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What is a Widget?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Based on photo entitled " Gear " from Flattop341's Flickr Industrial Set. 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. What is a Widget? " Since this is a movie or visual, it has to be explained in a visual way.

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Katya Andresen on Fundraising Widgets

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Katya Andresen of the Nonprofit Marketing Blog left me a message on Odeo in response to the question "What do you think about widgets for building community, in particular fundraising widgets?" " Here's the transcript: "I think widgets are a great way to build community if you are authentic about it.

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Cheap and Cheerful Audience Analysis for Nonprofits

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Flickr Photo by Matthew Field. Give them a name, find a photo of them on a stock photography site and flesh out their biographical details. You could simply ask one question each month in a poll widget in your monthly email newsletter. ” My answer is: ”Don’t ask me, ask your audience.”

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Social Media at a Glance: October Edition

NonProfit Hub

Instagram now supports horizontal and vertical photo formats , removing the restrictions of having to post a square photo, or inserting borders to post more than just square photos. My favorite feature that Twitter has finally released to all of its users is the Twitter Polls. Personalization is the name of the game.

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Are you a flickr contact pack rat or connoisseur?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

So, I decided to use his scale and create a widget poll. This prompted me to wonder about nonprofit flickr contact behavior and create the above poll. Answer the poll and drop a comment about the other questions. That's also because I tend to upload photos related to my blog posts. educational??? software, eh?

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4 Step by Step Engagement Strategies for Nonprofit Websites

Connection Cafe

Make sure you have someone armed with a camera to capture photos and videos of every event to show people what you’re all about. Use social widgets to allow easy interactions such as like, share, comment, etc. Use polls to ask a question. Polls are a win-win concept. Turn every event into a content opportunity.

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Five Tools for Engaging Your Members Online (Easy, Inexpensive Ways to Make Your [Virtual] World a Better Place)

NTEN

Once you've got fresh content, spice it up with a photo or video. Polling widgets are a fun and simple way to interact with visitors on your site. If you are in the social media space, let people know by providing a Twitter feed or YouTube promotion on your website which can update automatically. Diversify Your Content.

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