3rd Sector Labs

DECEMBER 1, 2013

Drupal is close behind in the number of websites, and it powers leading sites like The White House and The Economist. Open Source allows you to use only those applications that you actually need, radically reducing implementation and maintenance costs (not to mention headaches).

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NonProfit Hub

APRIL 8, 2014

But you’re just scratching the surface with those two mainstream social media sites. At the 2014 AFP International Conference on Fundraising in San Antonio, Lisa Chmiola and David Tinker helped us through some of the lesser known social media sites that can help your nonprofit with efficiency and productivity. Nonprofits pay a 2.5%

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NTEN

JULY 14, 2011

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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Have Fun - Do Good

AUGUST 27, 2007

You can see and share these astounding figures with MAPLight's Presidential Fundraising Widget , which can be placed on your blog or web site. The widget is funded by the $25,000 first prize NetSquared Innovation Award that MAPLight.org received at the NetSquared Conference (N2Y2) , and by the Sunlight Foundation.

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NonProfit Hub

MARCH 3, 2014

Here are some of our favorite online donation tools, with an emphasis on widgets and donate buttons. per transaction , if you fit the application requirements, we strongly recommend applying for a Google Grant , which not only waives processing fees but also sets you up with AdWords, also completely free. Razoo has a competitive 4.9%

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Donation Tools Donor Online 77

Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 23, 2009

Social Actions has created an open database of 60,000+ actions from 40+ sites — including GlobalGiving, Change.org, DonorsChoose.org, Kiva.org, NABUUR, TakingITGlobal, Idealist.org, and VolunteerMatch. Test-drive submitted applications to the Change The Web Challenge. Hack away on existing or new widgets, tools, and mashups.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 27, 2008

It recently launched a ning site - a branded social network for its community of nonprofits. Tell me a little about your organization's social media strategy for its ning (branded social network) site? A Ning site was developed in order to answer this specific need. Ning's development application is very intuitive and easy.

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Amy Sample Ward

DECEMBER 16, 2008

I have a birthday coming up and over the weekend I received an email from Causes, the social change application in Facebook. After I finished personalizing my Birthday Cause and alerting friends about it, I was able to place a widget on my profile so people could see it when they visited my page.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 29, 2010

I was looking at the web sites and applications of some of the organizations who were in the top ten for the $250,000 category. I was curious to see if I could learn anything about their strategy and tactics from visiting their web sites. Each Application Period is followed by a Voting Period.

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NTEN

JULY 15, 2011

If you're considering revamping your website to include social elements like the Facebook Like button, streaming from YouTube, or adding information from a social site through its API, it can be overwhelming to know where to begin. Taking that thought a bit further, think about how using social media on your site will accomplish those goals.

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Social Media Websites Integration Design 87

Global Giving

NOVEMBER 1, 2017

It stands for Application Programming Interface, which is a method for letting a program work with another app or website. Q: So, an API is similar in some ways to a website widget or plug-in? KizunaCranes.com was an engaging site designed to raise funds for the Japan earthquake relief efforts in 2011. Q: What is an API?

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Judi Sohn

AUGUST 1, 2011

No clunky calendar sync application. The built-in Maps application is fantastic. You can jailbreak an iPhone to allow more applications/tweaks. You can root an Android phone to allow more applications/tweaks. So many sites either assume you’ve already rooted the phone or tell you to come back when you have.

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Global Giving

AUGUST 21, 2018

It stands for Application Programming Interface, which is a method for letting a program work with another app or website. Q: So, an API is similar in some ways to a website widget or plug-in? KizunaCranes.com was an engaging site designed to raise funds for the Japan earthquake relief efforts. in Economics.

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API Technology Giving Japan 52

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 14, 2008

Wendy Harman, American Red Cross According to Wendy Harman, employees at the Red Cross were blocked from accessing social networking sites, like Facebook, from work. We created a wiki full of sample avatars, banners, widgets, videos, audio clips, etc. Recently, a change in policy has allowed access. that are easy to grab and use.

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AFP Blog

APRIL 9, 2013

But using this application, or “widget,” donors can give directly to the charity.' Donor-advised funds allow people to establish a charitable account, get an immediate tax deduction, and help decide later which charities receive grants.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 16, 2012

Looking for a web-based software application for fundraising and contact management for donors and other contacts? ChipIn is a free widget for collecting donations and keeping your constituents informed about various fundraising campaigns. The tool works with any web page as well as with most social media sites.

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Tools Fundraising Tech Social Media 65

Tech Soup

AUGUST 14, 2014

I looked at a few popular crowdfunding sites and dissected their cost plans, nonprofit support, and special features. The Scoop: Indiegogo stakes the claim of being the first "perks-based" crowdfunding site. There's a free trial plan that waives CauseVox's monthly fee (if applicable) until you raise $5,000.

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See3

OCTOBER 18, 2007

Convio has built a Facebook application builder as part of their Open initiative. For organizations on the Convio platform, the Facebook application is a no-brainer and a HUGE improvement from Causes. For organizations on the Convio platform, the Facebook application is a no-brainer and a HUGE improvement from Causes.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 21, 2007

The salient quote: Why not roll your own social network, include the OpenSocial API, and have applications, groups, widgets and portals to your site in any number of the “OpenSocial” platforms? It seems to me that many organizations are going to have very similar needs in terms of kinds of applications. Anyone interested?

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Forum One

JANUARY 27, 2009

Smart organizations create and publish their data widely to other sites, widgets, social networks, and aggregation applications. Don't let your data fall victim! Today, there are many tools to visualize and share data online.

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Policy Content Share Strategy 52

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 7, 2008

Dank Apps (creators of the popular Lotto app ) has launched a new series of Social Change applications that allow Facebook users to raise money for a cause through advertising revenue. This means users do not have to donate, but just need to install the application, recruit their friends, or play the games. and puts it on steroids.

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Cancer Facebook Environment Support 57

NTEN

MARCH 18, 2010

Thomas Edison and a few other entrepreneurs put an end to this by building an electrical grid - so factory owners could focus on making shirts or chairs or widgets and not on running their own electrical plant. Most of us now host all of our applications and our data and our email systems documents/spreadsheets, etc.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 3, 2013

I looked at a few popular crowdfunding sites and dissected their cost plans, nonprofit support, and special features. The Scoop: Indiegogo stakes the claim of being the first "perks-based" crowdfunding site. There's a free trial plan that waives CauseVox's monthly fee (if applicable) until you raise $5,000.

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Platform Organization Childhood Badge 65

NTEN

MARCH 18, 2010

Thomas Edison and a few other entrepreneurs put an end to this by building an electrical grid - so factory owners could focus on making shirts or chairs or widgets and not on running their own electrical plant. Most of us now host all of our applications and our data and our email systems documents/spreadsheets, etc.

Social 61

Social South America Disaster Mobile 61

Tech Soup

MAY 16, 2013

Looking for a web-based software application for fundraising and contact management for donors and other contacts? ChipIn is a free widget for collecting donations and keeping your constituents informed about various fundraising campaigns. The tool works with any web page as well as with most social media sites.

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Tools Fundraising Tech Social Media 61

Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 20, 2009

As NTEN states on their site, The NTC is THE place to engage around the technology issues that face the nonprofit sector. You can donate online here through Chipin, an online donation web application linked with Paypal. Please click on the widget below if you can donate. When is the NTEN Conference? Recommended by @kanter ).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 19, 2010

We've been seeing the end of the era of free social media applications over the past few months. Last November, Causes, a popular and free social networking fundraising application, ditched its Myspace widgets and Ideablob closed its doors. So, if era of free 2.0 As we all know, there’s no such thing as a free lunch.

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Ning Free Technology Adopt 101

NTEN

JANUARY 22, 2009

Smart organizations create and publish their data widely to other sites, widgets, social networks, and aggregation applications. It's important that these remain a part of the overall report, but the graphs and charts themselves should be discoverable on your site on their own, as well. Don't let your data fall victim!

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Policy Data Content Share 36

Forum One

FEBRUARY 25, 2010

Now it's time to address the social site with the biggest stage right now: Facebook. It's an extremely popular site with over 100 million U.S. It recently overtook Yahoo.com to become the United States' second-most visited site. You should put buttons on your organization's main site pointing to your page.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 8, 2009

Photo of Chrystie Corns Chrystie Corns is the Social Media Marketing Manager for Where.com , a location-based application chock-full of widgets that deliver essential information about what's around you. I get to use sites like Facebook, Twitter and MySpace for a living! Tell me about your job My job is pretty amazing.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 26, 2009

In fact, without standardization, automation, group policies that control what can and can’t be done on a PC, and some protection from malicious web sites, any company with 15 to 20 desktops or more is really unmanageable. More specifically, can you end hunger in a community with a widget ? Web filtering maximizes available bandwidth.

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

MAY 30, 2006

Those of you who follow the current explosion of new web applications are probably well aware of Emily Chang's eHub site, which profiles new applications as she becomes aware of them. But while I've known about eHub for a long time, somehow I was oblivious to Max Kiesler's mHub site. You need to subscribe to the hubs!

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Judi Sohn

OCTOBER 24, 2009

There were other changes, including grant management workflow and improvements to the relationship widget. Take for example this simple form on our site to capture interest in our upcoming Call-on Congress. Oh, and you can add a Box.net tab to your Salesforce applications. and it includes CASS address standardization !

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NTEN

MAY 28, 2009

There are two major hurdles that must be overcome for an online community to succeed: the selection of appropriate community (or "social-networking") features that make sense for the community in question, and, secondly, actually implementing those features in your online application. The Kitchen Sink Social Networking Site.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 8, 2010

The challenge in online fundraising today is that it's more than just email: it's Facebook, and Twitter, and e-mail, and widgets, and your website, and your blog, and your supporters blogs, and. I meant to write this blog post last summer to share our lessons learned, but I wasn't sure if they were actually applicable.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 14, 2008

She talked about the Panorama project on their site. This PBS station just started their social media experimentation less than a year ago and is already seeing increased audience engagement and visitors to their site. She a wide range of experience on different social networking sites, video sharing, widgets, and social applications.

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

JULY 27, 2007

If you have used any of the business networking sites that have appeared over the years - Ecademy , Xing (formerly OpenBC) or SoFlow (slated to close its doors in just a few days) you'll be familiar with the basic model. But the real promise of Facebook comes from its "application" model. How does it work?

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