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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ASU Lodestar Center

AUGUST 11, 2021

Nonprofits must never forget that they are called to be active participants in the lives of people, learning stories, and, when appropriate, storytelling for further impact. This makes storytelling a necessity and a digital discipline. Over five billion people have mobile phones, and 81% of the U.S.

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Tech Soup

JULY 30, 2013

Summer is a big time for mobile news: there's Apple's World Wide Developer Conference, Microsoft Build, CTIA, and a spree of other mobile-related press conferences. Sometimes the day-to-day work at a nonprofit can make you feel worlds apart from the fast-moving mobile tech industry. Mobile Payments on the Rise.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 3, 2011

The Big Picture: Social Networking. The Big Picture: Microblogging. The Big Picture: Storytelling through Video and Photos. The Big Picture: Merging Your Personal and Professional Brands. The Big Picture: Creating and Distributing Content for the Social Web. Final Words: Blogs Are Going Mobile.

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Allegiance Group

MAY 1, 2024

Your nonprofit can have your best year-end campaign by incorporating data-driven planning, tapping into overlooked segments, crafting impactful storytelling strategies, maximizing digital fundraising channels, and cultivating donor fundraising and stewardship throughout the year. Keep reading to find out more! #1

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Tech Soup

MAY 7, 2013

Digital storytellers! You spent time and talent on creating your video or picture slide show, now we invite you to show it off! While we limit votes to just one per day per person, we highly encourage you to mobilize your community for support. tsdigs digital storytelling' We have so many wonderful stories rolling in!

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Greater Giving

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

Mobile-friendly formatting. If you don’t know where to start when it comes to telling your story, think back to the basics of storytelling that most of us learn in elementary school. Mobile-friendly formatting. This underlines the crucial importance of making your website and online donation page mobile-friendly.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 20, 2012

billion mobile telephones being used on the planet. “In 2014, mobile Internet usage will overtake desktop Internet usage,” according to recent statistics released by mobiThinking. And already in 2011, “more than 50% of all ‘local’ searches were done from a mobile device.”

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NTEN

MARCH 18, 2011

Having my picture with Phil the Penguin was a lot of fun, I was hot just walking around and this Arctic friend had to have been melting! One idea in particular remains the Mobile front. Mobile is plentiful. Media and Mobile — Mobile is Media, or rather mobile brings media to an untethered audience.

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Qgiv

DECEMBER 15, 2021

Using Storytelling in Your Appeal . The dodo’s popularity brings up another excellent point: the importance of video in storytelling. Similarly, you can use your smartphone to take high-quality before and after pictures of more serious cases and add those pictures to a slideshow on your donation page.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 11, 2012

To quote a somewhat recent YouTube blog piece , "if a picture is worth a thousand words, then is a video worth a million?" Storytelling with Mobile Video. The donated Dell smartphones normally use AT&T or T-Mobile pay-as-you-go or contract plans, but they can function without it because they are Wi-Fi-capable.

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Get Fully Funded

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

Picture this: You’re about to hold the fundraising event of a lifetime. Make learning about your event more convenient by optimizing your event landing page for mobile users. Make sure all prompts are clickable and able to be filled out for both computer and mobile users.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 4, 2014

Don't take pictures just to take pictures. Head over to our Mobile-ize board on Pinterest for some more resources on mobile technologies, photography, and storytelling. mobile phone apps tsmobiletechnology' Don't worry. Here are some tips to make your next event a photo success.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 8, 2012

Add your nonprofit’s Twibbon/avatar to your Google+ Profile picture. There’s way too much marketing happening on social networking sites and not enough storytelling. Add the Google +1 button to your desktop website, mobile website, and blog. Add your nonprofit under “Employment.”

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Forum One

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

We are both excited and proud to see that Forum One has been awarded in nine categories for our work in website, video and mobile application development and design. AARP Livability Index. Gold – Association Website. In 2022, Forum One launched a new, redesigned Livability Index website and data explorer.

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Forum One

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

We are both excited and proud to see that Forum One has been awarded in nine categories for our work in website, video and mobile application development and design. AARP Livability Index. Gold – Association Website. In 2022, Forum One launched a new, redesigned Livability Index website and data explorer.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 26, 2012

Add your nonprofit’s Twibbon/avatar to your Google+ Profile picture. There’s way too much marketing happening on social networking sites and not enough storytelling. Add the Google +1 button to your desktop website, mobile website, and blog. Add your nonprofit under “Employment.”

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Saleforce Nonprofit

MAY 5, 2021

Pictured: Devi Thomas’ sons. We’ve supported groups with small microgrants at key times to help them mobilize people in their communities, and we’ve run a communications training program with some of the world’s most renowned environmental journalists to help parents build their media capacity. Devi Thomas.

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Get Fully Funded

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

On social media, storytelling is a powerful tool that can draw in people who have stumbled across your platform. Remember, a picture is worth a thousand words. Storytelling can help distinguish your social media from similar organizations. Everyone loves a good story. Make sure every visual tells a story.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 14, 2013

and training (HTML, photo-editing, social and mobile media best practices ). You are not going to be a very good storyteller if you don’t read stories. 9) Browse pictures of baby animals regularly. premium services (WordPress themes, Flickr Pro, Facebook custom Tab generators, etc.), Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, etc.

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CauseVox

NOVEMBER 26, 2023

Whether you’re striving to make a difference in your community, protect the environment, or provide a lifeline to those in need, your storytelling ability can mean the difference between a thriving and well-funded program and one that falls flat. The Power of Storytelling in Fundraising Humans are meaning-making creatures.

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NonProfit Hub

MAY 2, 2017

In order to pick and choose strategies that are right for your nonprofit, it’s easiest to start by looking at the big picture. PODCAST] Storytelling as Mission Moments | Ft. Mobile Marketing. Mobile marketing is gaining traction—quickly, too. Text-to-Give Fundraising: Making the Most Out of Mobile .

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NTEN

AUGUST 30, 2011

FEMA updated their Facebook account with survival tips, like how to navigate around a flooded city, and information on how to access FEMA on your mobile phone. One of those was the MTA Twitter stream , offering updates and pictures – storytelling to keep New Yorkers updated and in the loop on public transportation.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 6, 2013

It’s also a good idea that every time you launch a new social media or mobile technology community or campaign, you write a brief blog post and list specific ways in which supporters can participate. Keep them brief, include a quote or two from the person being highlighted, and definitely add his picture. A first-person voice is best.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 12, 2011

And with new interactive features and a new Android mobile app, there are now even more ways to share Flickr images. And Flickr's new free Android mobile app allows more people on more devices to share and discover photos. Pictures of their rescue dogs are a key component of their outreach. Don't have a Flickr account?

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Everyaction

JULY 18, 2018

Be sure to provide a full picture of the expenses you expect to incur, not just snapshots at different points along your timeline. Don’t forget - despite the structured, sometimes mechanical feel a fundraising plan can have, storytelling does have a place in the planning process. Remember the storytelling part of your case statement?

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Care2

MAY 11, 2011

A laptop and camera equipped smart-phones are a must, but also consider bringing hand-held video cameras (Flip or the Kodak Zi8 series are great options) and a mobile hotspot like a Verizon MiFi device with you so you're sure you have web access from the road. Promote and Share - Share your experience from the road!

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Amy Sample Ward

OCTOBER 14, 2009

“Social media is a storytelling tool, it’s let voices effected by climate change be heard around the world&# (@ amysampleward ). The power of social media and the authentic storytelling that takes place is in the opportunity for people to inspire other people to take action, which leads to lesson #2. Lesson #1: Voice.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 21, 2012

The majority of the boards we saw were very much about lifestyle: pictures of pretty stuff, hot style, and cool design. If Pinterest were a person, it would be a young, upwardly mobile female – an ideal potential Camfed supporter, or so I thought.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 7, 2012

It’s also a good idea that every time you launch a new social media or mobile technology community or campaign, you write a brief blog post and list specific ways in which supporters can participate. Keep them brief, include a quote or two from the person being highlighted, and definitely add his picture. A first-person voice is best.

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Neon CRM

AUGUST 10, 2023

This is a great conference for technology professionals looking to develop their skills and capture the bigger picture of how data and technology can make a difference in the world. Individual sessions at Good Tech Fest cover topics like machine learning tools, equity issues in tech, crypto philanthropy, and more. from May 1 through May 3.

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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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Qgiv

JULY 27, 2021

Julia: My framework that I use with my clients is 80/20: 80% of your posts should be informative, educational, inspirational, helpful, valuable, shedding light on your programs, storytelling, etc. 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.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 30, 2011

By Nam-ho Park, Director, Mobile Service, Forum One. With the arrival of smartphones, it’s amazing how much data we are collecting and consuming on our mobile devices. Now we have our mobile devices diligently collecting our data. Now I can just say I’m Mobile Me , to borrow a term Apple has abandoned. Our Stories.

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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. This is why auto-play videos on Facebook and Instagram grab our attention more than static pictures. Mobile and Video = Power to the People. Why we love video. We are now all filmmakers.

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Qgiv

OCTOBER 19, 2021

Your event logo should do the same thing as your slogan but through pictures instead of words. Pictures are the perfect storytelling tool, and they will help your donors feel more connected to your cause. When you organize a fundraiser, you want a logo that does the exact same thing, but for your event. Keep it simple.

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Connection Cafe

FEBRUARY 25, 2014

I also have a picture of Richard Armitage with photoshopped cats up by my desk. On top of the fact that more than 40% of our website visits are on a mobile or tablet device, many of our stakeholders look at our stuff on the go. Mobile isn’t the future anymore; it’s the painstakingly obvious present.

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