Raise Money on Facebook: Four Fundraising Applications You Need to Know About

By Peter Deitz

In June 2007, Facebook co-founder Mark Zuckerberg announced the release of FBML, a scripting language that assists developers in creating custom “applications” for the popular social network and its 40 million active users. Within days of the announcement, developers at Change.org, ChipIn, and Firstgiving chartered their courses for Facebook. Their common goal: to create applications that would add unprecedented fundraising capabilities to the most ‘sticky’ web site in history.

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Read the Writing on the Wall

By Greg Bloom

When Howard Dean “friended” Micah Sifry on Facebook, Micah announced his skepticism about the meaning of this relationship: “What kind of “meeting” is taking place here, between a famous person’s Facebook profile and college students?”

With all due respect, I think Micah’s question falls into the linguistic trap of whether social network “friends” really are your friends. If we set aside our notions of authenticity (that’s often a useful thing to do, anyways) we’ll see that what’s happening here is the establishment of a new channel of communication between a citizen and a political leader - nothing more or less. And that’s quite a lot.

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