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Social Actions’ Change The Web Challenge in Oxford

Amy Sample Ward

Social Actions has created an open database of 60,000+ actions from 40+ sites — including GlobalGiving, Change.org, DonorsChoose.org, Kiva.org, NABUUR, TakingITGlobal, Idealist.org, and VolunteerMatch. Next time inspiration strikes you to make a difference, the opportunities to take action will be but one click away.

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11 Website Design Best Practices for Nonprofits

Nonprofit Tech for Good

are no longer applicable. Videos and photos help tell your organization’s story better, and often inspire donors and supporters to give and take action in a way that text by itself simply cannot. Use Third-Party Widgets Only if They Add Value. The Web has become overrun with widgets! Home Page Design.

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Plugging In: Must-Have WordPress Extras for Business Websites

Byte Technology

. • If you’ve kept track of the most important aspects of running a commerce website, you’ve no doubt heard about the importance of conversion rates—getting a visitor to your site to take a definitive action such as fill our a form, subscribe to your e-newsletter and, most hopefully, make a purchase.

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APIs for Social Media Integration and More: A Gentle Introduction for Nonprofits

NTEN

Websites today are often full-blown applications. API stands for Application Program Interface, and has become known for, in large part, facilitating the Web 2.0 Focus on the word “interface”, which means facilitating communication between two different applications. Think of APIs as connecting plugs between applications.

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9 Social Media for Social Good Sites You Should know About

NetWits

Causes was the very first application built to work with Facebook a few short years ago and now they’ve seen 30 Million dollars raised for 27,000 non-profits. You can even extend the giving experience to your personal website with their giving widget. 2) Causes – [link]. 6) 1% Club – [link].

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Save Your Libraries: They're Good for the Economy

Have Fun - Do Good

The American Library Association has created a Save Libraries in Your State page on their website just to help communities take action. retailers accepted in-store paper applications in 2006- down from 68 percent in 2004. We're facing potential closures of 14 neighborhood libraries, and reduced services at the remaining four.

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Raise Money on Facebook: Four Strategies You Need to Know About

NTEN

Peter Deitz, Social Actions. As of September 2009, scores of Facebook applications have been developed to support the nonprofit sector in one way. According to the Facebook Causes blog , the application has helped raise more than $12 million for nonprofits based in the U.S. and Canada. and Canada.