sgEngage

MARCH 30, 2022

Mission and overall goals: All of your branding should point your supporters back to your overall mission and larger goals, so taking the time to include these in your style guide should help focus your site branding. . Audience: Think through who you picture visiting your site (you might even have some site data to inform your thinking).

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Byte Technology

DECEMBER 22, 2016

And while WordPress has some terrific plugins available that can help you create and manage a comment section on your site, too often unforeseen problems and lapses exist that stymie the commenting process. Regardless of why a site doesn’t foster an active comment board, there are some quick and easy ways to change the issue.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 25, 2011

In the meantime, nonprofit staff can prepare for the launch of the new brand pages, also known as Google+ Entity Profiles , by creating a Google Account and then setting up your personal Google Profile (which then also becomes your personal Google+ Profile when you get invited to join Google+ or the site comes out of beta). e-Newsletter.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 8, 2011

Aggregating data over time will give you a much clearer picture of your subscribers' interests. You may send out 10 e-mails featuring cats, 10 about dogs, 5 with a picture of a horse, and so on. We do this with CRMs, web sites, and all sorts of geeky goodness, but, as with most things, cats make a better example.).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 16, 2006

Thank Yous So far, other bloggers have added the badge to their site or linked to the campaign and I want say a big thanks and in Khmer too ! At our last board meeting, we discussed online fundraising strategies and I made a proposal about using the fundraising widget and a campaign. Is that built into the system? What's the protocol?

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NTEN

JULY 14, 2011

While Facebook has a full set of APIs you can code against, you can also take advantage of their user-friendly widgets and have the additional benefit of being hosted on the Facebook domain. Sites like PayPal, authorize.net , Network for Good, and FirstGiving offer payment and donation APIs to third parties to build applications on.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 14, 2014

I looked at a few popular crowdfunding sites and dissected their cost plans, nonprofit support, and special features. The Scoop: Indiegogo stakes the claim of being the first "perks-based" crowdfunding site. This US-based platform says that over 1 million nonprofits are currently registered on the site.

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NTEN

MARCH 15, 2011

People love pictures and videos, and they can be easier to create and control than blogs. If your audience is accessing your site with limited bandwidth, you may want to keep your content basic with no unnecessary bulk. Polling widgets are a fun and simple way to interact with visitors on your site. Start a Conversation.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 11, 2006

Deborah Finn has been playing with widgets and decided to install the MyBlogLog widget today. By default MyBlogLog users join the community of a site using MyBlogLog after ten visits to that site, but you can increase that number or require manual joining. She writes about her experience here. (I s page looks like.

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Judi Sohn

AUGUST 1, 2011

The pictures don’t do it justice. So many sites either assume you’ve already rooted the phone or tell you to come back when you have. sigh:: I heard voice commands are great on Android, but if I have to click on on the Google widget to activate it and then scan possible matches what’s the point?

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NTEN

MAY 12, 2011

You can make a big impression of site visitors just by presenting them clearly, and in context with your web content. Reveal Change Many of the stories we'd like our site visitors to understand are centered on revealing the truth behind a situation. Speak With Numbers Sometimes, it's best to just let the numbers speak for themselves.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 3, 2013

I looked at a few popular crowdfunding sites and dissected their cost plans, nonprofit support, and special features. The Scoop: Indiegogo stakes the claim of being the first "perks-based" crowdfunding site. This US-based platform says that over 1 million nonprofits are currently registered on the site.

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NTEN

JULY 28, 2010

What three questions are strangers who land on your site most likely to have? Devote space on your home page and/or within your navigation to answering the three big questions most likely to bring strangers to your site. They may have an incomplete picture of you, but the one they do have is favorable.

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Forum One

FEBRUARY 21, 2011

You can make a big impression of site visitors just by presenting them clearly, and in context with your web content. Many of the stories we’d like our site visitors to understand are centered on revealing the truth behind a situation. Speak With Numbers. Sometimes, it's best to just let the numbers speak for themselves.

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Data New York City Storytelling New York 68

Forum One

FEBRUARY 21, 2011

You can make a big impression of site visitors just by presenting them clearly, and in context with your web content. Many of the stories we’d like our site visitors to understand are centered on revealing the truth behind a situation. Speak With Numbers. Sometimes, it's best to just let the numbers speak for themselves.

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Connection Cafe

JUNE 14, 2012

They worked with Cathexis Partners to develop an extremely visually compelling website that promotes several types of IFEs; highlights include a 25th Anniversary Campaign (pictured), Kilimanjaro Climbing Event , Donate Your Special Day and (my personal favorite) the Board Challenge. so I limited myself to 4. Did she say federal petition?!

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Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 1, 2007

LOLnptech: Comic Relief for the Nonprofit Technology Community said I could pick my favorite one of their posts for the Carnival so I picked the image above from They Want Me to Build Them a Facebook Widget. With today's technology it doesn't take much to get started telling your story in moving images. So, what are you waiting for?"

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Connection Cafe

JULY 24, 2009

The entire conference site is socially enabled, but the Community page itself is “home base for all things social related to the conference". A Flickr gallery of all TAFA pictures from last year. The Community Dissected (elements of the page). Google map highlighting where all the attendees are coming from.

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Care2

NOVEMBER 15, 2007

Despite the more recent shift of attention to Facebook in the past six months by the nonprofit community, there are still remnants of a goldrush by nonprofits over the last year to build a presence on the uber-popular site. And what is the optimum combination of videos, pictures, text, friends, and other widgets?

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Care2

NOVEMBER 8, 2007

Despite the more recent shift of attention to Facebook in the past six months by the nonprofit community, there are still remnants of a goldrush by nonprofits over the last year to build a presence on the uber-popular site. And what is the optimum combination of videos, pictures, text, friends, and other widgets?

Social Media 28

Social Media Place Myspace Advocacy 28

Greater Giving

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

Picture this: A prospective supporter arrives on your nonprofit’s website hoping to learn more about your cause. Feature the following branded visual elements across your nonprofit homepage: Fonts: Make sure to use the same heading and body fonts on your homepage as the rest of your site.

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DipJar

OCTOBER 31, 2022

In this article, we’ll walk you through three web design best practices so you can make a great first impression for new site visitors and engage your existing supporters: Use a nonprofit CMS. Display your logo in prominent places on your website so site visitors know that all of your various web pages belong to your nonprofit. .

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Byte Technology

OCTOBER 2, 2017

It’s no great secret that, sometimes, WordPress sites slow down a bit, become sluggish or take what feels like an eternity to load pages. Thankfully, sometimes all it takes to speed up your site is something simple and easy to execute, like learning to deal with your images in a new way. It works like this.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 16, 2007

Change.org , the social network where users can find like-minded do-gooders based on shared issues that they want to change, or nonprofits that they support, has launched a fundraising widget (pictured left). The widget can be placed on a blog, MySpace, Facebook, or a website. widget fundraising social network nonprofit

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Get Fully Funded

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

Photos of people are particularly compelling, so gather pictures of volunteers, beneficiaries, and community members. Explore the widgets and plugins available through your CMS to understand the interactive options you have at your fingertips. If your nonprofit has an environmental focus, nature photos can also be captivating.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 10, 2014

The videos and stories would be shared by social media and multiple channels and would also be available on the DonorEdge site. The campaign would include a billboard as a teaser to drive traffic to the DonorEdge site. Next use an infographic, picture, or video of homeless people. One issue would be highlighted every month.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 14, 2007

" Here's how the site defines it: is a search visualization tool that enables you to compare, remix and share results from the best web, image, video, blog, tagging, news engines or RSS feeds. You can embed searchCrystal as a Widget on your site or blog to share personalized crystals with your friends.

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Connection Cafe

JUNE 3, 2013

Personal web page: Presenting your participants a personal web page template that can be personalized with their own photo, video and other cool widgets should not be underscored.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 6, 2009

For background, in the 3 previous NMC conferences I have been involved with since starting my job there in 2006- we’ve done mainly a “tag this conference” approach where we ask people to tag photos, web sites, blog posts e.g. 2006 , 2007 , 2008 where I cobbled together some summary pages using mainly my own Feed2JS code.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2007

You typed in a URL and a file with text and links (and later pictures and video) would be delivered. The log files captured lots of data that gave us a lot "measurable" information about what people were doing on web sites. We have a history and culture and expectation for objective web site measurement.

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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. Social Network Sites: In an effort to court the younger voter, candidates have built presences on My Space and Facebook.

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Byte Technology

FEBRUARY 16, 2017

For those trying to make the most of their WordPress—or, more importantly, the most money off their WordPress site—it can sometimes be difficult to ascertain just how to go about marketing your blog, products, services and so on. Virtually everyone has, at one point or another, needed to access the FAQ section of a site.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 15, 2009

What websites were your visitors on right before they visited your site [Google, Yahoo, Facebook, Twitter, MySpace]? On a final note, many nonprofits will be launching mobile websites in 2010, and much of the traffic on those sites will be going to or from social networking sites. How many unique visitors by day, month, year?

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