Taking donations… a comment on Chipin
Recently I posted a paddling video me and some friends put together. We spent a lot of money and wanted to ask for donations. I logged into my paypal account and made a donation button. Easy and simple.
Chipin (earlier post about them) relaunched with the catch phrase “The easy way to collect money“. So now they make cool little widgets to take donations. Nifty, unfortunately with the paddling video it doesn’t matter if people know how much money is donated and there are no particular goals for the amount to raise… so no chipin.
However, I wanted to see what they were up to so I’m fundraising for some new socks. The one thing that bothers me is that the thing doesn’t say ‘donate’ anywhere. If I’m only gonna spend 9 seconds on a website, I’ll probably look at the widget for 1 second and that’s not long enough to figure out what chipin could be. It would be nice if there were some unbranded widgets that say ‘donate’.