Learning, and Profiting, from Online Friendships

http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/09_22/b4133032573293.htm?chan=magazine+channel_in+depth

Companies are working fast to figure out how to make money from the wealth of data they're beginning to have about our online friendships

Online fundraising worked for the president...

Obama's campaign chief credits internet fundraising
http://www.cbc.ca/canada/british-columbia/story/2009/05/11/bc-obama-campaign-chief.html

Last Updated: Monday, May 11, 2009 2:11 PM PT Comments3Recommend8
CBC News

David Plouffe says Barack Obama's campaign team built the 'most powerful grassroots fundraising machine,' leading to the successful bid to take over the White House. (CBC)
A focus on internet fundraising was a key strategy that propelled Barack Obama into the White House, his chief campaign manager said Monday at a Vancouver event.

Hundreds of internet marketing specialists and business people packed a room at the downtown Vancouver Convention Centre to hear David Plouffe's speech.

Plouffe said Obama's campaign team decided early on to focus on fundraising via the internet and "built the most powerful grassroots fundraising machine" in the world in terms of politics.

"Someone would join our campaign and they would give $25, but they would then start raising money themselves, using our social networking site," Plouffe said.

"And we made sure people understood that we value that as much as the big Beverly Hills fundraisers."

The B.C. election campaign doesn't seem to be having as much success in generating a solid support from online users.

With a day left in the campaign, Liberal Leader Gordon Campbell and NDP Leader Carole James both have fewer than 2,500 supporters listed on their Facebook pages. Green Party Leader Jane Sterk garnered fewer than 300 supporters.

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Why it's "Green" for your supporters to shop online

I found this great article at the New York Times website:

http://greeninc.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/03/04/are-couch-potato-shoppers-greener-than-mall-rats/

When shopping, is it greener to order off the Internet or drive to the mall?
The answer — at least for those patronizing Buy.com — is the Internet, says a new study from researchers at Carnegie Mellon University.
The study compared the energy use — and emissions — of ordering items on Buy.com, versus shopping at actual brick-and-mortar retailers.
Shoppers sitting in their living rooms and ordering items like hair-dryers or cameras online used 35 percent less energy, the study found, than people who shopped the old-fashioned way.
“Customer transport” — in other words, driving to and from the mall — accounted for 65 percent of energy and emissions from the brick-and-mortar shopping method. (The study recognized, however, that factors like driving distance and gas mileage can vary significantly.)
Buy.com has a business model that differs from some online competitors like Amazon: it ships products directly from wholesalers to the customer, without aggregating goods in a way-station warehouse owned by the company.
Bypassing a warehouse can save energy, since there is no need to light, heat or cool a giant space. For Internet shopping, the main sources of energy use besides warehouses is the truck that takes the packages the final mile to their destination, followed by the energy used in packaging the goods. The energy needs of data centers were relatively small.
The study was not funded by Buy.com, according to a professor of civil and environmental engineering at Carnegie Mellon and one of the authors of the study. But the university’s Green Design Institute, which conducted the research, does have a relationship with the company, which is part of its “corporate consortium.” This means that Carnegie researchers regularly exchange data, analysis and ideas with Buy.com.
Of course, one could probably save even more energy — at least in cities and towns — by walking or taking mass transit to the store. Or by not shopping at all.