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Screencast: Call for Blog Actors!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

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. Publishing other folks content via RSS feeds on your blog. Share what you're feeds your reading. Live chat on your blog. mail on your blog.

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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. Based on photo entitled " Gear " from Flattop341's Flickr Industrial Set.

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10 Steps to Extension Professional 2.0 Remix

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Bloggers frequently link to and comment on other blogs, creating the type of immediate connection one would have in a conversation. When you take the time to comment on a post, you become part of the blogger's community and if you are writing a blog, they will most definitely read your post and perhaps become a reader of your blog.

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What happens when you set your content free with creative commons licensing?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I've even taught my children about creative commons (check out Harry's screencast - What A Second Grader Knows About Creative Commons that earned him a feature story in the School Library Association Journal) All of this assumes that people really bother to look at the license, understand it , and respect the rules.

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What do web stats mean, anyway?

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

I don’t want to start a race to the top of the Nonprofit 25 – where organizations start spending more time worrying about their position on that list, and less time feeding people. Allan says: Granted, web site stats will not tell me anything about how many hungry people a nonprofit feeds.

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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

Original photo remixed from flickr photo by Stinky Peter Screencast in conjunction with NTEN View the screencast as higher quality flash file -takes longer to download here. My screencast on widgets is featured in this month's NTEN newsletter in a section pointing to " How To Build Online Community." I'm so excited!

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50 Fun, Useful, and Totally Random Resources for Nonprofits

Nonprofit Tech for Good

It also pulls in a feed of most recent Facebook news and illuminates in real-time the fastest growing countries using Facebook. Very useful to social media practitioners and bloggers. MoFuse is a mobile content management system that allows you to easily create mobile websites using basic HTML and the RSS feed of your blog.

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