Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 31, 2011

Use Third-Party Widgets Only if They Add Value. The Web has become overrun with widgets! Some are useful and well designed (such as the Facebook like box and the Twitter profile widget), but the majority add clutter and inconsistency to your website. As a general rule of thumb, keep widgets off your home page.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 13, 2021

Step 1: Conduct a Content Inventory and Site Audit. A content inventory is a list of all the content on your site. Tools like Screaming Frog can be used to crawl your current site and download the results onto a spreadsheet where each piece of content can be assessed. Content to be relocated elsewhere on your site.

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Robert Weiner

APRIL 11, 2009

Several friends who have decided to explore WordPress have asked how I built my site. I now know enough to tweak the site myself, but sometimes need guidance from Robyn. 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.

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Byte Technology

MAY 23, 2017

When it comes to WordPress sites, many of the themes also work around the idea of assimilation and integration with other online resources. And for many site owners and administrators, making it easy for visitors to their site to instantly and easily interact with social media portals is of paramount importance.

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Byte Technology

AUGUST 8, 2017

The best WordPress bloggers, site owners and administrators know that one of the keys to having a fantastic and wildly successful web page is to integrate everything you post and promote with some sort of social media component. If your site takes the style of a magazine or news outlet, check out Cool Stuff.

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Byte Technology

APRIL 11, 2017

Will you be able to expand the theme and hence your site as your business evolves and grows? You can also add a testimonial and/or portfolio page and comes with tons of widgets you won’t see in other themes, multiple choices for sidebar areas and a simple and easy-to-use options panel that won’t have your pulling your hair out in frustration.

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Byte Technology

MAY 10, 2017

It also features custom widgets and navigation menus—a nice asset to help people find their way around your site—as well as specially-designed sections to add employee profiles, photo galleries and examples from your company’s portfolio. And the social integration option alone is worth giving it serious consideration.

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Byte Technology

MARCH 14, 2017

Indeed, with millions upon millions of the CMS-based sites operating in the virtual realm, making your pages stand apart from the masses can mean the difference between successful exposure and wallowing in obscurity. In the world of WordPress, customization rules the roost. Unfortunately, for many WordPress newbies customizing can be tricky.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

FEBRUARY 18, 2011

They hire that web developer to put a new site together. Then in months, or years, they want to add some new pages, or a new section to their site, and a widget on the side. I have a few suggestions: 1) Assumptions: First, assume the person/people who develop your site might not be around in a year or so.

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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? Kaufman and Marc Connelly.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 12, 2010

Save some time and just right-click the icons below for those sites your organization uses: I know many of you want to know how to add these icons to your blog, website, Facebook Pages, etc. 3) Write the code and copy and paste the code into your blog using a HTML widget or into your Facebook Page using the Static Static FBML App.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 14, 2010

Additionally, Google Reader allows you to Share content on your various social media sites directly from your Google account. If your nonprofit has a YouTube channel, but doesn’t actually upload videos then use the YouTube Sidebar Widget. I am using the Sierra Club Theme (see the screenshots below). iGoogle Home.

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Byte Technology

NOVEMBER 17, 2016

True words no matter whether you’re running on a WordPress site or another platform. Indeed, according to Internet giant Microsoft having even a two-second longer delay in page load time cripples user ratings, click-throughs and—most importantly for those running a money-generating site—lost revenue by nearly five percent across the board.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 25, 2011

In the meantime, nonprofit staff can prepare for the launch of the new brand pages, also known as Google+ Entity Profiles , by creating a Google Account and then setting up your personal Google Profile (which then also becomes your personal Google+ Profile when you get invited to join Google+ or the site comes out of beta). e-Newsletter.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 28, 2010

Web 2.0 = Blogs, wikis, and social networking sites. It’s one person or organization publishing content to many on social networking sites who then re-publish your content to their friends, fans, followers, connections, etc. At its core, Web 2.0 is the beginning of two-way communication in the online public commons. You use Web 2.0

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Byte Technology

APRIL 27, 2017

And yet, if your site has one of those always helpful “frequently asked questions” (FAQ) sections, so much time and trouble can be avoided for both the business owner and the person making a purchase. It’s simple, works great and is a nice—and no-cost—choice for those WordPress e-tail sites just getting started.

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Byte Technology

APRIL 13, 2017

And that slowness can mean a lot to a popular blogger trying to retain a loyal readership or, more critically, to someone running an e-commerce site where dollar and cents are vital to staying in business. Remember this always: when a visitor first lands on your site their initial impression is everything.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 8, 2009

First impressions are important on social media sites, and this page sends a clear message that CMU gets Facebook and is taking it seriously. 3) Integrate Facebook “Share&# buttons and/or Fan Box Widgets into your “Donate Now&# Page(s) and online petitions. 2) Create a customized Tab for your default Landing Tab.

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NetWits

JUNE 8, 2012

Integrating the social experience into your organization’s web site will help promote the channel, engage supporters, and provide a constant source of dynamic content …” - Melanie Mathos and Chad Norman “101 Social Media Tactics for Nonprofits: A Field Guide.”. Incorporate social sharing on your site via AddThis or ShareThis.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 27, 2012

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. Business Master File (BMF), thus limiting their capacity to receive online donations from giving portals and social networking sites.

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NTEN

JANUARY 8, 2013

There are many sites that allow you to upload data, as well as download other data, for free. These are just a handful of nonprofit-focused data sharing sites to get you started: National Center for Charitable Statistics: NCCS provides data, as well as analysis tools and reports, on Nonprofits around the US.

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Byte Technology

MARCH 16, 2017

Of course, the quickest way to grab donations from your site would be to add that all-too-familiar Paypal button, but that’s not always the right choice for everyone as the options for customizing the form are nearly non-existent, meaning your donation page will look exactly the same as millions of others.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 24, 2010

This will change quickly as you build your communities on social media sites. Many donors may not feel comfortable donating directly through social media apps and widgets (yet), but they do feel comfortable clicking to your “Donate Now&# page on your website from a link posted on Facebook, Twitter, MySpace, etc. Volunteers.

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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. There are so many tools out there designed to plug right into a site – what have you used or seen that you recommend adding here? Focus: Everything Else.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 21, 2009

Nonprofits can easily design their profile on change.org to match their website and other social networking sites. Use our “Take Action&# and Fundraising Widgets. After you create an e-mail petition, you can grab a “Take Action&# widget that you can posted on Blogs, MySpace, etc. Now on to the best practices: 1.

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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.

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Forum One

MAY 19, 2009

Check out this web widget that you can embed on your own site or blog. Simply click on "Get Widget" and copy the code into your blog, Facebook profile, or other site. As the health reform debate heats up, here's a new way to stay on top of the most relevant news and opinion from major newspapers and other media outlets.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 3, 2008

The Federal Hurricane Response widget is a web tool designed to help share information during a major emergency with links to authoritative federal government sites on how to get help; finding friends and family; health and safety information; how to donate and volunteer; and a summary of what the government is doing.

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NetWits

AUGUST 11, 2011

Don’t forget to shut down registration, and be sure to update the site with appropriate awareness messaging around the event. June: Extend the reach of your event by having participants add fundraising widgets and badges to their Facebook® profile pages and other web properties, including personal blogs and photo site profiles.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 6, 2007

When I saw the words "nonprofit widget," I had a senior moment. I remembered that almost a year ago I was working on screencast about widgets for nonprofits to build community and had set up a wikispace called nonprofit widgets. I think that slapping up a widget and not having strategy doesn't work.

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NCE Social Media

SEPTEMBER 17, 2009

widgets like YouTube or other videos, photos, documents, games and widget applications). Users can also create their own mashups of their favorite content, putting multiple things into a single widget which they can post to their blog, MySpace, Facebook or any site online.

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TechImpact

JULY 22, 2014

By having prominently placed your signup boxes in the first step, anyone who arrives to your site as a result of your mailer will be prompted upon arrival to give you their email. Facebook has a built-in email capture widget that, when turned on, can bay dividends. Try using a unique address that will help you track those conversions.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 4, 2007

Francesco Santini translated and published the widget fundraising case study on the Italian portal on fundraising. Guide for the best use of fundraising widget and even more ( [link].com/2007/06/05/guida-allutiliz Guide for the best use of fundraising widget and even more ( [link].com/2007/06/05/guida-allutiliz How cool is that?

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Forum One

OCTOBER 7, 2008

Check it out on their site , or use the nice widget below to search for playspaces near you. The widget is great as other bloggers or web site owners can embed some easy code to have the widget on their own site -- magnifying the visibility for KABOOM!

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Wild Apricot

JUNE 5, 2019

If your site uses another website builder but you want to include Wild Apricot features, you can! Here's how to embed widgets in popular site builders.

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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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JULY 4, 2017

That said, the folks at WP Beginner have compiled an impressive list of creative shortcuts and work-arounds that can really up a user’s game and make the process of designing, launching and administering a WordPress site infinitely more seamless and easy. Here’s part one with seven tips and tricks, stand by for part 2 next week.

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