In addition to Great, Dance Fox also writes the Dance That Matters blog, which features the stories of dancers who inspire individuals, organizations and communities through the power of movement.
The only problem I saw with his paper was that the need to have donations and other transactions pass through a secure server wasn't mentioned. If you are a novice at blogs, you probably need to know that as well.
No question that there are important issues to address regarding secure e-commerce transactions before soliciting funds online. What I had in mind, although I didn't say this in my paper, was that dance companies would probably use third-aparty applications to do the actual collection and processing of donations. This is an important topic to cover in the future and I'd like to learn more about how dance and other arts organizations are collecting contributions online.
You're definitely right. PayPal is probably easiest way and many people already have PayPal accounts. I just did quick search on Google for "dance donation paypal" and there are a lot of organizations that already do this.
Since 2005, Doug Fox's blog has covered the intersection of dance and the Internet. A primary focus is to help dancers and dance companies use the Internet and their dance videos for marketing, educational, creative and revenue-generation purposes.
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I'm not completely familiar with the technological issues but wouldn't somthing like Paypal take care of these questions?
Posted by: Rachel at November 11, 2005 11:34 AM