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The Widget Poll and Blog Reading Habits

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Create Free Polls. I'm working on a piece about widgets and nonprofit blogs (some context here and here ). If you haven't had a chance to take the poll, please click through your reader and vote now! The poll is being used to gather feedback from audience about how they read the blog (RSS vs Browser) and frequency.

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What is a Widget?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

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. What is a Widget? so I go search for some music for the soundtrack.).

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Results from Widget Experiments

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Create Free Polls. 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. I tried one for audience polls and one for messages. I put them into posts, not the sidebar.

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Let's Go Widget Shopping!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

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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Screencast: Using Widgets to Build Community on Blogs Featured on NTEN Blog

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

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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Five Tools for Engaging Your Members Online (Easy, Inexpensive Ways to Make Your [Virtual] World a Better Place)

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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. Polling widgets are a fun and simple way to interact with visitors on your site. With a CDN, your Web content is dispersed from your server to a global network of servers.

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9 Captivating Content Ideas to Enhance Your Nonprofit Blog

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This could include: Games Quizzes Polls Maps Petitions Ensure your interactive content is directly related to your nonprofit’s mission. However, keep in mind that a user-friendly CMS like WordPress makes it simple to add engaging content like quizzes and polls to your blog content.