Webinar Slides: Using Sprout to Get Your Nonprofit's Message Out (In Tact)

Posted by Peter Deitz on June 10, 2008 at 3:00pm

Below are the slides from my webinar for NTEN, Using Sprout to Get Your Nonprofit's Message Out (In Tact). I suspect we'll see an increasing number of distributed campaigns that make use of the SproutBuilder engine.

Here are links to the Sprouts I referenced in the webinar:

Comment by Kare Anderson on June 11, 2008 at 12:08pm: What a coincidence. I just posted about ways to support your cause or hobby with maps mashups, etc.... capping it off with sprout
http://www.movingfrommetowe.com/2008/06/11/support-your-cause-or-hobby-with-maps-mashups-and-widgets/#more-832
..and am going to tout "social actions" at iabc later this month at their international conference
http://www.iabc.com/ic/nyAS3.htm

Comment by Peter Deitz on June 11, 2008 at 2:39pm: Hi Kare, Thanks for the link to your blog post and for mentioning Social Actions at IABC. I would love to connect with you at some point about your work. I'm loving the content of your blog.

Comment by Karen Taggart on June 11, 2008 at 3:21pm: Great session yesterday. One follow-up question -- as an old school fundraiser who runs into folks all the time who are afraid to give their credit card numbers of the phone or even click through on a fundraising email for fear of fraud, have you seen or do you foresee any problems with legitimacy among widgets? IE is there any way a donor or prospect can authenticate a widget?

Comment by Peter Deitz on June 11, 2008 at 3:45pm: Hi Karen. Great question. I'll shoot an email over to Frank to see what he has to say. At this point, most widgets don't allow for actual donations to occur within them. Instead, the potential donor would click through to a secure website (be it PayPal, NetworkforGood, or the organization's main site) to complete a donation. The donor could then evaluate the legitimacy of the organization on the landing page. As for the widgets themselves, there's no way to definitively authenticate the author of a widget just by looking at it. It's kind of like email. But you raise a very interesting subject, that is 'widget fraud.' I'm not sure if there's been anything written about this. Of course, a widget host like Sprout would be able to delete a widget and ban the creator if they discovered fraud in the system. Hope this answers your question. All the best, Peter

Comment by JoeSolomon on June 16, 2008 at 10:01pm: Peter - Can you post a link to the Every Human Has Rights Sprout -- it looks *AWESOME* but I can't seem to find it. Thanks!

Comment by Peter Deitz on June 16, 2008 at 10:48pm: Hi Joe, The link is already there, under "Here are the links..." Nevertheless, here's the link to the beautiful "every human has rights" sprout:
http://seed.sproutbuilder.com/sAB4MxzaBiqjCxxK

It turns out they built the petition form by integrating a google web form, not difficult at all, and certainly not requiring advanced technical expertise (as I suggest in the slide). All the best, Peter