sgEngage

MARCH 30, 2022

One common misconception people often have is that you need a big budget and a coding expert to create a beautiful and useful NGO web sit e , but that’s not the case. All you need is an easy-to-use website builder, or content management system (CMS), and an understanding of a few web design strategies. Serious and professional?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 2, 2006

If you've been following my widgets category , you know that I'm working on a screencast and have been researching and playing with widgets. For the script, before jumping into the how-to of widgets, the screencast will give some context, of course. This is both the hard and fun part of making web videos.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 7, 2006

This weekend I went widget shopping! I installed (and unstalled) lots of widgets until I found a few good ones that might be appropriate for nonprofits. Where to find widgets. There are three general types of sources to find widgets to install on your organization's blog or web site: 1. The particular Web2.0

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 1, 2006

I put query out on the NTEN affinity group for nonprofit blogging about widgets. Reed Stockman from AFP Blog (Associate of Fundraising Professionals) told me that he is using a widget called RSSMIX to combine feeds and republish them on their Master Blog. He notes that this widget is useful because it: a.)

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 3, 2006

He's been redesigning his blog over the past few days, adding widgets for visual appeal and RSS publishing feeds. I enjoy widgets because they create visual interest. Also, I have the RSS widget that streams the headlines from my employer's blog onto my personal blog. Torley Linden works for Linden Lab (Second Life).

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Amy Sample Ward

OCTOBER 27, 2009

This is a free web-based tool that is totally customizeable and can be used both privately or publicly.To Finding Feeds. Netvibes will let you track all kinds of things online, all by using RSS feeds or ready-built widgets. As far as the email vs feed option - we are using Netvibes so you can cut down on email!

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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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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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Care2

JULY 14, 2009

If your nonprofit is not taking advantage of free tools like Add This , a widget that encourages users to share your organizations articles or webpages on the most popular social networks or branded toolbars like FreeCause , then your nonprofit is missing out on some big marketing opportunities. Easy to Moderate* 9. Moderate* 10.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 14, 2007

" 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. You can embed searchCrystal as a Widget on your site or blog to share personalized crystals with your friends.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 24, 2009

If your nonprofit is not taking advantage of free tools like Add This , a widget that encourages users to share your organizations articles or webpages on the most popular social networks or branded toolbars like FreeCause , then your nonprofit is missing out on some big marketing opportunities. Easy to Moderate* 9. Moderate* 10.

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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. Feeding America took a unique approach to the event recap blog post by interviewing their director of advocacy and neighbor engagement about her experience at the event.

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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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Tech Soup

JUNE 29, 2012

Kelley Jarrett is market manager for Guide Creative , a design agency that serves nonprofits in creative design from strategy and branding to web and print design, social and mobile strategy to analyzing results for success. We can’t help you with the effort and persistence, but we can definitely give you a little web design know-how.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2005

Emerging Technology forum www.techsoup.org/web2event The topic is how Web 2.0 Some of the questions: *What do we mean by Web 2.0? How can you use an RSS feed to get pushed information as well as to push your content to others? How is it better than the old-fashioned Web site? Web searches? Web searches?

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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. Co-Create – Shared Content: Mapping, Mosaic, Wiki, Links, Games. Authenticate – FB Login, Twitter OAuth.

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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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NonProfit Hub

NOVEMBER 2, 2015

It’s the perfect place to keep up to date on the World Series champions, presidential races and viral video happenings from around the web. Facebook recently changed the way you view video in the app, creating a completely separate related videos feed. You can now ask your followers a question and give them two choices.

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NTEN

MARCH 15, 2011

If you aren't using your Web presence to engage committed and potential members, you're losing a prime opportunity. Before you take that first step though, remember that your Web efforts, no matter how big or small, should advance your comprehensive marketing and business strategy. Start with the basics, then move on to the big time.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 5, 2009

Unfortunately, the gopher did not live a long life, it was soon overshadowed by the World Wide Web. Even in the early days of the web, there was the urge to organize collections of files and links. That's where I met Arthur Secret , the project coordinator of this web volunteer effort. (He Your lists can be public.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 6, 2006

Subscribers in Bloglines or via feedburner (Does anyone know how I can get a total number of subscribers that is accurate with several different feeds?). These sites will be built with Ajax, Flash and other interactive technologies that allow the user to conduct affairs all within a single web page - like Gmail or the Google Reader.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 2, 2009

This is a free web-based tool that is totally customizeable and can be used both privately or publicly.To Finding Feeds. Netvibes will let you track all kinds of things online, all by using RSS feeds or ready-built widgets. As far as the email vs feed option - we are using Netvibes so you can cut down on email!

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DNL OmniMedia

OCTOBER 22, 2020

Effective nonprofit web design matters more than ever before. This is especially true now, but a strong web presence has been an increasingly central part of nonprofit success for the past decade as more and more engagement moves online. Think of these as the essential elements of web design: Clear, prominent donation buttons.

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Forum One

SEPTEMBER 16, 2008

The model for disseminating web content is evolving. Our latest Web Executive Seminar, “ Web Sites without Walls ,” featured four speakers who are helping change the landscape for content sharing. Having people with technical expertise helped get them to the 261 feeds they currently supply. It also allowed the U.K.

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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. Today's web management tools will let you treat your data, charts, and graphs just like any other content -- so you should be tagging and classifying them. Feed your raw data to world.

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 28, 2009

Then, we’ll look at various ways to market your podcast via your own website, the social web, and the iTunes Music Store. You can start small - whatever you have, even just a web cam mic. You can also use web cams for a video podcast. Can host your podcasts on your web servers, transfered through ftp, etc.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 8, 2009

Additionally, PostRanks are calculated one of two ways, either comparing a site's content against its own past performance only (feed-based PostRank). So in that case you can compare TechCrunch to Mashable, for example, if you wanted to, but with feed-based you're not being ranked against any sites/posts but your own.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 13, 2011

Apps are software widgets that you usually download onto a phone or PC. They often use the Internet in some way but eliminate having to use a web browser. They allow much lighter IT equipment to use the Internet, accomplish work, and entertain us. What Are Apps, Anyway? It has well over 400,000 apps to choose from.

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Forum One

FEBRUARY 25, 2010

You can create a vanity web address (URL) for your page, send geographically-targeted emails to your Fans (using the internal Facebook email system), and install applications that leverage your other social media outposts. Also, Facebook has made it easy to extend content onto your page through their widget.

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NTEN

JANUARY 22, 2009

Like most things in the social web, though, there are tools and resources that can make creating a podcast accessible to almost any organization. What makes it powerful is that the podcast can be part of a broader web presence for your organization. The What and Why? Marketing and Distribution.

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NonProfit Hub

APRIL 8, 2014

Sort of like your website should do, give your organization a public face on the web. transaction fee, and in return receive social media widgets and donor receipts. It’s a news aggregator that pulls from your social media feed to create an e-newspaper that you can send out. Nonprofits pay a 2.5%

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NonProfit Hub

JULY 27, 2017

You can customize your donation pages to make a gorgeous web page that inspires giving and makes the donation process simple, easy, and quick. 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. Why We Love It.

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NTEN

JULY 28, 2010

Integrate your real-time communications channels into your website, for example, by using Twitter or Facebook widgets or RSS feeds that bring the live conversation to your site. Tags: kivi leroux miller Newsletter NPTech NTEN Web Sites Communications. But only after you’ve made room for those answers, stories, and interactions.

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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. feed where he is tagging resources here. All of the video clips came from searching ???net

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Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 10, 2008

Whatever you do, please don't abandon your out-of-date, un-updated blog, Facebook group, Twitter feed, etc. We have to spend time on the (blog, podcast, Facebook page, Twitter, wiki, fundraising widget etc.). net2 nptech Web 2.0 nonprofit web social media strategy If it's not working, delete it. What a pain!"

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

OCTOBER 14, 2005

The Impact of Web 2.0 on the Nonprofit Community It's happening in TechSoup: a five-day online post-fest October 24-October 28 Join CompuMentor's community engagement program director John Lorance and a host of leading Web technology advocates as they demystify Web 2.0 The Impact of Web 2.0 These leading voices of Web 2.0

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Bloomerang

JANUARY 29, 2024

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