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LinkedIn: The MySpace for Adults

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I noticed today when I logged into Typepad that it is promoting the LinkedIn widget (ChipIn is the featured widget in the gallery , BTW). Most recently, I've approached contacts in my LinkedIn for personal fundraising campaigns. Electronic Resume: It's an easy to keep my resume online and be able to point to it. Well, she did !

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Screencast: Using Widgets to Build Community on Blogs Featured on NTEN Blog

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Here's his definition: A Widget is a piece of code that enables a non-technical website publisher to pull in data and a display for that data from another website, so they can have, say, news ticker headlines or a personal horoscope, or local weather or an RSS feed. Group 3: Fundraising Widgets. personal fundraising???

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Let's Go Widget Shopping!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

ChipIn (fundraising widget) - Still in beta. I'm not a techy, so I use typepad. Typepad has integrated widgets into the blogging platform, so adding a widget is even easier than cut and paste! I used it to stream headlines from other places I blog. Downside, not free. I'm gonna go play with that in a minute.

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