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Christmas is quickly approaching us, and we are busy putting together a questionnaire to gather feedback on what we are doing and what we should think about doing.

Our sharethestars project is coming along very nicely, but we’d like to get some research data around peoples giving habits. Which will help us understand what type of people are most interested in the idea and why they are interested. We started the project as a way to advertise charity organisations, helping charities collect donations, and helping people publicise their involvement with charities. we have realised that Kiwi’s give so much more than just money, helping charities by donating time, collecting on the streets and the day to day running of charities.

This indicates that some market research would be really useful, helping us to understand how our initial product launch should work. And we can always amend it a little later, based on community feedback!

Another side project we have been playing with is whizzoo. Our catch phrase for whizzoo is: “What is it?”, because with our web hosting plan we could choose a free domain name, we chose whizzoo.com, but we had no idea what a whizzoo should do. We set up a simple interface that recorded user input and allowed users to vote on their own input and others, making the site self-regulating. It turns out that this is a reasonably popular application in its own right, it isn’t in the same league as Twitter, but it has struck us that the concept is rather similar - the difference being content voting.

So stay tuned, we expect to release our questionnaire early next week and we are expecting some sort of prize!

So we’re currently in the process of developing a website that will benefit charities. We’ve got our concept and design pretty well fleshed out and in terms of implementation, the next thing we’re doing is creating the php pages that will be the core of our site.

While development is going relatively smoothly, we figured it’s never to early to get out there and test our idea with the community. Test early and test often they say… so this week we’ll be out there talking to Charities to see what they think of our idea and what else they’d like to see. Will be very interesting to see what sort of feedback we get!

We’re also in the process of putting together an online survey that will give us an idea of what people’s experiences are like with donating, online payment and fundraising. It strikes us that we all have somewhat biaised views and similar experiences at NZfusion, so we thought the best way to get information from a wider pool of people is to ask for it! Please leave a comment below if you’d like to be notified when this survey is ready or sign up to the nzfusion.com mailing list.

There is a good chance there will also be a prize involved…