Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 25, 2015

As Michael wrote in a guest post last year , marketers are discovering the power of video and they now have a lot of data to prove that it works. For many nonprofits and social causes, video can have an even greater impact – sharing their message with a larger audience, moving people to action, and bringing more good into the world.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 15, 2011

Note from Beth: After you read this guest post, you’ll have lots of great tips for your nonprofit’s video. And don’t forget, The 5th Annual DoGooder Nonprofit Video Awards is now open for submissions from members of the YouTube Nonprofit Program until March 2nd. The HD DSLR video revolution is here.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 14, 2010

Note from Beth: I’m planning a year-end campaign for one of my favorite charities and wanted some good tips on incorporating video. Video Can Help Boost Donations in End-Of-The-Year Fundraising by Michael Hoffman. Video Can Help Boost Donations in End-Of-The-Year Fundraising by Michael Hoffman. How big is video online?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 12, 2010

In 2010, we wanted to let people know about the Big Blue Test through a video that we’d hope would go viral. At least 100,000 views was our goal… not millions of views, but enough to make it one of the most popular diabetes videos on youTube (competing with Nick Jonas and Wilford Brimley). They become viral. 1 and Nov.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 22, 2009

She talked about their new initiative Video Volunteers and offered some great tips about effective nonprofit videos. Given that I've just a loaner FLIP camera that I've been experimenting with, I couldn't resist making a video.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 8, 2010

I like to use videos as part of the instruction to trigger discussion or something at the end as a group bonding mechanism. Something that has eluded me is how to directly embed the YouTube Video. I just discovered a way to embed the video directly in a slide. I'm knee deep in creating some new workshop curriculum.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 3, 2010

Note From Beth: Frank Barry from BlackBaud kindly agreed to write a guest post showcasing some of the best presentations caught on video at the BlackBaud’s Conference last week. Guest Post by Frank Barry: Social Media for Social Good Video Roundup from #BBCon. Check out the video. Check out the video. Negatively?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 27, 2010

I couldn’t help but think – what if Joe Page or other community foundation board members had flip cameras, some video and story telling training and shared their stories on the Alaska Community Foundation Facebook page? Anyone can purchase the “ male order catalog &# and the proceeds go to support the charity. Sharing the Story.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 29, 2007

Yesterday, I taught him how to use the video cameras and he made his first video blog post. Virak has promised to blog about what he is learning about video blogging in Cambodia. He sees this a creative challenge - how to make brief videos that tell a story and sit with text. It is here.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 14, 2009

Screen capture of video blog I was an early adopter of video blogging and screencasting. I really miss making videos and screencasts. For inspiration, I had to look no further than the " On the Road: Tanzania ," a video blog from the UN World Food Programme. Video Guides for Nonprofits. FLIP Camera.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 6, 2007

" I was reminded of this when Steve Garfield sent me a link to the Will Video for Food Blog's post " How to Promote Your Videos on YouTube." s not just a video-sharing site, it???s t even start a video that???s Maybe AppleTV will allow us to consume longer videos, but short is good. s a commune.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 30, 2020

In the virtual workplace, being on video conference meetings and communicating via online collaboration platforms takes more energy than working face-to-face. When we communicate through a video conference screen, there is a 1.2 Why Remote Work Is Exhausting. We also don’t have a full understanding of the context. second delay.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 10, 2009

David Lapiana also did an interesting video project at Craigslist Bootcamp. They did a series of video interviews asking folks what the nonprofit of the future might look like. The podcast from our session can the Craigslist Foundation site and our slides can be found here. You'll find these interviews on David's YouTube Channel.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2007

This is a video of the camera kits. I have spent almost all day today testing different ways to compress and host video posts that might work where the Internet access is slow or if you are video blogging from an Internet cafe and the computer does not have windows movie maker on it. I always like to start with the why.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 4, 2008

and video blogging workshops in Cambodia. I launched a personal fundraising campaign so I could help be a sponsor for the conference and get over there with video cameras, shwag (t-shirts and stickers donated by nonprofits and tech companies) and teaching resources. Videos to come shortly! Meanwhile, enjoy these photos.

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DECEMBER 14, 2008

On December 17th, the Youtube community will participate in a video making party that celebrates charities. YouTube users are invited to make a video about their favorite charity and why they support it. Here's the how to and you can find the templates here. Here's more about this community effort.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 31, 2007

Jay and Ryanne were delivering "video blogging kits" to Sharing Foundation in country staff to begin to capture some video of the work. Jay and Ryanne also took some video of the Sharing Foundation orphanage, computer school, and sewing school in addition teaching staff how to use the cameras.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 12, 2007

Click To Play Earlier today I posted about discovering some new photo blogs, podcasts, and videos from Cambodian Bloggers. Vuthasurf left me a comment that he created a video clip, uploaded to blip.tv, but was having trouble getting the video to display in his word press blog. Any other video bloggers want to offer some advice?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 28, 2007

Right after Thanksgiving, TechCrunch published a guest post called " The Secret Strategies Behind Many Viral Videos " which unleashed a record 491 comments because it described some unethical practices. The other is a blog post from Collactive called Ten Tips To Spice Up Your YouTube Video. Keep the Video Short 3.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

One of the science-based findings identified that online meetings get the same results as in-person meetings when everyone turns on their video cameras. And of course, turning one’s video off periodically during meetings is a good ground rule to set for groups, just to give oneself a brief nonverbal rest.

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MARCH 3, 2007

Via post by Jay Dedman on video bloggers community list. Remember when those disposable video cameras came out last year? Watch the totally cheesy video! Someone in MAKE even shows how to hack into it so you coould use it over and over again. here's the next version. Its got a pretty awesome flip out USB plug.like a switchblade.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 29, 2006

Video the Vote. You can sign up to video polling places and submit reports and clips to the site. Here's who created this project: Video the Vote was created by Ian Inaba of the Guerrilla News Network , John Ennis of Shoot First , and James Rucker of ColorOfChange.org.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 2, 2008

and my first video is on " Using VIdeo to Support Online Volunteers/Remote Volunteers." " These are really simple products; the video was done in less than 30 minutes, not counting the time it took to write the script and upload it to YouTube. I've started my own YouTube channel (but then, hasn't everyone?),

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 10, 2007

At NTC, I organized a panel and drop-in clinic called 'NTC Video GeekOut" featuring Jonny Goldstein and Andy Carvin. I also video blogged the session and caught up with a participant for a quick interview about their impressions. Next time, I think I might keep the video really short so it doesn't take so much time to render.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 27, 2008

[Via Will Coley.My *funny* video is a finalist in this contest (#3) and I'd love to get more folks to see it and the other entries. The Movement Vision Lab Video Contest ??? The Movement Vision Lab received a dozen entries in their first ever video contest. org/blog/your-votes-community -values-immigration-video -contest.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 7, 2007

Check out his newest video about social bookmarking. I love instructional videos. Click To Play. Lee LeFever has done it again! If only dotsub had a khmer translation , I'd be all set for the Cambodian Bloggers Summit at the end of the month.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 16, 2007

Michael Pick recently posted this entertaining how-to video about RSS for some client work he was doing for a social RSS application called " Feed Each Other." " I just love the retro clip of the women with her remote control. His RSS Guide for Beginners is an absolute gem!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 27, 2008

Here's qik video of what it was like: I will be doing some video blogging, brief interviews with 5 of the 21 featured projects. It was followed by each of the 21 projects introducing themselves for two minutes. The next segment was the project carnival where you could walk around and talk to people representing the projects.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 2, 2007

Mandevu got one of the video cameras that I brought over to Cambodia last summer where I did the video blogging workshop for the Cloggers Summit. Read what Jinja had to say.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 18, 2006

FightHunger.org is a division of the UN World Food Programme set up to help end child hunger by 2015 which is part of the first Millenium Development Goal They have just launched a viral video contest and are looking for a short, upbeat videos about ending child hunger. Have a look at this link.

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JANUARY 25, 2024

You can watch the video here as well as the human curated resources shared and a Copilot created summary transcript here. You can watch the video here as well as the human curated resources shared and a Copilot created […] The post Recap: Nonprofits & AI – A Conversation with Devi Thomas first appeared on Beth Kanter.

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MARCH 13, 2008

Jay Dedman is going to lead a video blogging workshop in New Orleans as part of the line up for the NTEN's NTC Day of Service 2008. Participants are asked to bring their laptop computer and video camera so that they can learn on their own equipment. Bernard work one-on-one with residents who use the computer center there.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 4, 2008

Video by Tony Hirst Full context from Stephen Downes, who I hope, continues to report on the EduPunk meme. The following works best on full screen view and with the volume turned up LOUD!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 18, 2007

24 Hours for Darfur , a grassroots video advocacy campaign dedicated to ending the conflict in Darfur and promoting peace and security for the people living there. The campaign video will explain, but take a look at some of the ones submitted by people all over the world. Check out the hundreds of videos already submitted!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 24, 2007

I also found a manual for Kino , a video editing program that runs on Linux. It reminded of the ngo in a box collection of open source video editing tools that I read about on the NTEN blog. Jay Dedman recently asked about linux video editing tools on the Rising Voices list: Does anyone here use Linux to edit video?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 26, 2007

I just noticed via the Google Analytics blog and a tip in comment from one of my readers , Kaj -- there are some recent YouTube videos of Avinash Kaushik Google Analytics Evangelist presenting a seminar on Google Analytics. I'm prepping for tomorrow's Introduction to Analytics with Idealware and Laura Quinn. Some points that made smile.

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NOVEMBER 29, 2007

Nathan Ketsdever dropped a comment in the Tips for YouTube and Viral Video with lots of examples from e-politics. see his live blogging of last night's YouTube debates). He made a good point about adding music. He mentioned using Creative Commons licensed music.

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