Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 17, 2011

I was lucky enough to work along side Mark Horvath and Shawn Ahmed , both experts at capturing stories on video and sharing through social channels. This post is a roundup of the videos, photos, and tweets from the day. To be a little meta, here’s a photo by Mark Horvath as the video was being shot. Tech Recycling Day.

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Get Fully Funded

AUGUST 24, 2022

Auction websites can offer detailed descriptions of auction items and many photos. Share photos and videos from the event if you send out an email campaign, and post them on your social media and website. Share the story of the cause and progress you have made through the written word, photos, and videos.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 8, 2014

So without further ado, meet our judges, a collection of storytelling experts who will be choosing our awardees. Erinn joined the GuideStar team when Philanthropedia was acquired in 2011. She founded The Storytelling Nonprofit to help nonprofits connect in more meaningful ways with donors through stories and stewardship.

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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. Posting status updates and photos while backpacking through Central America or from a cafe in Paris is their normal mode of travel. Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, etc.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 1, 2014

It made me dig up this 2011 interview with Tina Olsen (then at the Portland Art Museum) about their extraordinary Object Stories project. Your recording booth asks participants for audio stories plus photos of themselves with their objects. And we realized of course that the majority audience would be watchers, not storytellers.

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Tech Soup

MAY 26, 2015

The nonprofit sector thrives on a community of rich storytelling. Whatever form that storytelling takes, from photo essay to member video, story-driven content is dynamic, shows impact, and can attract new potential donors. We saw how Twitter changed information-sharing in 2011 Egypt, after all.

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ASU Lodestar Center

SEPTEMBER 12, 2012

A recent post by Isaac Kiehl highlighted social media, and in particular the use of online photos, as a means by which nonprofits can improve interaction with the community. A report by tech giant Cisco found that 51% of all consumer internet traffic in 2011 was video traffic. Online video takes this interaction one step further.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 3, 2012

Streetfootballworld supports a worldwide network of organizations in well over 50 countries.The photo above is of one of their programs in Brazil. This enables streetfootballworld to call attention to its work through digital storytelling. The Flip cameras are used to capture glimpses into the organization's day-to-day work.

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Tech Soup

JULY 11, 2011

Is It Different from Digital Storytelling? for this one hour talk show series with leaders in the nonprofit social video field sharing their storytelling tips, production budgets, viral. The film, photos, and blog entries from the initiative can be. Fall of 2011 documenting the impact on kids and families along the.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 14, 2010

Photo by Fensterbme on Flickr. Start with an accounting of what video and photo assets you already have, and see how they can be put to work for your year-end plans. Why is 2011 even more important? Remember that your fundraising story is a narrative, so put the ancient art of storytelling to work for you.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 4, 2011

With a successful photo-essay or multimedia piece, organizations can attract partners, appeal to donors and grantmakers, influence policymakers, and perhaps most importantly, drive a movement. Masi’s images of The Bhopal Medical Appeal were featured on the New York Times Lens Blog and TIME Photos. www.photophilanthropy.org.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 20, 2012

And already in 2011, “more than 50% of all ‘local’ searches were done from a mobile device.” AMOLED screen is a beauty for sure, and lends itself quite nicely for video and photo capture. Over 1 billion of those are smartphones. The Venue Pro’s 4.1

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 30, 2011

Photos matter. As of Febuary 2011 however, they have added a feature that goes a step beyond: streetview history. The Whale Hunt: A Storytelling Experiment by Jonathan Harris. The more significant the event or location, the more photos, tweets, status updates, blog entries we create about it. Typeface sizes matter.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 1, 2011

Increase mentions by 20% on Twitter before, during, and after performances for 2011. Increase number of retweets and @replies on Twitter by 20% by September, 30, 2011. Utilize Facebook to increase Festival attendance and online program views by 5% by September 2011. Increase views on YouTube Channel by 50% by January, 2012.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 20, 2012

Digital Storytelling Challenge from TechSoup – "TechSoup’s annual Digital Storytelling Challenge (TSDigs), powered by Lights. " Learn more about the various educational programs planned and how to submit either your one minute video or five photo presentation to the competition!

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 9, 2013

We have certainly seen some examples of maps or charts that the user can interact with, but with the over saturation of static infographic images, 2014 and the plethora of tools emerging that make these options really easy, we will see more organizations using data for storytelling that users can watch, click on, and really explore."

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