Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 17, 2013

Just in time for TechSoup's Social Media September September , our friends at Idealware have released an update to The Nonprofit Social Media Decision Guide. TechSoup's own social media team weigh in on the report and offer their advice for making wise social media decisions.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 4, 2014

You have a smartphone, some skills, and a willingness to learn, but somehow your photos look slightly off. Your conference photos are always whitewashed, your last demonstration photos were too dark to share, and red-eye is still very much a thing in office photos. Did those photos capture the emotions of a face?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 23, 2014

Here’s the basics if you are getting the C-Suite up to speed: Instagram is a free application for iPhone or Android that lets people take photos, apply filters to change the look of the photos and then share them. It is superb for visual storytelling about your organization, its stakeholders, and results.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 4, 2012

The theme of this year's conference is "Making Meaning Matter" with panels and discussions on community building and digital media. The panel "The New Connectivity: Storytelling for the Digital Age" focused on best practices for nonprofits and other social good organizations to spread their message over social media.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 1, 2013

Are you shocked to find out that uploading photos is the number one activity on Facebook, or that Pinterest is the number one growing social platform these days? Think about the way you interact and engage with social media. You are the storyteller. You shouldn't be. You are the adventurer. Harness that!

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NonProfit Hub

APRIL 8, 2014

You’ve got social media covered. But you’re just scratching the surface with those two mainstream social media sites. But this is a social media platform designed to be all about you. houses all of your social media accounts and links in one place. But now, it applies to social media.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 25, 2013

Thankfully, with the power of mobile apps, you can be a photographer, videographer, social media promoter, and a liveblogger for your events. To kick off TechSoup's 2013 Digital Storytelling Challenge , we have compiled apps to help you showcase your organization in action. Liveblogging, Curation, and Social Media.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 22, 2014

TechSoup has been running international video and photo competitions for some years now. In previous years, we called it our Digital Storytelling Challenge. We thought we’d ask some past winners to tell us about how they’ve been using their videos and how important storytelling is to their organization.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 23, 2013

You don’t necessarily have to do this with an online fundraising platform: you can start by using social media to encourage people to interact with and be vocal about your cause. You can then make each testimonial a piece of content for your social channels by quoting the best parts in an image. Harrison has over 61.5k

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Tech Soup

MARCH 27, 2013

The TechSoup Digital Storytelling Challenge is back and there are some great prizes in store for organizations with the most creative, compelling, and entertaining stories. Use Adobe's Photoshop CS6 or Photoshop Elements to refine photos or create motion graphics. Flickr Pro gives you unlimited photo and video uploads and storage.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 24, 2015

Here’s the basics: Instagram is a free application for iPhone or Android that lets people take photos, apply filters to change the look of the photos and then share them. 13 Tips from the Experts – Social Media Examiner (2015). Instagram Scheduling Tools (2015) Social Media Examiner.

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Tech Soup

MAY 7, 2013

Digital Storytelling Challenge. NetSquared organizers were jazzed by the Digital Storytelling Challenge. Ten Net2 groups held Digital Storytelling events in their community, with an estimated 360 attendees. Eight of the eleven cities in the digital storytelling global tweet chat were led by Net2 local organizers.

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Connection Cafe

FEBRUARY 24, 2014

In the digital age, where most traditional storytelling is done over the Internet, attention spans are ever shrinking. National Library of Medicine put the average 2013 attention span at 8 seconds. The rumors started rolling in around third quarter of last year – Instagram was going to fill up your photo feed with ads.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 6, 2013

Naples, FL: Photos Online 501 TechClub SWFL Netsquared. Manchester, United Kingdom: MediaCity social media surgery. San Francisco, CA: Let’s Go to the BSR Sustainability Hackathon 2013! Singapore: Clean & Green Hacakathon 2013. Vancouver, Canada: Digital Storytelling Workshop. Friday, November 8.

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Connection Cafe

DECEMBER 22, 2013

From #batkid to #GivingTuesday, the Next Generation of American Giving to Content Marketing for Nonprofits , storytelling to social fundraising, retention rates to relationship building, the roundup below covers it all (and everything in between). million tweets and 914,000 photos shared, the Movember movement did something right.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 19, 2013

It's easy to see why Twitter wanted a foothold in the video messaging game — dynamic storytelling apps like Instagram and Cinemagram. — Tenovus (@tenovuscancer) January 29, 2013. — Dogs Trust (@DogsTrust) January 25, 2013. — Diabetes UK (@DiabetesUK) March 1, 2013. By Dogs Trust, UK.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 22, 2013

I was building social media contacts with progressive policy organizations and conducting a routine communications capacity audit. We saw the potential in this story and dispatched a reporter and photojournalist to interview the town's residents, write up a feature for our online newspaper, and create a photo essay.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 9, 2013

Now that this year is wrapping up and we have the verdict on nonprofit technology trends for 2013 , we queried charity Technorati like Amy Sample Ward, Beth Kanter, Marnie Webb, Peter Campbell, Nicole Wallace, the entire crew at Idealware, Lucy Bernholz, and other luminaries to find out what is in their crystal balls for 2014.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 5, 2013

Take the example from National Wildlife Federation to engage its audiences around the 2013 Green Inaugural Ball event on Facebook and Twitter. Adjusting Contract and Tone –Many times the photos you take at event will need a little touching up. Adding Text –A picture says 1,000 words, but adding text narrows the field.

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