PayPal Launches Fundraising Widgets for MySpace and Facebook
By Peter Deitz • Posted on October 28, 2007
On Friday, I received a mass email from PayPal announcing a ChipIn style widget for raising money on MySpace and Facebook. PayPal's entrance into peer-to-peer fundraising is no surprise. I wonder what the long-term effect will be on the existing group fundraising platforms. Until now, the likes of ChipIn, NetworkforGood, and FirstGiving haven't had giant tech companies as competition.
Exceprts from the PayPal email:
PayPal's MySpace BadgeSocial networking sites such as Facebook and MySpace make it easier than ever to share what you’re passionate about and expand your pool of supporters. And with PayPal, you can collect donations from your friends and family for the charities and causes you believe in.
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On MySpace, you can use the new PayPal fundraising badge to raise money right from your personal page. The site offers a selection of popular nonprofit groups as well as presidential candidates. Your friends can copy your MySpace badge to their websites and blogs, which gives your cause even more exposure.
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On Facebook, PayPal offers a badge that you can personalize with your own colors and background. Put the badge on your profile page, and track its progress on the “giving tree” page. See which of your friends has copied the badge to their Facebook page – and who’s helped you raise the most money!
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PayPal's Facebook BadgeUse your social network to collect money for various causes:
- A nonprofit group dear to your heart
- A walk-a-thon raising money for cancer, Alzheimer’s or other causes
- New books for your local school, place of worship or community center
- Uniforms for your sports team
- Gifts for children who would otherwise go without
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Regarding the Topic
So, that way selling via the internet is more easier than posting it in one site. that also means that if they implement paypal on social sites, it will be better for their clients to sell their things via the internet. and also there are more people that will patronage their site.
I just found out about a new website that helps musicians, artists, writers etc. to sell their work online without the need to go through record labels, publishing houses and all that stuff... It’s called CybaSumo.com – you sign up for free and they give you a free store on their website to sell your work through. They also offer a software widget that you can put on your myspace or facebook (or blog) to help you sell your work directly to your friends. They just started up this week, it’s probably worth checking out…
MySpace badge
I have a team of people looking for a way to have this badge made for our non profit.
Is there a company You know of that will allow us to build a badge to use on MySpac?
Of course we have a PayPal account all set up but this is a MySpace item and not a PayPal product.
i'm looking for some help so anything you can suggest will help.
How to Create a PayPal Badge for your organization
Hi Matt, Looks like you'll have to wait for MySpace Impact to be released. That said, I found this response in the forums:
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I spoke to PayPal
They actually create the badge for you.
SO YOU NEED TO CALL THEM DIRECTLY
What you would need to do is…
So, It doesn’t sound really difficult to do. your organizationwould become an option on facebook, and myspace for users to select as their non-profit of choice.
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