I'm researching for a screencast that I will shoot over the next few weeks on the topic of widgets that can be used for your blog to enable conversation or support nonprofit programs. I'm looking for widgets that can easily add any of the following features:
- Integrating calendar or events info on your blog
- Publishing tag clouds, links from socialbookmarking, etc on your blog
- Publishing other folks content via RSS feeds on your blog
- Live chat on your blog
- mail on your blog
- Share what you're feeds your reading
- Commenting
- Giving money
So, if you work in the nonprofit sector or nonprofit technology sector and have a blog that uses any of the above widgets or even ones I have mentioned and want to be featured in my next screencast, please leave a comment here. I'm particulary interested in typepad widgets, but blogger, wordpress, and others are okay.
Tell me:
-Name a nd url of your blog
-Name of widget/url
-Why you installed it
-Results?
-Your blog platform and how easy it was to install
-If you'd be willing to do a quick interview and if you have skype
Be sure to give me a way to connect with you.
I invite you to take a look at my blog. It is a non-profit blog I set up. Initially it was just for fun. I am an English major and wanted to keep myself writing, so I chose one of my favorite hobbies-the internet. My site is a half-spoof on web 2.0, as I like to call it: my site is a web 2."Oh" site. But I do review many usefull sites, gadgets, and plan to branch out further in the future. I try to maintain a nice site, although it is hard to have a competitive site when only I do this for fun, and on the side.
I have plenty of widgets on my site: "Emergency Trap", some come and go, but most stay. I use a voicemail #, an ether #(and this may be the only thing that technically doesn't qualify as "non-profit"), an instant voicemail box(chingo), along with a few other contact options. I also am currently test running mochimention that allows you to place a voting widget(with or without comment box) in specific sections of websites(say I want an indivdual opinion on my blogroll) I also have flash audio/video players that I can insert into individual posts when I make a video or record a podcast. About the only thing I don't have on the site is a Skype link, although I do have an account.
Sorry for the long-winded reply. I think you will find my site interesting, but perhaps it's too new. I haven't had much interaction from viewers yet. I'm only around a month old.
Sincerely,
Jeremy Stratton
"Emergency Trap"
http://emergencytrap.blogspot.com
[email protected] or [email protected]
Posted by: Jeremy Stratton | October 27, 2006 at 09:52 PM
Hi Beth,
I work in higher ed and I have two blogs using Blogger and I also have played around with Wordpress blogs and will be moving to that environment whenever time permits. I use various widgets on my blogs.
MeeboMe chat (IM) widget
RSS Calendar widget
Odeo “send me a voice message”
Flickr badge
If you want to chat, just let me know.
b dot dahl at lsc dot edu
Barry Dahl
Ed Tech Blog: http://barrydahl.blogspot.com
e-Learning blog: http://desire2blog.blogspot.com
Posted by: Barry Dahl | October 28, 2006 at 03:50 PM