of the betterplace startpage with “Spread the World“. In the Dialogue section all the blogposts from project managers were accessible in the order of their publication  and offered a vivid insight into the work of organisations “in the field”.  Now we have exchanged this overview with [...]
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The people formaly known as „the donors“

Part 2 of betterplace.org and What Would Google Do? Part 1  Jarvis cites professor of journalism Jay Rosen, who talks about „the people formaly known as the audience“. In the old media world – print, radio and TV -  a relatively small group of producers faced a huge mass of consumers, „the audience“. But increasingly this [...]
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Tags: Jeff Jarvis, What Would Google Do?