Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 5, 2006

I'm working on a piece about widgets and nonprofit blogs (some context here and here ). I get this information via a combination of my stats programs and feed stats, but it would also be nice to add data from a blog a audience survey.). feeds allow determined users to trace specific readers who have loaded an author???

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 21, 2009

Some of them, along with my answers, include: How much time a day do you spend reading (RSS feeds)? You can search within your reader and find content that came through that you might be looking for, even if you didn’t read it the first time. I used to be quite worried about reading everything that came into my reader.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 14, 2007

That's the shareable output from searchCrystal it's an ego search on the term "Beth Kanter." " Here's how the site defines it: is a search visualization tool that enables you to compare, remix and share results from the best web, image, video, blog, tagging, news engines or RSS feeds.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 20, 2007

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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Get Fully Funded

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

Explore the widgets and plugins available through your CMS to understand the interactive options you have at your fingertips. Plus, high-quality, educational blog content can also improve your search engine optimization (SEO) efforts, pushing your blog to the top of search results and earning your website more traffic.

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NTEN

JANUARY 8, 2013

You can filter the raw data, RSS feeds of the data, charts, maps, or even widgets made of the data. Hosting a database of nonprofit information including mission, programs, leaders, goals, accomplishments, and needs, GuideStar allows users to search for specific nonprofits, analyze data, and update their own organization’s file.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 28, 2010

After customizing this widget at Facebook.com , you can easily put it into your site’s template in a matter of minutes. Each time a visitor “likes” something on your website, that activity will appear in their Facebook feed and drive some of their friends to your content. User Twitter Widgets to display updates on your website or blog.

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Bloomerang

JANUARY 29, 2024

Top membership management software for nonprofits To help narrow down your search for the right membership software for your organization, we’ve compiled a list of top solutions to consider. Search for a tool with a user-friendly, intuitive interface that even tech novices can navigate easily. transaction fee. User-friendliness.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 2, 2009

Finding Feeds. Netvibes will let you track all kinds of things online, all by using RSS feeds or ready-built widgets. Here are some example searches using NetSquared as the organization. As far as the email vs feed option - we are using Netvibes so you can cut down on email! Twitter Search.

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NonProfit Hub

NOVEMBER 2, 2015

Last week was #NationalCatDay and YouTube decided they wanted to make it easier for you to search all of your favorite cat videos by allowing Emojis in the search bar. Facebook recently changed the way you view video in the app, creating a completely separate related videos feed.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JUNE 10, 2008

Just send the company your e-mail list and tell it what social networking sites those on your list are using, their demographics, the numbers of friends they have, how many widgets they’re using, even their interests. Rapleaf digs into the usual social networking sites (Facebook, MySpace, etc.),

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 31, 2008

Take for example this widget created by Cerada, Hurricane Gustav widget for iPhone, mobile device or Web site/blog , which allows you to list yourself and indicate whether you are offering. The widget's resources. It aggregates feeds from many sources. shelter, looking for someone or are an evacuee.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 14, 2009

Tony Karrer suggested that the approach of aggregating the RSS feeds of blogs, adding in semantic tagging, keyword search and browsable index might help. He set up an experiment with feeds from nptech bloggers. Or I can create a widget and add it as my sidebar. To be clear Nptech Bloggers is a point of departure.

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NTEN

JULY 15, 2011

Some of the items above are simple widgets and plug-and-play doodads that allow one to take a little snippet of code and incorporate it onto a web page. Implementation : livestreaming, Facebook event plugin, Twitter feed. Interact – FB Live Stream, Hashtag (Tweet Chat), Comments. Authenticate – FB Login, Twitter OAuth.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 13, 2011

searches for green businesses near you. Consumer Reports' 7 free green mobile apps has some good ones as well: The Eco Buzz Widget , for Android, is a configurable environmental news feed. Planet Green's 7 Best Green Apps for Mobile Phones. are a good example. The ones I like are: Ecorio. greenMeter. Carticipate.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 13, 2011

Apps are software widgets that you usually download onto a phone or PC. Most apps are games and entertainment, social networking tools (like Twitter), informational feeds for a specific topic area or a specific news source, or business and productivity tools like email that fits your particular devices' screen.

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NTEN

JULY 28, 2010

If a stranger lands on your website, odds are they are searching for the answer to a specific question about something going on in their lives right now. They went searching, and Google or another website with a link to yours pointed that stranger to you, thinking that you might have the answer.

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 28, 2009

We've always done search ads, blogger outreach, and posts on our social networking profiles, but this year, I was ready to take it to the next level. Tweetup widget from TWTvite 2. Twitter Followers Widget from Widgettropolis 3. Widgetbox Widget displaying all tweets from the official conference Twitter feed 7.

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Forum One

FEBRUARY 25, 2010

They even show up in Google searches! Use Buttons and the Facebook Fan Widget on your organization's web site to make your audience aware of your page and help them connect with you on Facebook. Also, Facebook has made it easy to extend content onto your page through their widget. Grow Your Fans. However, don't just post text.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2005

How can you use an RSS feed to get pushed information as well as to push your content to others? Web searches? What are widgets and how can these new tools help you solve age-old problems? Some of the questions: *What do we mean by Web 2.0? What on earth is a Wiki? How is it better than the old-fashioned Web site?

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NTEN

MARCH 15, 2011

If you are in the social media space, let people know by providing a Twitter feed or YouTube promotion on your website which can update automatically. Of course, lots of rich media can bog down your servers, leading to a slower response time, which can hurt your rankings on Google and other search engines. Diversify Your Content.

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NTEN

JANUARY 22, 2009

Smart organizations create and publish their data widely to other sites, widgets, social networks, and aggregation applications. Then, your "data library" can be sorted, searched, and filtered just like your publication library. Feed your raw data to world. Don't let your data fall victim! Make it portable.

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NonProfit Hub

JULY 27, 2017

We’ve put together a list of our top 6 nonprofit software providers to help you narrow down your search: Salsa Labs. You’ll be able to recreate that gorgeous look on your peer-to-peer web page too, with their drag and drop interface, customizable branding, and a plethora of widgets. Don’t worry. Salsa Labs. Why We Love It.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 19, 2006

When I visited his site, I noticed that he had some widgets, including a message comment line. We got into some back and forth email about widgets and he was kind of enough to give me a really useful critique of one of my videos. All of the video clips came from searching ???net feed where he is tagging resources here.

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NTEN

JANUARY 22, 2009

After the mp3 file is complete, you need to upload it to a hosting service and add it to your podcast RSS feed. I personally recommend LibSyn.com for hosting your podcast files and RSS feed generation. Archive.org will host the mp3 files and OurMedia.org provides tools to create the RSS feed and promote the podcast.

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DNL OmniMedia

OCTOBER 22, 2020

Even better, they have a real-time Facebook feed widget on every page. Project Open Hand’s emphasis on volunteering information, video interviews, blog content, and social media feeds are great examples that you can implement into your own site. And spot the Facebook integration on the right side of the page!).

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 25, 2008

Provide rss feeds to the whole blog, and to individual bloggers' feeds so readers have a choice of how they want to subscribe. One of the most popular tools for raising money on blogs are fundraising widgets like ChipIn , Network for Good and Global Giving. Don't stifle blogs' most precious qualities.

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

OCTOBER 14, 2005

technologies such as tagging, social bookmarking and online social networks, blogging, content sharing through Wikis and RSS, and new Web widgets need not only be in the hands of well-funded developers; but also can be used by organizations to further their missions. How can you learn from others' Web searches? What on earth is a Wiki?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 23, 2007

Democracy in Action Blog tells us how to use tagging and widgets to share jobs in their community. One hopes that once the CyberYenta solves her blogging platform issue , she'll jump on a job posting widgets for that nonprofit job list.). Ruby Sinreich gives a report about Hillary Clinton's Second Life Campaign Headquarters.

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Care2

FEBRUARY 4, 2009

Making the Most of the News Cycle In September 2008, NWLC launched a voter education microsite that included a register-to-vote widget, and we started running Google ads on keywords like “register to vote.&# Never miss a post by subscribing to frogloop's RSS feed. Back to Basics. Receive monthly updates.

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Care2

OCTOBER 20, 2007

frogloop Home frogloop Home Receive monthly updates Subscribe to our RSS feed Follow frogloop on Twitter Most Popular Posts Social Network ROI Calculator Social Networking for Nonprofits: ROI, Tracking Tools and More "While Theyre Hot!" The ever popular widgets seen on blogs, for example, take advantage of APIs.

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Care2

NOVEMBER 15, 2007

frogloop Home frogloop Home Receive monthly updates Subscribe to our RSS feed Follow frogloop on Twitter Most Popular Posts Social Network ROI Calculator Social Networking for Nonprofits: ROI, Tracking Tools and More "While Theyre Hot!" And what is the optimum combination of videos, pictures, text, friends, and other widgets?

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Care2

NOVEMBER 8, 2007

frogloop Home frogloop Home Receive monthly updates Subscribe to our RSS feed Follow frogloop on Twitter Most Popular Posts Social Network ROI Calculator Social Networking for Nonprofits: ROI, Tracking Tools and More "While Theyre Hot!" And what is the optimum combination of videos, pictures, text, friends, and other widgets?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 4, 2008

Unique Visitors & Feed Subscribers). " That's a hard question for me to answer because as Kaushik notes and all of us bloggers know all too well -- many analytics programs do not track RSS feeds. I want people who find me via a google search to want to stick around and join the conversation, not click away. Authority???

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Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 4, 2007

According to the blog search engine, Technorati 's, "State of the Blogosphere" in October 2006 : Technorati is tracking more than 57 Million blogs. Provide bloggers, and your supporters, with an RSS feed of news related to your organization so that they can spread the word for you. Don't be afraid of RSS feeds. So here it goes.10

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Care2

FEBRUARY 7, 2009

frogloop Home frogloop Home Receive monthly updates Subscribe to our RSS feed Follow frogloop on Twitter Most Popular Posts Social Network ROI Calculator Social Networking for Nonprofits: ROI, Tracking Tools and More "While Theyre Hot!" 60) Search « Why Every Nonprofit Should Embrace the Web 2.0

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Care2

FEBRUARY 27, 2008

frogloop Home frogloop Home Receive monthly updates Subscribe to our RSS feed Follow frogloop on Twitter Most Popular Posts Social Network ROI Calculator Social Networking for Nonprofits: ROI, Tracking Tools and More "While Theyre Hot!" Online Political Advertising in the 2008 Elections. Yeah, I know, it sounds a little vanilla.

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