Nope. I can’t think of any today.
Anyway, YouTube and Flickr integration on fundraising pages has gone live this morning. It looks a little bit like this:
If you have a fundraising page, log-in to your account to get started.
Check out Laura’s page in full to see it in action:
Here is another exciting development our techie elves have been working on this Winter: new event landing pages
This is something we’ve been asked to do by both fundraisers and charities, so we’re really excited about how they’ll be used.
Event Landing Pages
These are basically new landing pages for every public event on the site, automatically created by the system and linked to from every page created for that event.
Here’s the page for the Winter Rickshaw Run:
As you can see, it gives basic information about the event (date, type etc.) but also shows how many pages have been created and how much they have all raised.
Plus, to add a bit of *user generated content*, the most recent fundraising pages created with personalised images are promoted – just click on the picture to see the page!
This event landing page is linked to from every fundraising page created for that event and the idea is that by showing how many people do raise money this way, it will encourage others to do the same.
Happy Christmas everyone!
One of the most frequent requests from fundraisers is that they’d like to add more photos and videos to fundraising pages. We know that adding some personalisation can be really important in getting people to make donations, so this release should make lots of people happy!
YouTube & flickr on pages
By logging into their account on Justgiving, fundraisers can now add videos and photos from two of the most popular sites on the web: flickr and YouTube.
What does that look like? Here’s an early adopter, a very quick on the draw, Laura Knight:
As Laura herself says on the page:
Thanks
to some very cool updates to Justgiving you are also able to look at
the photos of my adventures on flickr AND watch the hilarious cow
touching video for Challenge Laura. Just click the pictures on the
left. That’s right…just there.
Another page that’s added YouTube at the first opportunity is www.justgiving.com/angelsofthenorthwest
Nice work guys!
Here’s our snazzy video guide to YouTube:
Fundraising Page Countdown
Another frequent request has been a page countdown, as many people are unsure of when their pages expire.
Now, once an event has taken place, a countdown will appear on the page to indicate how long people have left to donate:
We hope this will encourage people to donate towards the end of a fundraising page’s life, giving one last boost to a fundraising total before the page closes.
Yes, it is the season of (Just)giving, and we have a little present for you!
We’ve today released a new email alert that you can subscribe to in the Charity Account, one that will let you know when fundraising pages expire (i.e. cease to accept donations).
This email will be sent every Monday morning – so what better start to the week than getting in touch with your fundraisers and thanking them for raising loads of money for you!
To subscribe, go to the Account Management area and click on Manage my emails on the left hand side.
Remember, you can also subscribe to one of our two other email alerts (when pages are created and when payment reports are ready to donwload), and of course, our super charity newsletter.
Unlike football, fundraising is not a game of two halves. Similar to football, though, it’s your supporters who really count. And one club and its supporters have been in the news a lot recently (for good reasons!).
Step forward and take a bow, Arsenal FC.
Yes, boring, boring Arsenal are working with Autism charity Treehouse to help raise £250,000 to build the sports facilities in their new National Centre for Autism Education in North London.
Arsenal’s players and directors have already donated a day’s wages to the cause (which must be A LOT!) and they’ve also created a "Be a gooner. Be a giver" fundraising page to collect donations online from gooners* all over the world:
Over £10,000 has been donated in just under two weeks, a result even better than yesterday’s win over Chelski (boo, hiss).
So there you have it, not only are Wenger’s men a class act on the field, they’re classy off it too. Good on ya gooners!
Read more on the Treehouse site…
*fyi a "gooner" is an Arsenal fan – from the Norf Lahndan way of pronouncing their nickname, the "Gunners" (and don’t laugh, not everyone at JG Towers actually knew that)
|
