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

Byte Technology

Each time someone leaves a remark, the server has to run a PHP script, and when multiple visitors are commenting concurrently it can put burden on the host and slow the entire site down considerably. Go to “Appearance, Widgets” and add “Recent Comments” to a sidebar.

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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). This is the map from the UK Riders Frappr group. (I Teresa Crawford mentioned that the eriders site would be migrating to frappr. BTW, the eriders site has lots great content!)

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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

Perhaps that innocuous "Share this Page" widget on your web site — through no fault of your own — has been turned to the dark side. Perhaps it's something else, but regardless the cause, some ingenious script-kiddy has turned the tables and suddenly you're responsible for thousands upon thousands of spam messages.

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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

Developers who are more experienced can create customized scripts and widgets on their site to accommodate the needs of their users. Users can import their Flickr photos from their account and promote their profile pages and widgets on Facebook. Ning is also very flexible. How are you measuring your success with the site?

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Making Media Connections: Ning Site

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Developers who are more experienced can create customized scripts and widgets on their site to accommodate the needs of their users. Users can import their Flickr photos from their account and promote their profile pages and widgets on Facebook. Ning is also very flexible. How are you measuring your success with the site?

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