Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 3, 2006

I am working on a screencast about nonprofit blogs and widgets. If you don't know what a widget is, here's an overview. I experimented with two widgets, linking them to content and conversation. Using widgets is not yet a common practice on nonprofit blogs. Maybe it will become clearer with more fundraising widgets.

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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.

Social Media

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???

Poll

The Next Web

DECEMBER 29, 2012

If you’re a Chrome user, Pin It and Pin Search are handy plugins and if you’re a Firefox uer, Pinterest Right Click is all you need. The easiest way to get any site content shared is to install a widget on your site. Search engines rate your site based on the number of backlinks you have built up. Verify your website.

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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.

Screencast

Wild Apricot

APRIL 16, 2010

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 ).

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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.

Search

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.

Social Media

The Verge

MARCH 28, 2022

For the latest iteration of r/Place, which begins April 1st at 9AM ET, log in to Reddit and navigate to r/Place by clicking on the widget icon with the letter P at the top of the home feed, or via the community drawer in the app. Upvote this so it's what shows up when you search for "Art". from place. “We

Reddit

The Verge

DECEMBER 16, 2021

I was lost and in search of myself after hearing the devastating news on Ars Technica : Google Toolbar had been put down by the search giant after nearly 21 years — longer than most projects the company lets live. (A You could do a Google search in the Google Toolbar, the IE8 search field, or the Google website — the choice is yours.

Google

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.),

Public

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.

Organization

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.

Site

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?

Web

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.

Social Media

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.

Volunteer

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.

Blogger

sgEngage

MARCH 30, 2022

Use your CMS to include an accessibility widget. You should also give donors the opportunity to opt into your monthly giving program or provide a matching gifts database they can search to find out if their employer participates in donation matching. .

Websites

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.

Websites

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.

Open Source

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.

Green

The Verge

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

The Calendar widget is the “medium” version; the other two are “small” versions. You can stick all kinds of iOS widgets like shortcuts to Clock, Notes, Calendar, and Podcasts in and arrange and size them to your taste. Control Center in macOS Big Sur. Here’s the Notification Center. RIP Dashboard.). RIP Dashboard.).

Review

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.

Place

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.

Facebook

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.

Podcast

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?

Wiki

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.

Conference

Connection Cafe

NOVEMBER 22, 2017

Check out the matching gift database widget below, where you can search for companies that offer matching gift programs, and make special note of the deadline for submitting your paperwork. If you’d like to make your donation go twice as far, search your company in a matching gifts database through the widget below.

Gift

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.

Software

Google Research AI blog

JUNE 6, 2023

corresponds to visual content of “face smiling”, a visual type of “emoji”, and visual source of “public search”. With this fine-tuned visual intent prediction model, we developed Visual Captions on the ARChat platform, which can add new interactive widgets directly on the camera streams of video conferencing platforms, such as Google Meet.

Language

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.

Social Network

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.

Question

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.

Green

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.

Social Media

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???

Reflection

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 8, 2006

Give them badges, even xml-driven widgets that feed back to the world the actions that individual user has taken and the impact those actions have had" Steve's last comment on the post suggests that the seamless integration of all the tools is necessary, but also laments the lack of second wave adoption.

Social Media

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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