Designing For Influence » donations http://www.designingforinfluence.com Thu, 10 Dec 2009 02:45:27 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8 en hourly 1 Wikipedia’s Donation Model http://www.designingforinfluence.com/wikipedias-donation-model/ http://www.designingforinfluence.com/wikipedias-donation-model/#comments Fri, 04 Dec 2009 15:38:08 +0000 bbulman http://www.designingforinfluence.com/?p=106 Wikipedia, which collects donations from users to keep the site running, use a key tenet of social proof that many charities use. They display what other users have donated. It helps put a face to donors and helps convince others to donate. An example for this can be found here. You may have to refresh the page a few times to see the example.

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