Tech Soup

AUGUST 5, 2014

2013 Challenge. The 2013 Challenge was a breakthrough year for global participation in interactive events and workshops. 2013 Digital Storytelling Challenge Winners. More than 80 organizations entered the 2011 Digital Storytelling Challenge, demonstrating a wide range of video and photo savvy. 2012 Challenge.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 22, 2013

There’s always room for improvement and unfortunately overconfidence in social media skills prevent many nonprofit staff from getting training that could significantly increase their social media ROI (Return on Investment). They just think of YouTube as website where the can quickly upload and host their online videos.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 3, 2013

TechSoup's 2013 Digital Storytelling Challenge is here! All April long, we're putting on events to sharpen your digital storytelling skills. Then, you submit your own short video (up to 90-seconds) or five-image slide show to our challenge to win prizes! Please visit the site to view this video).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 31, 2014

Video games are big — bigger than Hollywood in terms of revenue, as a $66 billion global industry. Through projects like the Games and Learning Publishing Council and the National STEM Video Game Challenge ( [link] ), the Cooney Center explores the power of games to advance learning and engage vulnerable students. Around Gender.

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NTEN

MAY 23, 2013

I''m finishing my "follow-up": reaching out to the many interesting and friendly people I met, reviewing my workshop notes, completing a survey for every session attended, downloading some presentations and exploring the video workshops still available to watch! Thank you very much for the opportunity to attend NTC 2013!

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Tech Soup

MARCH 21, 2012

asked social benefit organizations for their best photos and videos and in return shared a month’s worth of educational events. Although the Digital Storytelling Challenge submissions period is over – the opportunity to hone your digital storytelling skills doesn’t need to end. A Few Good Tools for Video Editing.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 29, 2012

One of the reasons cited in the report and also from participants on the webina: “We don’t have the skills to analyze, slice and dice, and make sense of our data – so we don’t look at it.” The skills are out there. ” I hear this too often from nonprofits. from MIT in rocket science.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 7, 2013

We used Google Hangout because they found it was more robust for video, audio, and screen sharing in that remote location. Henry Khu (@HenryKhu) May 7, 2013. Format: Our session was 90 minutes. Tharum Bun , a blogger in Cambodia that I have known for ten years, did an introduction and I presented for 25 minutes.

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 6, 2013

The list includes See3 Communications '' 2013 Benchmarks for Nonprofit Video , mGive ''s recent Text Giving Study , M+R Research Lab ''s eNonprofit Benchmarks Study , and the 2013 Visual Storytelling Best Practices Guide by Resource Media , all for free! There are even a few international reports. Register now!

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 6, 2013

The list includes See3 Communications '' 2013 Benchmarks for Nonprofit Video , mGive ''s recent Text Giving Study , M+R Research Lab ''s eNonprofit Benchmarks Study , and the 2013 Visual Storytelling Best Practices Guide by Resource Media , all for free! There are even a few international reports. Register now!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 15, 2012

Employees: As an extension of his or her personal brand, a non-profit leader should also provide training to their employees to ensure the necessary skills sets across the organization. Order your Social Branding Blueprint now and receive an extra online access pass FREE to give to a non-profit colleague.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 4, 2016

SnapChat has been around for a few years, but I have not focused on it because as a babyboomer I’m not the target demographic. Snapcha t is a mobile app that lets users exchange text messages, photos and videos that disappear in 24 hours. Taylor Swift released a new video…again.) This is called disposable media.

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AFP Blog

FEBRUARY 28, 2013

Tech Billionaires Champion Nonprofit for Young Programmers - Philanthropy Today - The Chronicle of Philanthropy- Connecting the nonprofit world with news, jobs, and ideas : Tech Billionaires Champion Nonprofit for Young Programmers February 27, 2013, 10:57 am Bill Gates, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, and Jack Dorsey, the co-founder of Twitter, appear (..)

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 20, 2013

The idea is not only for participants to acquire the skills and knowledge to host a successful giving day, but for them share and transform practices together. on November 14, 2013. Those plans changed at around 12:30 p.m. million in donations up to that point—crashed. 404 errors abound” read one tweet. Fundraising'

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ASU Lodestar Center

JUNE 5, 2013

You can be extremely search engine friendly without putting limitations on video, audio, or depth of social media reach. When it comes to internet marketing, blogs, social media, gifting, videos, forums, how-to documentation, product discovery, industry research, and even newsletters and idea banks, Luminate Online can deliver.

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Care2

OCTOBER 29, 2012

In addition to journalism training, the women attend literacy and computer skills classes and are ultimately employed as by GPI where their experience and relationships enable them to report from the perspective of community members on the social injustice and other issues that impact them.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 7, 2014

million in a day on #GivingTuesday 2013. The content you create doesn’t have to be from scratch for every channel, you are simply tweaking or optimizing it for the channel. The skill of writing good headlines is an important one to develop! You want to make sure to capture those.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 23, 2013

They employ numbers throughout their site to make people feel aligned with thousands of others, and they give a face and a voice to those thousands with pictures, videos and written stories. In fact, Harrison has said that if he talks for an hour, he uses over 200 photos and videos in his presentation. Image from Flickr by Xurble.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 12, 2014

The network was a new way of learning and interacting with our Knight community foundation partners, and it worked well; the seven participating foundations with 2013 campaigns surpassed their goals, and participants said the sessions had a big influence on their work. What impact did all this have on communities?

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The Science Behind Engaging your Supporters

OCTOBER 4, 2018

John’s had about a dozen members back in 2013 but since then we’ve managed to get it to almost 70. As I mentioned we have a skilled long term care facility. With EveryAction I just did a 40 minute video training and then ran with it! Mail is just one of the platforms that allows us to get to know and thank our donors.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 4, 2013

Many years ago Dan made a decision to share his knowledge and skills with the non profit community. Below are two videos with words from Dan's friends at the January 2013 Tech Club event: He was truly a “gentle man”. In the non profit sector - we benefited from all of those remarkable qualities. What would he suggest we do?”

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Tech Soup

APRIL 2, 2013

Then you’ll create a short video (up to 90 seconds) or a five-image slide show to enter the challenge and win prizes donated by our sponsors. Read all about how the Orange County Library System in Florida is teaching teens how to use MakerBot printers and flight simulators as well as other technology skills. The ReStart Romania.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 19, 2013

Think of it like the one-day beach cleanup organized by an environmental initiative, where you just show up for the event, and there's no background check for participants, no application process, no video to watch. Virtual Volunteering Wiki : in conjunction with the 2013 release of the Virtual Volunteering Guidebook later this year.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 11, 2012

That's how I felt when artist Ze Frank got in touch to talk about a potential museum exhibition to explore a physical site/substantiation for his current online video project, A Show (s ee minute 2:20, above). Photography, video, audio, text, origami, mail art. The exhibition will run from December 14, 2012 to March 4 of 2013.

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Connection Cafe

JANUARY 15, 2015

Working with a staff of volunteers of varying technical skill levels, while also running on shoestring budgets, tends to promulgate the mindset of “ don’t mess with it if it works ”. 47% of nonprofits generated the same or less revenue in 2013 compared to 2012. You know what I mean. Embrace technology change today.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 5, 2013

I invite you to have a look at my list of 2013 forecasts on nonprofit technology trends with its handy infographic so you can see how right (or wrong) I am about this year's tech trends. Free for nonprofits, it’s an easy way to tap into a skilled volunteer network without committing a lot time to volunteer management.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 18, 2014

Based on the content and social networks that you have chosen to make a priority in your content strategy, you can adjust current job descriptions or craft a new one for hiring a new media manager: Blogging (4 hours): To write an average of two short posts weekly which includes the time necessary to find, edit, and insert photos and integrate video.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 9, 2013

I invite you to have a look at my list of 2013 forecasts on nonprofit technology trends with its handy infographic so you can see how right (or wrong) I am about this year's tech trends. The websites are text only and building them requires no previous technical skills. Now, here's the latest: Digital Inclusion.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 23, 2013

This April our 2013 Digital Storytelling Challenge offers resources to sharpen your skills and an opportunity to enter your short video or five-image slide show by April 30 to win awesome prizes! Nowhere was this clearer than at the Nonprofit Technology Conference 2013 this April in snowy Minneapolis. A Jamboree of Tools.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 21, 2015

Based on the content and social networks that you have chosen to make a priority in your content strategy, you can adjust current job descriptions or craft a new one for hiring a new media manager: Blogging (6 hours): To write an average of two short posts weekly which includes the time necessary to find, edit, and insert photos and integrate video.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 18, 2013

A well-executed social media campaign requires a time investment and skilled social media manager. My greatest hope for 2013 is that nonprofits evolve beyond the “free” mentality to a strategy that gives the time and financial investment necessary to make the Social Web work for your nonprofit.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 22, 2012

A well-executed social media campaign requires a time investment and skilled social media manager. My greatest hope for 2013 is that nonprofits evolve beyond the “free” mentality to a strategy that gives the time and financial investment necessary to make the Social Web work for your nonprofit.

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 30, 2017

They fill many roles in different capacities, bringing diverse skill sets as board members, committee leads, exhibit guides, ushers, admins, and more. It’s imperative that you recruit a strong volunteer base and, more importantly, retain their commitment them by valuing their time, effort, and skills. . 4% from 2013-2014.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 18, 2013

A well-executed social media campaign requires a time investment and skilled social media manager. My greatest hope for 2013 is that nonprofits evolve beyond the “free” mentality to a strategy that gives the time and financial investment necessary to make the Social Web work for your nonprofit.

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 18, 2014

They used online trainings in multi-channel communications, and provided substantial support to equip youth leaders with the skills and confidence they needed to talk to their peers about deeply personal sexual and reproductive health topics. Code for America (CFA) has succeeded in accomplishing great things in communities across the nation.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 14, 2014

While the primary goal is for students to learn about strategic use of networks and social media for international organizations, I will also be covering some practical career skills such as effective networking and self-directed professional learning (also called “Social Learning”). 2013: A Year in Social Media.

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