Amy Sample Ward

AUGUST 6, 2010

I announced last week that I’ve partnered with Matt Chevy to do a redesign of this blog. Monday’s post focused on the content; Wednesday’s post looked at fueling comments. 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.

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Byte Technology

FEBRUARY 14, 2017

It’s no great secret that blogging is big. At present it’s estimated that there are some 150 million active blogs operating at any given time. Unfortunately there are lots of reasons that some blogs don’t make the grade and wither and die. Huge really. Experts recommend establishing a rhythm as soon as you can.

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Amy Sample Ward

AUGUST 9, 2010

As I recently announced , I’m collaborating with Matt Chevy on a redesign of this website to freshen up the design, make presentations, resources and case studies all easier to find, and surface the rich conversations taking place in the comments. Last week’s posts had three topics: Content , Comments and Extras.

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Byte Technology

NOVEMBER 15, 2016

This free plugin, which already enjoys a place on more than one millions websites, gives owners access to the “Top Post and Pages” widget, which is only one of its many exciting features. You can also enable the widget to display a certain number of items in a sidebar and have them appear as simple text or an image.

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Byte Technology

MAY 2, 2017

Stay tuned for more fixes for common problems in future blog posts.). 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. This is convenient sure, except that it makes your site look sloppy and amateurish.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 2, 2008

  It solves the problem of monitoring blog comments where people specifically mention you.     People can make comments about you on other blogs and if you only track links from blog posts, you won't see it.  Will you respond to all comments? The Art of Commenting on Blogs.

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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? one whose name is not known or cannot be recalled.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 3, 2006

Tonight I went widget shopping. After looking at lots of them, I picked out a few of the ones I thought I had potential and installed them on my blog. For those of you who don't click through to my blog, here's some screencaptures of what they look like in flickr, my notes are included. powered by ODEO.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 31, 2006

I am working on a screencast about widgets -- more specifically free and easy-to-use community building tools for your blog. I'm busy researching and writing the script which will cover the why, what, and examples, but now I'm in the nitty gritty stage of playing with a few widgets. No option for researching widgets.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 24, 2010

Blog Traffic. Blogging was the missing piece in my social media strategy. If your nonprofit is already blogging, plot your stats. If not, here are 5 reasons why your nonprofit should blog. Every so often a supporter will testify to your good work via a wall or blog comment. I was a reluctant blogger.

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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. I asked people to participate via my blog and I also IM/emailed a few folks. I put them into posts, not the sidebar.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 3, 2006

He's been redesigning his blog over the past few days, adding widgets for visual appeal and RSS publishing feeds. The transcript is edited for clarity - see Torley comment. I enjoy widgets because they create visual interest. Widgets create gateways and connections between different web sites and blogs.

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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. Update: Dear Beth, your comment on my blog is a great honor for me! Despite of my bad English language knowledge I want to translate the article of my blog to let you read what I wrote. How cool is that?

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Byte Technology

FEBRUARY 9, 2017

Basically, they want people to return to their page again and again, whether it’s to buy their merchandise or engage their services, read the latest blog or just comment on topic-specific trends. Incrwd’s designers have shown that the program increases page views as well as time spent on a site, social shares, comments etc.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 1, 2006

I'm researching widgets for a screencast and you can read my research in progress here. Here's a widget that allows you to send a message over the Web for free! Tell me: -Who you are -Your blog, organization -What do you think about widgets to build community around your blog? About this widget.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 8, 2009

Nonprofits that have been using Facebook for a year or more consistently comment “OK… Facebook is great, but how can we take our Facebook Page strategy to the next level?&# 3) Integrate Facebook “Share&# buttons and/or Fan Box Widgets into your “Donate Now&# Page(s) and online petitions.

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NetWits

JUNE 8, 2012

Gather user-generated content via blogs, forums or posts and let your audience help keep content fresh! Tweet, blog and post. Use the Facebook and twitter widgets to pull social posts to your website for fresh content and relevant, engaging activity. Please comment with stories, ideas or examples – we’d all love to hear them!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 28, 2007

A badge that grabs all the publically tagged photos with "onecampaign" I need this for a screenshot for a presentation at NTC about widgets. Comments? More Flickr photos tagged with onecampaign. What point do you think I'm trying make?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 28, 2006

Not only have I confessed this on my blog, but I went as far to compare tag sloppiness to car slopiness. And, last week I was outed as a widget slob by another well-respected blogger no less! During the last few weeks of widget experimentation, I had installed (and unstalled) quite a few widgets on my blog.

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TechImpact

OCTOBER 14, 2014

Let us know in the comment section below. Don’t just expect your volunteers to just stand on the assembly line and make their widgets, especially those with ‘high skills.’ The post Volunteers Do Their Best Work While Engaged appeared first on Tech Impact Blog - Leaders in Non-Profit Technology. Define exactly what you need.

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Byte Technology

MARCH 16, 2017

Here you can fill in the fields you want to, such as name, email, donation amount, comment or message etc. Now you’re ready to place the donation form on your site: do this by placing a donation widget in your page’s sidebar or footer or by going to “Pages, Add New” and clicking on the “Add Form” button.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 26, 2006

I'm researching for a screencast that I will shoot over the next few weeks on the topic of widgets that can be used for your blog to enable conversation or support nonprofit programs. I'm looking for widgets that can easily add any of the following features: Integrating calendar or events info on your blog. Commenting.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 8, 2009

.    A few days ago, I asked " What are the best metrics to track your blog's ROI and make improvements? "   The areas of the blogging ROI analysis included:  author contribution, readership growth, reader engagement, authority, cost, and value.  Reader Sharing (bookmarked items).

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 21, 2009

That said, promote your “Start A Fundraising Page&# link [ View Example ] on your website, in your email newsletter, on your MySpace profile, your Facebook Page, and your blog. And of course, bloggers love blog comments! Use our “Take Action&# and Fundraising Widgets. Post at least 2 “Asks&# a week.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 16, 2006

My post over at Katya's blog generated some excellent advice and has also raised many more questions. Have a question: I want to publically acknowledge the names of the donors here on this blog and what I don't know is whether donors opted to be anonymous or not? Should have set up a campaign tag to track blog posts, etc.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 8, 2010

The social strategy includes the widget above that can be customized to show the charity and be shared on different social networking sites or blogs. They have created many social sharing opportunities, for example: Visit Create Change select a charity and share the widget with your network. Fine Blog . Amy Sample Ward.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

FEBRUARY 5, 2008

Sproutbuilder is this amazing drag-and-drop widget maker you’ve just gotta try ( invite here – just start, and it will prompt you to create an account when you want to save your sprout.) Corporations sponsor the widget, so there is a brand showing. 1 comment… read it below or add one } 1 Beth Kanter 02.05.08

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 19, 2009

How to Create a Blogging Plan and Actually Reach Your Goals This Year by ProBlogger. You Need a Blog Strategy by ProBlogger (Darren Rowse). Blogging Strategy 101: a Primer by SCOUT. Build awareness and generate buzz – Write weekly for your blog. Incorporate these widgets into your blog. Starter Questions.

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Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 10, 2011

In the last few months, participation had diminished to only a handful of actual commenters during the chat (though there were always many more “lurking” or following without commenting). 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.

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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. 2 comments… read them below or add one } 1 ThomasT 06.11.08

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 21, 2009

It’s always a little weird to talk over the phone and not be able to hear or see those you are presenting to, but everyone was really great with comments and questions and responding online so I knew I wasn’t talking to myself! That’s it; once you hit save that tag is created.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 6, 2010

She and I have have linked to each other’s blog posts and commented on each others posts over the past three years. 4. Widgets work. It gave them plenty of material to post on their blogs—or write their own stories. State Department. Note from Beth: Diana Scimone is a free agent fundraiser.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 31, 2008

One of the things I've been wanting to do for a while is review my blog content for the year and select the "Top 10" posts or the "best of" posts. Once a year in June, I do an overall benchmarking and ROI analysis of my blog using particular metrics. Blogging Behind the Nonprofit Firewall: ROI Approach.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 27, 2006

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Carnival of Nonprofit Consultants October 30, 2006 This Carnival of Nonprofit Consultants has given me a chance to read some blogs I don’t usually get to read, since I’m so often focused in the tech field.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 26, 2008

I will use a blog rich in video and audio to share my discoveries and analysis. Britt Bravo wrote a post several months back defining the term: people who are using their blog, podcast or vlog to raise awareness, build community, and/or facilitate readers/listeners/viewers' taking action to make the world a better place. What's that?

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Amy Sample Ward

OCTOBER 27, 2009

This month’s Net2 Think Tank question asks, “How do you stay up-to-date online?&# There are so many blogs, news sources, and conversations happening at the same time, every day, and the chances that you’ll be able to find them all without trying is pretty unlikely. get started, just visit [link] and create an account.

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Amy Sample Ward

DECEMBER 24, 2009

You can join the conversations in the comments, or click through to the original posts to find what others are saying. To follow more of the things I find online, you can follow @amysampleward on Twitter (which is just a blog and resource feed), or find me on Delicious (for all kinds of bookmarks).

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