Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 29, 2010

This week's Have Fun, Do Good Friday Video is the I Love My Hair song from Sesame Street. You can see more Have Fun, Do Good Friday videos here. Tags: Have fun do good friday video. Yay to Sesame Street for creating this empowering message for girls.

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Qgiv

APRIL 9, 2024

Through comments, shares, direct messages, and fun hashtag challenges, you can foster relationships that would be harder to form through more traditional channels of communication. Social media provides your organization with a public forum to share updates on projects, success stories, and any unexpected challenges you’ve come across.

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CauseVox

MARCH 1, 2024

Pro Tip: It is really helpful (and fun!) Motivations: Using psychographic data from your survey you found: Annie is passionate about animal rights and welfare and believes in the importance of adopting rescue animals. She mainly gives by clicking the donate button in the bio link or on Instagram stories.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 23, 2023

As with all new major technological changes (we’re looking at you, electricity and the internet), we must adapt and adopt. Include statistics and fun facts where possible, and include a question at the end that would inspire conversation.” Please include 2–4 strong, relevant hashtags.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 2, 2015

At TechSoup, we're all about using technology to tell your nonprofit, charity, or public library's story. Steller (free; Apple iOS) is an app that lets you build stories with your photos, videos, and text. It's also got a familiar appearance, as the main feed of other people's stories mildly resembles Instagram.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

Tens of thousands of in-person attendees and millions online, including on Salesforce+ , will come together for three full days of learning, connection, fun, and giving back. This is the heart of the Dreamforce experience, where customers come to get a jumpstart on learning, networking, and having fun. We’re glad you asked.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

Tens of thousands of in-person attendees and millions online, including on Salesforce+ , will come together for three full days of learning, connection, fun, and giving back. This is the heart of the Dreamforce experience, where customers come to get a jumpstart on learning, networking, and having fun. We’re glad you asked.

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Have Fun - Do Good

NOVEMBER 18, 2009

I've been thinking a lot about animals lately, as I've mentioned in a couple recent posts, Midlife Food Crisis: What's Your Food Story? , What better way to have fun while doing good then doing something nice for an animal! We wouldn't have found our awesome cat if it wasn't for Maine Coon Adoptions here in Oakland.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 11, 2016

Snapchat is making a concerted effort to increase its viability as a marketing and digital payment processing tool for brands and for those nonprofits that have the time and resources, early adoption would be a good bet. Share your first Snap to “My Story.” To begin, share your first Snap to your Story.

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Get Fully Funded

JULY 13, 2021

For example, if you adopt Teams for its chat feature,, remind your colleague who sends you an email and move the conversation over to Teams. Adopting a new work practice is challenging, especially if the whole team needs to embrace the change. Or maybe you have a great story to write up for your website. It’s not fun.

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

It turns out one of the most important strategies for our time is the ability to effectively generate, exchange, and adopt new ways of doing things. You can view a couple of visual idea generation and sharing techniques in a video by Jack Elkins (The idea “T” and the “Story Board”). And some of the really fun tools take some practice.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 18, 2016

Yes, Snapchat is good for branding among 18-30 years olds if your Snapchat Stories are awesome, but if they aren’t, Snapchat could be hurting your brand. Most nonprofit social media managers can barely keep up with Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn, so early adoption of the Next Big Things is becomingly increasing difficult.

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Media Cause

JUNE 10, 2021

Now, these entities have more creative freedom to join in on the fun. One success story shows just how versatile Clubhouse is when it comes to helping those in need. This will allow you to learn on the heels of the early adopters and make the most of your first steps on the platform. Benefits for Nonprofits.

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Connection Cafe

MAY 13, 2011

So in honor of Freaky Friday, here are 13 real supporter horror stories, none of which involve zombies. Her husband made fun of her. He wrote a sob-story email to the volunteer coordinator. He wrote a sob-story email to the volunteer coordinator. (I I got the sob-story, too, and I agreed it was a good excuse.)

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 14, 2009

She even crowdsourced some of the responses via Twitter - a fun way to get a bit more brain power out of the process of blogging! Read the answers to those questions and more of the story on Debra’s blog here. Tags: issues otherblogs adoption social media. She deals with these five questions: It’s not safe!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 20, 2012

Best Friends has just launched a fun mobile app. Not only did they take repeated photos to see what breed of dog would match their photo, they also started to ask if we could adopt a dog. I asked Best Friends Marketing Coordinator Claudia Perrone how they were measuring success. The ultimate KPI, of course, is dog adoptions.

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Get Fully Funded

SEPTEMBER 27, 2022

Sharing your stories makes people want to get involved and help. They may not want to give you a grant if they see your animal welfare nonprofit is living off of your adoption fees or your homeless shelter is solely running on a large government grant. How fun and easy, right? Limited support. Has this happened to you?

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Bloomerang

JULY 5, 2021

People like to engage, and when you enter them into a raffle for a prize (preferably one that is donated), they’re more likely to join the fun. When you add some fun to a donor’s life, they think of you positively. The third is to offer donors opportunities to leverage their giving. These can be tailored to particular campaigns.

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Qgiv

JUNE 29, 2021

Auctions are a classic fundraising event that can not only raise an impressive amount of money but also provide your supporters with a much needed night of fun. Whether you choose the Roaring 20’s or want to host an 80’s event, decade-themed fundraising auctions are some of the most fun occasions to both plan and attend.

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Care2

JANUARY 13, 2012

Pinterest has a lot of potential, especially for organizations whose stories lend themselved to visual storytelling. Share the story of each animal in the Pin Description. Pin pictures of families who adopt animals from your shelter. Set up a system to reach out asking for a Pinterest update a few months after the adoption.

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Qgiv

DECEMBER 15, 2021

There’s nothing more powerful than a story to help you connect with your audience. Luckily, animal shelters tend to have some great stories! . One of the most compelling stories that animal shelters can use is a heartstrings-tugging before -and-after. These rescue pups want to hear ALL the rescue stories. .

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Qgiv

JUNE 22, 2021

Their friends and family will love supporting a loved one while also watching a fun movie in the comforts of their own home. Peer-to-peer fundraising will likely naturally take place on social media, but you can take it a step further by adding a fun, competitive element. Social fundraisers. Be a Hero campaign. Give-it-up fundraisers.

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CauseVox

OCTOBER 11, 2021

The neat thing about Fiver is that there is time is built in for program staff to collect and story bank client testimonials, which means they’re not scrambling at the end. A good story is an incredible tool and whatever quote or story you decide to use, make sure it’s relatable and clear. Your donors want to hear those stories.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 21, 2013

Dave and I have something in common – Conan O’Brien made fun of our LinkedIn Profiles on his show. ” Next up was Dave Evans, Chief Futurist at Cisco. Conan asked, “What’s a Futurist do?” ” Dave analyzes trends and technologies to predict what is next on the horizon.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 4, 2013

But getting into the habit of regular tweeting, Facebooking, or experimenting with new tools like Instagram is another story. Says Stram, “Without that openness, I don’t believe he would be having nearly as much fun with Twitter as he is now.” It’s not that you don’t think it is a good idea.

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Amy Sample Ward

OCTOBER 5, 2009

I have many things that I want to talk about at the NTC because it’s a one-of-a-kind opportunity to talk about ideas, get advice, or hear stories from others in real time, in one space, as fast as you can share them! We have invited nonprofit staff to share their stories and insights. But, what do you want to talk about?

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Connection Cafe

JUNE 27, 2017

There’s a lot of talk about the ways nonprofits can use Facebook to raise money — live streaming fundraising events, breaking news, impact stories, and more, directly from their Facebook Page. They were busy covering stories on flooding and snarled traffic. How Facebook live helped keep their audience engaged (and raise $100K).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 13, 2010

I also found a coloring and drawing app that my daughter is enjoying, although I must admit that I'm having fun with it too. While acknowledging that thinking about integrating iPad apps is something that isn't yet widespread, the Chronicle is wondering what iPad apps early adopter nonprofits are working on for constituent engagement?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 27, 2008

The Be The Media Project is a community of people from nonprofits who are interested in learning and teaching about how social media strategies and tools can enable nonprofit organizations to create, compile, and distribute their stories and change the world. This week we're discussing the art of story-telling.

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Have Fun - Do Good

APRIL 6, 2012

Eric Martin, Native American Public Telecommunications Blog NAPT shares Native stories with the world, and advances Native media that represents the values, experiences, histories, and cultures of Tribal Nations, communities and people. It specializes in adoption from China, Taiwan and Haiti. Check out their blog, Brighter Futures.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 23, 2013

Net2Local has adopted the core strategies of theme months to increase network cohesion and regional hubs to scale our ability to support local organizers. The surgeries are ridiculous fun for the organizers, and offer real tangible support to organizations still struggling with integrating the social web into their work.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 18, 2009

I've got the book to cheer you up-- AWEARNESS: Inspiring Stories about How to Make a Difference by Kenneth Cole. Tell me something in your childhood that you wished were different and go toward it." --Rosie O'Donnell, AWEARNESS Feeling blue? It's my favorite read so far this year.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 30, 2012

2d Code is a must read for the early adopters. This is a must-buy app if your nonprofit regularly tells your story through mobile photo-sharing. It’s a creative, visual way to tell your organization’s stories of protest to your online communities. Based in the U.K., 360 Panorama :: occipital.com/360/app.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 6, 2017

As Jeremiah points out, we are entering the next phase where robots, drones, bots, AI, and self-driving cars will have widespread adoption. When you send a message to this Facebook Messenger bot named Yeshi, she tells her story about how her daily walk for clean water in Ethiopia. .

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 27, 2010

That’s a funny story actually, but I suppose many entrepreneurs have similar stories. On July 5 the real fun began. The problem with developing a standard is that it is only as useful as those adopting it. Do you have any lessons learned or stories you can share with other social entrepreneurs?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 1, 2011

Each topic introduced a framework and story, and was followed by discussion and activities to identify examples in the Arab world and or determine whether the principle was relevant. We discussed ways to initiate organizational change to be more open to social media adoption in the context of training and coaching.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 20, 2010

I started my talk with a story about why I liked Twitter: It allows me to connect with people in my professional field and have a great conversations or ad hoc collaborations that improve practice. What fun is that for me or them? 9: Assesses organizational culture and has strategies to address issues that may prevent adoption.

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