Online Community Development
fromInc
17 hours agoThe Future of Marketing is Community
Consumers prefer authentic connections over AI-generated content, emphasizing the importance of community in building trust and credibility.
#fan-pledges
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#creator-economy #crowdfunding #social-media #board-games #monetization #content-creation #influencer-marketing
Media industry
fromPoynter
1 day agoNonprofit newsrooms have grown, but they still generate a fraction of what newspapers once did - Poynter
Digital-first nonprofit newsrooms require sustained philanthropic support to achieve financial sustainability and rebuild local news infrastructure lost over the past two decades.
fromwww.theguardian.com
1 week agoThe kindness of strangers: An online forum user shipped me a car radiator, saving me from financial ruin
After worrying that he was somehow trying to scam me, I reluctantly sent him my address. A week later, the radiator arrived on my doorstop. A mate was able to help me install it and bingo the car worked again.
Relationships
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Fundraising
fromNonprofit Quarterly | Civic News. Empowering Nonprofits. Advancing Justice.
6 days agoUsing AI for Fundraising Still Requires Human Strategy | Nonprofit Quarterly | Civic News. Empowering Nonprofits. Advancing Justice.
AI should support strategy in nonprofit fundraising, not replace the essential human elements of trust and relationship building.
Intellectual property law
fromBusiness Insider
4 weeks agoPatreon's CEO says AI will be a 'bloodbath for the world's creative people' unless tech companies pay up
Patreon CEO Jack Conte argues that AI companies should compensate independent creators whose content is used to train AI models, as no licensing infrastructure currently exists for individual creators unlike traditional media.
Marketing
fromFast Company
3 weeks agoAI will power Fandom from spectator to co-star
Generative AI enables media companies to maintain constant fan engagement by scaling personalized content creation beyond traditional production limits, transforming passive consumers into active co-creators within brand-safe parameters.
Film
fromNo Film School
1 month agoReclaiming Distribution: A Modern Indie Release Strategy
Filmmaker Gille Klabin abandoned traditional distribution for his second feature, choosing self-distribution with transparent data-driven marketing to maintain creative control and maximize returns on his low-budget film.
Non-profit organizations
fromTechCrunch
1 month agoA VC and some big-name programmers are trying to solve open source's funding problem, permanently | TechCrunch
A new nonprofit called the Open Source Endowment, backed by prominent tech leaders and investors, aims to provide sustainable funding for open-source software maintainers through an endowment model targeting $100 million in assets within seven years.
fromPsychology Today
1 month agoThe Importance of Safe Spaces in Fandom
Fandom is first and foremost a community. It has a shared lexicon that includes in-jokes and rapidly evolving language that would be difficult to keep up with from the outside. Like any community, it has norms and values and standards of behavior. Fandom is also a marginalized community.
LGBT
Fundraising
fromFast Company
3 weeks agoGoFundMe launches AI fundraising coach to help people raise more money
GoFundMe launched an AI-powered smart fundraising coach to help users overcome the psychological barrier of asking for help by guiding campaign creation and optimizing fundraising effectiveness.
Social media marketing
fromwww.bbc.com
2 weeks agoFacebook offering TikTok and YouTube creators $3,000 to post content
Facebook offers up to $3,000 monthly to established influencers with over one million followers to post content, but industry experts question whether financial incentives alone can reverse the platform's decade-long decline among creators and audiences.
fromDigiday
4 weeks agoFrom rented audiences to engaged communities: Why participation is the new moat for publishers
Social platforms promised reach, scale and frictionless distribution. In exchange, publishers ceded control of audience relationships, data and, ultimately, trust. Today, that bargain is not working. Social media is imperfect. Feeds are flooded with bots, synthetic engagement, misinformation and bad actors operating under inconsistent or nonexistent moderation standards.
Media industry
#creator-monetization
Social media marketing
fromEngadget
3 weeks agoMeta's latest creator push comes with $3,000 bonuses for posting on Facebook
Meta launches Creator Fast Track program offering monthly bonuses up to $3,000 for three months to attract established creators from competing platforms to Facebook's Content Monetization program.
Media industry
fromKotaku
4 weeks ago'Defiant New Videogames Magazine' Continue Funded In 7 Hours
Continue magazine, a new Australian video game publication backed by Jackson Ryan and Mark Serrels, exceeded its Kickstarter goal by raising over $44,000 to revive Australia's declining games media industry.
fromEngadget
2 months agoPatreon creators have to switch to subscription billing by November, thanks to Apple
Patreon's blog post announcing the change made it clear that it had no other choice. "We strongly disagree with this decision," the company wrote. "Creators need consistency and clarity in order to build healthy, long-term businesses. Instead, creators using legacy billing will now have to endure the whiplash of another policy reversal - the third such change from Apple in the past 18 months."
Tech industry
Venture
fromVariety
1 month agoDolphin Entertainment Looks to Expand Online Capital Raising for Creators and Influencers Through Partnership With DealMaker
Dolphin Entertainment partnered with DealMaker to enable celebrities and influencers to raise SEC-compliant public capital for consumer and lifestyle brand launches.
fromSlate Magazine
1 month agoEveryone Is Mad About James Van Der Beek's GoFundMe. I Donated to It.
I was at work when news of James Van Der Beek's death broke. Deeply saddened by his passing, as many millennials were, I walked to the bathroom for a quickie corporate cry. It felt like a piece of my childhood died along with the actor who played Dawson Leery, but it wasn't just a parasocial relationship that had me weeping next to the soap dispenser.
Fundraising
Fundraising
fromLondon Business News | Londonlovesbusiness.com
1 month agoWhy charities should consider fundraising platforms - London Business News | Londonlovesbusiness.com
Fundraising platforms expand charities' reach, streamline donations and administration, and improve donor trust through transparency and social sharing.
fromNonprofit Quarterly | Civic News. Empowering Nonprofits. Advancing Justice.
2 months agoDoes Personal Investment Hurt Fundraising? | Nonprofit Quarterly | Civic News. Empowering Nonprofits. Advancing Justice.
I've seen this before-many times, in fact. What you're describing is not unheard of in the nonprofit sector. Founder energy is one of the most powerful forces driving new missions into the world. It can also be one of the riskiest. Many organizations, especially those built from lived experience, passion, and necessity, begin with little more than a vision, a problem to solve.
Fundraising
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