webathon
Noun
A fundraising event carried out by means of the World Wide Web.
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The fundraising Webathons — think Jerry Lewis online — popularized by Dean are becoming standard fare, as have^([sic]) e-mail alerts.
Perhaps I should stage some sort of webathon or something.
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Even some of Palin's critics question the validity of some of the complaints, and her supporters have waged a weeklong Webathon to raise money for a legal defense fund set up for the governor, ringing up more than $109,000 by day seven, Sunday.
At the end of January, we ran a five-hour-plus webathon to raise funds for a local orphanage with which we were heavily involved. We had one camera going live and another crew picking up interviews at the back of the webcast area.
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