Last week we released our first Giveness widget for our members and Charities that leverage our service for assisting their fundraising efforts through your supporter's online purchases at Amazon and eBay. Visit http://www.giveness.com/givecast to learn how you can get your own fundraising widget. Widgets are small stand alone modules that facilitate a certain functionality.  Currently, the most popular widgets have come in the form of a Flash based photo slide show, mp3 player or video ...

Share the blogs or RSS feeds that you have available for you organization with Giveness visitors.  It's easy to manage multiple feeds that you have available and share them with visitors to your Giveness homepage. If you are an administrator for your charity, visit your administration page and create a list of RSS feeds that you have available.  All you have to do is visit this page and add the links to your RSS feeds. http://www.giveness.com/account/admin/editrssfeed.aspx

We're excited to announce our first RSS Feed release for Members.  If you are unfamaliar with what Real Simple Syndication (RSS) is and it's benefits, we suggest you read this Wikepedia entry for a detailed explanation behind this technology.    The icon above represents an available RSS feed for the content it is referring to.  Clicking on this icon will provide you with the proper url that you can embed in your other RSS readers.  IE7 and Firefox have inherent RSS feed support, so it's a ...

Another great way to personalize your profile at Giveness is to upload an image that can be used as a "wallpaper" for you home page. You can upload your picture at this page: http://www.giveness.com/member/admin/EditBackground.aspx In order to create a quick load time of your page, it's recommended that you select an image that is small in size.  Background images will tile, so try to find an image that will look good repeated. Images will be converted to a .jpg.

Yes.  There are currently 3 different options for the visibility of your personal profile.  1. Public - Any Giveness user can view your profile. 2. Friends Only - The people that you accept as friends are the only ones that can view your profile. 3. Anonymous - No one except yourself, when you are authenticated, can see your profile. You can adjust this setting on your Manage Profile page which is located here: http://www.giveness.com/member/admin/EditProfile.aspx You will see 2 seperate ...