We Love button keeps donations steady

We have just run a report on the button we asked all you bloggers, website people, myspacers and others to put on your virtual homes, and it's looking quite cool:

Since we started, the buttons on your sites have had 38,600 views, leading to 170 direct clickthroughs to the donation page on the festival site.

Now this may not a figure that those in the hard nosed corporate agency world of online publishing would leap about about, but we think it's blooming marvelous.

The organisers tell us that there has been a steady stream of donations since we begun, which has never happened before; normally you see a spike of activity around very resource intensive PR pushes.

Now, with all of your help, we can achieve a steady awareness raising campaign which leads to a steady donation stream.

Thank you everyone and keep putting up the posters and slinging those buttons around!

Facebook and MySpace figures

We're not quite sure what it means, but think that having presences in Facebook and MySpace is quite fun - it is a chance for us all to show how we feel in our different places around 'tinternet, support the festival with awareness raising, and possibly, in the future, sort out some sort of group support network...

As they say in the world of buzzword bingo, the situation is 'emergent'... we're working with Jenny and Steve the organisers to use the groups for their best purpose.

The Facebook group has 139 members
The MySpace profile has 312 friends

Good work all and thanks for your continued support.

Festival gets green light

Fantastic! Brilliant! Our mid-July happiness is secured - Houston we have a festival - Woohoo ha ha and blooming marvelous!

If The Evening Post says it is happening, then it has to happen. Hurray!

Well done all. I will change the front page of the site to reflect the latest information when we get it.

See you all there :)

Benefit gigs: news from the festival team

Thanks to more benefit gig organisers:

The Smerins benefit at the Croft raised 1,100 and the Thekla benefit over a grand (but we haven't had it all through yet). Well done all and thanks again; it's all going to a good place, you know it :)

NO thanks however to the characters who stole money from the collection buckets; lowlifes.

We used the text donation number at the Thekla gig, gave it loads of mentions from the comperes, so we're looking forward to seeing how that went (more news will follow).

There are more benefit gigs in the pipeline: word is of one called 'Hands up for Ashton Court' on June 15, as well as some action in The Croft.. more news will follow...

Keep up the pressure all! Get those posters up and keep shaking the buckets (although keep an eye out for thieving lowlifes)...