# Crowdsourcing our way to the future of fundraising

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2009/11/18/crowdsourcing-our-way-future-fundraising/
- Published: 2009-11-18T09:54:23+00:00
- Author: Bryan Miller

As is usual towards the end of the year – and even more so towards the end of a 
decade – people tend to start postulating as to what the future will hold, leading
to a pre-Christmas flurry of articles and blog posts about key trends to watch going
forward.

 

In the good old days this used to involve journalists calling-round or sending emails
in early November and then collating whatever their contacts contributed into an
end of year trends piece. In an interesting sign of the times, this year social 
media has undoubtedly taken-over as the key way of sharing and collating thoughts
on the future – with a range of crowdsourcing initiatives underway focusing on just
this topic…

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