Great post the other day on Katya’s Non-Profit Marketing Blog regarding some common issues nonprofits are facing when following instead of leading. Lance Armstrong created LiveStrong and those ubiquitous yellow arm bands. Suddenly there were white ones (The One Campaign), red ones (Project Red?) and pink ones (from a breast cancer charity). You could go [...]
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We spent a bunch of time yesterday looking at this. Given the personal nature of charitable giving, we decided that users might want to have control over who can see their activity and updates. Doing a hybrid where you follow me and I follow you = friends may be too complicated for most users. So, [...]
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Friends vs. Followers / Following
I was pondering connection models this morning for Givvy. At some level, the concept of friends - which is how 99% of all social sites seem to organize connections - makes sense. We could go with the Facebook model here at Givvy and allow people to invite other [...]
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