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Updates today to Virgin Money Giving

Published February 27, 2011 Service Update 3 Comments
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Virgin Money GivingToday Sunday 27 February we’re making some exciting improvements to the Virgin Money Giving website and adding new tools to help you promote your fundraising. As a result virginmoneygiving.com will be unavailable between 09:30 and 19:30

The new features we’re introducing include:

  • Enabling your supporters to make donations through their Paypal account.
  • Making it easy to share your fundraising page using Facebook Connect.
  • Adding Twitter tools to help you tweet a link to your fundraising page.
  • Enabling your supporters to tweet and update their Facebook status with a link to your fundraising page once they have donated.
  • Enhancing our email tools to help you thank people who have donated and follow-up with people who haven’t.

If there are any other features you’d like us to add to Virgin Money Giving in the future please let us know by emailing feedback@virginmoneygiving.com

Update @ 16:39 27/02/2011
Today’s release has completed ahead of schedule. The Virgin Money Giving website is now fully available again.

New – Site improvements

Published February 25, 2011 Virgin Money Giving News 4 Comments
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As well as new tools for Twitter, Facebook, introducing PayPal, and being able to see who’s donated we’ve also tweaked some other areas of Virgin Money Giving. We’ve picked out some of the other changes below:

Latest NewsKeeping you informed

For both Charities and Fundraisers, when you sign into your Virgin Money Giving account you’ll see the latest news from our blog.

You’ll get links to our latest fundraising tips, charity news, new features, and fundraising stories.

Tweet this on fundraising pagesShare Page

We’ve had a button on Virgin Money Giving fundraising pages allowing visitors to tweet a link to your page, but we’re now adding the official Twitter button.

You’ll see it in the ‘share page’ section and just as the Facebook Like button does it will show how many people have tweeted.


Planned Maintenance and New Features

Published February 23, 2011 Service Update , Virgin Money Giving News 1 Comment
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Virgin Money GivingOn Wednesday 23 February and Sunday 27 February we will be making some exciting improvements to the Virgin Money Giving website and adding new tools to help you promote your fundraising. As a result virginmoneygiving.com will be unavailable between:

22:00 Wednesday 23 February and 06:00 Thursday 24 February,
and 09:30 and 19:30 on Sunday 27 February.

The changes include:

  • Enabling your supporters to make donations through their Paypal account.
  • Making it easy to share your fundraising page using Facebook Connect.
  • Adding Twitter tools to help you tweet a link to your fundraising page.
  • Enabling your supporters to tweet and update their Facebook status with a link to your fundraising page once they have donated.
  • Enhancing our email tools to help you thank people who have donated and follow-up with people who haven’t.

We will be completing our final testing over the next few days and updates will be posted to our blog after these improvements have been made. Help guides will be available on how to use the new features after the update is complete.

If there are any other features you’d like us to add to Virgin Money Giving in the future please let us know by emailing feedback@virginmoneygiving.com

Update @ 06:00 24/02/2011
Today’s release has completed. The Virgin Money Giving website is now fully available again.

New – Email tools and see who’s donated

Published February 22, 2011 Virgin Money Giving News 10 Comments
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Another request we’ve received from fundraisers is to be able to see details of who’s donated, and we’re really pleased to announce we’re adding a new feature to help you with this.

When you sign into your fundraising account we’re introducing a new option on the menu called ‘See my donors’. From here you’ll be able to view the details of who has donated to your fundraising page including their real name, donation amount, comment, and email address.

Email Address screen

If you send an email to your contacts through the Virgin Money Giving website you’ll see a list of everyone you’ve emailed along with who has and hasn’t donated yet. Within a couple of clicks you can send your own thank you message or a remind those who haven’t got round to donating yet.

We know some people will still want to be anonymous when they donate, so we’ll check that they’re happy for you to see their email address before they make the donation.

Email Permissions

Any fundraisers who’ve already donated to your page before we put in this new feature will still show as anonymous.

We’re also adding more new tools including Facebook Connect, Twitter, and PayPal.

New – Twitter tools on Virgin Money Giving

Published February 22, 2011 Fundraising Tips , Service Update 6 Comments
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Twitter share buttonNot only can you share a link to your fundraising page through Facebook, we’re also making it easy to tweet about your fundraising too.

Once you’ve created your page, in just a couple of clicks you’ll be able to tweet an update to your your followers to let them know you’ve started fundraising

We’ll automatically include a link to your page, and you can use the rest of the 140 characters to add your own message.

What’s more, your supporters will be able to tweet once they’ve donated helping you to reach their friends too.

After their donation is confirmed, they’ll see a ‘Share a link on Twitter’ button.  After a click, and signing into Twitter, we’ll have an update ready for them with a link to your fundraising page.

New – Facebook tools on Virgin Money Giving

Published February 22, 2011 Service Update , Virgin Money Giving News 11 Comments
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Facebook LogoWe’re adding some new features to make it even easier to spread the word about your fundraising page. The first is Facebook Connect.

Facebook Connect allows you to sign into Facebook while you’re on the Virgin Money Giving website and update your status in just a couple of clicks. It will be available for fundraisers, and their supporters once they’ve donated.

For fundraisers

Once you’ve set up your Virgin Money Giving page, and signed in with your Facebook details, you’ll be able to update your status on Facebook straight away with a link to your page. You can write your own message about your fundraising challenge and we’ll add your page address for you.

Also, whenever you come back to update your fundraising page, you can let all your friends on Facebook know what’s new. We’ve added some suggested words, or you can write your own update and post it straight to Facebook.

For donors

After you’ve made a donation you can help spread the word about the fundraiser or cause you’ve supported by letting your friends on Facebook know.

You can add your own message to your status update encouraging your friends to donate as well, or maybe the reason the charity you’ve donated to is important to you. We’ll include a link to the page so your friends can find out more.

And here’s how it will look on Facebook

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We’re currently completing our final testing, keep an eye on our updates on twitter to hear when the new features are available.

New – Donate with PayPal on Virgin Money Giving

Published February 22, 2011 Service Update , Virgin Money Giving News 4 Comments
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PayPal LogoIt’s the most requested feature we’ve been asked to add to the Virgin Money Giving website and we’re really pleased to announce it’s being made available very soon.

When you donate to a friend’s fundraising page or directly to a registered charity you’ll be able to use your either your credit/debit card as before or your PayPal account.

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Paypal Donations on Virgin Money Giving

If there are any other features you’d like us to add to Virgin Money Giving in the future please let us know by emailing feedback@virginmoneygiving.com

The latest updates on Virgin Money Giving

Published October 16, 2010 Service Update , Virgin Money Giving News Leave a Comment
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Virgin Money GivingJust a reminder that on Sunday 17 October we will be making some changes to the Virgin Money Giving website.

As a result virginmoneygiving.com will be unavailable between 14:00 and 22:00 Sunday 17 October.

The changes include:

  • Updating the start fundraising ‘deep link’ to allow charities to pre-set their details when linking to events. This will enable your fundraisers to setup a page for open fundraising events, such as the ‘2011 Virgin London Marathon’ with your charity pre selected.
  • Allowing fundraisers to re-open closed pages, and ensure that expired fundraising pages are not shown in the search results.
  • Usability improvements to the card details entry page when making a donation.
  • Annual security updates, maintaining the high security standards of virginmoneygiving.com

New help guides will be available on how to use the new features from Sunday.

In addition we’re also making some adjustments to our charity and fundraiser terms and conditions. For new charities registering with Virgin Money Giving these will come into immediate effect on Sunday 17 October. For those who’ve registered or are already live they will come into effect in 2 months time.

The terms and conditions will be available in full on the 17 October 2010, and a summary of what we’ve changed can be found here.

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