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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. What is a Widget? Kaufman and Marc Connelly.

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Building Blocks of Social Media - Webinar slides and notes

Amy Sample Ward

Some of them, along with my answers, include: How much time a day do you spend reading (RSS feeds)? I share a lot of information online, but if it is something I really want to be personal, I take advantage of the settings in different applications and mark things as private or hidden. View more presentations or upload your own.

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APIs for Social Media Integration and More: A Gentle Introduction for Nonprofits

NTEN

Websites today are often full-blown applications. API stands for Application Program Interface, and has become known for, in large part, facilitating the Web 2.0 Focus on the word “interface”, which means facilitating communication between two different applications. Think of APIs as connecting plugs between applications.

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The Social Website: Integrating Social Media into Website Design and Function

NTEN

Some of the items above are simple widgets and plug-and-play doodads that allow one to take a little snippet of code and incorporate it onto a web page. Implementation : livestreaming, Facebook event plugin, Twitter feed. Interact – FB Live Stream, Hashtag (Tweet Chat), Comments. Authenticate – FB Login, Twitter OAuth.

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How Can Volunteer Coordinators Help Their Organizations Become Networked Nonprofits?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

VCs need to work with communications folks to get their opportunities distributed, but a VC might also have her own Twitter feed or blog category to share new opportunities The VC could also use her own professional networks to target special skill sets (such as at LinkedIn). Filtering candidates to assess fit is a crucial step.

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Gobs and Gobs of Data: Strategies for Visualizing and Sharing Policy Content

NTEN

Smart organizations create and publish their data widely to other sites, widgets, social networks, and aggregation applications. While Google provides some nice tools to widgetize your data, there are other simple tools worth exploring to get you started. Feed your raw data to world. Don't let your data fall victim!

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Twitter at PBS

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

She a wide range of experience on different social networking sites, video sharing, widgets, and social applications. She oversee the development of a Facebook Application for Wired Science app, "What Element Are You?," Her PBS station's first foray into Twitter was to set up a feed for Wired Science.

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