It’s almost Thanksgiving, and that means it’s time to start planning your Thanksgiving holiday with family and friends.
Widgetboxer Erika Campos of San Francisco has been using Widgetbox to help her plan her annual Thanksgiving dinner for the past two years. We asked her to give us the details of some of the widgets she’s using this year to help her plan the big day.

The first thing I did this year was to install a Thanksgiving countdown widget. It took less than five minutes to install the widget on my blog …

Widgets aren’t just fun–they can be educational too.

Widgetbox has a variety of interactive widgets that can help students learn math, science, history, and grammar skills. From kindergarten to high school, there are a wide range of widgets that help students of all levels with various subjects.

Parents and teachers have found our educational widgets to be a fun and simple way to teach students while keeping them engaged

We’ve just added two new Facebook apps that you can add to your Fan Page—our Gallery and Poll apps.
The Gallery app will allow you to showcase your brand’s news or products, while highlighting one featured item. Your followers will be able to click on each individual article or product summary—driving traffic back to your website.
The Poll app will allow you to create customized polls for your Facebook Fan Page. Poll your followers on new releases, hot article topics, or just about anything else. With our real-time updating, you’ll be able …

After months of hard work, we just released our brand new Form widget! With our newest widget you can create and share a customized form in minutes. Create a contact form, registration form, questionnaire, or just about any other form you can think of.
With no coding knowledge necessary you can easily make a multiple choice questionnaire to put on your blog, a “Contact Us” form for your website, or a fun party invitation to share with friends on MySpace.
You can choose from 8 basic themes and include up to …

It’s easy to be enthusiastic about my role in helping evangelize Smarter Planet, IBM’s effort to help the worlds systems — including food production, healthcare delivery, energy production, traffic and water management — become more instrumented, interconnected and, ultimately, intelligent. That’s a vision that most people not only understand, but want to see fulfilled.
To fulfill my mission — putting social media to work to make Smarter Planet real and relevant to people around the world — I’ve found Widgetbox to be the kind of smarter service that has helped me …