Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 16, 2011

The SXSW Interactive Festival (scheduled March, 2012 in Austin, Texas) is a mega huge social media industry event. Check out the information and application process here. No brochures: digital storytelling for nonprofits. Joe Lambert, Digital Storytelling. 2008 SXSW Panel: Pimp Your Nonprofit Cause photo by Ed Schipul.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 8, 2012

UPDATED 1/8/12: Thanks to the launch of Google+ Pages for brands, Google+ traffic hit an all time high in December 2011 and it’s likely that the trend will continue in 2012. Finally, I will be offering a Google+ and Google Products Webinar for Nonprofits on February 28, 2012.

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Forum One

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

We crafted clear user journeys to connect site visitors with what they need, including information on visiting Washington wineries, connecting with events and programs, and finding the latest research news and grant opportunities. Silver – Federal Government Website. Forum One has worked with the U.S.

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Forum One

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

We crafted clear user journeys to connect site visitors with what they need, including information on visiting Washington wineries, connecting with events and programs, and finding the latest research news and grant opportunities. Silver – Federal Government Website. Forum One has worked with the U.S.

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Tech Soup

JULY 10, 2012

Or we go to the other extreme and create a presentation full of images, animations, and more information than any human mind can handle. The slides serve as the anchor, but all the details can happen outside the slides, such as on the flip chart, through your own storytelling, and interactions with the audience. Additional Resources.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 17, 2012

Data Scientist” is a newly defined job that requires being part data geek, analyst, communicator, visualizer, storyteller, and interpreter. Beth Kanter (@kanter) October 4, 2012. If you’ve not seen The Center for Effective Philanthropy survey of September, 2012, it sets up the challenge pretty clearly.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 9, 2012

In It's Not You, It's Your Stories at the 2012 Nonprofit Technology Conference , Steve Daigneault (VP of eCampaigns at M&R Strategic Services ) and Sue Citro (Director of Digital Strategy, Global Programs at The Nature Conservancy ) shared their tips for telling better and more effective stories. Take out big, complicated words.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 26, 2012

Finally, I will be offering a Google+ and Google Products Webinar for Nonprofits on February 28, 2012. There’s way too much marketing happening on social networking sites and not enough storytelling. Set up your Google/Gmail Account and personal Google+ Profile. . If your first instinct says no, then don’t post it.

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Tech Soup

JULY 30, 2013

Furthermore, mobile innovation influences the information consumption habits of your volunteers, staff, donors, constituents, and so on. Apps like Vine or Instagram (which now has video) let you experiment with storytelling in a shorter format. Capture and Share Events with Mobile Apps. Windows Phone Evolves.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 12, 2011

His best selling Accomplishing More in Less Time, Less Effort, and Less Stress workshop enables business professionals to better cope with information overload and competing priorities. Currently, as project manager for TechSoup's Digital Storytelling Campaign.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 7, 2012

It's also a good way for your organization to attract new donors, and an incentive to keep contact information up to date. You can use Connect2Give to: Create a mobile website for collecting donations and sharing information about your organization without having to deal with app development. Mobile Storytelling.

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Connection Cafe

MARCH 4, 2019

Back in 2012 , I wrote why nonprofits must avoid the year-end online giving trap. Since 2012, the percentage of online giving — and overall giving — that happens in December has decreased. Generation Z, those born between 1995 and 2012, will make the connection between gaming and giving. It’s a trap! Can you read a chart?

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 4, 2014

In our recent webinar on super-short videos , we heard from digital storytelling experts about how nonprofits and libraries can use these tools to easily make their own super-short videos. The Internet, especially the mobile web, encourages rapid, distracted sampling of small bits of information from many sources. Really short.

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Achieve

MARCH 19, 2015

As a nonprofit professional, unless you’ve been living under a rock for the past few years, you know that storytelling – sharing the real stories of real people whose lives were enriched by your help – is the best way to reach potential donors. published in 2012. More and more, causes are using stories in their solicitations.

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CauseVox

OCTOBER 22, 2021

This annual “Global Day of Giving” event takes place on the first Tuesday after Thanksgiving (this year it’s Nov 30 which might feel late but is sneaking up fast) and has helped to amplify year-end fundraising efforts for nonprofits and charitable causes since 2012. On GivingTuesday 2020, over $2.47 You can too. Get started here.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 1, 2011

Some struggle to find an attainable number. Benchmarking comparing your organization’s past performance to itself or doing a formal or informal analysis of peer organizations can help. Acquire 100 new donors through Facebook Causes by June 30, 2012. Increase online and print mentions by 25% by June 30, 2012.

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TechImpact

SEPTEMBER 10, 2013

In 2012, 58% of the Millennial population said they used the mobile Internet, and this number is only increasing. Storytelling is a huge part of convincing potential supporters to donate to your cause. Believe it or not, young donors are not the only ones that want to access nonprofit websites on their phone. An up to date website.

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Forum One

OCTOBER 4, 2023

The app includes journals and trackers to allow parents to record important information about their journey, a glossary of commonly used terms, a community and resource library, a directory of NICU family support partners, a postpartum checkup, and more.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 24, 2014

With all that digital information available, how can your story possibly stand out? " Thumbnails attract the audience's eye and present visual information, which is especially important on a platform like YouTube. Mix Up Your Storytelling Methods. All that storytelling effort has paid off.

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Forum One

MAY 17, 2023

National Rural Health Resource Center Gold – Non-Profit Websites The National Rural Health Resource Center provides technical assistance, information, tools, and resources for the improvement of rural health care. Forum One worked with SLAC to create a Drupal site that achieved all of these goals and more.

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Forum One

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Forum One worked closely with the AARP Livability Index team to meet the needs of its audiences with an easier-to-use website and accessible data that informs consumer and policy decisions nationwide. Overall, this work has helped to bring to light crucial information on trends in learning and education across the country.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 20, 2012

NTEN’s Technology Leadership Academy Returns for 2012 – "We're excited to announce that the Technology Leadership Academy is returning in 2012. Digital Storytelling Challenge from TechSoup – "TechSoup’s annual Digital Storytelling Challenge (TSDigs), powered by Lights.

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Forum One

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Forum One helped the AARP Livability Index meet the needs of its audiences with an easier-to-use website and accessible data that informs consumer and policy decisions nationwide. Overall, this work has helped to bring to light crucial information on trends in learning and education across the country.

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Connection Cafe

JULY 10, 2014

Information architecture. For this reason, it’s important that we encourage learning and exploration through well-designed information architecture. Storytelling. One way nonprofits have had success storytelling is through videos. User research. Content strategy. Visual design. Implementation.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 12, 2013

They're looking for newer videos created no earlier than January 1, 2012. Coming immediately after the doGooder Video Awards is TechSoup's 2013 Digital Storytelling Challenge (TSDIGS) coming April 1. Entering the contest is no cost, but nonprofits must be registered with the YouTube Nonprofit Program.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 28, 2013

Ideal for capturing contact information for your mailing list, event registrations, and even customizing PayPal into your website for donation processing, Wufoo is well-reviewed and reasonably priced. Vinepeek gives you a glimpse of Vine’s potential for visual storytelling. Wufoo :: wufoo.com. Worldometers :: worldometers.info.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 8, 2013

Formstack allows nonprofits to easily create online forms to capture contact information of new supporters, volunteers, and donors. GlobalTweets is a website which plots recent tweets from all over the world on a map by using their geographical information. Formstack :: formstack.com. FotoFlexer :: fotoflexer.com.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 27, 2012

Formstack allows nonprofits to easily create online forms to capture contact information of new supporters, volunteers, and donors. GlobalTweets is a website which plots recent tweets from all over the world on a map by using their geographical information. Formstack :: formstack.com. FotoFlexer :: fotoflexer.com.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 27, 2012

Formstack allows nonprofits to easily create online forms to capture contact information of new supporters, volunteers, and donors. GlobalTweets is a website which plots recent tweets from all over the world on a map by using their geographical information. Formstack :: formstack.com. FotoFlexer :: fotoflexer.com. Qwiki :: qwiki.com.

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NTEN

DECEMBER 23, 2011

storytelling. From visual storytelling to blogging to fundraising , you're clearly looking for opportunities to tell your organization's story in new and impactful ways. From broadband availability to surprisingly beautiful maps of the Internet to climate change , maps make data interesting and informative. Happy holidays!

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 8, 2013

The Forecasts for 2012. I guess a good place to start is looking back at forecasts from January 2012. Andrew Cohen of Forum One did one called 12 Big Trends in Nonprofit Technology for 2012. His big prediction was that 2012 would be a breakout year for mobile computing in nonprofit tech. IoT is definitely not a new thing.

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