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Social Actions’ Change The Web Challenge in Oxford

Amy Sample Ward

Through a search engine, Open Actions XML micro-format, an open API, and third-party tools and widgets, you can find and share ways to get involved in the causes you care about. Hack away on existing or new widgets, tools, and mashups. See you in Oxford, Peter Deitz, Romina Oliverio, Rolf Kleef, Amy Sample Ward.

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Great reads from January 12th through January 14th

Amy Sample Ward

The guide features 12 real-life strategies organizations are using right now to succeed during the downturn, in addition to tons of great tactical advice, creative samples and other resources. " I'm really excited to see how this widget gets used by nonprofits across the US, or replicated elsewhere.

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How to Use Pass-Through Parameters for Your Nonprofit Donation Page

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Pass-through parameters are special tags you can add to the end of a website address that allow you to pass information from your website or email campaigns to your Classy donation page. You can do so by adding a widget to your website that provides donors with easy access to your donation form. What Are Pass-Through Parameters?

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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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Blog Redesign: Adding the Extras

Amy Sample Ward

When I say extras, I mean the widgets, plugins, apps and other random bits that can really add a bit of flavor, not to mention functionality, to a website. Tags: blogging community webtools blog redesign extras feedback redesign tools widgets wordpress. Redesign topic #3: Adding the Extras. Please share your ideas and feedback!

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Building Blocks of Social Media - Webinar slides and notes

Amy Sample Ward

Today’s webinar focused on the building blocks of social meda; things like tagging, RSS and how to get started finding the conversations taking place online. 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.

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Win A HP Computer and Printer: What's Your Theory of Change for Social Media Use?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The social strategy includes the widget above that can be customized to show the charity and be shared on different social networking sites or blogs. They have created many social sharing opportunities, for example: Visit Create Change select a charity and share the widget with your network. Amy Sample Ward. Fine Blog .