So Facebook won't let you take credit card gifts (or even have a secure page) and Twitter has nowhere to even ask for gifts. You've created the greatest viral video in the world but you can't get people to click through to your site and give their credit card details? It's a major issue...

The System Options change should do the trick. Also, in BBNC 6.35 there's a new Unformatted Text Part that allows you to integrate lots of external tools. There's even an integration gallery that shows you how to get BBNC to work with lots of tools. You can learn more about it in this blog post...

Has anyone else had problems getting Facebook and Twitter widgets to display on their pages in BBNC? I've tried to enter the code every way I know how, and it just will not show up on the site. The same thing happens when I try to add a Facebook "Like" button to a page. Any ideas? Thanks...

Blackbaud will be hosting the Social Media Strategies Panel at the South by Southwest (SXSW) Interactive Festival on Monday, March 14 from 9:30 a.m to 10:30 a.m. CT. The panel will feature leaders from Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, Foursquare, March of Dimes, and Make-a-Wish Foundation discussing social...

With the new Facebook updates allowing for using iframes to insert 3rd party content, has anyone tried to insert a newsletter opt in box on the Facebook Page? If so, any simple way to do this?

This month Blackbaud has teamed up with Charity Insight to provide some snippets of data about UK giving online over the last few months/year. The first post which has just gone online was focussed on giving overall in 2010. These numbers are based on data for the year past and has some interesting snippets...

What code can be added to the html of a form page (or wrapper) so that when a person attaches a link in Facebook to a form (our donation form for example) - it picks up a thumbnail, the headline and description - instead of just an ugly looking URL. Thanks! Julie

So last week my colleague Chad Norman posted an excellent blog entry around the concept of Slacktivism . He had looked at the wave of Facebook users changing their profile picture to that of a cartoon character in support of child abuse charities including NSPCC . The group was centred around a FB page...

Hi everybody, First time poster, long time reader here and I must say I really love the helpful advice and knowledge you have built up here. My organisation is launching Net Community in the new year and I have been tasked with finding out some of the things other organisations have done to promote NC...

Hi Dan, If you check our site, https://community.collegefund.org/donate you'll see that we have a Share button. This was created using code generated from http://www.addthis.com They also have other options including Like and Tweet with counters. Then in NetCommunity, a separate "AddThis"...