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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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. Of course, there is a lot of buzz about Sprout.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 14, 2011

Collecting petitions Last week I stood outside of my local library collecting signatures to save libraries in Oakland. In South Carolina, the total direct and indirect return on investment for every $1 spent on the state's public libraries by South Carolina state and local governments is $4.48 - nearly 350 percent.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 13, 2009

I've been participating in service days where I can share my technology skills with local organization. Create your own opportunity: Reach out to a local school, organization or people near you to find out what sort of technology help they need. You can even add a good deed widget for your site. More information here.

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Qgiv

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

Then, send out a call for goods to your employees so they can go home and collect those items for your campaign, whether they’re supplies for local schools or toys for a holiday drive. Find a local band and host a benefit concert or plan a glamorous red-carpet gala with food and entertainment.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 29, 2009

A first-of-its-kind Twitter widget that tracks tweets about nonprofits or social causes in real time. A Causes widget that points to charitable actions and donations on other sites such as GlobalGiving and Facebook Causes. Socialbrite.org is launching with a rich set of resources: A directory of Web 2.0

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The Science Behind Engaging your Supporters

DECEMBER 18, 2018

We try to identify local on-the-ground partners that could use some of our support, like emailing our members to let them know there’s an organization near them that could use donations or volunteers. Can you talk a little bit about your Online Voter Registration platforms, widgets, and API work.

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Neon CRM

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

With user-friendly widgets, comprehensive reports, and email marketing inside our trusted CRM platform, you’re equipped with the tools you need to attract, recruit, and retain your members. Imagine having all your marketing tools, member information, events management, and more in one place!

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NTEN

JULY 15, 2011

Some of the items above are simple widgets and plug-and-play doodads that allow one to take a little snippet of code and incorporate it onto a web page. part of a national event to inspire giving and local leadership. Interact – FB Live Stream, Hashtag (Tweet Chat), Comments. Authenticate – FB Login, Twitter OAuth. Open Source – API.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 18, 2006

I've been researching widgets recently and the last section of the interview covers that: Marshall Kirkpatrick : I???ve ve been thinking about widgets, relative to mash ups, lately. s a Widget, Marshall? RG: What???s RG: an RSS feed. Also a link to the WidgetBox.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 22, 2010

Baker presented an engaging and dynamic presentation which emphasized the symbiotic relationship of both online and offline engagement, the power of both to create community, encourage activism, develop branding, and unify those with common goals, both locally and globally. Then, repeat.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 11, 2016

Similar to the early days of Myspace and its users mastering HTML hacks and widgets, Snapchat has an equally dedicated user base of young people that pride themselves on becoming skilled at Lenses, Filters, Stickers, and other Snapchat tips, tricks, and hacks. Reserve your first choice of the new domain now or regret it later.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 7, 2007

If you are reader of this blog, you are probably aware of the campaign I ran to raise money for Leng Sopharath's college tuition using the ChipIn fundraising widget.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 8, 2011

Apps can be used online (a web app), on a mobile device (a mobile app), or as an add-on to existing software tools (widgets, plug-ins, templates, and so on). We're not really looking at full-fledged applications, like a Microsoft Office Suite, or software as a service, like Salesforce.

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Get Fully Funded

JANUARY 27, 2022

For example, a photo CTA in a blog post might be a graphic that says something like “Interested in volunteering with local schools? You can also include widgets in your emails that direct supporters to follow your social media pages. . Most website builders will also allow you to insert buttons, too. Discover opportunities near you.”

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 13, 2011

The Locavore app offers government and NGO info on which food items are in season in your locale. Consumer Reports' 7 free green mobile apps has some good ones as well: The Eco Buzz Widget , for Android, is a configurable environmental news feed. It also offers Epicurious recipes for them. Eco Defense.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 19, 2009

Educate general public, local leaders, supporters, donors and volunteers. Educate general public, local leaders, supporters, donors and volunteers – Continuously write about what your nonprofit is doing, how it’s making an impact and how people can help. Incorporate these widgets into your blog. Build awareness. Generate buzz.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 19, 2010

In those days, I was " circuit rider " where I traveled around New York State to work with very small local arts councils in rural areas. I was Jill of all trades, assisting with a wide range of technology needs, from training to installing local area networks. (Yes, I've been working in nonprofit technology since 1992.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 10, 2007

This same platform would have a series of APIs, so that doctors offices, schools, universities, researchers, community groups, local businesses and anyone with an interest could build applications, mashups and widgets that could use the data for the long tail of citizen needs.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 5, 2012

Bing Search: a web-based search engine app capable of filtering results to display only images, video, or local results. Apps can be used online (a web app), on mobile devices (a mobile app), or as an add-on to other tools (widgets, plug-ins, templates, and so on). These donated phones include a Windows Mobile operating system, 4.1-inch

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 15, 2008

Looking for new challenges, they will champion causes ranging from gay marriage to local school improvements. Everything from hastily assembled friends list to twitter followers to groups, apps, and widgets that we "impulse adopted" yet rarely revisited.

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NTEN

MARCH 18, 2010

Thomas Edison and a few other entrepreneurs put an end to this by building an electrical grid - so factory owners could focus on making shirts or chairs or widgets and not on running their own electrical plant. The work of the CrisisCamps was indeed both global and local -- and the cloud infrastructure made it possible.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 29, 2010

It started innocently enough when I visited the site of RiverBender Center and noticed all the grassroots support for the contest, including a local bank that was offering an extra incentive for people to vote by giving away " slacker cards." I initially thought it was a good idea.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 10, 2008

Developers who are more experienced can create customized scripts and widgets on their site to accommodate the needs of their users. Users can import their Flickr photos from their account and promote their profile pages and widgets on Facebook. Ning is also very flexible. You can even use your own custom URL! There was instant rapor.

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NTEN

MARCH 18, 2010

Thomas Edison and a few other entrepreneurs put an end to this by building an electrical grid - so factory owners could focus on making shirts or chairs or widgets and not on running their own electrical plant. The work of the CrisisCamps was indeed both global and local -- and the cloud infrastructure made it possible.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 26, 2008

Change bloggers have some excellent tools at their disposal, like Social Actions widget which makes it possible for any wired passionate soul to highlight causes on the social web. SocialButterfly) is rallying local changebloggers to meet with Steed. s touring the U.S., meeting with millennial activists about ???the

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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. He's a talented filmmaker (as is Susan and the other folks at Four-Eyed Monsters).

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Wild Apricot

OCTOBER 9, 2008

Media outlets need to enrich the syndicated wire service stories with local content if they are to attract readers and advertisers — but few have the budget, these days, for a cadre of local reporters to seek out and report on the "local angle" of a story.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 15, 2008

   Use one of Social Actions take actions widgets or TwitterFeed tool      9.      Check out what  the Austin area social media activists are doing to raise awareness about hunger and poverty in their local community.  .      8.  

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 8, 2006

Having implemented a successful campaign to raise the money to support a young college student named Leng Sopharath in Cambodia that raised $872 using the ChipIn widget, I set up a charity badge over at Network for Good to support the Sharing Foundation's educational programs which provide educational opportunities for over 1,300 children.

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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. For example, a tool created to allow a community to map local water quality data can easily be re-purposed for a neighboring community, or one across the world. What do we want?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 13, 2008

The other panelists included Teresa Hanafin of Boston.com , Colleen Kaman of the MIT Media Lab's Center for Future Civic Media , and Sarah Corbitt of GateHouse Media which runs the WickedLocal.com network of local websites. You can twitter and you don't need your readers to come to twitter to see it by using widgets.

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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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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

JULY 27, 2007

Facebook allows developers to create third party applications -- widgets -- that can be attached to member's profiles - tools for calendaring, say, or advanced messaging. When someone in your network posts something or messages you, the system wil also send you an email, so users do not need to check Facebook constantly to see what's new.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

Cryptocurrencies are regular by many of the same government agencies that regulate the traditional world of finance including the IRS, SEC, CFTC and local regulators. Myth 2: Cryptocurrencies aren’t regulated enough. Most relevant for nonprofits is the IRS. The IRS has issued initial guidance in 2014 and updated their guidance in 2019.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 12, 2008

now hear from homegrown social networks and what they have to offer local nonprofits. Rolling out widgets in next few weeks so community members can use them. Social Networking and Web Tools for Chicago Nonprofits. You already know Facebook, MySpace, LinkedIn et al???now Moderator: Justin Massa, MoveSmart.org.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 24, 2007

I especially get a kick out of his meebo (IM widget) "Confession Box." And if you talk about things you know about because of the necessary work of entering the stream of conversation in your local blogosphere and things you write about on your blog all the better.

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