Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 22, 2013

Click-by-click, attendees will learn how to use themes, widgets, and basic HTML to design a blog that matches your website and helps recruit new e-newsletter subscribers, online donors, and supporters on Facebook, Twitter, etc. View: All Webinars for Nonprofits.

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

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JULY 28, 2014

These efforts helped drive Benetech’s new work on accessible widgets, experiments with scalable vector graphics (an open standard for rendering graphics in web browser, developed by W3C), annotation as a tool for accessibility, and more.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 3, 2006

Tonight I went widget shopping. There are a bunch of different search widgets that allow visitors (or you) to search your blog's content. There are a bunch of different search widgets that allow visitors (or you) to search your blog's content. powered by ODEO. It isn't a one-way conversation.

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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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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 25, 2011

Google.com is already the number one visited site around the world and they dominate search results. Google dominates search on the Web, and incorporating their +1 button into your website and blog would be wise to both increase traffic and improve your SEO. Add Google’s +1 button to your website and blog. Can anyone help?

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Amy Sample Ward

AUGUST 6, 2010

When I say extras, I mean the widgets, plugins, apps and other random bits that can really add a bit of flavor, not to mention functionality, to a website. Site search. Tags: blogging community webtools blog redesign extras feedback redesign tools widgets wordpress. Redesign topic #3: Adding the Extras. Focus: Everything Else.

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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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The MatrixFiles

MAY 23, 2024

From dashboard customizations and brand-new widgets to an overhaul of the graphing system, there is plenty to be excited about! Gone are the days of having to cram all of your desired widgets onto just the ‘MyMatrixMaxx’ home page. These highly visual dashboard elements will give staff a new perspective on membership data and trends.

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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.) drives traffic c.)

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Forum One

OCTOBER 7, 2008

Playspace Finder, currently in beta, allows you to enter, search, and rate playspaces in your community. Check it out on their site , or use the nice widget below to search for playspaces near you. The KaBOOM!

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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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Byte Technology

OCTOBER 10, 2017

From a shiny new Events widget to tools that allow the display of images in sidebars without the use of a plugin or code, a great text editor for formatting posts to a video tool that lets people upload their videos (also to a sidebar area) from providers such as YouTube and Vimeo, the update was much heralded.

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Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 10, 2011

Again, I would always set up the CoverItLive widget ahead of time so participants could sign up for a reminder when the chat was starting. I opened up a blog posts similar to this one where much of the feedback said a monthly chat was all that people had capacity for. But I’d love to hear your thoughts on moving to a weekly chat! >>

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 23, 2009

Through a search engine, Open Actions XML micro-format, an open API, and third-party tools and widgets, you can find and share ways to get involved in the causes you care about. Hack away on existing or new widgets, tools, and mashups. Romina Oliverio will explain how you can help the Change The Web Challenge.

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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 ). They travel to my blog to search the archives to find it. BTW, I added the Technorati Search widget, the most popular posts widget, and link to the monthly archives). Create Free Polls.

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Byte Technology

NOVEMBER 15, 2016

The unfortunate reality is that most readers, even those truly dedicated to your site, may not have the time and patience to search through past content to find the most outstanding posts that everyone loved but that they missed when they were fresh and new. and add your personal touch by altering the appearance of the widget as you desire.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 14, 2007

That's the shareable output from searchCrystal it's an ego search on the term "Beth Kanter." " 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.

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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. User Twitter Widgets to display updates on your website or blog. Twitter makes this easy via Widgets – customizable objects that can be embedded on your website.

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 21, 2009

You can search within your reader and find content that came through that you might be looking for, even if you didn’t read it the first time. Netvibes is a lot like an iGoogle home page and is designed to have many different widgets or boxes that are customizable.

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 17, 2011

When you think of search engines, you probably think of Google, but maybe not Google Analytics. Your site probably has search functionality, so use Google analytics to track it. If you find things that people are searching for, maybe they need to be promoted more heavily on your site. Look at the URL of the search results page.

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The Science Behind Engaging your Supporters

FEBRUARY 22, 2019

Using the Fundraising Management Landing Page in EveryAction, it's easier than ever to view this data, access critical lists of top donors, search for specific contacts, analyze campaign performance, and more. Each individual widget links to different reports and searches to allow a deeper, real-time analysis of the data you rely on.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 16, 2006

At our last board meeting, we discussed online fundraising strategies and I made a proposal about using the fundraising widget and a campaign. I think its really ironic that I'm often hired to create such tools, but because I have not done a fundraising widget campaign I felt I needed to plunge in. What is the checklist?

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See3

MARCH 16, 2008

Sprout is a tool that lets you easily build your own widget. What I love about this widget is that it includes a link to video — using the See3 logo as the key. Make a Google Search Story Video in Under 5 Minutes Ready for Another Video Contest? Check out the menu on the right side.

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.orgSource

DECEMBER 18, 2023

You saw the word SALE and bought the overpriced widget. Polymer Search utilizes AI to analyze and visualize large datasets. You heard dark chocolate was a healthy option and ate that second slice of cake. Anchoring bias makes people rely too heavily on the first bit of information they receive.

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Wild Apricot

APRIL 16, 2010

Widgets Social networking websites RSS search social media productivity. Now imagine one custom site that lets you monitor all that data at a glance – a dashboard that's updated in real time.( read more ).

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Byte Technology

APRIL 27, 2017

And there’s an added bonus: people tend to use search engines in a question format, so having an FAQ can actually help improve your site’s visibility to the complex algorithms of Google, Yahoo etc. Customers and clients can submit their own questions via a custom form and search quickly for answers.

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Byte Technology

MAY 30, 2017

Sure, most themes come with choices of fonts, colors, sidebar and widget designs and more, but to make more monumental and noticeable alterations many users find themselves lost. However, depending on the theme you’re using you may not have access to all the options for creating the unique feel that you want or need.

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Byte Technology

JANUARY 31, 2017

Also consider that certain themes use widgets, which add functionality, while others give a more static view that you won’t be able to fiddle with very much. Will the theme you choose come with a search function? Navigation is another critical element to consider when choosing a theme.

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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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Robert Weiner

APRIL 11, 2009

Robyn also installed, or pointed me to, widgets that added new features, like the search box and a plug-in that pulls my blog posts from TechSoup into my site. However, I wanted to tweak it, so I paid them for the right to customize it. It went quickly. I now know enough to tweak the site myself, but sometimes need guidance from Robyn.

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Judi Sohn

NOVEMBER 16, 2011

I love widgets. I try and use voice control to “Call (person) mobile” when (person) is in my address book and the phone searches and dials a pizzeria in Idaho. My husband put it best: When my phone is working well I like it, but it’s not working well enough for me to love it. I love Google Maps. I could go on.

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Byte Technology

MAY 2, 2017

Although many WordPress users find them a little scary, shortcodes for widgets are great as they add functionality to text areas without having to know any real coding. If you’re scared about entering it manually, install the Shortcode Widget Plugin and let it do the work for you.

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Nonprofits Source

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

This way, visitors who might land on a blog article or your donation form can easily find their way to another relevant page or resource that they’re searching for. You can easily add an accessibility widget to your website with the right website builder.

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Judi Sohn

MAY 29, 2009

When has making something slick and widget-y first ever brought mass appeal to a new concept? Gmail focused on simplicity first (great spam filtering, super fast search, conversation grouping) and then along came Labs years later to make it all interesting and wiz-bang. Somehow, I wonder if they have it backwards.

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Byte Technology

NOVEMBER 17, 2016

And if that’s not scary enough, Google now contains within its algorithm a ranking factor based on site speed, meaning if you site is too slow your ranking in search results can plummet. Simply put, if your page loads to slowly, people have the strong tendency to move on to another site. So how do you fix a slow-loading WordPress site?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 10, 2014

The DonorEdge site would display a search filter that asked the donor (DonorEdge site visitor) questions to identify and match nonprofit profiles (data and stories) to the donor’s interest. The donor could continue to refine his or her search results to find the best nonprofit “match.” Team 4: “Data Duel: Nonprofit Jeopardy.”

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