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Pipe Up: How to Get More Comments on Your WordPress Posts

Byte Technology

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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What is a Widget?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

If you've been following my widgets category , you know that I'm working on a screencast and have been researching and playing with widgets. For the script, before jumping into the how-to of widgets, the screencast will give some context, of course. What is a Widget? Kaufman and Marc Connelly.

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Take My Widget Poll

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I am working on a screencast about widgets -- more specifically free and easy-to-use community building tools for your blog. I'm busy researching and writing the script which will cover the why, what, and examples, but now I'm in the nitty gritty stage of playing with a few widgets. No option for researching widgets.

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Making Media Connections: Ning Site

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

It recently launched a ning site - a branded social network for its community of nonprofits. Tell me a little about your organization's social media strategy for its ning (branded social network) site? A Ning site was developed in order to answer this specific need. How are you measuring your success with the site?

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You're an Accidental Spammer: What Do You Do When You've Been Hacked? (Digital Dispatches from the desk of Gavin Clabaugh)

NTEN

The links connect to a malware site that installs a drive-by Trojan. Perhaps that innocuous "Share this Page" widget on your web site — through no fault of your own — has been turned to the dark side. On the other hand, it is the one used by everything on your web site, including your extranet. I guess I'm down to size.

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UK Riders Frappr Map

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I have no idea why the widget script didn't work, so took a screen capture and edited in Photoshop). Teresa Crawford mentioned that the eriders site would be migrating to frappr. BTW, the eriders site has lots great content!) This is the map from the UK Riders Frappr group. (I

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Nonprofits Using Ning: An Interview with Community Media Workshop and Best Practices

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Last week for WeAreMedia project, I put a call on Twitter for case studies, best practices, and links about nonprofits using social networking sites, including Ning. Take for example the Community Media Workshop's Ning Site which is used to complement their face-to-face training session. What did set out to accomplish?

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