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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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. It is part of an awareness raising campaign about switching to CFL light blubs. The 18seconds.org CFL Summit is taking place on February 22, 2007 and will be held at the Tech Museum of Innovation in San Jos??,

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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

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? What's the protocol?

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AUGUST 11, 2011

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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AUGUST 14, 2014

Not only does Indiegogo offer discounts on fees, you can also get a badge on your campaign that says you're a verified 503(c) nonprofit (which, according to the Indiegogo rep I spoke with, helps with garnering donations). 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

JANUARY 4, 2007

In both my campaigns, I let the fundraising widget/badge remain on my sidebar even after the campaign was over and we had made our goal. " So, don't take down your widget immediately! More out of laziness versus strategy. In both instances, there were additional contributions - or the "bounce."

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SEPTEMBER 3, 2013

Not only does Indiegogo offer discounts on fees, you can also get a badge on your campaign that says you're a verified 503(c) nonprofit (which, according to the Indiegogo rep I spoke with, helps with garnering donations). 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. Blog publishers can show a badge on their site with pictures of the most recent MyBlogLog members to visit the site and can display the five most popular outbound links from their blog on the blog community page. s page looks like.

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JANUARY 21, 2008

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transaction fee, and in return receive social media widgets and donor receipts. They use Foursquare to create partner badges. When people check in X number of times, they receive a badge from the application. When the campaign “tilts” (reaches the goal) then everybody’s cards are charged and you’ll get the funds.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 14, 2010

VCs could help volunteers share milestones and accomplishments with badges, banners, or widgets that can be shared with the volunteer’s personal network. Daily coordination with volunteers could be done through social media to bolster membership in the online communities and encourage interactions.

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There are other projects underway to solve it, including the MedBiquitous Activity Report standard and (in a sense) the Mozilla Open Badges project. As Mark Iafrate of Accredible , an evangelist for badges, has suggested, these standards could continue to exist in a layered system that rests atop distributed ledgers.

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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 mini games are not specifically designed to educate about the cause or charity - but are pure Facebook fun.

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NOVEMBER 15, 2007

And what is the optimum combination of videos, pictures, text, friends, and other widgets? Does their profile include a donation widget or a link to click for donations? If it does, how much money has been raised and which widget are they using? The most popular widget was Change.orgs , with Sixdegrees.org also being used.

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NOVEMBER 8, 2007

And what is the optimum combination of videos, pictures, text, friends, and other widgets? Does their profile include a donation widget or a link to click for donations? If it does, how much money has been raised and which widget are they using? The most popular widget was Change.orgs , with Sixdegrees.org also being used.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 23, 2007

Democracy in Action Blog tells us how to use tagging and widgets to share jobs in their community. One hopes that once the CyberYenta solves her blogging platform issue , she'll jump on a job posting widgets for that nonprofit job list.). Time to Nominate Projects, Vote for Videos, and Charity Badge Contest! Details are here.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 14, 2008

Go to the KCET's landing page for the show and you'll see them promoting the Twitter account,(but not with a Twitter badge streaming the actual tweets.) She a wide range of experience on different social networking sites, video sharing, widgets, and social applications. " an interactive periodic table personality quiz.

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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

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. Hear her talk about widgets here ).

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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. With one click, visitors can contribute dollars to your cause! In Second Life, you can build a 3-D display and donation box where avatars can contribute Linden dollars.

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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 8, 2006

Give them badges, even xml-driven widgets that feed back to the world the actions that individual user has taken and the impact those actions have had" Steve's last comment on the post suggests that the seamless integration of all the tools is necessary, but also laments the lack of second wave adoption.

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MARCH 4, 2007

As I mentioned in my post about " extra-organizational activists" , there are bloggers out there who would love to raise money for your cause: Beth Kanter raised $800 for the Sharing Foundation using the ChipIn widget plus her blog , social networks, Flickr and video in 26 days. weeks using her food blog and an online auction.

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MARCH 19, 2010

Call2Action's Spark™ combines video with action tools in one shareable widget. Stop at booth 2 and register to win a free Zuri Group Facebook strategy and badge design--a $3,000 value. We'll pick the winner after the Science Fair, and be in touch on Friday, 4/9. Call 2 Action in booth 88. Which is just the way we like it.

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MARCH 19, 2010

Call2Action's Spark™ combines video with action tools in one shareable widget. Stop at booth 2 and register to win a free Zuri Group Facebook strategy and badge design--a $3,000 value. We'll pick the winner after the Science Fair, and be in touch on Friday, 4/9. Call 2 Action in booth 88. Which is just the way we like it.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 6, 2007

" 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). Rashmi Sinha offers some thoughts on how to do it.

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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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NOVEMBER 15, 2010

Vimeo Widgets make it easy to update, change or add videos quickly. Badge creates a fun, styled visual montage of your latest videos, easily embedded on your website, social networking sites or any external location you wish. For the more savvy users of video, this should be a consideration when choosing video source and hosting.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 24, 2007

Tools like widgets and charity badges, combined with social media networks, enable these fundraisers to extend their reach and amplify their message. Now that evangelizing has become as simple as posting a widget on a MySpace or Facebook page, they are promoting causes. Type 2: Fundraising Transformed Techie.

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FEBRUARY 3, 2009

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. link on my blog today) Build a page or two, a widget or two, a follow along or two and share with the members.

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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. Traditional offline/online fundraising techniques still, of course, work. A nice post from Heather at Aspiration about their fundraising strategy.

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