posted by admin on May 7

An Innovative Way To CPD For Your Online Fundraising Team.

Coming up next week is the world’s first virtual fundraising conference to highlight new media techniques.  It will take place 100% online and will offer subscribers 3 days of live, interactive seminars and workshops to the world.

What Is It?
Basically, it is an event from The Resource Alliance (a charity which helps other non-profit companies to raise funds) which will offer relevant advice from experts and fundraisers alike who have used online techniques to contact supporters, increase revenue and generally increase global interest in their events and/or the charities.

A huge number of guest speakers will give over their time to offer listeners (and watchers) plenaries on their specialized areas throughout the event and 10 workshops.  Such topics include ‘Using video to connect with your donors and prospects’ and ‘Applying Web 2.0 principles to a non-profit organisation’.

Although online, there is the ability to interact with the speakers through a VOIP connection, or to email in comments or questions as it airs live.

How Does It Work?
Registration is based on your actual site connection, and once booked up, you will be able to watch all the events live online straight to your pc or mac – in any time zone and in any location (office, home, friends house, the garden….).

As it is based on any site connection rather than per person, you could link up your laptop to a projector and fill a conference room with your colleagues or associates and all watch together, benefiting your company or society and also all the individuals involved.

After the live events have been broadcast, they then become available as pod-casts for you to enjoy over a longer period of time or to use for further training.  And in addition, the site will continue to stay active for a further 6 months so that you have all the resources from there to hand too.

This ingenious technology will facilitate a lively dialogue with a community of participants. Hopefully, this will result in the exchange and synthesis of practical ideas that companies can effectively and instantly weave into their online fundraising plans.

The Future Is Online:
Unlike normal conferences, this online exchange has no actual land-based location – it is all in cyber space.

By shifting this conference completely onto the Internet, the event takes place wherever you plan to be.  Whether that is at home, at the office or in bed! All you need is a web connection, a VOIP account, and a computer with speakers and you are welcome!

Not only does this mean that you don’t have to take time out of your normal working life to get to the conference in the first place, but the whole world is better off as nobody has to fly anywhere!

This is great for your company or your charity’s eco credentials, but will no doubt save yourself quite an expense – especially if you can involve everyone over the same site connection in or near your offices.

Hopefully, this will be the way of the future for all international conferences.