ChipIn - Another Get N Give
It is kind of funny that as I'm trying to catch up with my email in box, there are a couple of new services that aim to help people connect around stuff. This time it is about the old "collect funds to buy X or do Y." Have you ever been at the short end of the stick when everyone was chipping in to buy the boss a present? Or spent so much time tracking the delinquents down. ChipIn suggests they have a solutioin: "ChipIn automates the time-consuming task of organizing people to give together. Connect with friends and collect funds for a birthday gift, office pool, neighborhood fundraiser or any other group purchase."
Currently the service is free and it appears that it will be ad supported with a fee of some sort in the future. I did not register as I'm steadfastly refusing to organize anything other than my discombobulated life! :-)
posted by Nancy White at 5:46 PM
3 Comments:
This was developed by a friend/colleague who is now living in Hawaii. His name is Carnet Williams.
http://beth.typepad.com/beths_blog/2005/06/carnet_williams.html
Nancy,
Thanks for the mention and I want to give you a heads up that ChipIn is releasing two key features for fundraising.
1) Public events. Organizers can now make their events public and generate a unique url they can send out via email or post on their website/blog
2) ChipIn widget. We have a widget you can place on your site in javascript, xhtml, and flash format. So not you can have participants spread the word by placing a widget on their sites that include information on the chipin event (progress bar, description, etc) and also allows individuals to request to chipin. The organizer can set the moderation level for the event (fully moderated, limited moderation based on addressbook, and fully open). If you want to check it out drop me an email and I'll give you our test code snippet. info at chipin dot com
Here's another one:
http://www.dropcash.com/
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