Jonathan Waddingham
Digital Strategist, JustGiving
Jonathan Waddingham is the charity champion for the UK’s biggest online fundraising platform, Justgiving. He’s responsible for sharing donor and fundraiser insight and communicating research and ideas to charities, and is someone who lives, breathes and, ‘tweets’ online.
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The urge to stay fit would appear to be stronger than the impulse to give to charity, according to a year-long survey.
Blogs
iHobo - finally, a charity iPhone app that makes you think 16
Tags: Digital fundraising | Mobile technology
A new iPhone app by Depaul actually makes users feel something (while getting around donation restrictions). That is revolutionary, says Jonathan Waddingham.
JustGiving has launched an iPhone application to help fundraisers increase the number of donations ahead of this weekend’s London Marathon.
Charity websites can provide users with "unexpected delight", as the brilliant Dogs Trust website demonstrates.
Many charities see the internet as a way to communicate with the youth market, but it’s not just the young and hip who are online. Older donors are valuable and ignored at your peril, says Jonathan Waddingham.
One new site that’s launched this week and is already generating a fair bit of interest is the Glass Workshop. It was built by the charity agency Whitewater, who are working with the charity SolarAid to try and “prove the power of inspirational donor feedback”.
If you haven’t heard of Green Thing, you should go straight to their website and see what they do and how they talk about it. I wanted to talk about their latest appeal. It’s the launch of “the world’s most sustainable product, NothingTM” to coincide with the 10th international Buy Nothing Day.
Opinion
Is the 29th IFC the first global fundraising conference powered by Twitter?
Tags: Social networking
It's the biggest fundraising conference in the world - and this year Twitter's playing a large part, 12 months after being unheard of.