Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 3, 2006

Tonight I went widget shopping. There are a bunch of different search widgets that allow visitors (or you) to search your blog's content. There are a bunch of different search widgets that allow visitors (or you) to search your blog's content. Widgets make it easier to enhance the conversation around the content on a blog.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 6, 2006

Several folks emailed me to tell me that they sent me a message using the message widget. I did a quick and dirty screencast of how to leave a message using the odeo message widget. so this might be another reason why the message widget isn't be used by blog visitors. I never received the messages. It made me curious.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 7, 2006

Get this widget! the lastest from Feedburner - the ability to put your log or photo into an RSS widget. You knew I just had to do this. The hardest part was the creating the jpg. That's my Second Life avatar). Downside is that if you put javascript into your post - it doesn't show up.

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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. Using widgets is not yet a common practice on nonprofit blogs. Maybe it will become clearer with more fundraising widgets.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 11, 2006

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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 11, 2006

I tracked down Web/Internet Strategy expert, Michael Stein , to get his take on widgets for fundraising. Here's the transcript: "When I think about web widgets, I think about the potential they have for online fundraising campaigns. This can be video, graphics that show contantly updated information about the fundraising goal.

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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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 1, 2006

I put query out on the NTEN affinity group for nonprofit blogging about widgets. Reed Stockman from AFP Blog (Associate of Fundraising Professionals) told me that he is using a widget called RSSMIX to combine feeds and republish them on their Master Blog. He notes that this widget is useful because it: a.) drives traffic c.)

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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. Guide for the best use of fundraising widget and even more ( [link].com/2007/06/05/guida-allutiliz Guide for the best use of fundraising widget and even more ( [link].com/2007/06/05/guida-allutiliz How cool is that?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 4, 2008

That's a widget I just created using Sproutbuilder , a new product form the creators of ChipIn. Peter wondered about the ability to incorporate a chipin payment widget linked to other providers and how it may integrate with Facebook Causes. My widget is sort of lame because I'm tired right now. In minutes.

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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. I enjoy widgets because they create visual interest. Also, I have the RSS widget that streams the headlines from my employer's blog onto my personal blog. Torley Linden works for Linden Lab (Second Life).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 7, 2006

I was delighted to discover his newly redesigned drupal blog and all the widgets he has installed. He also wrote an excellent response to my query, "What do you think about widgets?" Asking whether widgets will foster community is a tricky question. " I have to quote a few points here: The Web???s

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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. More Flickr photos tagged with onecampaign. What point do you think I'm trying make? Comments?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 13, 2006

I'm thinking about the use of video or vlog posts coupled with fundraising widgets as well as some other possible ways (ad revenue from web videos?) Chipin, the fundraising widget I'm testing for my campaign, offers video integration. to raise money for sponsoring a college student in Cambodia via the Sharing Foundation. They take 50%.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 9, 2008

Marshall Kirkpatrick at Read/Write Web has a scathing review of the Google Nonprofit Widget Builder. " Google Stiffs Nonprofits, Launches Second Rate Widget Builder." Anyone have a different take on the Google Nonprofit Widget Builder? Marshall says there is little customization and no customization.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 18, 2006

So, the campaign has earned $331 via widgets to facilitate contributions and $1.72 Revver pays content creaters based on placing ads on the videos and paying for the click thrus. For my Sharing Foundation campaign, I uploaded the campaign video into revver. (I I got the idea here ). via Revver click thrus.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 29, 2006

Heifer International has rolled out a fundraising widget campaign. Then they will provide the widget code, campaign, and strategy tips. It also isn't clear whether they are using a widget service like Chip In or built their own. re calling on online community leaders like yourself to help give the ultimate gift ???

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2007

A lot of people have asked me about those widget fundraising campaigns I did last December. This case study walks you through the step-by-step process of using the ChipIn widget to implement a successful a personal fundraising campaign on behalf of any nonprofit organization or cause. So, if you're interested, you can learn more.

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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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 29, 2008

This week, we're talking about Module 5: Social Networks (and widgets) for Community Building, Taking Action and/or Fundraising. What are the best getting started for using fundraising widgets and social networking fundraising apps for fundraising? Participating in the conversation. Sharing Your Story Social Media Style.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 14, 2006

I've created a real life personal fundraising campaign for the Sharing Foundation using chipin widget and I'll be sharing what works and what doesn't. s fundraising widget and set it up on my blog. With your help, expertise and guidance, I know we can make 100% of the goal! This is uncharted territory.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 20, 2007

Now, this is a cool use of a widget! I can customize the widget to give me the information by state, city, or zip code. It is part of an awareness raising campaign about switching to CFL light blubs. The 18seconds.org CFL Summit is taking place on February 22, 2007 and will be held at the Tech Museum of Innovation in San Jos??,

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 28, 2006

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. Here's the criteria I came up with for whether or not you keep a widget installed or not: -Does it help you generate traffic?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 16, 2006

At our last board meeting, we discussed online fundraising strategies and I made a proposal about using the fundraising widget and a campaign. I think its really ironic that I'm often hired to create such tools, but because I have not done a fundraising widget campaign I felt I needed to plunge in. What is the checklist?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 15, 2018

And, you can also add their widget to your web site which gives you a great curated selection of philanthropy news. The site also offers content that is expertly curated to cover trends, research, topics, causes, and other information — all with the goal to help improve giving and philanthropy. Check out Giving Compass!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 1, 2010

You are asked to donate a modest amount to autism organizations ($5 or more) and you get to install an app and widget that lets your friends know that you’re not using Twitter or Facebook to support autism. You are asked to donate a modest amount to autism organizations ($5 or more) and you get to install an app and widget [.].

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 6, 2006

It's still in beta. but long time nonprofit technology community member and start up CEO, Carnet Williams, from ChipIn, has just sent me a note about the beta release of their fundraising widgetfor nonprofits and personal fundraising. Read more on using the web for personal fundraising here and here.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 1, 2007

Trying to catch up before I head for NTC, and found this on Lucy Bernholz's blog. It lead this excerpt. Damn, don't have a WSJ subscription! Maybe some kind soul will send me an email with text so I can forward to my mom and dad. Got it from reader: Download Kanter-article-WSJ.pdf.

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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.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 6, 2010

4. Widgets work. This year I’m encouraging more bloggers and other sites to post the ChipIn widget in their storiesIf someone makes a donation via the ChipIn widget on, for example, the Born2Fly website, the totals updates on all the widgets throughout cyberspace.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 24, 2009

If your nonprofit is not taking advantage of free tools like Add This , a widget that encourages users to share your organizations articles or webpages on the most popular social networks or branded toolbars like FreeCause , then your nonprofit is missing out on some big marketing opportunities. Easy to Moderate* 9. Moderate* 10.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 6, 2011

The effort , held May 5-7 encouraged Alexandria citizens to donate using a variety of Razoo’s social fundraising tools from Facebook and Twitter outreach to emails and website widgets. Disclaimer: Razoo is a Zoetica client). Social fundraising is the practice of using person to person online media to solicit online donations.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 16, 2008

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 29, 2006

Click To Play. We are very grateful to everyone for their contributions, links, and advice. I'm elated that we made goal. I'm pulling together all my notes and will post reflections about all the campaign shortly! In the meantime, enjoy the thank you video! AND, Leng Sopharath is only one of 16 college students the Sharing Foundation is supporting.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 6, 2008

Plus all these other ways to follow the conference. Join the 08NTC Twitter pack. Find out more. Get hands-on with mobile campaigns by participating in our NTC SMS campaign. They will be texting about three Gulf Coast organizations. Find out more. With so much on the agenda for the NTC, here's how you can add it to your favorite calendar.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 20, 2008

The next thing now is to add the new AdWords-Style Widget from the Social Actions folks. The widget automatically identifies the keywords on any page and lists social change campaigns related to the stuff you're writing about. Here's a widget I created for Breast Cancer social change campaigns.

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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.

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