Comments on: Online Fundraising and the Hype Cycle

By: e.politics: online advocacy tools & tactics » Quick Hits — June 22, 2008

Sun, 03 Aug 2008 20:00:52 +0000

[...] Online Fundraising and the Hype Cycle. Via Eric Rardin. [...]

By: Carnival of Non-Profit Consultants: Cha-Cha-Chaaange « SocialButterfly.

Carnival of Non-Profit Consultants: Cha-Cha-Chaaange « SocialButterfly. — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 04:03:48 +0000

[...] Miller at Giving in a Digital World maps out the technology hype cycle in his post titled Online Fundraising and the Hype Cycle. Mr. Miller points out how web 2.0 is making the way for community fundraising 2.0 and that knowing [...]

By: Beth Kanter

Beth Kanter — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 13:33:59 +0000

I wrote about the Gartner Hype Cycle and Second Life back in December, 2006 when Clay Shirky wrote a critical article about Second Life and it opened up a debate about virtual worlds
http://beth.typepad.com/beths_blog/2006/12/technology_hype.html

That’s when it hit the trough, IMHO

Facebook hit the trough when it had some scaling and other issues here:
http://beth.typepad.com/beths_blog/2007/12/has-facebook-en.html

With recent Twitter scaling issues, I think it has hit the trough.

That seems to happen when we reach the third phase of Geoffrey Moore’s technology adoption bell curve – early majority – and some systems begin to show scaling issues and the service becomes less reliable.
http://beth.typepad.com/beths_blog/2006/12/org20_cheat_she.html

The real question is: When does it make sense for a nonprofit to cross a chasm?

By: What we’re reading, week of 5/28 « i On Nonprofits

What we’re reading, week of 5/28 « i On Nonprofits — Thu, 29 May 2008 21:38:08 +0000

[...] 29, 2008 From Giving in a Digital World… Online Fundraising and the Hype Cycle Very interesting post exploring the hype cycle of technology adoption (as laid out by Gartner) [...]