Comments on: facebook is like a picnic http://www.oneicity.com/blog/facebook-is-like-a-picnic/ income solutions for non-profits Wed, 02 Nov 2011 00:47:23 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Donna Mansfield http://www.oneicity.com/blog/facebook-is-like-a-picnic/comment-page-1/#comment-509 Donna Mansfield Thu, 09 Jul 2009 17:48:02 +0000 http://www.oneicity.com/?p=2169#comment-509 Yes, I do agree about the "friendraising"! For people who don't understand about Facebook and other social networks, I believe the picnic is a terrific analogy! I am personally connecting with people all over the world . . . old friends and distant relatives . . . just through Facebook. It sure saves on airplane tickets and phone calls!! Donna Yes, I do agree about the “friendraising”! For people who don’t understand about Facebook and other social networks, I believe the picnic is a terrific analogy! I am personally connecting with people all over the world . . . old friends and distant relatives . . . just through Facebook. It sure saves on airplane tickets and phone calls!!

Donna

]]> By: Kris Hoots http://www.oneicity.com/blog/facebook-is-like-a-picnic/comment-page-1/#comment-508 Kris Hoots Thu, 09 Jul 2009 17:22:18 +0000 http://www.oneicity.com/?p=2169#comment-508 @Donna Really appreciate your comments. You may be one of those rare donors who respond every time they're asked. Or it may be that you're being asked the right things at the right time by the right people and the venue is incidental. We do not disagree that Facebook can be used for fundraising. A few orgs have used it well. And more people are using their Facebook personal accounts to promote a cause they are passionate about. For example, @DeniseWakeman (of www.blogsquad.com) just promoted Kiva, a microlending org, for her birthday. She set a goal of $5,000 and asked her friends and followers to help her meet the goal in lieu of giving any gifts. Denise has thousands of followers, fans and friends. But if this cause isn't near and dear to their heart or if Denise isn't near and dear to their heart, they won't likely give her this birthday gift. Just think about the circumstances in which you would "buy" a birthday gift for someone. So back to the picnic analogy: the current and primary goal of Facebook remains SOCIAL or what you might call "friendraising" and that's a lot of what we do at a picnic. Yes? Cheers! ~Kris @Donna Really appreciate your comments.

You may be one of those rare donors who respond every time they’re asked. Or it may be that you’re being asked the right things at the right time by the right people and the venue is incidental.

We do not disagree that Facebook can be used for fundraising. A few orgs have used it well. And more people are using their Facebook personal accounts to promote a cause they are passionate about. For example, @DeniseWakeman (of http://www.blogsquad.com) just promoted Kiva, a microlending org, for her birthday. She set a goal of $5,000 and asked her friends and followers to help her meet the goal in lieu of giving any gifts. Denise has thousands of followers, fans and friends. But if this cause isn’t near and dear to their heart or if Denise isn’t near and dear to their heart, they won’t likely give her this birthday gift. Just think about the circumstances in which you would “buy” a birthday gift for someone.

So back to the picnic analogy: the current and primary goal of Facebook remains SOCIAL or what you might call “friendraising” and that’s a lot of what we do at a picnic. Yes?

Cheers!
~Kris

]]> By: Donna Mansfield http://www.oneicity.com/blog/facebook-is-like-a-picnic/comment-page-1/#comment-506 Donna Mansfield Thu, 09 Jul 2009 16:50:14 +0000 http://www.oneicity.com/?p=2169#comment-506 I think your analogy here is great! I am just getting comfortable with Facebook - I know that it is has many many more features available which I am not using. But, soon I will be asking for donations for a cause (PAWS) and intend to do a major campaign on Facebook . . . not too much to bore anyone, though. Tactfully and diplomatically. I have already given to other organizations as put out there by my friends - mostly animal welfare and human rights orgs. Here again - it takes one of my specific friends to direct me to do this. So, raising money on Facebook or other social networks will work, I think, whereas not so much as at a picnic. On Facebook we have a dedicated audience - our friends and relatives. These people want to see us succeed - so will probably do anything they can to help us out. I'm just thinking out loud here - may not be very constructive to you, but I'm thinking that fundraising on Facebook WOULD be a good idea. I can't come up with any other analogy for Facebook, though, other than a picnic. All I keep thinking about is Michael Jackson and "We Are the World". I think your analogy here is great! I am just getting comfortable with Facebook – I know that it is has many many more features available which I am not using. But, soon I will be asking for donations for a cause (PAWS) and intend to do a major campaign on Facebook . . . not too much to bore anyone, though. Tactfully and diplomatically. I have already given to other organizations as put out there by my friends – mostly animal welfare and human rights orgs. Here again – it takes one of my specific friends to direct me to do this.

So, raising money on Facebook or other social networks will work, I think, whereas not so much as at a picnic.

On Facebook we have a dedicated audience – our friends and relatives. These people want to see us succeed – so will probably do anything they can to help us out.

I’m just thinking out loud here – may not be very constructive to you, but I’m thinking that fundraising on Facebook WOULD be a good idea.

I can’t come up with any other analogy for Facebook, though, other than a picnic. All I keep thinking about is Michael Jackson and “We Are the World”.

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