NTEN

NOVEMBER 2, 2009

Finding Feeds. Netvibes will let you track all kinds of things online, all by using RSS feeds or ready-built widgets. As far as the email vs feed option - we are using Netvibes so you can cut down on email! Choose the “feed” option and then hit save on that alert. Add Feeds to Netvibes. Twitter Search.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 14, 2009

That's a river of blog resources, why add to it? Tony Karrer suggested that the approach of aggregating the RSS feeds of blogs, adding in semantic tagging, keyword search and browsable index might help. He set up an experiment with feeds from nptech bloggers. Or I can create a widget and add it as my sidebar.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 5, 2009

Curation of Dynamic Resources. This is not unlike the strategy I used for people I followed on delicious or what is known as "Tag Sniffing." (Find the expert curators in topics that you don't have time or desire to go deep on and follow their lists, resources, or friends.). Your lists can be public. And, that has to be done manually.

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NTEN

MARCH 15, 2011

Invest in this research up-front so that you can focus your resources where you'll make the biggest impact. If you are in the social media space, let people know by providing a Twitter feed or YouTube promotion on your website which can update automatically. Once you have that research, you can begin engaging people online.

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NTEN

JANUARY 22, 2009

Like most things in the social web, though, there are tools and resources that can make creating a podcast accessible to almost any organization. Tools and Resources. Again there are a number of free or inexpensive resources for all of these. The What and Why? For sound effects, check out the Freesound Project.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 14, 2010

VCs need to work with communications folks to get their opportunities distributed, but a VC might also have her own Twitter feed or blog category to share new opportunities The VC could also use her own professional networks to target special skill sets (such as at LinkedIn). Outreach/Marketing.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 10, 2008

For every online social network training we do, we actually present the ning site and demonstrate ways participants can create and customize profiles, syndicate RSS feeds, post blogs, photos and videos and more. Developers who are more experienced can create customized scripts and widgets on their site to accommodate the needs of their users.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 19, 2006

When I visited his site, I noticed that he had some widgets, including a message comment line. We got into some back and forth email about widgets and he was kind of enough to give me a really useful critique of one of my videos. feed where he is tagging resources here. Additional Resources: Save the Internet.

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NonProfit Hub

APRIL 8, 2014

transaction fee, and in return receive social media widgets and donor receipts. It’s a news aggregator that pulls from your social media feed to create an e-newspaper that you can send out. Plus, Slideshare partners with several resources including LinkedIn, Twitter and FreeConference.com. Nonprofits pay a 2.5%

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NTEN

JANUARY 22, 2009

Smart organizations create and publish their data widely to other sites, widgets, social networks, and aggregation applications. While Google provides some nice tools to widgetize your data, there are other simple tools worth exploring to get you started. Feed your raw data to world. Don't let your data fall victim!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 27, 2008

For every online social network training we do, we actually present the ning site and demonstrate ways participants can create and customize profiles, syndicate RSS feeds, post blogs, photos and videos and more. Developers who are more experienced can create customized scripts and widgets on their site to accommodate the needs of their users.

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Forum One

FEBRUARY 25, 2010

Over the past year or so, Facebook has really poured its resources into Pages in hopes that brands will buy advertising to drive traffic to their Pages. Use Buttons and the Facebook Fan Widget on your organization's web site to make your audience aware of your page and help them connect with you on Facebook. Pick Your Instruments.

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CauseVox

OCTOBER 11, 2021

Second, year-end giving gives nonprofits an opportunity to use a big chunk of their resources to meet their annual fundraising goals, and it gives donors a last chance to get a tax-deductible gift out the door. They raised $92,000 to feed families in the Seattle area, more than tripling their original goal. All Systems Go.

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Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 10, 2008

Whatever you do, please don't abandon your out-of-date, un-updated blog, Facebook group, Twitter feed, etc. Finally, it is important to use time and resources wisely, but there are no guarantees that social media tools will help you achieve your goals, so enter into your experiments lightly, with hopeful, but realistic expectations.

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

OCTOBER 14, 2005

technologies such as tagging, social bookmarking and online social networks, blogging, content sharing through Wikis and RSS, and new Web widgets need not only be in the hands of well-funded developers; but also can be used by organizations to further their missions. How is it better than the old-fashioned Web site?

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Byte Technology

MAY 23, 2017

When it comes to WordPress sites, many of the themes also work around the idea of assimilation and integration with other online resources. The plugin allows you to display social media icons in a sidebar widget, customize colors and then just enter a specific web address for the social media account you want to be displayed there.

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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.). Top Rated Resources at Kikono.

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Care2

OCTOBER 20, 2007

frogloop Home frogloop Home Receive monthly updates Subscribe to our RSS feed Follow frogloop on Twitter Most Popular Posts Social Network ROI Calculator Social Networking for Nonprofits: ROI, Tracking Tools and More "While Theyre Hot!" The ever popular widgets seen on blogs, for example, take advantage of APIs.

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Care2

NOVEMBER 15, 2007

frogloop Home frogloop Home Receive monthly updates Subscribe to our RSS feed Follow frogloop on Twitter Most Popular Posts Social Network ROI Calculator Social Networking for Nonprofits: ROI, Tracking Tools and More "While Theyre Hot!" And what is the optimum combination of videos, pictures, text, friends, and other widgets?

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Care2

NOVEMBER 8, 2007

frogloop Home frogloop Home Receive monthly updates Subscribe to our RSS feed Follow frogloop on Twitter Most Popular Posts Social Network ROI Calculator Social Networking for Nonprofits: ROI, Tracking Tools and More "While Theyre Hot!" And what is the optimum combination of videos, pictures, text, friends, and other widgets?

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NTEN

MAY 28, 2009

We want email alerts, RSS, and we want widgets that people can take from our site and stick into Facebook, MySpace, Google or anywhere else for that matter. This community will grow, attracting new talent and ideas, which all feeds back into the quality of the project. What do we want? Forums and blogs too!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 4, 2009

He's reserved Givingly.org as a place where a personal giving tracking tool/widget/mobile app can potentially be built - unless a good one already exists? Let me explain. He is interested developing some sort of social credit card which allows individuals to track their borrowing and expending of social capital and giving.

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Care2

FEBRUARY 27, 2008

frogloop Home frogloop Home Receive monthly updates Subscribe to our RSS feed Follow frogloop on Twitter Most Popular Posts Social Network ROI Calculator Social Networking for Nonprofits: ROI, Tracking Tools and More "While Theyre Hot!" Online Political Advertising in the 2008 Elections. Yeah, I know, it sounds a little vanilla.

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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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Care2

FEBRUARY 4, 2009

Making the Most of the News Cycle In September 2008, NWLC launched a voter education microsite that included a register-to-vote widget, and we started running Google ads on keywords like “register to vote.&# Never miss a post by subscribing to frogloop's RSS feed. They might even make a donation or two. Receive monthly updates.

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Care2

OCTOBER 18, 2007

frogloop Home frogloop Home Receive monthly updates Subscribe to our RSS feed Follow frogloop on Twitter Most Popular Posts Social Network ROI Calculator Social Networking for Nonprofits: ROI, Tracking Tools and More "While Theyre Hot!" The campaign enabled CI to boost their email list by 50,000, in only two weeks.

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Care2

FEBRUARY 7, 2009

frogloop Home frogloop Home Receive monthly updates Subscribe to our RSS feed Follow frogloop on Twitter Most Popular Posts Social Network ROI Calculator Social Networking for Nonprofits: ROI, Tracking Tools and More "While Theyre Hot!" Never miss a post by subscribing to frogloops RSS feed. They might even make a donation or two.

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Bloomerang

JANUARY 29, 2024

Does the software provider offer a range of support options, such as an online resource or help center as well as live chat, phone, and email options? Looking for more resources to help manage your nonprofit’s constituent community? Support options. Start here: The Ultimate Donor Engagement Guide + Top Strategies.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 28, 2010

After customizing this widget at Facebook.com , you can easily put it into your site’s template in a matter of minutes. Each time a visitor “likes” something on your website, that activity will appear in their Facebook feed and drive some of their friends to your content. User Twitter Widgets to display updates on your website or blog.

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Connection Cafe

DECEMBER 18, 2008

The bloggers who cover journalism and blogs by newspapers are great resources on this topic - particularly about whether or not to edit comments by readers: [link]. One thing to remember with comments that are off-topic or inappropriate: don't feed the trolls. Beth : See [link].

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Get Fully Funded

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

You know your organization’s blog isn’t the most exciting resource in the world, but that’s okay as long as the rest of your website is engaging, right? Explore the widgets and plugins available through your CMS to understand the interactive options you have at your fingertips. Think again!

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Care2

JULY 10, 2008

frogloop Home frogloop Home Receive monthly updates Subscribe to our RSS feed Follow frogloop on Twitter Most Popular Posts Social Network ROI Calculator Social Networking for Nonprofits: ROI, Tracking Tools and More "While Theyre Hot!"

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 28, 2009

Audacity - open source and free, lots of community resources, have to download a separate mp3 encoder but they have links on their site. upload to Internet Archive and use OurMedia to generate RSS feed, etc. Check out WeAreMedia.org for more resources and information on podcasting in nonprofits! Can import other sources well.

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See3

MAY 25, 2007

But then you also have widgets. Widgets are big. Widgets are little applications that live on some other page on the web, where the info in the widget comes from some server somewhere else. Technically, an ad server is a widget – displaying a banner coming from DoubleClick, for example.

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Care2

FEBRUARY 3, 2009

frogloop Home frogloop Home Receive monthly updates Subscribe to our RSS feed Follow frogloop on Twitter Most Popular Posts Social Network ROI Calculator Social Networking for Nonprofits: ROI, Tracking Tools and More "While Theyre Hot!" Nonprofits are facing challenging times with leaner resources. more feasible.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 4, 2008

Unique Visitors & Feed Subscribers). " That's a hard question for me to answer because as Kaushik notes and all of us bloggers know all too well -- many analytics programs do not track RSS feeds. Or study bloggers SEO resources in more depth. Audience Growth (content consumption ??? Technorati ???Authority???

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NTEN

OCTOBER 28, 2008

The successful campaigns are using e-commerce, video, photos, blogging, mobile action, widgets, event management and more to augment the traditional (and extremely effective) precinct organizing model. These posts were literally "mashed up" with Current TV's election debate feeds that aired on their cable channel and web video feed.

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