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Widgets, snippets and badges, oh my!

Connection Cafe

Last night while pondering what I would write today’s blog post on, I read through other recent posts on Connection Café Emma Zolbrod’s post on participant fundraising hit a personal chord. Emma, thank you for sharing your story and experience with participant fundraising. Do you have fundraising milestones?

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7 Techniques for Event Fundraising Success

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Ask Your Lawmaker Widget

NTEN

I love widgets. There's so much potential for fundraising, advocacy, and general outreach. . A lot of you have probably heard about the recent success of a Toronto blogger who combined a fundraising widget from Chip-In with the networking power of Twitter to raise over $14k in about 2 days.

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A few more examples of Widget Fundraising Campaigns

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Heifer International has rolled out a fundraising widget campaign. s easy and fun to invite your community to participate in a fundraising challenge. 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.

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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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How I Raised $100,000 for A Good Cause Using Widgets

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

A lot of people have asked me about those widget fundraising campaigns I did last December. ChipIn asked me to write up a formal case study on my first personal fundraising campaign using their tool. He did an interview with me about widget fundraising -- its brief - go take a listen.

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Personal Fundraising with Widgets: A Few Reflections and Campaign Update

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I'm taking a deep breath to capture the learnings and roll them into the next steps for my personal fundraising campaign on behalf of the Sharing Foundation 's College Sponsorship Program and Leng Sopharath. In the past, I've solicited mostly friends and family for fundraising causes. I'm not a marketing or fundraising professional.

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