[okfn-discuss] [okfn-help] Flattr Buttons on OKFN Site

[Sam Leon]

It might be worth a try - even if the yields won't be huge.

We could put a fairly unobtrusive button in the sidebar of the blog for
instance. As well as putting one on our donations page.

I'll have a closer look at the banner.

S

On Tue, Feb 21, 2012 at 10:20 AM, Friedrich Lindenberg <
friedrich.lindenberg at okfn.org> wrote:

> Hey,
>
> On Tue, Feb 21, 2012 at 11:08 AM, Rufus Pollock <rufus.pollock at okfn.org>
> wrote:
> > On 20 February 2012 23:44, Sam Leon <sam.leon at okfn.org> wrote:
> >> Hi All,
> >>
> >> To anyone's knowledge, have we ever implemented Flattr buttons on any
> Open
> >> Knowledge Foundation site?
> >
> > +1 -- been thinking about this for ages :-)
>
> Hm, I know roughly what netzpolitik.org, Germany's largest blog, makes
> off flattr and if you calculate that by the difference in visitors,
> I'm pretty sure its not financially interesting. It may be more useful
> to put on a donations page where you can specify and amount and hope
> for some people to give out 20 EUR every now and then.
>
> > More generally a standard little header we could drop in that included
> > donate, links to other project etc. (This could also be done in the
> > footer). We already did a first pass at this ages ago thanks to
> > Friedrich, see the bar on e.g.:
> >
> > <http://annotateit.org/>
> >
> > This was a simple bit of js/css:
> >
> > <https://bitbucket.org/okfn/assets.okfn.org/src/7bb5c45a2944/banner>
>
> Right, although I'm a bit concerned about the number of top bars we're
> going to get (the OKF default theme has two already, things like OS
> add another 2-3 layers).
>
> - Friedrich
>
>
> >> I think it would be a good way to augment the donations we receive from
> >> other sources.
> >>
> >> It would also be great to hear about people's experiences with Flattr.
> I for
> >> one haven't used it in the past but would be very keen to take
> advantage of
> >> such an interesting micro-payments system.
> >
> > Yes, I'd be interested to having never used it yet.
> >
> > Rufus
> >
> >> Please do also raise your voice if you have any reservations to the use
> of
> >> Flattr!
> >>
> >> Sam
> >>
> >> --
> >> Sam Leon
> >> Community Coordinator
> >> Open Knowledge Foundation
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> >> Skype: samedleon
> >>
> >>
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-- 
Sam Leon
Community Coordinator
Open Knowledge Foundation
http://okfn.org/
Skype: samedleon
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