Sprouting a Cause

Deitz recommended adding components like a calendar, countdown clock, progress bar, news feed, video, images or third-party plug-ins.

That’s it. It takes just a few minutes, according to Sprout.

Once a sprout is created, Deitz said, the next step is to publish it. A user simply clicks “publish” to get the Sprout code and embed it into any Web page, according to Sprout. Or a person can use the “quick post” feature to automatically place it into blogs and social-networking sites. Anyone can copy a sprout and spread it virally once it’s published.