Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 23, 2007

What is interesting to me about this concept of a platform for change that is very different from say - campaigns on social networking sites like Facebook or the use of widgets and charity badges on blogs for personal fundraising campaigns -- is that while Virtual Worlds are empowering individuals -- we are empowering collective action.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 20, 2007

My screencast on widgets is featured in this month's NTEN newsletter in a section pointing to " How To Build Online Community." If you have questions about widgets or want to share your organization???s Other terms used to describe a Web Widget include Gadget, Badge, Module, Capsule, Snippet, Mini and Flake.

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NTEN

MARCH 19, 2010

Call2Action's Spark™ combines video with action tools in one shareable widget. BONUS: If your NTEN Spark garners the most views, we will give away a fully functional spark to the charity of your choice. Stop at booth 2 and register to win a free Zuri Group Facebook strategy and badge design--a $3,000 value.

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MARCH 19, 2010

Call2Action's Spark™ combines video with action tools in one shareable widget. BONUS: If your NTEN Spark garners the most views, we will give away a fully functional spark to the charity of your choice. Stop at booth 2 and register to win a free Zuri Group Facebook strategy and badge design--a $3,000 value.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 6, 2007

And, looking at the list, it's only US-based charities) He raises a great question that gets beyond the scoreboard, numbers only focus of his approach: "Don't you think that they might have lessons to teach all of us?" Aside from visitation numbers, the only other selection criteria is that the nonprofit must be listed in Guidestar.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 9, 2007

I wish at the time I had Steve Bridger's excellent analysis and roundup of using widgets or charity badges for fundraising or advocacy, focusing on examples from the UK and beyond. Steve points out a new widget in the UK called Carebadges and notes it aspires to be the yellow bracelet campaign of the web. Well done Steve!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 24, 2007

They are the types that call on friends to support their charity run or bike ride, knock on doors in the neighborhood to raise funds for a local community project, or hold a dinner party to solicit donations for a charity. Technology Makes a Difference: Widgets and social networks make existing personal fundraisers more effective. (I

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FEBRUARY 3, 2009

The ability to create contests and pass out kudos enables the non profit to help the members to change their shopping and benefit the charity. Building the pages and widgets to promote the effort is a build once, use a million times exercise - the very thing that makes the internet what it is.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 16, 2007

Charity Badges, Widgets, Virtual World Fundraising and More. LinkedIn is jumping on the Charity Badge bandwagon reports the KK blog. Change.org now also sports a widget. " It goes to provide strong encouraging words for new bloggers to jump in there. Here's an example from Doctors Without Borders.

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