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Don’t Think Social Media Results in Online Donations? Think Again!

Nonprofit Tech for Good

As a result, we spent the next 10 years crafting our print and Web materials to soothe those fears, and as of today, I’d say we were successful. That’s just the way the Web works now — fortune befriends the early adopters. But that conclusion misses the bigger picture of what’s really happening.

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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. This is both the hard and fun part of making web videos.

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11 Donate Now Best Practices for Nonprofits

Nonprofit Tech for Good

It’s true that Web 2.0 widgets and apps have yet to raise large amounts in online dollars for most nonprofits, but that doesn’t mean that social media is not resulting in large amounts of dollars raised online. For Web promotions, it’s essential that you have a well-designed graphic that asks supporters to become sustainers.

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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. The particular Web2.0

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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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Cheap and Cheerful Audience Analysis for Nonprofits

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

You could simply ask one question each month in a poll widget in your monthly email newsletter. Facebook ads and surveys are examples of a conviction that effective web communicators hold dear: test your instincts and trust the numbers. At the end of the year, you’ll have twelve new data points about your audience.

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