Interview with Technoevangelist Fee Plumley about her crowdfunding project Really Big Road Trip

Fee Plumley is an artist, writer, consultant, speaker, and self confessed ‘technoevanglist‘. Plumley recently ran a project on Australian crowdfunding platform Pozible to get a bus and drive it around Australia. Through this trip Plumley will use the bus as a mobile digital arts space and create and share ‘geek … Continue reading

Australia produces world’s first crowdfunded TV series

After a successful fundraising campaign on Mobcaster, two twenty-somethings in Melbourne are busy producing the world’s first crowdfunded TV series, The Weatherman. Crowdfund it! spoke with the show’s co-creator and executive producer, Lucas Crandles, to find out more. Crowdfund it!: Hi Lucas. Your production company, Dark Heart Productions, raised $72,500 on Mobcaster (a … Continue reading

Crowdfunding for a better world

Crowdfunding is not just the domain of business entrepreneurs. Dutch social enterprise and crowdfunding platform PIFworld (“PIF” stands for “Play it forward”) has shown that crowdfunding can also be used for social good. The site allows users to raise money for charities or humanitarian campaigns, as well as volunteer their time. How’s this … Continue reading

Crowdfund it! at Gleebooks

Sydney’s first ever ebook launch Expert panellists on the latest in crowdfunding Where: Gleebooks, 49 Glebe Point Road, Glebe NSW When: 3.30pm for 4pm, September 23, 2012 Who: Anna Maguire, author, Crowdfund it!; Alan Crabbe, co-founder, Pozible; Tom Dawkins, co-founder, StartSomeGood; Bryan Vadas, co-founder, iPledg; writer and successful Pozible campaigner … Continue reading