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WordPress 4.8: What’s New and Notable in the Latest Release

Byte Technology

Frequent users of WordPress will at once recognize a new element that they’ve been asking for: Media Widgets. First there’s the Image Widget, which allows users to add a picture to a sidebar without having to use a plugin or write custom HTML. In the previous article we mentioned the addition of a Visual Editor widget for text.

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New and Notable: What’s Coming With WordPress 4.9

Byte Technology

From a shiny new Events widget to tools that allow the display of images in sidebars without the use of a plugin or code, a great text editor for formatting posts to a video tool that lets people upload their videos (also to a sidebar area) from providers such as YouTube and Vimeo, the update was much heralded.

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Addressing Accessibility in Social Media

NTEN

Social features on your site—such as comments, discussion boards, user-submitted stories, ratings, and voting widgets—can help build engagement within your audience. Implement accessible widgets: Make sure any rating, sharing, and voting widgets are accessible via keyboard.

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Talk To Me: What do you think about Widgets!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

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. powered by ODEO.

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Grow Your Email List Without Spending Money

Tech Soup

And yet, it's important to make the effort, becauses email "churn" eats away at the size of your file as people change email addresses, close accounts, and change jobs. These free ideas and strategies will build your email file by tapping into your current website traffic and social media follower community.

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Nonprofit Radio: How to Make Podcasts That Promote Your Brand and Engage Supporters

NTEN

From questions about the actual production of the files, to distribution, to listener metrics and feedback, there are plenty of moving parts that can raise questions. Podcasting is formally defined as the act of distributing syndicated audio content online via RSS to listeners who use software or a hardware device to receive updates.

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09NTC Nonprofit Radio: How to Make Podcasts That Promote Your Brand and Engage Supporters

Amy Sample Ward

general awareness at around 40%, though… people don’t necessarily know they are consuming a podcast, audio embedded in rss etc. if you are recroding with multiple people, you can record them to separate audio files so you can edit more easily. allows you to backup the files by recording to multiple devices.

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