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HOW TO: Launch a Broadcast “TV” Channel for Your Nonprofit

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Currently, these channels can not easily be viewed on the digital TV sets in our living rooms, kitchens, and bedrooms, but it’s just a matter of time. Nonprofits will soon be broadcasting their own live TV programs to households around the world simply with a Ustream channel and a smartphone. Think about that for a second.

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How Do World Leaders Use Twitter? New Findings from Annual Twiplomacy Study

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Twiplomacy aims to identify the extent to which world leaders use Twitter and how they connect on the social network. Only 32 countries, mainly in Africa and Asia-Pacific, do not have any Twitter presence. Pope Francis ( @Pontifex ) is the most influential world leader on Twitter.

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Twitter for Nonprofits: Presentation for the 140-Character Mission event

Amy Sample Ward

I was going to be presenting live via video but the time difference is just too much. About the event: Already Twitter, Facebook, and the rest are revolutionizing the business and marketing of social impact. Follow the conversation on Twitter (the Hashtag is #TiESE ). Twitter.Org: Twitter for Nonprofit Organizations.

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Video Rules: Getting Started With the New Facebook Live

Byte Technology

There was a time when live-streaming video around the globe was reserved for mega-corporations and celebrities. But now social media giant Facebook has put this exciting tool into the hands of anyone and everyone via their site, giving users the ability to broadcast videos to a worldwide audience with a couple button taps. Start small.

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How to Report Live from Nonprofit Events and Conferences

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Real-time reporting from nonprofit conferences and events requires an advanced skill set, training, and a lot of practice. Conferences, fundraising events, marches and protests, online events, TV broadcasts, and updates from the field are ideal for live reporting. Twitter: Tweet in real-time and stream using Periscope.

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6 Ideas for Using the Instagram Donation Sticker to Raise Money

Nonprofit Tech for Good

While Facebook and Twitter may be waning a bit in popularity and usage, visual storytelling platform Instagram keeps growing in engagement and daily time spent on the site. . If you post a few times per month and then let the account go quiet for weeks, you will have a very hard time ramping up engagement and views again. .

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Free Webinar on June 6! 10 Common Mistakes Nonprofits Make in Social Media

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Time: 1pm-2:30 EDT. In fact, most nonprofits in the United States now regularly use social media in their communications and development campaigns, but few nonprofit social media practioners have been properly trained how to best utilize sites such as Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, LinkedIn, and Google+. The Broadcast Web], Web 2.0 [The