Byte Technology

APRIL 13, 2017

As wonderful as the WordPress content management system is, by its very nature—capable of supporting hundreds of different themes, thousands of plugins and so much more—it can be quite slow at times. Remember this always: when a visitor first lands on your site their initial impression is everything. Think about image optimization.

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Byte Technology

MARCH 16, 2017

Of course, the quickest way to grab donations from your site would be to add that all-too-familiar Paypal button, but that’s not always the right choice for everyone as the options for customizing the form are nearly non-existent, meaning your donation page will look exactly the same as millions of others.

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Byte Technology

JULY 4, 2017

That said, the folks at WP Beginner have compiled an impressive list of creative shortcuts and work-arounds that can really up a user’s game and make the process of designing, launching and administering a WordPress site infinitely more seamless and easy. Here’s part one with seven tips and tricks, stand by for part 2 next week.

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Byte Technology

DECEMBER 15, 2016

WordPress is an incredibly rich and multi-layered content management system, one packed with options and features that help it clearly stand head and shoulders above other platforms. Manipulate that Widget. Speaking of widgets, even WordPress beginners are aware of how easy it is to drag and drop them into their sidebars.

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sgEngage

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Creating a bridge between your social media and nonprofit website can help set up two-way traffic between these two key channels, allowing you to increase your social media follower count and organic traffic on your site. Let’s jump into how you can realize these benefits and successfully connect your social media with your site.

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Byte Technology

NOVEMBER 24, 2016

It’s little wonder that some 76 million websites worldwide are designed and administered via the WordPress platform given the ease with which any one—from tech newbies to Internet and design pros—can get their blog or e-commerce site up and running. Every post, every original piece of artwork, your payment system and so on.

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Forum One

OCTOBER 7, 2008

Already there are more than 10,000 playspaces entered into the system -- and KaBOOM! Check it out on their site , or use the nice widget below to search for playspaces near you.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 6, 2007

When I saw the words "nonprofit widget," I had a senior moment. I remembered that almost a year ago I was working on screencast about widgets for nonprofits to build community and had set up a wikispace called nonprofit widgets. I think that slapping up a widget and not having strategy doesn't work.

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sgEngage

MARCH 30, 2022

All you need is an easy-to-use website builder, or content management system (CMS), and an understanding of a few web design strategies. Audience: Think through who you picture visiting your site (you might even have some site data to inform your thinking). Use your CMS to include an accessibility widget.

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Byte Technology

OCTOBER 19, 2016

Fortunately, keeping track of and investigating the latest add-ons for your WordPress site is a snap as there are literally thousands in existence and more coming every day. Here are some great plug-ins to check out immediately to see if they can help you make the most of your site. •

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 31, 2011

A good Content management System (CMS) will take care of this for you. 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.

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Byte Technology

DECEMBER 22, 2016

One of the hallmarks of the WordPress content management system is the ability to engage a user audience and create a back-and-forth conversation of sorts in the virtual world. 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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NTEN

JULY 11, 2011

These needs may relate to accessibility and the user-friendliness of your site for those with auditory, visual, cognitive or mobility impairments. When developing social sites, personal user accounts and profiles form the backbone of such destinations. To create these accounts, sites frequently make use of registration forms.

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Connection Cafe

JANUARY 27, 2010

I’ve created widgets and had the chance to use them from a participant’s perspective. Not to get too cheesy here, but it really does mean that the money being raised (and illustrated in the widget) is helping a cause that I’m passionate about. Let me tell you, they are fun! Do you have fundraising milestones?

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3rd Sector Labs

DECEMBER 1, 2013

Drupal is close behind in the number of websites, and it powers leading sites like The White House and The Economist. And it might surprise you to know that WordPress is used by the likes of CNN, the New York Times, eBay, and UPS. Robust – We aren’t big fans of this overblown word, but in the case of Open Source it works.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 16, 2006

Is that built into the system? Thank Yous So far, other bloggers have added the badge to their site or linked to the campaign and I want say a big thanks and in Khmer too ! At our last board meeting, we discussed online fundraising strategies and I made a proposal about using the fundraising widget and a campaign.

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NTEN

JULY 14, 2011

Even if you're using a content management system like WordPress or Drupal, by incorporating APIs, you can further enhance built in app-like functionality to create a highly customized experience. We can utilize APIs to transfer data from one system to another and even synchronize data sets in order to end up with the cleanest data possible.

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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. Rapleaf digs into the usual social networking sites (Facebook, MySpace, etc.), 2 admin 06.11.08

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NTEN

JANUARY 24, 2011

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. As a result of this mayhem, your email service has been blacklisted by every anti-spam system in the universe.

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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. Seesmic is a video conversation site. I think like a lot of Web 2.0

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Global Giving

AUGUST 21, 2018

Kevin Conroy Chief Product Officer Who He Is: Kevin leads GlobalGiving's product team, a talented group of programmers, system administrators, designers, communicators, and marketers that work tirelessly to improve the GlobalGiving website. Q: So, an API is similar in some ways to a website widget or plug-in? API For Disaster Response.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 14, 2014

I looked at a few popular crowdfunding sites and dissected their cost plans, nonprofit support, and special features. The Scoop: Indiegogo stakes the claim of being the first "perks-based" crowdfunding site. This US-based platform says that over 1 million nonprofits are currently registered on the site.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 29, 2010

There are official rules written by lawyers to protect the corporation and presumably to ward off cheating, gaming the system, or unfair play. I was looking at the web sites and applications of some of the organizations who were in the top ten for the $250,000 category. So, is proxy voting an allowable off-site voting method or not?

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 16, 2012

Simplify the fundraising process with DonorPerfect , a completely web-based donor management system. ChipIn is a free widget for collecting donations and keeping your constituents informed about various fundraising campaigns. The tool works with any web page as well as with most social media sites.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 2, 2011

Care2 provides visitors to their site green-living advice and the opportunity to act on behalf of the causes they care most about. It followed up on that success by creating the Petition Site the following year. Care2 started with e-cards that gave back and webmail in 1998.

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NonProfit Hub

JUNE 1, 2017

Squarespace leaves out all the hubbub and gives visitors to your site a clear call to action. If you’re okay with giving up some control to maintain an elegant site, then Squarespace is the place to be. Weebly sites are created using a What You See Is What You Get (WYSIWYG) system, meaning you can arrange pieces on a page visually.

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Achieve

JULY 28, 2021

With all of your waivers collected in a secure digital database, you can search for specific participants, make notes on participant records, integrate with a reservation or member management system, and transfer contact information to email marketing platforms. . . Here’s a few perks that come with digital waivers: .

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Byte Technology

DECEMBER 8, 2016

If you’ve ever designed, built, managed or administered a website, you’re no doubt intimately involved with a Content Management System (CMS), a specific software application or set of programs used to create and manage digital content. New and Notable.

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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. MyBlogLog is a social networking system for blog readers to connect and learn about each other around their favorite blogs - and for blog publishers to access detailed information about their readers. Click on any of our readers???

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 3, 2013

I looked at a few popular crowdfunding sites and dissected their cost plans, nonprofit support, and special features. The Scoop: Indiegogo stakes the claim of being the first "perks-based" crowdfunding site. This US-based platform says that over 1 million nonprofits are currently registered on the site.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 29, 2009

The young and the wired are moving at an accelerating pace away from old-school destination Web sites and toward the social media ecosystem embodied in the real-time Web. A sharing and learning hub We invite you to cruise around the site — and we hope you'll help us spread the word. You’ll notice that we’re not starting from scratch.

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NTEN

JUNE 10, 2011

Automated systems can aggregate content coming from particular blogs, people, companies, keywords, or some combination of these. But these systems require the reader to filter out fluff, dreck, and irrelevant content. A Drupal or Wordpress site could include these features by adding modules/plug-ins/widgets. rating items.

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NTEN

MARCH 18, 2010

Once upon a time, just a little more than a century ago, every factory that wanted to run its systems on electricity had to build its own electrical generating system. Most of us now host all of our applications and our data and our email systems documents/spreadsheets, etc. on our own servers or desktops.

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NTEN

MARCH 18, 2010

Once upon a time, just a little more than a century ago, every factory that wanted to run its systems on electricity had to build its own electrical generating system. Most of us now host all of our applications and our data and our email systems documents/spreadsheets, etc. on our own servers or desktops.

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Tech Soup

MAY 16, 2013

Simplify the fundraising process with DonorPerfect , a completely web-based donor management system. ChipIn is a free widget for collecting donations and keeping your constituents informed about various fundraising campaigns. The tool works with any web page as well as with most social media sites.

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NTEN

JULY 5, 2013

Under the box with session details ("Track" and "Theme") is a voting widget that says "Vote this session up or down". A: We had to disable caching on our site so that the average votes would show up for you as the votes rolled in. A: Go to [link]. Each page displays 20 session proposals. You can always change your vote later.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 26, 2009

Management, along with the techs, justify these restrictions in all sorts of ways: Standardized systems are easier, more cost-effective to manage. Restricted systems are more secure. Group policies restrict users from changing their desktop colors or setting the system time. Web filtering maximizes available bandwidth.

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