Affero Services - Recognizing valuable online interactions
with ratings and/or donations
Affero's service enables individuals who care about certain causes to
share their activism with their communities. By adding one link to
their email signatures, blog entries, or articles, individuals can offer a quick way for others to
view a personal web page that solicits feedback on their work and facilitates
donations to causes that the author supports. By integrating affero's services within a forum or independent media website, feedback and donations can be introduced to an entire community. The service provides a
history of feedback and donations (if disclosed) by various members.
This historical perspective gives people a tangible peer created record
of the results of their work as both patron and author or volunteer.
FEATURES:
- Personalized Affero webpages indicating which causes should receive funding on behalf of a members inspirational works
- Authors can customize these gift disbursement profiles differently for each type of work (forum posts, blog posts, email messages, articles)
- Gift disbursement options can be modified at any time by the Author
- Authors can have multiple email addresses for the same Affero account and easily view, add or delete email addresses
- Forum hosts and publishers can set up a default disbursement profile for their community until Authors edit their personal webpage
- Software that adds the Affero customized link to the bottom of forum posts facilitating a connection to the rating and donation engine
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Patrons have an immediate opportunity to say "thank you" and give something back to the community for inspirational works:
- Rating the value of the article or interaction
- Providing comments
- Donating to organizations
- Secure environment for processing donations via credit card transactions and protection of personal billing information
- Electronic receipt of donations with optional email notifications for each rating and donation
- Authors have the ability to rate the Patron that provided them a rating and/or donation
- Authors and Patrons build community reputations representing their
user history on each interaction
- No set up fees or annual fees, only a nominal processing fee charged to Patrons when a donation is made
- Disbursement of all donations via check or electronic transfer from the Affero Trust Merchant Bank Account
- Aggregate information on contributions and forum communities
- Recognition via Halls of Fame for those who achieve high ratings from peers and those who make regular financial contributions
- Ongoing email customer and technical support