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John S James

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Jul 10, 2007, 9:30:46 PM7/10/07

Now online at AIDS Treatment News:

--> New every day: Our daily news feed at www.aidsnews.org/now

--> Online Fundraising New Ideas
Fundraising isn't working well today and needs new "business models."
This writer developed a series of designs from a new approach to
ecommerce: online financial accounts that can reproduce at
their owner's command, creating new accounts that can inherit
any number of capabilities, and evolve in grassroots community
use (the idea is confusing at first because it is so different from
current practice). From this basic idea come potential fundraising
innovations that you never heard of before. In this series of four
separate articles we put some of them on the table for public
discussion and use. All our work is rights-free. [See the next four
articles below.]

*** Activism and Online Fundraising: Overview
Why is fundraising so hard when millions of people want to help,
and have plenty of surplus money between them -- thousands of times
what AIDS and health activism would need? How could we provide better
opportunities for giving?
Full article: http://www.aidsnews.org/2007/07/fundr-overview.html

*** "Fundathon": Toward Massively Multiplayer Online Fundraising Games
Fundraising campaigns could be elaborate local or global contests
or games to raise money for good causes -- showing financial results
instantly, costing almost nothing, and letting donors, teams and
individual fundraisers make their mark.
Full article: http://www.aidsnews.org/2007/07/fundr-fundathon.html

*** Selling Digital Art in Bulk through Prepaid URLs
Suppose a major donor anywhere in the world could sponsor tens of
thousands (or any number) of copies of a song, video, or any other
digital "content" -- letting tens of thousands of people in social
networks just click to download free, with no registration ever,
instantly paying the artists or a cause by the act of free
downloading itself. And each sponsor can deliver a message to the
thousands of anonymous end users who download from his or her
contribution. We show how independent artists could market globally
at no expense if people care about their work -- offering an
alternative to corporate monoculture. Or they could donate their
digital art to an organization that sells it this way to raise funds.
Full article: http://www.aidsnews.org/2007/07/fundr-url.html

*** Financial Accounts That Can Reproduce, Inherit, and Evolve
Here we show the power of this idea, and some unusual business and
fundraising models it will make possible.
Full article: http://www.aidsnews.org/2007/07/fundr-reproduce.html

*** Major International AIDS Society Conference in Sydney, Australia,
July 22-25
Watch for treatment and prevention research news late this month,
and following.
Full article: http://www.aidsnews.org/2007/07/ias-sydney.html

*** Is Cure Possible for HIV?
The c-word is coming back due to new research, after a decade of
banishment.
Full article: http://www.aidsnews.org/2007/07/cure-research.html

*** AIDS Search Engine Wanted: What to Do Now?
Simply adding 'HIV' to your search works pretty well to make any
online search AIDS-related.
Full article: http://www.aidsnews.org/2007/07/search-engine.html

*** AEGIS: AOL Blocked Email; RSS Is Better Than Email for News
RSS works better than email for receiving or distributing online
news, and AEGIS has suggested that its email users switch.
Full article: http://www.aidsnews.org/2007/07/rss-better.html

*** Sex and Drugs: New Government Data on U.S. Sexual Behavior, Drug Use
The most accurate information available provides a reality check
in this highly politicized area.
Full article: http://www.aidsnews.org/2007/07/sex-drugs.html

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John S James
AIDS Treatment News
www.aidsnews.org