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Alice is an amazing fund raiser and I am lucky to count her as a friend. I helped create a wordpress site for her and integrated her various social media identities. This was what prompted me to write the JustGiving WordPress plugin that is in the pipeline. |
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The Ragabonds was and still is my first foray into combining my passion for geekery with fundraising. It’s an online community for fundraisers and I wrote some extensions for the PHPBB3 forum software to allow community members to track their fundraising totals. It was also my first play with google maps. The community has raised nearly half a million pounds in the five years it’s been running. |
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JustTweeting was created because I wanted to learn how to use OAuth with Twitter. It posts updates on JustGiving fundraising and new donations. I originally used my own screen scraping code but have since ported it to the unofficial JustGiving API written by Joel Richards. I plan to port it to the official release API once it’s out in the wild. |
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One of the supporters of the Meningitis Research Foundation, Nigel Ballard, is producing a massive collage of 100,000 faces of people who have donated to his appeal. Nigel was having trouble capturing the images, he was relying on people emailing a picture, so I worked with the Foundation to produce a web app that uses OAuth to log visitors in via either Facebook or Twitter and then pushes them to the donation process. Donors are then returned to the page and and their donation is captured alongside their facebook/twitter information. From there I can pull out the profile pictures of all donors. |
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Last year David Wood from the Meningitis Trust did a virtual coffee break appeal on Twitter so this year we’re working together to automate the process. A bot listens out for specific hashtags and then asks the tweeter to donate based on a menu price list. Once the donor has done so the bot delivers a virtual beverage or snack through twitter. It’s been a lot of fun to develop so far and we’re hoping that it will capture the imagination of the twittersphere. |
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I can’t really explain HashMash any better than the folks at Beautiful World have done here. |
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I created giv2 as a way to help charities get microdonations through Twitter. With no viable microdonation solution for Twitter it seemed a simple enough project that included elements of previous projects. I concentrated on the user journey to make it as easy as possible for them to start the giving process. |