[games_access] Start a fund-raising cause on Facebook? RE: games_access Digest, Vol 41, Issue 36

[Ben Sawyer]

FWIW... my thought was to loop these types of direct to people  
efforts in once we get the news out about our funds and then wrap it  
in a call for individuals to match the donation via paypal, etc. So I  
think this is a great idea but I think it'd be more effective if it's  
done as an appeal to match our gift that way people see it as a  
bigger cause and it has stronger messaging provided to it.  Some of  
the various Presidential campaigns have done this sort of match  
appeal to great effectiveness.

I would just do it after we hit up some other big players first.

- Ben


On Nov 19, 2007, at 11:14 AM, Lynn Marentette wrote:

> Hi, all.
>
> I recently joined FaceBook because some of my classmates were doing  
> their
> research project about it and I was curious to learn more about  
> it.  One of
> the first things I did was donate some money to a few causes.
>
> There are plenty of organizations involved in fundraising on  
> FaceBook.  I am
> not sure how to set this up, but I think it might be a good idea to  
> have one
> established for the mission of this SIG.
>
> Several organizations outside of Facebook have a FaceBook group,  
> and since a
> large number of FaceBook members are connected to universities in  
> some way,
> this might be an approach worth investigating.
>
> I belong to the Professional School Psychologists group, as well as  
> the
> Classroom 2.0 groups in FaceBook, and I'd be willing to post  
> something on
> the walls of these groups.
>
>  Lynn Marentette
>
>