I will give you some actual nuts and bolts, but let me first say this: all good online fundraisers have two basic directions they work in - in and out. ‘In’ is a webpage, where people visit you. ‘Out’ is as in reaching out, through emails, smsing, MySpace, Twitter, Facebook etc etc etc. You are aiming for flow between the two directions. Because - just like all really successful fundraising - this is not so much about asking a bunch of people for money. Actually, it’s about a personal exchange - exactly what the internet was made for. Hold that thought, here come the nuts and bolts…

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A remote funding developer. They work from home, they take up less support costs and they don’t involve supervisory time - what’s not to love? I worked as a remote funding researcher recently, and while I’m not willing to flat out say it doesn’t work (comments welcome from people doing just fine at this job) I am willing to tell you what to watch out for.

Carie Lewis, Internet Marketing Manager at the Humane Society, talks about how the humane society is able to raise funds, awareness, and activity through social networks.

The online fundraising platform, Firstgiving, has an interesting promotion running right now.

If you follow them on Twitter at  www.twitter.com/firstgiving, and tweet them at @firstgiving the URL of your favorite firstgiving campaign, your favorite campaign will be entered in a drawing to win a $250 donation.  The more people who tweet about that campaign, the greater its chances of being chosen for the $250 donation.

Lola Elfman, Senior Organizer at the New Organizing Institute, talks about how her organization is teaching non-profits across the US how to leverage technology to organize themselves, raise awareness, raise money, and save the world.

This month's Net2ThinkTank question is, How Can Nonprofits Use Online Video to Raise Money? Below is a round up of posts that were submitted, along with a few addditional ones I found on the topic:

Michael Hoffman of See3 Communications posted 11 Tips for Using Online Video to Raise Money.

Manny Hernandez of the Diabetes Hands Foundation shared how they have raised almost $2,000 using a ChipIn widget, and calls to action on videos they added to TuDiabetes.com and YouTube. You can watch his video-based campaign reminder on his post,  Video-based Fundraising Campaign for TuDiabetes.com.

In a comment on Beth Kanter's post about this month's Net2ThinkTank, Brad Bell pointed to his post about Avaaz, Using Video to Speak Directly to Donors.

Patrick Byers, CEO and President of OutSsource Marketing talks to us about responsible marketing, passions, and what social benefit organizations are missing out on if they neglect social media.

Camron Assadi, Deputy Internet Director of Mercy Corps talks to us about why email still works, the awesomeness of Google Grants, and how Gmail makes it easy to check your email in Tajikistan.

The Diabetes Hands Foundation runs three different units. One of them, our Online Communities, operates TuDiabetes.com (in English) and EsTuDiabetes.com (in Spanish), two social networks for people touched by diabetes.

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