The bar is the most important part of this conference! The organizer knows that. Networking is key and a big and brown table that cross the cool new bar in NH hotel in Nordweijk is “the place” to get the key data about trends, success and failures in global fundraising.

Nick Allen from Donor Digital – SF in US , Mike Johnston – HJC – Toronto , Canada, Jason Pots from Think- London UK , Christian Schake from Greenpeace – Bangkok , Balász Sátor from Budapest and my self like in Middle Ages street market we exchanged presentations and thoughts.

Social Networking is the new star! Peer to peer fundraising!
Human Right a Gay and Lesbian organization base in US is one pioneering cases presented by Nick – http://www.hrc.org/. Mike and Jason showed Bell walk for kids help phone where 20.000 volunteer on line fundraisers got 2,7 millions Canadian dollars last march. http://www.bellwalkforkidshelpphone.ca
Greenpeace International is also going in this direction with the Whales Project – I GO project.

Internet 2.0 is here and New Media Fundraising 2.0 too. !

Viral videos to place in You Tube or Google video was also an issue in the table. How to develop traffic beyond to create an sticky factor with the creativity was one the big question without a clear answer.
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Open source innovation giving an unusual power to the supporters, “Virtual Gifts”, “Second life” were dropping in the fourth days of the conference.
It’s my time to present at the Big Issue session about speed and I don’t want to be late.

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