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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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)? Netvibes is a lot like an iGoogle home page and is designed to have many different widgets or boxes that are customizable. View more presentations or upload your own. tags: nonprofit nptech ). How do you create a tag?

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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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NTEN

FEBRUARY 3, 2010

Just click on the "Fund a Scholarship" button in the widget above, or go to [link]. See the nifty little widget at the top of this post? Just click the "Share" button to add it to your site, blog, Facebook or Twitter feed (among other sharing options). . Spread the Word.

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Byte Technology

MAY 23, 2017

The plugin allows you to display social media icons in a sidebar widget, customize colors and then just enter a specific web address for the social media account you want to be displayed there. Lastly, if your social media forte is with Instagram, the plugin Instagram Feed will throw your images onto your WordPress site.

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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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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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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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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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Judi Sohn

NOVEMBER 1, 2008

It has some little bells and whistles, like a widget for displaying recent comments in a sidebar (you can see it already in mine) and a Feed Flare for adding comment counts to FeedBurner RSS feeds. The more blogs using Intense Debate, the better it will be in the long run. So far, I think I like Intense Debate.

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Amy Sample Ward

DECEMBER 24, 2009

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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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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NTEN

FEBRUARY 3, 2010

Just click on the "Fund a Scholarship" button in the widget above, or go to [link]. See the nifty little widget at the top of this post? Just click the "Share" button to add it to your site, blog, Facebook or Twitter feed (among other sharing options). Spread the Word.

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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. Data.gov: Data.gov provides public access to datasets generated by the Federal Government. The site hosts a wealth of data searchable by agency, category, topic, or geographically.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 26, 2006

I'm researching for a screencast that I will shoot over the next few weeks on the topic of widgets that can be used for your blog to enable conversation or support nonprofit programs. I'm looking for widgets that can easily add any of the following features: Integrating calendar or events info on your blog. Commenting. Giving money.

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sgEngage

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Feature social media feeds on your nonprofit website Some of the users who land on your website might be engaging with your cause for the very first time. However, manually configuring your website to feature your social media feeds can involve hours of coding and feel overwhelming, especially if you’re a novice to web development.

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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. As far as the email vs feed option - we are using Netvibes so you can cut down on email! Choose the “feed” option and then hit save on that alert. Add Feeds to Netvibes. Twitter Search.

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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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 18, 2006

I've been researching widgets recently and the last section of the interview covers that: Marshall Kirkpatrick : I???ve ve been thinking about widgets, relative to mash ups, lately. s a Widget, Marshall? RG: an RSS feed. RG: What???s Also a link to the WidgetBox.

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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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 14, 2010

VCs need to work with communications folks to get their opportunities distributed, but a VC might also have her own Twitter feed or blog category to share new opportunities The VC could also use her own professional networks to target special skill sets (such as at LinkedIn). Outreach/Marketing. Fear of Failure vs.

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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 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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 6, 2006

You also might to check out some widgets that combine social networking with stats like mybloglog.com. Yep, and you should also learn how to use an RSS reader so you can efficiently monitor those feeds and respond. I'd also take a look at widget fundraising. Tap the Blogs. And here's a good listener's guide.

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 28, 2009

upload to Internet Archive and use OurMedia to generate RSS feed, etc. Podcast Pickle & Podcast Alley & Odeo - good directory, has a good community forum, as well as embedable widget players for your website. Amazone Web Services - for very cheap. Industry standard is not limiting bandwidth/downloads but only limit upload.

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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? 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? How can you learn from others???

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 5, 2009

However, we're still in the early stages of lists - and lists are like gardening - they require maintenance, watering and feeding. Maybe we'll see some tools to automate list maintenance, widgets , and clients. And, that has to be done manually. Will Twitter lists become an graveyard of outdated lists?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 10, 2008

For every online social network training we do, we actually present the ning site and demonstrate ways participants can create and customize profiles, syndicate RSS feeds, post blogs, photos and videos and more. Developers who are more experienced can create customized scripts and widgets on their site to accommodate the needs of their users.

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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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Forum One

SEPTEMBER 16, 2008

This included putting all videos of procurement bids on to YouTube to releasing real-time data sets in a catalog of 261 data feeds , the DC government has quickly become a leading example of data transparency. 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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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. Communication.

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Forum One

JULY 15, 2010

The Kaiser Family Foundation offers a nice embeddable widget that will feed their daily news and live video coverage of the event. Organizations can place this widget on their own sites for their particular online audiences by copying code here.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 6, 2008

In addition to donating, I've also put the fundraising widget in my side bar, sent tweets out to my network on Twitter, distributed it in my friend feed , posted it on my Facebook profile and added to Flickr. (I had already made a donation to the BlogHer's act, but I've donated a second time to the Myanmar project, won't you?)

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sgEngage

MARCH 30, 2022

Use your CMS to include an accessibility widget. With an NGO-specific CMS, you’ll be able to add social media icons and embed live feeds on your web pages. Adding these features will encourage continuous movement of traffic between your social media and your website. .

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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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Tech Soup

JUNE 29, 2012

Try these easy steps to showing your timeliness: Utilize automatic feeds. Use the Facebook and twitter widgets to pull social posts to your website for fresh content and relevant, engaging activity. Remember, content is critically important and creating an effective nonprofit website takes a lot of it. Best Practice #9: Be Social.

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