Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2007

A lot of people have asked me about those widget fundraising campaigns I did last December. Using the ChipIn Fundraising Badge for a Personal Fundraising Campaign How I raised over $800 for a Cambodian Ophran's College Education in A Couple Weeks The lessons learned from my action learning experiment.

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NetWits

AUGUST 11, 2011

Don’t forget to shut down registration, and be sure to update the site with appropriate awareness messaging around the event. June: Extend the reach of your event by having participants add fundraising widgets and badges to their Facebook® profile pages and other web properties, including personal blogs and photo site profiles.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 28, 2006

I invited my readers to be copy editors, point out mistakes, and earn a typo police badge. And, last week I was outed as a widget slob by another well-respected blogger no less! During the last few weeks of widget experimentation, I had installed (and unstalled) quite a few widgets on my blog. Yes, it got messy.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 20, 2007

Now, this is a cool use of a widget! I can customize the widget to give me the information by state, city, or zip code. Lawrence Bender, producer of An Inconvenient Truth, previewed the site at the U.S. It is part of an awareness raising campaign about switching to CFL light blubs. Any organization can easily download the ???badge,???

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 16, 2006

Thank Yous So far, other bloggers have added the badge to their site or linked to the campaign and I want say a big thanks and in Khmer too ! At our last board meeting, we discussed online fundraising strategies and I made a proposal about using the fundraising widget and a campaign. Is that built into the system?

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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. Bottom line: I love Indiegogo's nonprofit perks, especially the verified nonprofit badge you can put on your page.

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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. Bottom line: I love Indiegogo's nonprofit perks, especially the verified nonprofit badge you can put on your page.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 11, 2006

Deborah Finn has been playing with widgets and decided to install the MyBlogLog widget today. By default MyBlogLog users join the community of a site using MyBlogLog after ten visits to that site, but you can increase that number or require manual joining. She writes about her experience here. (I s page looks like.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 7, 2008

The applications also include a widget badge (see above) that you can put on your web site to recruit people off of Facebook to join the fun. The games include giving good karma, numbers games, match gifts, and karma tickets (like scratch and win lottery tickets!).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 23, 2007

What does web site stickiness mean in the context of Web2.0? Seb Chan, of the Fresh + New Blog, raises an interesting question about web site stickness in a web2.0 how can we get them to do that on our site as well???? s heart: boils down to this: Just what should I be doing with my Web site to engage with my customers?

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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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Care2

NOVEMBER 15, 2007

Despite the more recent shift of attention to Facebook in the past six months by the nonprofit community, there are still remnants of a goldrush by nonprofits over the last year to build a presence on the uber-popular site. And what is the optimum combination of videos, pictures, text, friends, and other widgets? And is there any left?

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Care2

NOVEMBER 8, 2007

Despite the more recent shift of attention to Facebook in the past six months by the nonprofit community, there are still remnants of a goldrush by nonprofits over the last year to build a presence on the uber-popular site. And what is the optimum combination of videos, pictures, text, friends, and other widgets? And is there any left?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 28, 2007

Make A Wish Donation Box in Second Life On the Web, you can become a messenger for your cause by adding a charity badge or fundraising widget to your blog or web site. My brother in-law (the boy's father) has an account in SL and together we designed the Make A Wish donation boxes and set up the first donation site in 2006.

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Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 23, 2007

EXTRA-ORGANIZATIONAL ACTIVISTS USING SOCIAL WEB TOOLS Beth Kanter raises $800 for the Sharing Foundation using the ChipIn widget plus her blog , social networks, Flickr and video in 26 days. Beth Kanter raises $50,000 for the Sharing Foundation using a Network for Good Badge and similar tools to the ChipIn campaign, in three weeks.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 8, 2006

I happened to pop out of reader today and cruise through Marnie Webb's sidebar links from Ma.gnolia to land on an interesting article from Monday's SF Chronicle called " Social Sites Becoming Too Much of A good Thing." If you believe the buzz, the latest incarnation of the Web is all about sharing, connecting and community.

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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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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

NOVEMBER 7, 2006

This weekend I went widget shopping! I installed (and unstalled) lots of widgets until I found a few good ones that might be appropriate for nonprofits. Where to find widgets. There are three general types of sources to find widgets to install on your organization's blog or web site: 1. The particular Web2.0

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Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 4, 2007

The Christian Science Monitor, CNN, and CNET News are among the many sites that now deliver updated online content via RSS. Beth Kanter raised $50,000 for the Sharing Foundation using a Network for Good Badge and similar tools to the ChipIn campaign, in three weeks. Chez Pim raised almost $62,000 with her Menu for Hope Campaign in 2.5

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NTEN

MARCH 19, 2010

Call2Action's Spark™ combines video with action tools in one shareable widget. Learn about our NPOrganizer Starter Pack includes Web Site Development and CRM all for $2000. Importantly, our flexible technology lets you build the web sites, pages, forms, tabs and fields you need--all without any programming skills.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 6, 2007

The Technovist offers some 5 tips for nonprofits to get started with social networking sites. " If your organization is using social media, perhaps you've been wondering how to measure or whether if you can even measure "embeds" (that cut and paste script for videos, badges, widgets, and the like). hard to use ?"

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NTEN

MARCH 19, 2010

Call2Action's Spark™ combines video with action tools in one shareable widget. Learn about our NPOrganizer Starter Pack includes Web Site Development and CRM all for $2000. Importantly, our flexible technology lets you build the web sites, pages, forms, tabs and fields you need--all without any programming skills.

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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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NetWits

NOVEMBER 15, 2010

When in-person is simply not an option, consider using multimedia to enhance your site and make it visually appealing – videos, photos, images, podcasts and even live streaming video are great ways to share your organization’s culture and engage with constituents using a personal, interactive touch. SlideshowPro Director.

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Care2

FEBRUARY 3, 2009

For example, online shopping sites that pay cash back can generate 10s of 1000s of dollars if large memberships use them regularly. 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

Here's more about the site and the name. Whatever, MySpace has over 80% of the total market of social networking site users according a recent report by hitwise, but keep in mind it represents 6.5% Charity Badges, Widgets, Virtual World Fundraising and More. Change.org now also sports a widget. technologies.

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