AMSAT rolls out web fund raising widgets

AMSAT-VP Operations Drew Glasbrenner, KO4MA announced AMSAT is now using a new web based fund raising tool on Facebook called Fundrazr along with a web widget from PayPal Labs you can add to other web
pages.

He hopes this will stimulate additional fund raising support
for ARISSat-1 and AMSAT-FOX.
He is looking for help rolling these
web page widgets out to the public. Both are designed to be spread virally and attract
donations from those outside the normal AMSAT circles.

For those with private webpages or blogs, we have a PayPal widget that can also be added to your own webpages and blogs (as can be seen above). Please consider adding it to
your own webpages and blogs in a prominent place.

Drew concludes, "I'm proud to announce that the Facebook and PayPal widget campaign has raised $1,000 over the last 48 hours! This is a great first step towards replenishing the funds used in the construction of ARISSat-1, and beginning the design and construction of AMSAT-FOX.
Thank you to those who posted the fundraiser to their own
pages, and to those who donated."

Drew's Facebook page at http://bit.ly/c861N7 now prominently includes the Fundrazr widget that you can share or post. Drew has also added the PayPal Labs widget on his QRZ.com entry, see:
http://www.qrz.com/db/KO4MA or http://www.qrz.com/db/K9JKM

For the FundRazr app on Facebook, go to Drew's Facebook page and click share. For the PayPal widget on all other web sites, use the "add to site" button. It will prompt you how to do it. It also lets AMSAT see who and where it has been posted, and how much money has been raised from each location.

Please let Drew know if you add either of these so he can track results!
(e-mail: ko4ma<at>amsat.org)

Drew, KO4MA

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