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Results from Widget Experiments

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

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. Maybe it will become clearer with more fundraising widgets.

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Convio puts the money where their mouth is for 09NTC

Amy Sample Ward

Rather than list off the top things you can do to raise money and spread your money right now, we decided to instead put our money where our mouth is - quite literally - and make a concerted effort to help the entire nptech community by raising money online for scholarships to none other than the 2009 NTC Conference in San Francisco.

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Socialbrite: Social Tools for Social Change

Amy Sample Ward

Beth Kanter, Amy Sample Ward, Katrin Verclas and John Haydon are among the familiar names in the nonprofit tech sector who are part of the effort. A first-of-its-kind Twitter widget that tracks tweets about nonprofits or social causes in real time. Tags: digital learning resources collaboration nptech resource socialbrite.

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Strengthen Your Community with a Knowledge Sharing Network

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Marnie Webb introduced the nptech tag to help aggregate nonprofit technology content. Nptech resources can be found on delicious , flickr , slideshare , and Twitter. Peter Campbell leveraged RSS to pull the tagged items into nptech. A Drupal or Wordpress site could include these features by adding modules/plug-ins/widgets.

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Building Blocks of Social Media - Webinar slides and notes

Amy Sample Ward

tags: nonprofit nptech ). Netvibes is a lot like an iGoogle home page and is designed to have many different widgets or boxes that are customizable. You may have a weather widget next to an RSS feed of your organization’s blog, a calendar widget and a feed of Google Alerts, and so on.

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Great reads from around the web on December 25th

Amy Sample Ward

Will Kill MyBlogLog Next Month – "Five years to the month after it was founded, cross-blog social networking widget MyBlogLog will be closed down by Yahoo! Simply use "HolidayDiscount" when you register for the Nonprofit 2.0 Unconference here: [link]. in January, we're hearing from sources close to the project.

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Blog Redesign: Recap and Reflections

Amy Sample Ward

More than Posts : Many comments touched on the fact that this site is about more than the blog posts so there’s great opportunity to bring other spaces and resources into the spotlight, whether it is the public NPTech RSS dashboard , books , or other resources – or content and conversations on Facebook and Twitter.