Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 31, 2011

Use Third-Party Widgets Only if They Add Value. The Web has become overrun with widgets! Some are useful and well designed (such as the Facebook like box and the Twitter profile widget), but the majority add clutter and inconsistency to your website. As a general rule of thumb, keep widgets off your home page.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 21, 2009

You can access your nonprofit’s profile and the Change.org tool set by signing up for a Nonprofit Admin account. Brand your organization’s profile on Change.org. Nonprofits can easily design their profile on change.org to match their website and other social networking sites. Now on to the best practices: 1.

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Wild Apricot

FEBRUARY 28, 2012

membership registration, event calendars, profiles,etc) into your existing website using Widgets! To many, Wild Apricot is a great all-in-one solution for website hosting as well as managing members, events, invoices, newsletters, donations, and contacts. But what you might not know is that you can integrate these features (i.e.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 12, 2010

3) Write the code and copy and paste the code into your blog using a HTML widget or into your Facebook Page using the Static Static FBML App. Finally, you can follow me on Google Buzz at google.com/profiles/nonprofitorgs ! and honestly, it is not easy. You need to: 1) Learn basic html.

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Byte Technology

MARCH 23, 2017

For those bored of looking at the same default colors in their admin area, go to “Users, Your Profile” and select from one of eight built-in color schemes. For example, widgets are wonderful, and the default WordPress dashboard screen come with lots of them.

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Qgiv

DECEMBER 7, 2021

Try embedding a matching gifts widget on your donation form or confirmation page to encourage donors to make their gifts go twice as far. Look for a platform that will let you embed a matching gifts widget on your donation form! Look for a platform that will let you embed a matching gifts widget on your donation form!

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 14, 2010

If it is still available, create an account that matches you social media profiles. If your nonprofit has a YouTube channel, but doesn’t actually upload videos then use the YouTube Sidebar Widget. Second, while logged into your new account, add the Twitter , Facebook , YouTube , MySpace , Flickr , etc.

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sgEngage

MARCH 30, 2022

Use your CMS to include an accessibility widget. Also be sure your website visitors know you have social media profiles they can follow on their favorite platforms. . With an NGO-specific CMS, you’ll be able to add social media icons and embed live feeds on your web pages.

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NetWits

AUGUST 11, 2011

June: Extend the reach of your event by having participants add fundraising widgets and badges to their Facebook® profile pages and other web properties, including personal blogs and photo site profiles.

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NTEN

JULY 11, 2011

Many non-profits have embraced features such as forums, blogs, user profiles, and photo/video sharing as a means to extend their reach. User Accounts & Profiles. When developing social sites, personal user accounts and profiles form the backbone of such destinations.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 7, 2007

I placed the photo of me wearing my newest Creative Commons T-Shirt on blog - and of course added it to my Facebook profile and on Twitter , you'll see the Creative Commons Logo with a donate message. That's why I also remixed the fundraising widget. But that's not all.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 27, 2012

widgets and apps have yet to raise large amounts in online dollars for most nonprofits, but that doesn’t mean that social media is not resulting in large amounts of dollars raised online. Use either text and social media icons or Facebook and Twitter widgets, but not both. It’s true that Web 2.0

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NonProfit Hub

OCTOBER 16, 2019

There are a few features you’ll want to make sure to include: An easily-read calendar widget for quick viewing of upcoming opportunities. Links to your nonprofit’s social media profiles, so volunteers can stay in the loop. Uncomplicated volunteer registration processes for events, embedded directly within the site.

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 15, 2009

Put this great little widget made by NTEN to good use! Just click the “Share&# button to add it to your site, blog, Facebook or MySpace profile (most of our readers work in nptech so put your creative social media knowledge to use and share it throughout your many networks). Check out the widget! Spread the Word.

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Amy Sample Ward

DECEMBER 16, 2008

After I finished personalizing my Birthday Cause and alerting friends about it, I was able to place a widget on my profile so people could see it when they visited my page. Even putting the widget on my page was done for me, I just clicked where I wanted it to sit!

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Forum One

APRIL 22, 2010

Profiles: Personalized user profiles with ability to import contacts from Outlook. Profiles: Dual profiles for both professional and social uses. Directory: A member directory for both profiles. Profiles: Profiles which can be personalized. Additions: Photos, video, search, and a chat add-on widget.

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DNL OmniMedia

FEBRUARY 25, 2023

Their core tools include: Unlimited, customizable donation pages fully optimized for mobile users Unlimited text-to-give campaigns with custom keywords Unlimited fundraising thermometer widgets Easy-to-setup event ticketing tools Complete reporting and analytics features Snowball can also help develop custom Blackbaud integrations as needed.

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Amy Sample Ward

DECEMBER 24, 2009

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! MyBlogLog is a service that shows blog writers and readers the faces and profile information of other MyBlogLog users that visit their sites."

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NonProfit Hub

JUNE 27, 2017

You can u se Razoo to set up fundraising pages, or make use of Razoo’s donation widget to easily process donations on your own website or blog. Plus, the widget accepts both recurring and one-time payments, and it’s super easy to set up. It’s free to set up a Razoo nonprofit profile! Price Point.

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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. Corporations sponsor the widget, so there is a brand showing.

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NetWits

JANUARY 11, 2011

An incredible added benefit is that you can see who else has joined Jumo from your Facebook social network and get an idea of what causes they’re interested in by checking out their Jumo profile. You can even extend the giving experience to your personal website with their giving widget. 4) Razoo – [link].

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JUNE 10, 2008

Just send the company your e-mail list and tell it what social networking sites those on your list are using, their demographics, the numbers of friends they have, how many widgets they’re using, even their interests. I don’t know whether to be sad or proud that RapLeaf finds only my Facebook profile and no demos.

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NTEN

JANUARY 13, 2009

See the nifty little widget at the top of this post? Just click the "Share" button to add it to your site, blog, Facebook or MySpace profile (among other sharing options). . Big props, of course, to Convio for making this possible, and to Sprout for giving our account a nice upgrade so our widget would look better! .

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 1, 2007

That's why I remixed the fundraising widget on my blog in support of Creative Commons Annual Campaign. I donated $75 so I could get the t-shirt and photograph myself in it - and added it to all my social networking profiles. I hope you will do the same and donate too. Here's what it looks like on Facebook and Twitter. He's only 8 too!

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NTEN

MAY 5, 2011

By Katya Andresen, COO, Network for Good When we think about giving online, we tend to focus on the latest new bell, whistle or widget for fundraising. Keep your organization’s profile up to date (contact info, mission, etc.) But raising funds online is not about technology, any more than raising funds through the mail is about paper.

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Nimble AMS

DECEMBER 8, 2023

When your organization uses LWCs you’ll have unparalleled flexibility as you create custom, professional widgets to elevate staff and member interactions. By seamlessly integrating with the registration process, the LWC widgets enhance the overall event experience. Want to learn more about the power of Nimble AMS and Salesforce LWCs?

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Care2

NOVEMBER 4, 2014

It’s also a great reason to finally bust out that cool countdown widget you’ve been dying to use. You could find 24 stories that drive home your mission and goal, or you could break one story into 24 parts that compel continued visits and more donations.

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Qgiv

JULY 25, 2022

To make the process even easier, you can embed a Double the Donation widget into your online donation form so donors can find out if their gift is eligible to be matched as they’re in the process of donating. Double the Donation also offers a tool called 360MatchPro which automates the matching gifts process.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 25, 2010

We are sharing our research in the early stages to help identify other case studies we should profile and to get feedback on our working hypothesis. Aligning with a cause is a great way for a for-profit company to both raise its profile while doing something good for society at large.

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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. When Marshall Kirkpatrick reviewed it for TechCrunch three weeks ago, he described the service as follows: It lets users associate themselves with their favorite blogs, build a profile page about themselves and send internal messages.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 6, 2013

Write a short profile of a few of your target audience members. You could simply ask one question each month in a poll widget in your monthly email newsletter. You can, however, engage in some poor man’s demographic and psychographic research. Here are three ways to get a clearer sense of your audience. How old are they?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 23, 2012

In addition to information on subscribing by keyword and short code, you should also embed an online form or widget (provided by your vendor) on the page that easily allows people to type in their mobile number to subscribe instantaneously. This new page should then be linked near the e-newsletter subscribe option on your website and blog.

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NonProfit Hub

NOVEMBER 2, 2015

The revamped notifications tab will feature many different widgets and show more personalized content and news, current weather, trending haps on Facebook and more. There is a new look to the news feed, easier personalization of your profile, a new direct messages tab and better tools for recruiters. Did I leave something out?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 8, 2009

Photo of Chrystie Corns Chrystie Corns is the Social Media Marketing Manager for Where.com , a location-based application chock-full of widgets that deliver essential information about what's around you. Your profiles have so much personality - love it. How did you organization let you do that?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 10, 2008

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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2007

One annoying thing is that the javascript for the widget seems to get break in Facebook. To make it more enticing, if you are among the first 30 to contribute, I'll add you as a top friend on my Facebook profile. Share this link on your Facebook profile. Let's Send Leng Sopharath to College and Change Her World! Donate now.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 6, 2008

In addition to donating, I've also put the fundraising widget in my side bar, sent tweets out to my network on Twitter, distributed it in my friend feed , posted it on my Facebook profile and added to Flickr. (I had already made a donation to the BlogHer's act, but I've donated a second time to the Myanmar project, won't you?)

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