Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 23, 2014

It has been a busy few weeks for mobile news … but then again, when isn't it busy? The much-anticipated Apple announcement coincided with the perhaps poorly timed CTIA mobile industry tradeshow. But there was a common thread between these two events: the future of mobile video. Net Neutrality and Mobile Video.

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sgEngage

APRIL 17, 2024

They demand the online giving experience to be nearly instantaneous, easy, secure, personalized, mobile-friendly, and reflective of your brand and mission. As the organization raising private funds for Washington state’s picture-perfect national parks— Mount Rainier, North Cascades, and Olympic—the Fund relies on highly visual communications.

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Candid

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

However, with the right strategies, you can create an attractive homepage that inspires site visitors to continue interacting with your content and engaging with your organization. If you’re wondering where to get started, consider showcasing content on your homepage that highlights the following elements: Mission.

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M+R

JULY 6, 2023

But we do need a place where we can reach supporters, share content, and look at pictures of other people’s dogs — preferably without being subjected to harassment, trolling, misinformation, and attacks on our democracy. Posts can be up to 500 characters, and they can include links, photos, or videos up to 5 minutes long.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 7, 2012

If your nonprofit has yet to start a blog or already blogs but struggles with ideas for fresh content, then hopefully the 11 blog content ideas listed below will help. Still, understand that the more good, high-quality content your nonprofit blog publishes, the higher your ROI. Share Stories, Photos, and Videos from Events.

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 19, 2016

The movie conveys the action, the emotion, and the narrative much more powerfully than just pictures and words. Why we love video. Unless you’ve been living under a rock with no Internet, you realize that the amount of video content on social media has skyrocketed over the past few years.

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Achieve

MAY 24, 2024

Social media: Get creative with your promotional content on social media, such as sharing a video of a volunteer explaining how to opt-in by texting your keyword to your SMS short code. With the right text messaging software, you can easily add in multimedia elements like pictures and videos to inspire audiences.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 24, 2011

Fresh content drives the Social Web. Your social media manager needs to be willing to create content on a somewhat regular basis in order to tap into the 24/7 breaking news cycle. 2) Is mobile. The Mobile Web is here. The Internet has gone mobile. Old news does not get shared on Facebook or retweeted on Twitter.

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Whole Whale

MAY 3, 2023

The last big shift in search was the rise of mobile-first searches which overtook desktop searching by May of 2015 after technically being around since 1997. While nonprofits had a decade plus to prepare for mobile-first changes, chat-first changes will come far faster. Why will Chat-first search happen faster than Mobile-first search?

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Whole Whale

MAY 3, 2023

The last big shift in search was the rise of mobile-first searches which overtook desktop searching by May of 2015 after technically being around since 1997. While nonprofits had a decade plus to prepare for mobile-first changes, chat-first changes will come far faster. Why will Chat-first search happen faster than Mobile-first search?

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Network for Good

MAY 7, 2021

The majority of email is read on mobile phones — if we think about the fact that you’re opening this email on your iPhone, can you actually see what the subject is? Tip #3: Content First. Like with social media, content is ultimately going to be what dictates the level of engagement and action.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 29, 2019

While the photos and videos within each Story are never out of order, the accounts that get the most interaction and views on their Stories rise to the top of the pile. . Think of it like exercise – using social media with intention and purpose daily will get you better results than haphazardly throwing up some content once per week.

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Greater Giving

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

Mobile-friendly formatting. Accessible content. For example, ensure all images include alt text, provide a transcript or closed captions for videos, choose text colors that contrast with the background, and use hierarchical page structure. ? Mobile-friendly formatting. Motivational imagery. Intuitive user experience.

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Tech Soup

MAY 5, 2015

The Internet has gone "video." Within the next couple of years, video will account for 69 percent of all consumer Internet traffic. It's definitely easier to grab great videos off the Internet to put on your website or blog than to make them. Please visit the site to view this video). But is it legal?

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Allegiance Group

MAY 1, 2024

Look to Past Campaigns for a Fuller Picture It’s also helpful to analyze past year-end campaigns for insights. Using tools such as GivingDNA helps your organization gain a fuller picture of who people are and what they care about – and this alone can ultimately help nonprofits better drive year-end giving campaigns.

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DipJar

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

Producing irrelevant content. You can even post a video that takes your supporters behind-the-scenes of your organization. . Nonprofits post photos, videos, IGTVs, reels, and stories to show the impact of their mission and advocate for support. . Across all of these platforms, video stands out as the most powerful feature.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 11, 2016

Launched in 2011, Snapchat is an image and video messaging app that is very popular with tweens and teens and increasingly Millennials and Gen Xers. Snapchat’s navigation and design is tailored for Gen Z – the mobile-first and mobile-only generation, but Millennials and Gen Xers are also becoming more active on Snapchat.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 9, 2012

To be successful on the Social Web, nonprofits need to have a presence on mutliple social networks and should be consistently creating content that can be shared on the Social Web, such as blog posts, photos, and videos. Those nonprofits that transition to the Social and Mobile Web quickly will have time on their side.

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NonProfit Hub

NOVEMBER 12, 2018

Things as seemingly trivial as a long load time, lack of mobile compatibility or dated design could be enough to stunt your site’s growth. Mobile compatibility. Last year, 63 percent of all web traffic was mobile. If you’re not as mobile friendly as you should be, don’t panic. A call to action button.

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Amy Sample Ward

AUGUST 11, 2011

I think there’s huge potential for organizations to use multiple mediums, content, and locations to help document and advocate for the change they want in their communities and around the world. People can follow along via the mobile application or the website. Do you have a hyperlocal online network/space?

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Allegiance Group

MAY 18, 2023

Add inline donation forms or lightboxes to your top-performing content, directing prospective donors to your donation page. Search engine optimization (SEO) is a powerful practice requiring knowledge of your target audience’s search intent and your website content’s ability to convert visitors into donors.

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Amy Sample Ward

DECEMBER 26, 2011

There are many free online website and content creation tools available. Creating a space where you can collect and aggregate the news, content, and updates of your movement is important for people to better understand, follow, and join you. One key element is the use of an online homebase.

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Qgiv

JULY 27, 2021

You’re connecting the dots to create a picture of what your organization is and who you are, who you stand for, and your values and ethics. The second big piece is content creation. You have to create the videos, the graphics, the posts, and you have to understand what your audience wants and what will get engagement.

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Qgiv

DECEMBER 15, 2021

The dodo’s popularity brings up another excellent point: the importance of video in storytelling. Video has long been the most popular way for audiences to consume media, and that’s not going to change any time soon. In fact, Zenith Media predicted the average viewer will watch 100 minutes of video a day in 2021! .

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Connection Cafe

MARCH 9, 2012

If your organization is thinking about starting or deepening mobile engagement with your constituents who, like me, are rarely out of arms-reach of their mobile device, then allow me to summarize my takeaways from the Nonprofit Mobile Day event I recently attended, presented by the Direct Marketing Association’s Nonprofit Federation (DMANF).

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NetWits

JULY 16, 2012

One of the first things a new visitor will do on your Facebook page is check out your profile – even if it’s only a quick glance at the small box located right under your profile picture. Nonprofits (and schools) understand how to use calls-to-action in their appeals and other forms of asking their supporters to mobilize.

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Network for Good

MAY 7, 2021

The majority of email is read on mobile phones — if we think about the fact that you’re opening this email on your iPhone, can you actually see what the subject is? Tip #3: Content First. Like with social media, content is ultimately going to be what dictates the level of engagement and action.

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ASU Lodestar Center

AUGUST 11, 2021

This journal article also informed that content can now be shared globally, through pictures, videos, and the written word partnering for heartfelt connections, even converting people into “evangelists” for the overall mission. Over five billion people have mobile phones, and 81% of the U.S.

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Whole Whale

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

There are two fundamental things we love about ICA Fund Good Job’s annual report : The table of contents and the graphics. It’s easy to underestimate the importance of the table of contents — many reports treat them as an afterthought. A unique element to this report that we don’t see very often: video.

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Socialbrite

NOVEMBER 4, 2019

As of November of 2018, mobile devices accounted for more than 48% of all web traffic. With the importance of mobile marketing in mind, consider these fundraising techniques using a smartphone. They can take the place of a mobile webpage, a newsletter, and a fundraising link. Website and social media optimization for mobile.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 24, 2011

Note from Beth: I facilitated a panel about Mobile Integrated strategy at the Innogive Conference earlier this month and have shared the notes here. The panelists offered advice to nonprofits about integrating mobile into the nonprofit toolbox. My main takeaway was that nonprofits need to think differently about content.

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Forum One

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

The W³ Awards competition honors creative excellence on the web and recognizes the creative and marketing professionals behind award-winning sites, videos, and marketing programs. We are so very excited to announce that Forum One has been recognized in nine categories in this year’s W³ Awards competition. AARP Livability Index.

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Forum One

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

The W³ Awards competition honors creative excellence on the web and recognizes the creative and marketing professionals behind award-winning sites, videos, and marketing programs. We are so very excited to announce that Forum One has been recognized in nine categories in this year’s W³ Awards competition. AARP Livability Index.

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Forum One

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

The Davey Awards honor the finest creative work from the best small shops, firms, and companies worldwide, and we are honored to be recognized amongst them for our work in branding, video, mobile, and web design. Here are this year’s winners. AARP Livability Index. GOLD – Community Website.

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Nonprofits Source

NOVEMBER 3, 2017

The top 13 on page SEO factors for content marketing. What this guide is : An introduction of the top 23 SEO best practices that will help get your content ranked in 2017, including: On page SEO factors – factors that are visible to your audience at the page level. Top 13 On Page SEO Factors For Content Marketing.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 26, 2012

Add your nonprofit’s Twibbon/avatar to your Google+ Profile picture. Post quality content to the Google+ Stream. However, in the beginning I want you to ask yourself before each and every post to the stream: Will this content be interesting to our followers? “Share” content posted by others on Google+.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 3, 2013

Furthermore, the messaging app has gained a somewhat tawdry reputation for the occasional explicit content it transmits. Next, you're taken to a "Find Friends" screen where you input your mobile number. Tapping a camera button takes you into picture-taking mode. This is because messages sent in Snapchat.

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