We finally fixed our opportunityfoundation.org website to accept credit card donations here. While doing this I noticed something new, at least to me. It is called “viral giving”, and I will try it right here.
You could click on the big yellow button to donate. That’s not such a new thing. The new to me thing is that you can click on “Add to site” and get some HTML code that can be placed in your own website. Any money given goes directly to Opportunity Foundation, Thailand as if it were given on the foundation’s website. Some one else sees it on your site and can copy it to his site. Soon it’s everywhere, right? Pretty cool.
It does remind me a bit of the pyramid selling companies where, instead of selling the product, the time is spent trying to recruit others to sell the product for you, taking a small cut of their take, and passing a smaller cut up the line to the person who recruited you. A bit like the police operate in some areas of southeast asia.
It is different, however. There are no “cuts” passed out to anyone. All the money does go to the foundation. Well, I spoke too soon. This is all done through PayPal, and they do get a cut, but no more so if it is given on some other website than if it were given on Opportunity Foundation’s own site.
