First though, if you’re playing catch-up a bit, Heidi Cohen has written a good widgets primer on ClickZ. And, you guessed it… you can easily and quickly configure your own widget (or ‘badge’ in Yahoo-speak) and install it on your website, blog and / or social network page with a simple cut and paste. but if I recall correctly, one of Des’s golden rules was encourage you to campaign for something, rather than against something, I’ve been having a lot of widgety thoughts recently, so I thought I’d bundle up a few loose ends in the one (long) post.

As your website grows in size over time, you may want to think about adding a site-specific search box or widget, to help your readers to find the information they’re seeking among your web pages. According to stats released by Lijit last November, Google still holds the lead for popular site search widgets, withLijit coming up fast in second place. Tags: websites Widgets Other popular search tools named in the Lijit study included Blogbar.org, Eurekster, IceRocket, Quintura, and Sphere. In the few months since that study...(

Change.org , the social network where users can find like-minded do-gooders based on shared issues that they want to change, or nonprofits that they support, has launched a fundraising widget (pictured left). The widget can be placed on a blog, MySpace, Facebook, or a website. According to Ben Rattray, the founder of Change.org, over 200 nonprofits and NGOs like CARE , Oxfam America , Ashoka , Amnesty International , Grameen Foundation , Greenpeace , Nature Conservancy , USA for UNHCR , World Wildlife Fund , and Natural Resources Defense Council have signed

O ne of the most effective social media tools available to small non-profits are embeddable widgets. Youtube videos, fundraising widgets and social networking widgets can empower your fans to take action for your non-profit. If you found this post useful, leave a comment, subscribe , or find out how I can help your non-profit . Sociable Microactions are key A

Engage your audiences, help supporters of your non-profit keep up with any tagged topic on Twitter and Flickr, or publicize your event with a custom Twitterfountain , a nifty new mashup you can embed on your blog or website — Have you ever wanted to see what was happening at that one event you could not go to? Widgets images Twitter application social medi Did the plain text-backchannels somehow left you feeling disappointed? Twitterfountain comes to your aid: we mash up tweets and Flickr-images that share the same tags into a spectacular visual....(

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. Here are my notes and reflections. Where to find widgets There are three general types of sources to find widgets to install on your organization's blog or web 1. The particular Web2.0

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. It will explain the problem that a widget may solve for a nonprofit blog, some examples of nonprofit blogs using them, and oh yeah, answer the age old question "What Based on photo entitled " Gear " from Flattop341's Flickr Industrial Set quot;

I'd like to thank new Idealware blogger Debra Askanase for the inspiration for this post, which actually take from her idea for a post around fundraising and advocacy widgets, and which she graciously let me run with due to my slight obsession with widgets. There are many great resources and experts out there on viral strategies that apply to using widgets and I won't try to cover all that here. I look forward to her thoughts on the big picture around this web trend and hope she will post a follow up and others will share their insights in the comments below.

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 . Today, I came across an interesting post from John Bell of Digital Influence Mapping Project blog has an interesting idea , nonprofitwidget.org: Non-profits need to engage their brand ambassadors now. All nonprofits can publish their widgets in this We need nonprofitwidget.org nonprofitwidget.org to emerge not as just another

I'm sitting here in awe that you all have helped me raised $261 from 11 donors (Thurs. Preparation Created the campaign materials (blog post, text messaging, widget, widget campaign page , video, and photos) and message (such as it is) based on the a comment that Katya made about personal fundraising campaigns: ( here ) The key is to let people upload their own text, photos, or video about why they care about a cause and then link to the cause. At our last board meeting, we discussed My post over at Katya's blog generated some excellent advice and has also raised many more questions.