Elizabeth Barrette (ysabetwordsmith) wrote,
Elizabeth Barrette
ysabetwordsmith
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Raffle Ideas

shadesong is holding a raffle to raise money so her daughter Elayna can attend an educational summer camp.

This got me thinking about audience overlap. shadesong has multiple projects including community-sponsored Wind Tunnel Dreams, and collaborative Shayara. So there are several partially overlapping audiences in play here to begin with ... and then it gets really complicated. She started with a handful of raffle prizes, and invited other people to contribute more. I don't have cash for a raffle ticket, but I volunteered to do a papercraft poem as a prize. Quite a few folks in the loop have creative talents of one kind or another. The result is a fine diversity of prizes, some of which would be hard to afford otherwise.

Now, one criticism of cyberfunded creativity is that it can turn into a closed-loop system, and those don't work. It's not helpful for a circle of friends to pass the same $5 or so around and around. When audience members overlap several projects, their available spending money can get split. But when each creator has a sizable audience, not all of those people will overlap with other audiences. The ones who do overlap, help spread the word. In this case, a raffle draws together many creative people (and potentially all their audiences) for a single cause. That's an asset. Even after the raffle ends, some audience members may continue to follow a new project they discovered. I think this has potential.

What do you think?
Tags: cyberfunded creativity, cyberspace theory, networking
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  • 4 comments
fireriven

fireriven

April 4 2008, 03:40:17 UTC 13 years ago Edited:  April 4 2008, 03:41:01 UTC

I feel like I used to know you or know of you... through Mercedes Lackey fandom perhaps? Circa 1993-95?

P.S. Sorry, I know this has nothing to do with your post! Your name's just been nagging at me since I read it on your userinfo.
ysabetwordsmith

ysabetwordsmith

April 4 2008, 04:15:32 UTC 13 years ago

That's okay. Yes, I was active in that fandom at that time. It's one of the places I got my start in networking and writing.
fireriven

fireriven

April 4 2008, 04:18:48 UTC 13 years ago

Aha, thank you. That's where I recognize you from. Did you solicit for penpals there or did you mainly contribute to zines?
ysabetwordsmith

ysabetwordsmith

April 4 2008, 04:34:43 UTC 13 years ago

I don't think I ever solicited penpals myself, but I did answer some other people's messages and I had some other messages in the newsletter. I contributed to zines, and I had a couple of stand-alone items printed too. My xenolinguistic bent was already showing -- I wrote one poem that was bilingual in Shin'a'in with English translation, using the bits of vocabulary and grammar that Lackey provided in the books. That one got reprinted several times that I know of, and probably more.