A widget with a purpose

As the final part of my last two blogs about AKVO I would like tell you about their widget. A nice little application you can display on your website or blogger to support a water project! People who already placed the widget on their blogs:

http://newsbieonict.blogspot.com/
http://karinvenner.blogspot.com/
http://benstevensmuo.blogspot.com/

AKVO is a digital platform that facilitates the water sanitation sector, their clients are mostly NGO’s in the Netherlands but AKVO is expanding their platform abroad. A large part of these NGO’s are running water projects in the third world for which they seek funding. All projects have to do with water and have the purpose to help the local population to clean it, gather it or make it controllable. To help these NGO’s to find sponsors and donators, AKVO offers them a spot on their ‘Project’ page. On this page NGO’s they have the possibility to find funding for their projects, through their own personal page. The personal page enables the organisations keep visitors updated on information about the progression of the project, in addition the visitors can subscribe to the projects’ RSS Feeds.

The widget AKVO has developed allows its donators, partners and sponsors to display the project they funded in a small screen on their website. The widget is easily written in HTML and can be displayed on your website or blog, as you can see on my page.

I would like to use this opportunity to encourage you to put this widget on your own blog, so maybe your visitors will donate a euro or two to the project. Just follow the following steps for your blogger page:

1. Go to http://www.akvo.org/rsr/projects/ and choose project you find meaningful and click on it.

2. On the right side of the page you can find page tools, click on een widget maken (make a widget).

3. Fill in your website (www.yourblogname.blogspot.com) and click on selecteren en verder gaan… (Select and go on).

4. Choose your own colours for your widget and click on voorproefje (sneakpreview).

5. Copy the HTMLcode which is displayed in the bottom of the page.

6. Log in to your Blogger and make sure you land on your Dashbord page.

7. Click on Layout (Indeling) and then on Page Elements (Pagina-elementen).

8. Click on Add a page element (een gadget toevoegen).

9. Choose the option HTML/Javascript

10. Paste your HTMLcode in the frame, name your widget and save your changes.