Byte Technology

JANUARY 24, 2017

It may be a funny sounding word to many beginning WordPress users, but widgets can be—and should be—a vital component to any WordPress design. What exactly are widgets? In simple terms to the uninitiated, widgets are small blocks that provide very specific functions on your WordPress page. For those ready to start experimenting with Widgets, you should first visit the “Appearance, Widgets” page within your WordPress admin area. The post Wondering About Widgets?

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Deborah Elizabeth Finn

MARCH 14, 2008

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AFP Blog

DECEMBER 9, 2009

ammado Introduces Universal Giving Widget - Resource Center - AFP: "ammado Introduces Universal Giving Widget(Dec. 8, 2009) In the season of giving, AFP's networking partner ammado has introduced a new giving widget designed to make online donation a part of everyday life for millions of people around the world

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Wild Apricot Blog

MARCH 19, 2012

Widgets webinar events Wild ApricotWant to learn more about managing events in Wild Apricot? Or maybe you want to find out about using Wild Apricot within an existing website? We're offering an event webinar on Wed. 21 and a Wild Apricot Functionality webinar on Thurs.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 7, 2006

This weekend I went widget shopping! I installed (and unstalled) lots of widgets until I found a few good ones that might be appropriate for nonprofits. Where to find widgets. Many widgets I came across are designed to work with various Web 2.0

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 3, 2006

I am working on a screencast about nonprofit blogs and widgets. If you don't know what a widget is, here's an overview. I experimented with two widgets, linking them to content and conversation. Using widgets is not yet a common practice on nonprofit blogs.

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NTEN

JULY 14, 2011

While Facebook has a full set of APIs you can code against, you can also take advantage of their user-friendly widgets and have the additional benefit of being hosted on the Facebook domain. This means that if a user has an active session on Facebook (meaning they are logged into the browser) and visits your site, the widget will be able to detect their identity and gather highly relevant information about them. api chris dumas Data facebook Leadership widgets

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 3, 2008

The Federal Hurricane Response widget is a web tool designed to help share information during a major emergency with links to authoritative federal government sites on how to get help; finding friends and family; health and safety information; how to donate and volunteer; and a summary of what the government is doing. The widget is available for anyone to put on their websites, their MySpace pages and their blogs and includes a link to the embedding instructions.

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Beaconfire Wire

AUGUST 3, 2010

And then, to top it all off,” I said with a gleam in my eye, “you can make a widget.”. “A You know, “ I said, “A widget.”. To those of us in the web business, a widget is a kind of mini-web application that can be easily distributed to any Web site.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 6, 2007

Kurt Stuchell just finished a project and created a new widget called the Universal Museum Media Podcasts & Blog Widget. The widget contains a collection of museum podcasts and blogs. He has made the widget available on Facebook and it can also be added web site, MySpace (hmm. It looks like the widget was created in grazr. I'm headed off for the Museum Computer Network conference in Chicago tomorrow.

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Idealware

MARCH 11, 2010

I'd like to thank new Idealware blogger Debra Askanase for the inspiration for this post, which actually take from her idea for a post around fundraising and advocacy widgets, and which she graciously let me run with due to my slight obsession with widgets. There are many great resources and experts out there on viral strategies that apply to using widgets and I won't try to cover all that here. Why use widgets anyhow?

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Network-Centric Advocacy

FEBRUARY 9, 2011

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 18, 2008

About a year ago, I did a lot of research on a screencast about widgets for nonprofits and put together two wikis - Nonprofit Widgets (for a session at 2007 NTC Conference) and Fundraising Widget. So, I was really interested in hearing what colleague Peter Deitz has to say in his recent NTEN Webinar on the Sprout Widget. I like Peter's analogy of a widget as a bumper sticker. I've heard some people describe widgets as suitcases. | View | Upload your own.

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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. As an organization, you may be reading this and thinking to yourself, “Widgets are pretty but they seem complicated to implement.” Author: Taylor Shanklin.

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Rebooting Charity

MAY 30, 2007

So I think Nigel Dunn is onto something with his concept for a widget response network. While the UK-based DEC does have a Rapid Response Network for Big Media, he believes (and I agree) that they could benefit enormously from providing a badge/widget that is available all the time.

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AFP Blog

OCTOBER 12, 2007

Charity uses widgets to provide accountability to donors: "October 11, 2007 (Computerworld) -- A children's charity is using widget technology -- traditionally used with a single purpose application like updating weather or news on a Web site -- to help it show donors how their money is being used.

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Rebooting Charity

JANUARY 11, 2007

Widgets of the world unite… You’ve been promoted to “Buzz Director” Recent Comments bbm : This year I have donated money to rescue an animal from the clutches of a poor peasant in. whitewater widgets yak shack January 11th, 2007 A toast to fundraising with widgets!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 11, 2006

Katya Andresen of the Nonprofit Marketing Blog left me a message on Odeo in response to the question "What do you think about widgets for building community, in particular fundraising widgets?" I mean you put the widget in the hands of the community.

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gokubi.com

MARCH 5, 2009

Tanner Shamrock (best blogger name ever) wrote up how to put Salesforce’s Advanced Search on the sidebar last October. He just posted the simple instructions of how to set it up for yourself. It’s a really easy install and if you use Advanced Search, I think you’ll love it.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 7, 2006

Get this widget! the lastest from Feedburner - the ability to put your log or photo into an RSS widget. You knew I just had to do this. The hardest part was the creating the jpg. That's my Second Life avatar). Downside is that if you put javascript into your post - it doesn't show up

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Beaconfire Wire

MAY 3, 2007

So far we (at Beaconfire) have worked on two widget campaigns and have been keeping track of a few others; here are a few things we??ve Keep in mind that MySpace and some other sites restrict the use of some widgets, so try to create an alternative to your widget.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 11, 2006

I tracked down Web/Internet Strategy expert, Michael Stein , to get his take on widgets for fundraising. Here's the transcript: "When I think about web widgets, I think about the potential they have for online fundraising campaigns.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 12, 2006

a big hat tip to Michelle Martin from the Bamboo Project for pointing me to these two articles in the business press about widgets. The Typepad Hacks blog writes has a great introduction to widgets and describes the community building aspects: Ultimately, widgets, like the web itself are about connections??? The post also answers the question: Why would you want to install widgets? Widgets are a great way to share the things you like on the web.

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See What's Out There

MARCH 16, 2008

Sprout is a tool that lets you easily build your own widget. What I love about this widget is that it includes a link to video — using the See3 logo as the key.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 1, 2006

I put query out on the NTEN affinity group for nonprofit blogging about widgets. Reed Stockman from AFP Blog (Associate of Fundraising Professionals) told me that he is using a widget called RSSMIX to combine feeds and republish them on their Master Blog.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 6, 2006

Several folks emailed me to tell me that they sent me a message using the message widget. I did a quick and dirty screencast of how to leave a message using the odeo message widget. so this might be another reason why the message widget isn't be used by blog visitors. Test the widgets as if you were a user and make sure the interface is easy to use for them. I never received the messages. It made me curious. Was the message lost in the tubes at odeo?

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AFP Blog

JUNE 13, 2007

Beth Kanter writes about widgets in the NPT TechnoBuzzNPT TechnoBuzz: "Widgets: The New Black -- More Useful Than EverBy Beth KanterThe Web is increasingly turning into a sort of online mall with its boutiques filled with thousands of useful, off-the-rack accessories of every description and utility.

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Rebooting Charity

MARCH 6, 2007

First though, if you’re playing catch-up a bit, Heidi Cohen has written a good widgets primer on ClickZ. And, you guessed it… you can easily and quickly configure your own widget (or ‘badge’ in Yahoo-speak) and install it on your website, blog and / or social network page with a simple cut and paste. If you hadn’t guessed already… for me, widgets are one of the most exciting ingredients in the emerging Web 2.0

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NTEN

JANUARY 9, 2009

I love widgets. A lot of you have probably heard about the recent success of a Toronto blogger who combined a fundraising widget from Chip-In with the networking power of Twitter to raise over $14k in about 2 days. Well, we just heard about another great free widget that you and your organization might want to share with your community. I built a topic widget for technology: Tags: free tools NPTech ChipIn capitol news connection Advocacy widget online tools

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Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 16, 2007

Change.org , the social network where users can find like-minded do-gooders based on shared issues that they want to change, or nonprofits that they support, has launched a fundraising widget (pictured left). The widget can be placed on a blog, MySpace, Facebook, or a website.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 22, 2007

Jason over at Democracy in Action has created a job posting widget ! Get your own Widget. That's the show yourself widget via Jane's E-Learning Pick of the Day with a hat tip to Stephen Downes. Beth Kanter. Flickr /cambodia4kidsorg. Myspace /sharingfoundation. Linkedin /bethkanter. Twitter /kanter. YouTube /bethkanter. Skype /cambodia4kids. Technorati /kanter. I'm so weak. Back to work

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 31, 2006

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. Can widgets help you listen better? Create Free Polls.

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AFP Blog

AUGUST 20, 2008

AdWords-Style Widget Recommends Related Ways to Take Action - Social Actions: "Social Actions is proud to announce the launch of a revolutionary widget that recommends to readers of your blog or website related ways to take action.The widget automatically identifies the keywords on any page and lists social change campaigns related to the stuff you're writing about.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 13, 2006

I'm thinking about the use of video or vlog posts coupled with fundraising widgets as well as some other possible ways (ad revenue from web videos?) Chipin, the fundraising widget I'm testing for my campaign, offers video integration. to raise money for sponsoring a college student in Cambodia via the Sharing Foundation. I did a campaign video. I'm going to be guest blogging about this effort over at Katya's Non-Profit Marketing Blog this week.

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Network-Centric Advocacy

MAY 18, 2010

This widget misses a few important tweaks that would make it more valuable for both the user and PBS. I like these tools to help tell the story. Sign up for updates on this story. Name recruitment for PBS). Thank you emails should have links to charities and actions in them. Donate to news coverage of the gulf coast spill. short video talking about the cost of covering the story) 3. The logo link to news hour should be all the Gulf spill coverage NOT the homepage.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 4, 2007

Francesco Santini translated and published the widget fundraising case study on the Italian portal on fundraising. Guide for the best use of fundraising widget and even more ( [link].com/2007/06/05/guida-allutiliz Via my flickr stream.

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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. Here's how nonprofitwidget.org can work: All nonprofits can publish their widgets in this directory which features all of the requisite download and embed protocols to relieve the necessity of too much technical knowledge.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 7, 2006

I was delighted to discover his newly redesigned drupal blog and all the widgets he has installed. He also wrote an excellent response to my query, "What do you think about widgets?" Asking whether widgets will foster community is a tricky question.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 18, 2006

So, the campaign has earned $331 via widgets to facilitate contributions and $1.72 Wanna donate? Click here. It is probably unfair to compare these two strategies for grassroots internet fundraising. But I will just for giggles. Revver pays content creaters based on placing ads on the videos and paying for the click thrus. For my Sharing Foundation campaign, I uploaded the campaign video into revver. (I I got the idea here ).

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Wild Apricot Blog

FEBRUARY 10, 2009

As your website grows in size over time, you may want to think about adding a site-specific search box or widget, to help your readers to find the information they’re seeking among your web pages. According to stats released by Lijit last November, Google still holds the lead for popular site search widgets, withLijit coming up fast in second place. Tags: websites Widgets search Web 2.0

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