# eBay ToGo offers new way of publicising your charity's items

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2007/05/19/ebay-togo-offers-new-way-publicising-your-charity039s-items/
- Published: 2007-05-19T23:00:00+01:00
- Author: Howard Lake

**Online auction site eBay has introduced another method of promoting individual
or multiple items, enabling individuals to promote items benefiting their charity
on their website, blog or social networking site page. Ebay ToGo lets users create
a customised widget or badge to promote one or more items on eBay.**

In a three-stage process users can choose to promote an individual item, multiple
items or the results of a particular search term. In under a minute ToGo serves 
up the necessary code to create a link. It will even create code appropriate for
various social networking and publishing platforms such as WordPress and MySpace.

UK Fundraising tried it out with a search for those popular 70s characters the Smurfs:

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Once you have created this widget, it automatically features a “copy this widget”
link, enabling other supporters to spread the widget to their website and blog.

Some searches on charity names such as “Oxfam”, “National Trust” and “Barnardo’s”
revealed very few results, so it isn’t possible as yet to list those items that 
are currently being sold online by or to benefit your charity. But eBay is asking
for suggestions on how it might tailor this service, so feel free to ask them to
create an option that displays items that will benefit a particular charity.

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