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19 March 2012

2 Wild Apricot Webinars This Week

Want 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. Mar. 21 and a Wild Apricot Functionality webinar on Thurs. Mar. 22. (read more)
Posted Monday, 19 March 2012 at 9:49 AM by Lori Halley [Engaging Apricot] | 0 comments
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- Widgets,
- webinar,
- events,
- Wild Apricot
16 September 2010

Interactive Timeline Brings a Non-Profit’s History to Life

Showcasing your non-profit’s history helps to establish its stability, to build trust, and to communicate the general development of the organization and its mission. But let’s face it, those “Our History” pages can be deadly dull! What if your website visitors could explore by clicking around a colorful timeline, instead? (read more)
Posted Thursday, 16 September 2010 at 9:52 AM by Rebecca Leaman [Curious Apricot] | 3 comments
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16 April 2010

Monitor the Web in Real Time: Instant Dashboards

You've got bookmarks for websites you need to check daily, online tools, news alerts for tracking your nonprofit's keywords and issues, email, social networks, RSS feeds for favorite blogs… It's all too easy to miss vital information, or to waste a great deal of time checking for updates. Now imagine one custom site that lets you monitor all that data at a glance – a dashboard that's updated in real time. (read more)
Posted Friday, 16 April 2010 at 4:56 PM by Rebecca Leaman [Curious Apricot] | 3 comments
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- Web 2.0,
- Widgets,
- Social networking,
- RSS,
- websites,
- social media,
- search,
- productivity
14 August 2009

Twitter + Flickr = Twitterfountain

Engage your audiences, help supporters of your non-profit keep up with any tagged topic on Twitter and Flickr, or publicize your event with a custom Twitterfountain , a nifty new mashup you can embed on your blog or website — Have you ever wanted to... (read more)
Posted Friday, 14 August 2009 at 8:21 PM by Rebecca Leaman [Curious Apricot] | 3 comments
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23 May 2009

SociafyQ - Free Social Media Tracking and Analytics

By now, even your grandmother knows social media is hot, but what’s the ROI on that social networking? Even for nonprofits on a tight budget, there are plenty of good monitoring tools. But what if you could track stats for all your major networks - free - from your desktop or home page, without giving out your passwords? SociafyQ is designed to do just that. (read more)
Posted Saturday, 23 May 2009 at 2:21 AM by Rebecca Leaman [Curious Apricot] | 4 comments
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- Facebook,
- Social networking,
- Widgets,
- Usability,
- Web 2.0,
- Twitter,
- analytics,
- social media,
- YouTube,
- LinkedIn
12 March 2009

Roll Your Own RSS Feed Digest Widget

There are many ways to publish any RSS feed on your own website — Feedburner’s BuzzBoost feature, and Widgetbox, for example, among a host of other methods including a Google Docs trick — but lately I’ve been using a free service called Feed Informer, for several reasons. (read more)
Posted Thursday, 12 March 2009 at 10:05 AM by Rebecca Leaman [Curious Apricot] | 12 comments
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- Web 2.0,
- Best practices,
- Widgets,
- RSS
19 February 2009

Web 2.0 Showing Signs of Recession

We've quickly become used to finding free or low-cost web tools and services for collaborating and communicating online, sharing media across platforms, or bringing new interactivity to our websites. Now, as business models change in response to the economic recession, nonprofits' online toolboxes are changing, too. (read more)
Posted Thursday, 19 February 2009 at 10:40 AM by Rebecca Leaman [Curious Apricot] | 5 comments
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- Widgets,
- Web 2.0
10 February 2009

Top 6 Popular Site Search Widgets

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,... (read more)
Posted Tuesday, 10 February 2009 at 5:40 PM by Rebecca Leaman [Curious Apricot] | 10 comments
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- search,
- websites,
- Usability,
- Web 2.0,
- Widgets
09 October 2008

Good2gether: News and Nonprofits

Media outlets need to enrich the syndicated wire service stories with local content if they are to attract readers and advertisers — but few have the budget, these days, for a cadre of local reporters to seek out and report on the "local angle" of... (read more)
Posted Thursday, 09 October 2008 at 4:02 PM by Rebecca Leaman [Curious Apricot] | 0 comments
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29 July 2008

How to Make Your Own Custom News Page

RSS is a very powerful technology , useful for anyone to gather and digest many information sources in one place — and even more useful for nonprofits to get their information out to their members and supporters. If you were to put all of your most... (read more)
Posted Tuesday, 29 July 2008 at 8:55 PM by Rebecca Leaman [Curious Apricot] | 5 comments
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- websites,
- RSS,
- spreadsheets,
- tables,
- Google Docs,
- Widgets,
- Web 2.0,
- Best practices
24 July 2008

Next Generation File Sharing Comes Out of the Box

Online file sharing service Box.net made Webware’s list of the 100 best Web 2.0 applications for 2008 for three very good reasons. The award's not for its file storage capability, nor for the ability to access and share your stored files online — although it’s worth noting that Box.net just added iPhone access. It's not even for the user-friendly interface that feels comfortable from the moment you first sign in. What makes Box.net a winner is a powerful Web 2.0 trio... (read more)
Posted Thursday, 24 July 2008 at 11:58 PM by Rebecca Leaman [Curious Apricot] | 1 comments
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07 July 2008

4 Ways to Put a PowerPoint Presentation on Your Web Site

If your organization makes PowerPoint slideshows for special events, meetings and conferences, you've probably put a lot of time and effort into creating each one. Why not get extra mileage from those PowerPoint presentations by putting them onto your website or blog for others to see? Here are four different ways to share PowerPoint files on the Web. (read more)
Posted Monday, 07 July 2008 at 2:45 PM by Rebecca Leaman [Curious Apricot] | 20 comments
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- Widgets,
- Best practices,
- Web 2.0,
- open source,
- PowerPoint,
- websites,
- Microsoft
24 April 2008

Dilbert.com Goes Web 2.0

How would you define Web 2.0 ? Wikipedia does a pretty good job of explaining it, but why use words alone to explain such a complex idea, when you can show-and-tell? Try this: Flip open just about any North American newspaper to the comics page...... (read more)
Posted Thursday, 24 April 2008 at 6:57 PM by Rebecca Leaman [Curious Apricot] | 1 comments
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31 January 2008

AddThis for Simple Social Bookmarking

One of the best things you can do for your readers (and for your blog) is to make it as easy as possible for people to share your content with interested others. You may have noticed the Bookmark button on each post pages of the Wild Apricot Blog?... (read more)
Posted Thursday, 31 January 2008 at 10:45 AM by Rebecca Leaman [Curious Apricot] | 12 comments
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21 January 2008

A Charity Badge to Raise Dough?

This post has been contributed by Lance Trebesch and Colt Lapham from TicketPrinting.com A charity badge is a small widget often including a picture, brief description of the organization, and link to where you can make a donation. The beauty of the... (read more)
Posted Monday, 21 January 2008 at 7:55 PM by Lenna Titizian [Dancing Apricot] | 0 comments
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