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The Johnny Cash Project: A Participatory Music Video That Sings

Museum 2.0

This question is a byproduct of the reality that most participatory projects have poorly articulated value. I was reminded of these two design principles when exploring the Johnny Cash Project , a crowd-created music video for a posthumous recording of Cash singing "Ain't No Grave." The collective outcome (a cool music video) is clear.

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Open Challenges Harness Local Knowledge for Local Change

Tech Soup

In the last six years, Community Boost_r , ReStart Challenges , and Things Camp have used an open community challenge model. " (Please visit the site to view this video). With these open models, one of the challenges was getting participants to clearly define problems that could be solved with technology. spanhidden.

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The Practice of Personal Gratitude in Fundraising

Get Fully Funded

Write down your feelings, especially the ones you have trouble articulating. Start by modeling the behavior you want to see. Or better yet, get them to participate in a Thank You video ! Be sure to write thank-you notes or shoot thank-you videos for your team to let them know how much you appreciate them. That’s you!

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[VIDEO] How to Talk about Legacy Giving Without Seeming Creepy

Bloomerang

Visit our website, there’s all kinds of free resources, videos there you can watch. Steven: All right, I’m going to turn our video off. And then you also need to be able to articulate that, without fundraising or without a steady income from which to draw upon, you could cease to exist. there we go. Steven: Nice.

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SXSW Reflection: Using Social Media to Facilitate A Global Back Channel at a Panel Session

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

In order to do this, you need to give people a brief context and articulate the interaction rules. At the last minute, we were able to bring them in via video skype, although the connection and AV set did not a lot us to interact through that channel. I also pinged people in my network from different countries. My takeaways: 1.

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[VIDEO] How To Know If Your Fundraising Staff Is Leaving Money On The Table

Bloomerang

There’s all kinds of great resources on there, videos you can watch and then get a sense of what we’re all about. We want to replicate our model across the country. Our goals are really easy to articulate.” So if you’re interested in that, check us out and visit our website. They know what the goal is.

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Nine Digital Marketing Lessons Nonprofits Can Learn from charity: water

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

They employ numbers throughout their site to make people feel aligned with thousands of others, and they give a face and a voice to those thousands with pictures, videos and written stories. In fact, Harrison has said that if he talks for an hour, he uses over 200 photos and videos in his presentation.

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