article thumbnail

Take My Widget Poll

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

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. Since I'm using a typepad blog and Vizu is a partner, it was point and click easy. Create Free Polls. Maybe I'll go out tonight dressed up as one.

Poll 50
article thumbnail

The Jing Project: Embed Screencasts Into Conversation

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

It was very liberating for me to create a screencast like this -- no storyboard, script, no retakes. The script can detect the Flash plug-in in all major web browsers (on Mac and PC) and is designed to make embedding Flash movies as easy as possible. You can capture and narrate in snap. That's the only thing missing.

Jing 50
article thumbnail

Measuring Your Blog's Outcomes and Use of Other Social Media Tools

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Ah, my screencast script on google analytics completely ignores social media and only focuses on web sites. My blogging platform, Typepad , does not have a way to easily and automatically measure the number of posts and words in post in a given time period. I had to compute mine manually by counting them in typepad. Authority???

Measure 50