Resources from Ireland's National Fundraising conference
Howard Lake | 31 March 2011 | Blogs
Yesterday’s third annual Fundraising Ireland conference in Dublin was attended by over 300 fundraisers, having sold out a couple of weeks before. The event consisted of a half-day pre-conference event of masterclasses, followed by the full one-day event at the new and impressive Conference Centre Dublin, on the banks of the Liffey.
Here are some of the resources from the event shared by speakers and participants.
There was an enthusiastic presence for the event on Twitter with delegates present and those further afield discussing and sharing content from the event via the #smartfundraising hashtag:
http://twitter.com/#search?q=%23smartfundraising
By the end of the day there had been over 650 tweets featuring that hashtag, and the word ‘trended’ ie. was one of the most frequently occurring words or phrases on Twitter in Dublin and Ireland:
http://searchhash.com/link.php?q=%23smartfundraising&s=_smartfundraising_033105
http://trendsmap.com/local/ie/dublin
A good example of how this ‘backchannel’ discussion at a conference can bring in a bigger and relevant audience includes this response from Depaul UK. They had spotted their name and one of their videos mentioned at the conference and, although not present at the conference, were able to answer some delegates’ question via Twitter:
Hello to all at #smartfundraising! To earlier questions: sorry, iHobo isn’t available in ROI but you can view vid here: http://bit.ly/i5vFfg
Depaul UK
DepaulUK
How did they do this? They were presumably getting alerts each time their charity’s name appeared on Twitter.
I’ll add other resources that I come across. What have I missed?
The event was organised by Fundraising Ireland.
www.fundraisingireland.ie/whats-new/events/the-3rd-national-conference-for-fundraisers-in-ireland/
About Howard Lake
Howard Lake is consultant editor of UK Fundraising. He founded the site in 1994 and successfully sold it in 2022. As director of Giving X Ltd he is exploring growing giving on a massive scale.
He is the founder of Fundraising Camp and co-founder of GoodJobs.