Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 11, 2006

Katya Andresen of the Nonprofit Marketing Blog left me a message on Odeo in response to the question "What do you think about widgets for building community, in particular fundraising widgets?" " Here's the transcript: "I think widgets are a great way to build community if you are authentic about it.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 3, 2006

I am working on a screencast about nonprofit blogs and widgets. If you don't know what a widget is, here's an overview. I experimented with two widgets, linking them to content and conversation. Using widgets is not yet a common practice on nonprofit blogs. Create Free Polls. Consider your audience???s

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 22, 2010

The fee is $12 a month to set up the Meetup, and the optimal promotion tools are blog posts and embedding the Meetup widget on your site. It's been shown that these methods lead to higher conversions than e-newsletter promotions. Then, repeat.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 31, 2006

I am working on a screencast about widgets -- more specifically free and easy-to-use community building tools for your blog. I'm busy researching and writing the script which will cover the why, what, and examples, but now I'm in the nitty gritty stage of playing with a few widgets. No option for researching widgets.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 7, 2006

I was delighted to discover his newly redesigned drupal blog and all the widgets he has installed. He also wrote an excellent response to my query, "What do you think about widgets?" Asking whether widgets will foster community is a tricky question. " I have to quote a few points here: The Web???s

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TechImpact

JULY 22, 2014

Try using a unique address that will help you track those conversions. Facebook has a built-in email capture widget that, when turned on, can bay dividends. By having prominently placed your signup boxes in the first step, anyone who arrives to your site as a result of your mailer will be prompted upon arrival to give you their email.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 29, 2008

Participating in the conversation. This week, we're talking about Module 5: Social Networks (and widgets) for Community Building, Taking Action and/or Fundraising. What are the best getting started for using fundraising widgets and social networking fundraising apps for fundraising? Sharing Your Story Social Media Style.

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Nonprofits Source

OCTOBER 25, 2023

Your CRM should track metrics like email views, clicks, and conversions to help you analyze your campaign’s performance. Add widgets for matching gift programs or other functionality you want to offer. Test your content. Use your software to determine which designs and messages are most engaging. Measure campaign effectiveness.

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sgEngage

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

The right CMS will come with an array of built-in nonprofit website templates and widgets to take the guesswork out of web design and streamline revamping your digital presence. By investing in the right CMS, you can easily bridge the gap between your website and social media and turn increased touchpoints into conversions.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 1, 2006

I'm researching widgets for a screencast and you can read my research in progress here. Here's a widget that allows you to send a message over the Web for free! Tell me: -Who you are -Your blog, organization -What do you think about widgets to build community around your blog? About this widget. powered by ODEO.

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Byte Technology

OCTOBER 19, 2016

. • If you’ve kept track of the most important aspects of running a commerce website, you’ve no doubt heard about the importance of conversion rates—getting a visitor to your site to take a definitive action such as fill our a form, subscribe to your e-newsletter and, most hopefully, make a purchase.

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Qgiv

OCTOBER 11, 2022

Learn how to create a donation form to improve your conversion rates and raise more! Donation Form Widget: Embed A Donation Form on Your Website : When you embed your donation form on your website, your donors are 2.4x With this blog, learn how to use a donation form widget to encourage your donors to give!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 28, 2006

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. Here's the criteria I came up with for whether or not you keep a widget installed or not: -Does it help you generate traffic?

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Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 10, 2011

The chat used the #CommBuild hashtag to pull regular and new participants together on Twitter and elsewhere, though we found that having the chats take place on a platform like CoverItLive helped people jump in and follow the conversation and create instant archives people could share and review asynchronously.

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Byte Technology

DECEMBER 22, 2016

One of the hallmarks of the WordPress content management system is the ability to engage a user audience and create a back-and-forth conversation of sorts in the virtual world. Go to “Appearance, Widgets” and add “Recent Comments” to a sidebar.

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 21, 2009

Today’s webinar focused on the building blocks of social meda; things like tagging, RSS and how to get started finding the conversations taking place online. Netvibes is a lot like an iGoogle home page and is designed to have many different widgets or boxes that are customizable. View more presentations or upload your own.

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Classy

AUGUST 6, 2021

You can do so by adding a widget to your website that provides donors with easy access to your donation form. However, it also includes a donation widget at the top that collects the donor’s gift amount, first and last name, email address, and phone number. Embed a Donation Form Directly Onto Your Website.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 16, 2006

At our last board meeting, we discussed online fundraising strategies and I made a proposal about using the fundraising widget and a campaign. I think its really ironic that I'm often hired to create such tools, but because I have not done a fundraising widget campaign I felt I needed to plunge in. What is the checklist?

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Amy Sample Ward

OCTOBER 27, 2009

This month’s Net2 Think Tank question asks, “How do you stay up-to-date online?&# There are so many blogs, news sources, and conversations happening at the same time, every day, and the chances that you’ll be able to find them all without trying is pretty unlikely. To get a feed of the Twitter conversations, visit: [link].

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Get Fully Funded

JANUARY 27, 2022

When you determine your most important supporter actions, you can use your CTAs to help boost conversions. For example, donation conversions are the number of individuals who visit your online donation page and complete a transaction. . These are the number of supporters who actually follow through with the desired action.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 19, 2007

Five Hot Conversations. Good article from the New York Times about widgets, " Some Bling for Your Blog " and a post on the Yahoo Blog about social media meets fundraising. Screenshot of a poll from Philanthropy 2173 Still time to register your opinion! NpTech Tag Skypecast Anyone? tools in their web sites.

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Byte Technology

FEBRUARY 14, 2017

Utilizing WordPress plugins and widgets, be sure to plant social share buttons on your pages. Most people like to be “part of the conversation,” and establishing a back-and-forth dialogue with them builds loyalty and makes readers want to come check out your page again and again. Encourage readers to share your posts.

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NTEN

JULY 11, 2011

Social Conversations. Social features on your site—such as comments, discussion boards, user-submitted stories, ratings, and voting widgets—can help build engagement within your audience. So when fostering conversations, how can you allow all constituents to participate while safeguarding the site from spam?

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NTEN

JULY 14, 2011

Additionally, you can increase the traction and conversion rates of specific actions you want people to take by using Facebook to provide simple proof. While Facebook has a full set of APIs you can code against, you can also take advantage of their user-friendly widgets and have the additional benefit of being hosted on the Facebook domain.

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Amy Sample Ward

AUGUST 9, 2010

As I recently announced , I’m collaborating with Matt Chevy on a redesign of this website to freshen up the design, make presentations, resources and case studies all easier to find, and surface the rich conversations taking place in the comments. Thanks to everyone who shared opinions and those who I know will continue to weigh in.

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Amy Sample Ward

DECEMBER 24, 2009

I come across so many great conversations, ideas, and resources all over the web every day. You can join the conversations in the comments, or click through to the original posts to find what others are saying. Here are some of the most interesting things I’ve found recently (as of December 25th). Unconference here: [link].

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Whole Whale

MARCH 27, 2023

If your team are the type that want to know the exact number of campaign conversions that ranged a random timeframe from years ago, you may want to consider one of the more advanced options. For example, if your team is only interested in questions like “what was the total views/users for March of last year?”,

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 28, 2010

People can post comments and converse with your organization in public for all to see. on social networking sites see your giving and fundraising activity through widgets, Apps, and peer-to-peering fundraising tools, like fundraising pages. Web 2.0 = Blogs, wikis, and social networking sites. At its core, Web 2.0

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

FEBRUARY 5, 2008

Sproutbuilder is this amazing drag-and-drop widget maker you’ve just gotta try ( invite here – just start, and it will prompt you to create an account when you want to save your sprout.) Corporations sponsor the widget, so there is a brand showing. Seesmic is a video conversation site. I think like a lot of Web 2.0

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 29, 2009

The Socialbrite team is made up of strategists with deep experience in offering social media consulting services, training workshops, conversational marketing, fundraising and outreach campaigns. A first-of-its-kind Twitter widget that tracks tweets about nonprofits or social causes in real time.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JUNE 10, 2008

Just send the company your e-mail list and tell it what social networking sites those on your list are using, their demographics, the numbers of friends they have, how many widgets they’re using, even their interests. An interesting conversation ensued on the list – with some arguing that this was a problematic thing.

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Neon CRM

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Use your membership management software to track the most important metrics: Engagement rates for newly enrolled members, how many new members signed up as a result of the membership drive, the membership drive’s conversion rate, which marketing emails had the highest open rates and number of clicks, etc.

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Qgiv

JUNE 13, 2022

One of the best tools you can have for your donation form is an embeddable donation form widget. increase in conversion rates for one-time, recurring, and overall donations. Use a similar font and color scheme as your website so your donation form looks like it’s a part of your website rather than an embedded widget.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 8, 2011

Social Media Engagement : The latest GA also lets you track how your website visitors interact with the various social media widgets on your site – and it just goes to show there's always something to learn. They even use the "Email Share" feature. They even use the "Email Share" feature. People still send links to each other via email?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 26, 2006

I'm researching for a screencast that I will shoot over the next few weeks on the topic of widgets that can be used for your blog to enable conversation or support nonprofit programs. I'm looking for widgets that can easily add any of the following features: Integrating calendar or events info on your blog.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 26, 2010

For the one on being efficient, I’d love to team up with whoever proposed this panel “ 30 Minutes A Day for Social Media.&# The Free Agent session is similar to what I’ve proposed for SXSW and will be doing a “networked conversational keynote version&# for the Department of State Civil Society 2.0 event in November.

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NTEN

MARCH 15, 2011

But with the ever-changing properties and tools on the Internet, that door has evolved into countless spaces, conversations, and opportunities that can seem tough to tackle. You need to join the conversation where it's happening. Start a Conversation. Join the Conversation. Monitor the Conversation.

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