One of the most frequently requested enhancements we’ve received since opening Kachingle has been for a Medallion style smaller than the two we offered. Jazz, at a petite 61 x 61 pixels, is just that. This style fits well into blocks where you may already have other social media buttons for a post, article, video or other single piece of digital stuff; here on the Kachingle blog we put it at the top of each post, right under the title.
To use this style just look at your current Medallion code block for the part that says either stylename='wide' or stylename='narrow' and change either wide or narrow to Jazz.
Alternatively the Add and Manage Medallion pages (and the WordPress plugin) have been updated so you can choose your preferred styles and get a whole new Medallion code block for your site.
Say Bye to Wide and Narrow
At the same time we retired the names wide and narrow. While accurate relative to each other, with Jazz that’s no longer true.
Plus those names have no style or fun—and style and fun are important to us! So from now on the style previously known as wide is now called Classical and narrow is now Neoclassical.
Don’t worry: The old style names still work, will continue to do so for a long time and you don’t need to make any changes to your Medallion code. You can change them if you like but it isn’t necessary.
Last week we launched goodies.kachingle.com, a home for tools you can use to enhance the Kachingle experience on your site. Goodies opens with two tools:
- Who’s Kachingling Whom: This widget shows you the most recent Kachingling activity in our system at the moment your page is loaded, including the Kachingler’s name and avatar and the Medallion’s name and logo.
- Kachingle Medallion WordPress Plugin: This plugin enables you to add a Kachingle Medallion to your (self-hosted) WordPress blog and includes a Who’s Kachingling Whom widget you can drag into your sidebar.
Who’s Kachingling Whom Live Demo
Recently the German community of the crowdsourced encyclopedia Wikipedia started a discussion about implementing a social payment service like Kachingle. Some people argue whether it should be placed on articles or on user sites and if the revenue should flow to authors or to the Wikimedia foundation. In a running survey Wikipedia contributors are voting on how this is going to proceed.
We think social payments and a crowdsourced knowledge platforms like Wikipedia are a perfect match! Kachingle’s activity-based model of calculating payouts ensures a fair share of revenue. Further this system compliments Wikipedia’s ongoing fundraising activities—just as our service co-exists nicely with advertising it would do the same with donations.
The idea of a global system like Wikimedia adopting a social payment system like Kachingle is very exciting and shows that our vision and implementation are going down the right road!
Our founder and President Cynthia Typaldos went up to San Francisco to speak with PBS MediaShift blogger Mark Glaser recently and he posted this great interview with video clips.
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The Kachingle Community has two major components at launch:
- An open forum, powered by Google Groups, where all of us can post best practices, think out loud, ask questions and offer suggestions.
- Monthly online Community meetings, powered by Adobe Connect, for real time presentations, announcements and Q&A. These will be hour-long sessions on the third Thursday of every month and key Kachingle staff will be present. We’ll hold one at 6 p.m. European time (9 a.m. PDT) for Europeans and one at 11 a.m. PDT (2 p.m. EDT) for North Americans, but of course both are open to all who want to participate.
[UPDATE: Today's slides are now posted on SlideShare]
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All of us here are very happy to tell you about the new home page for http://www.kachingle.com which went live a couple of days ago. The new design features a live newsfeed of kachingling activity, an improved video player and the Bunny Button. Most importantly we expect this version to more directly convey the nature and benefits of Kachingle with a bit of style and humor.
The New Homepage
The Bunny Button
Writing in his blog A New Respect, the pseudonymous Southern Gentleman exclaims that Kachingle is the Future because our service “is (an example of) the business model that will keep our art culture alive.”
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One of Kachingle’s earliest European supporter, Tanja Aitamurto, has written a new article (in Finnish) discussing Kachingle in the context of social payments. She differentiates social payments from normal by explaining that social adds information about yourself as well as building your online identity to money changing hands:
One of the pioneers in the field of social micro-payments is Kachingle, an online payment system. Through Kachingle the reader can support, for example, journalism which he (or she) appreciates. Kachingle is based on payment as a social mission: Kachingle is not only a micro-payment system but also includes a social network. Publications which the reader supports appear in the reader’s Kachingle profile.
During her recent visit to Austria and Germany our founder and President Cynthia Typaldos sat down for an interview with the ORF, the biggest public television and radio company in Austria to talk about Kachingle’s service and growing popularity in the Austrian and German online community.
OE1@ORF Interview with Cynthia
