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Two Examples of Nonprofit Social Media That Will Make You Smile (and learn a best practice or two)

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Today I’m seeking out examples of how nonprofits use cute dogs, cats, or babies in their social media to feel good, but also extract a social media best practice or two so it doesn’t feel like a “waste of time.” 2: Use Transmedia Storytelling to Share Stories That Inspires InspireAction.

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Nonprofits and Instagram: The Ultimate Curated Collection of Best Practices, Examples, and Tips

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

It was created in 2010 and purchased by Facebook in 2012 (more history here ). It is superb for visual storytelling about your organization, its stakeholders, and results. It is superb for visual storytelling about your organization, its stakeholders, and results. As of March, 2014 Instagram has 200 million users.

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Nonprofits and Instagram: The Ultimate Curated Collection of Best Practices, Examples, and Tips

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

It was created in 2010 and purchased by Facebook in 2012 (more history here ). It is superb for visual storytelling about your organization, its stakeholders, and results. The idea that “pictures do the talking” is also appealing to younger audiences which is why Instagram is popular with Gen Z and Gen Y.

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NTEN Member Buzz Round-Up: October 15, 2010

NTEN

He acknolwedges the challenges for our sector, but provides some good advice and examples. Thanks to Will Coley for sharing his adventures and demonstrating digital storytelling. ForumOne 's Chris Wolz wrote a good piece about crowdsourcing for foundations and nonprofits. We love Geo Locating and Mapping!

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Things We Like (October 2010)

NTEN

Effective data visualization is the future of nonprofit storytelling. Given the multiplicity of nonprofit-related examples -- including the past 2 issues of NTEN Connect -- crowdsourcing may very well be (part of) the future of nonprofit problem solving. A monthly roundup of our favorite nonprofit tech resources and other goodies.

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Great reads from around the web on January 7th

Amy Sample Ward

Take a look at the examples on the G-team page and let your imagination run wild." " Thanks to Stacey Monk for the tip that Animoto let's nonprofits apply for free pro accounts – looking for a tool to help with your video storytelling, multimedia fundraising and more? " MLK2011 – Join Us Live!

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Books That Changed Us in 2020

Media Cause

Or another great example of some bright spots in all this: kids’ drive-by-birthday parties, which I actually hope become the new norm, because really–no planning? Sadly, this is a war I knew nothing about and I was moved by how she captured this historical event without stating facts, but through deep storytelling of human connections.

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