Join this Webmaster Workshop for ideas and details about putting together a crowdfunding campaign. Find out what backers look for and expect, and get tips on following through with backers when your campaign is funded.  

Presenters: Amy Young (with help from her film production team and her backers) ran a Kickstarter campaign that met 100% of its funding goal, $26,800 towards production for a documentary film. Amy will give a brief overview of the state of crowdfunding, and talk about the process of putting together her campaign. Amy works for a computational physics group at the Materials Research Lab, and does videography part-time at Illinois Wesleyan University.   For his virtual letterpress iPad app, John Bonadies raised $39,495 on Kickstarter. John will talk about promoting a crowdfunding campaign and the challenges he found in fulfilling the backer rewards, particularly to overseas backers. John has 25+ years of creative and marketing experience management for agency and technology companies. His clients include the School of Music at the University of Illinois.   Jeff Adams has backed a dozen projects for films, games, apps, and books on Kickstarter and IndieGogo. Jeff will give feedback on campaigns he’s selected, from a backer’s perspective. Jeff is an independent software developer with previous local positions at Wolfram Research and Precision Graphics.  
When: Wednesday, March 19, 2-3 p.m.