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Wild About Widgets

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

a big hat tip to Michelle Martin from the Bamboo Project for pointing me to these two articles in the business press about widgets. The Typepad Hacks blog writes has a great introduction to widgets and describes the community building aspects: Ultimately, widgets, like the web itself are about connections???

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Monitor the Web in Real Time: Instant Dashboards

Wild Apricot

You've got bookmarks for websites you need to check daily, online tools, news alerts for tracking your nonprofit's keywords and issues, email, social networks, RSS feeds for favorite blogsā€¦ It's all too easy to miss vital information, or to waste a great deal of time checking for updates. read more ). read more ).

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Great reads from January 12th through January 14th

Amy Sample Ward

Add Ask Your Lawmaker to Your Site | Ask Your Lawmaker - Check out the Ask Your Lawmaker widget from Capital News Connection, a nonpartisan, nonprofit organization based in Washington, DC. " I'm really excited to see how this widget gets used by nonprofits across the US, or replicated elsewhere.

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Great reads from around the web on December 25th

Amy Sample Ward

To follow more of the things I find online, you can follow @amysampleward on Twitter (which is just a blog and resource feed), or find me on Delicious (for all kinds of bookmarks). You can join the conversations in the comments, or click through to the original posts to find what others are saying. Unconference here: [link].

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Building Blocks of Social Media - Webinar slides and notes

Amy Sample Ward

Netvibes is a lot like an iGoogle home page and is designed to have many different widgets or boxes that are customizable. You may have a weather widget next to an RSS feed of your organization’s blog, a calendar widget and a feed of Google Alerts, and so on. That’s it; once you hit save that tag is created.

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The Starting Line: Great Tips for Beginning a WordPress Blog

Byte Technology

This will show readers youā€™re serious about your material and will encourage them to bookmark your site or sign up for a subscription. Utilizing WordPress plugins and widgets, be sure to plant social share buttons on your pages. Plan ahead by building an editorial calendar. Encourage readers to share your posts.

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10 Tools and Strategies to Market Your Nonprofit on a Shoe-String Budget

Care2

If your nonprofit is not taking advantage of free tools like Add This , a widget that encourages users to share your organizations articles or webpages on the most popular social networks or branded toolbars like FreeCause , then your nonprofit is missing out on some big marketing opportunities. Easy to Moderate* 9. Moderate* 10.