Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 6, 2007

Kurt Stuchell just finished a project and created a new widget called the Universal Museum Media Podcasts & Blog Widget. The widget contains a collection of museum podcasts and blogs. He has made the widget available on Facebook and it can also be added web site, MySpace (hmm. Curated podcast RSS feeds anyone?

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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. Hear her talk about widgets here ).

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NetWits

JUNE 8, 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. These are actually best case scenarios – worse is if they simply leave and never come back, which is the biggest risk of stale content!

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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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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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TechSpot

JUNE 16, 2021

Microsoft rolled out a widget-like 'News and interests' feature for Windows 10 users last month. It's meant to be an informative section in the taskbar that displays weather and expands into a personalized news feed on mouse hover.

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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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The Verge

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

This tablet taskbar looks a lot less cluttered, thanks to app icons, search, Widgets, and the Start button being hidden. If you wipe up to reveal the full taskbar, the widgets, Start button, search, and app icons are all a lot larger and easier to touch. The new widgets changes in Windows 11. Image: Microsoft.

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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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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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The Next Web

DECEMBER 29, 2012

The easiest way to get any site content shared is to install a widget on your site. If your site has a number of different widgets, it might be better to remove one first and replace it with the “Pin It” button so you don’t clog up your site. Ensure that the image you’re using is of high quality as it is the first thing users will see.

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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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The Verge

DECEMBER 16, 2021

It has a new homescreen layout that divides its time between the standard rotating Echo Show content (which you can customize) and a new feature: widgets. It comes in one color, and you can’t change the familiar Alexa blue background behind the widgets — I’d like to see some customization options all around.

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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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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

Other steps announced by Facebook today include: Putting the company’s “Voter Information Center” at the top of the Facebook and Instagram feeds. The widget contains accurate, verified information and videos about how to vote, and will remain at the top of the feed until Election Day.

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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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NTEN

JULY 14, 2011

While Facebook has a full set of APIs you can code against, you can also take advantage of their user-friendly widgets and have the additional benefit of being hosted on the Facebook domain. You can connect many existing tools, or you can build into it and feed it data to display. Twilio is a great example of a highly useful API.

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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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The Verge

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

It shows these in permanent home screen widgets, which are displayed alongside a more typical assortment of news headlines like previous Echo Shows. Announced in late September , the Echo Show 15 is designed to act as a communal hub for families and show useful information like calendar appointments, reminders, and to-do lists. Image: Amazon.

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The Verge

MARCH 10, 2022

It’s one of a host of updates coming to Google’s apps and services on Android, which also includes tweaks to Google TV, a new screen time widget, and wider deployment of a Gboard feature that helps improve your grammar. Google Photos has previously been able to blur the background in photos of people.

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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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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

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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The Verge

JUNE 30, 2021

Focus also lets you assign specific homescreen pages to each Focus mode — including widgets — for even more customized experiences. But I’m a big fan of the feature, since it gives me a good reason to actually set up homescreens with widgets, and helps curb the instinct to tap the Slack icon when I’m supposed to be offline.

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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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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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