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11 Website Design Best Practices for Nonprofits

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Use bold for headlines. Meta tags have been abused by so many shifty search engine optimization (SEO) specialists over the past 10 years that search engines are increasingly giving higher priority to page titles to generate their search results. Use Third-Party Widgets Only if They Add Value. Repetition is key.

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What is a Widget?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Based on photo entitled " Gear " from Flattop341's Flickr Industrial Set. If you've been following my widgets category , you know that I'm working on a screencast and have been researching and playing with widgets. What is a Widget? " Since this is a movie or visual, it has to be explained in a visual way.

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Nonprofits Using Ning: An Interview with Community Media Workshop and Best Practices

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

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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Making Media Connections: Ning Site

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

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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Let's Go Widget Shopping!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

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. The particular Web2.0

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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

Original photo remixed from flickr photo by Stinky Peter Screencast in conjunction with NTEN View the screencast as higher quality flash file -takes longer to download here. My screencast on widgets is featured in this month's NTEN newsletter in a section pointing to " How To Build Online Community." I'm so excited!

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10 Ways Nonprofits Can Use Blogs and Bloggers to Support Their Cause

Have Fun - Do Good

Web publishers use RSS to easily create and distribute news feeds that include links, headlines, and summaries. Widgets like ChipIn and Network for Good Badges , and services like Firstgiving make it easy for them to support your cause. Ask them to blog during conference sessions and post photos.

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