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Toobla, new tool to check out!

NCE Social Media

Toobla is a brand new social bookmarking tool and I was very impressed! As Toobla describes itself, “Toobla lets you easily collect, enjoy and share visual bookmarks to websites and other embeddable content (i.e. widgets like YouTube or other videos, photos, documents, games and widget applications).

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Wild About Widgets

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

a big hat tip to Michelle Martin from the Bamboo Project for pointing me to these two articles in the business press about widgets. The Typepad Hacks blog writes has a great introduction to widgets and describes the community building aspects: Ultimately, widgets, like the web itself are about connections???

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Great reads from January 12th through January 14th

Amy Sample Ward

Add Ask Your Lawmaker to Your Site | Ask Your Lawmaker - Check out the Ask Your Lawmaker widget from Capital News Connection, a nonpartisan, nonprofit organization based in Washington, DC. " I'm really excited to see how this widget gets used by nonprofits across the US, or replicated elsewhere.

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Great reads from around the web on December 25th

Amy Sample Ward

To follow more of the things I find online, you can follow @amysampleward on Twitter (which is just a blog and resource feed), or find me on Delicious (for all kinds of bookmarks). You can join the conversations in the comments, or click through to the original posts to find what others are saying. Unconference here: [link].

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Building Blocks of Social Media - Webinar slides and notes

Amy Sample Ward

Netvibes is a lot like an iGoogle home page and is designed to have many different widgets or boxes that are customizable. You may have a weather widget next to an RSS feed of your organization’s blog, a calendar widget and a feed of Google Alerts, and so on. That’s it; once you hit save that tag is created.

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Screencast: Using Widgets to Build Community on Blogs Featured on NTEN Blog

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

My screencast on widgets is featured in this month's NTEN newsletter in a section pointing to " How To Build Online Community." If you have questions about widgets or want to share your organization???s Other terms used to describe a Web Widget include Gadget, Badge, Module, Capsule, Snippet, Mini and Flake.

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Monitor the Web in Real Time: Instant Dashboards

Wild Apricot

You've got bookmarks for websites you need to check daily, online tools, news alerts for tracking your nonprofit's keywords and issues, email, social networks, RSS feeds for favorite blogs… It's all too easy to miss vital information, or to waste a great deal of time checking for updates. read more ). read more ).

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