Forj

MARCH 8, 2017

I know you’ve heard it, “Video is the next big thing” and “Video converts”… Marketers hear this all day long, and it’s true. Videos are a great way to reach your audience and resonate on a personal level. Video can be a scary thing, especially if you’re the one in it.

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sgEngage

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

With more than 4 billion users, email empowers you to reach a vast audience while targeting your messaging to particular constituents. Your Priority: Engage Your Audience Inboxes are flooded with more than 100 new emails a day. Recipients who click on a video tend to have higher brand awareness and are likelier to convert.

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sgEngage

FEBRUARY 18, 2023

With more than 4 billion users, email empowers you to reach a vast audience while targeting your messaging to particular constituents. Your Priority: Engage Your Audience Inboxes are flooded with more than 100 new emails a day. Recipients who click on a video tend to have higher brand awareness and are likelier to convert.

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Get Fully Funded

APRIL 23, 2023

Make sure your thank-you note also serves as a donation receipt and gives all the practical information the donor needs including the amount of the gift, the gift date, and the reason for the gift. Create a brief script for everyone to follow, then give everyone a few names to call. Personalized thank-you video.

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M+R

JULY 10, 2023

I often tell folks that making a practice of self-editing is a great way to level up : finish your draft (email appeal, social media post, video script, or whatever else), walk away from it for a minute, and then go back and make changes as an editor would. Your audience, on the other hand, is mostly full of normal people.

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Get Fully Funded

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

For example, my friend operates a food pantry, and she did not like a video a volunteer made about getting ready to volunteer at the food pantry. My friend thought the video of a volunteer deciding what to wear to the food pantry made light of food insecurity and struck the wrong tone. Videos, done right, can be very effective!

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Global Giving

APRIL 28, 2016

Still wondering if you have what it takes to tell a story through video? By the end of this post and with a bit of practice, you’ll understand and have the skills to turn your story into a great video, from planning to shooting to editing to publishing to sharing, all on the smartphone you carry in your pocket! Find your story.

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Get Fully Funded

OCTOBER 19, 2021

Let’s look at some simple, practical ideas you can use in the next few weeks to thank donors and make them feel special. Your emailed welcome kit could contain a link to a video giving a quick virtual tour of your programs or a personal welcome from you. You know your audience and what they’ll appreciate. Just say thank you.

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NetWits

MAY 19, 2011

First and foremost, determine which existing audiences you wish to engage (board members, major donors, past event fundraisers or attendees, all donors, volunteers, etc) in your fundraising and how you will reach out to them (email, social networks, mail, phone, on-site events, etc). 2) Educate. 5) Acknowledge.

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DipJar

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

Advocacy campaigns are an innovative way for nonprofits to engage their current supporters, attract new audiences, and fulfill their mission at the same time. Digital campaigns can be an effective way to spread the word about your cause quickly to a wide audience of supporters. Script-branching. Face-to-Face Communication Tools.

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CauseVox

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

AuSM had some additional elements that let them take those audience members from “interested” to “donor”. A stellar toolkit: to help out their fundraisers, they put together a resource that answered common questions, provided basic fundraising advice, and laid out scripts for fundraisers to use. How did they do so well?”

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 10, 2008

Last week for WeAreMedia project, I put a call on Twitter for case studies, best practices, and links about nonprofits using social networking sites, including Ning. s Ning site began as a way to solve a very practical solution???keeping Tell me a little about your organization's social media strategy for its ning site?

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Classy

JULY 19, 2021

Nonprofit video is an ever-evolving marketing method, but remaining well-informed on the latest industry best practices gives your organization a major advantage. . Instead, nonprofit video only continued to climb in popularity and organizations began doubling down on their video strategies. .

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 1, 2011

Webinars can greatly benefit from developing a “run of show” which in radio is a script designed to outline the order and amount of timing for items to be discussed within a program. Ask and Share with Your Audience. Panganiban, like Leroux Miller, suggests involving your audience early on. Make Presentations Social.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 1, 2014

adopting design best practices. applying SEO best practices. scripting and editing videos and short films. At TechSoup, we started light online and email testing about a year ago, and it’s great to see the broader sector also adopting these practices. reviewing email and e-newsletter metrics. Email Matters.

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Bloomerang

MAY 14, 2021

Talk to each other, introduce yourself in the chat if you haven’t already because we will save some time for some Q&A once we kind of get through our scripted questions. So we’ve now heard your personal stories and I want to start helping the people who are in the audience right now. You can also tweet us. Lisa: Yeah.

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

There’s lots of videos, lots of things you can look at to get a sense of what we offer. And a lot of this content that I’m talking about today is in my book called “Cloudburst” on fundraising, you’ll find scripts and things in there you haven’t ever seen before. That’s what Bloomerang is.

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Achieve

OCTOBER 11, 2019

Video marketing, in particular, can be a great way to educate your audience about the problems your organization is working to solve. shows that including even a single video on your nonprofit’s website can improve conversions by as much as 80%! PROVEN WAYS TO USE VIDEO MARKETING FOR YOUR NONPROFIT. Video testimonials.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 27, 2008

s Ning online strategy began as a way to solve a very practical solution???keeping For every online social network training we do, we actually present the ning site and demonstrate ways participants can create and customize profiles, syndicate RSS feeds, post blogs, photos and videos and more. What did set out to accomplish?

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Nonprofits Source

NOVEMBER 3, 2017

What this guide is : An introduction of the top 23 SEO best practices that will help get your content ranked in 2017, including: On page SEO factors – factors that are visible to your audience at the page level. Images, videos, interactive and immersive content are also key to keeping visitors engaged on your site.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 30, 2021

And when we are off the clock, we take virtual trips to foreign countries, cook on live-demo video calls, and shimmy around our living rooms with fellow Zumba dancers who could be anywhere in the world. Placing yourself in the role of your audience will allow you to think outside of your own box. Walk in their shoes! All of the above?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 24, 2007

I saw a black board in the corner of the room, wheeled it over and wrote the key words of the presentation and shared my favorite advice about issues of incorporating technology into your instructional practice: "It isn't a matter of if technical glitches will happen, it's what are you going to do when they happen. Interactive.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 2, 2006

For the script, before jumping into the how-to of widgets, the screencast will give some context, of course. This is both the hard and fun part of making web videos. Using widgets is not yet a common practice on nonprofit blogs and folks are still experimenting and learning. What is a Widget? Benefits and Considerations.

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 28, 2021

You can go on our website, learn all about us, watch videos, pretty easy to find. I think Steven’s fundraising heart is feeling pretty happy today because 54% of you, the vast majority of you, do segment your appeals based on your audience so that people are getting a different message based on who they are. Thank you.

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Bloomerang

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

You can get a demo, you can watch videos, all kinds of cool things on our website. And then we’ll hone in on some best practices that you and your teams can apply specifically to leverage your board members in your fundraising activity in a way that excites and energizes them. That’s what Bloomerang is.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 30, 2021

And when we are off the clock, we take virtual trips to foreign countries, cook on live-demo video calls, and shimmy around our living rooms with fellow Zumba dancers who could be anywhere in the world. Placing yourself in the role of your audience will allow you to think outside of your own box. Walk in their shoes! All of the above?

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Bloomerang

MAY 9, 2021

Having access to the right data will not only help you to choose the right donor appreciation ideas for your audience but also help you to craft more meaningful and resonant appreciation messages for your supporters. . Analyze Your Audience. Customize these scripts based on the segments of supporters who are being called.

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Bloomerang

MAY 9, 2021

Having access to the right data will not only help you to choose the right donor appreciation ideas for your audience but also help you to craft more meaningful and resonant appreciation messages for your supporters. . Analyze Your Audience. Customize these scripts based on the segments of supporters who are being called.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 7, 2010

I learned to appreciate the audience reach of a big institution while vastly preferring the diversity of work and lack of bureaucracy of a small one. I learned about game design, theme park design, video production, script-writing, show programming, and air compressors, working with cranks and fire marshals and brilliant folks of all kinds.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 27, 2007

Kaushik's thinking is based on " Occam's Razor Principle " (which boils down to a poetic way of saying " KISS ") The screencast will show some practical examples of how at least one nonprofit organization's web site, the Idealist , is using the software in practice. What follows is a very rough draft for a script.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 16, 2010

Next practices in integrating social media for program delivery that leads to social outcomes. Invisible People , an nonprofit that uses video storytelling to help de-stigmatize homeless people. I was also wanted to interject crowd sourcing from the audience in the room or via the hashtag on the Twitter ( crowdx ) in real time.

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Nonprofits Source

JULY 5, 2018

That’s why In this article I’ve put together a list of 5 practical reasons why digital marketing fails to get results with actionable solutions to move you towards success. This proves the page is relevant to my audience’s needs otherwise, that figure would be much lower. Use of multimedia (video/audio). Bounce rate.

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Neon CRM

JULY 5, 2023

Short-form video, AI content, and interactive features are all options that can work with what you already have. The three social media trends for nonprofits to watch in 2023 include short-form videos, AI-created content, and interactive content. If short-form video is available, it’s wise to build some content around it.

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Bloomerang

JULY 5, 2023

Nonprofit annual report template 6 best practices for creating your annual report Tools for creating your nonprofit annual report 7 inspirational nonprofit annual report examples Ready to dive a little deeper into nonprofit annual reports and learn how you can craft yours to maximize the impact at your organization? In short: no.

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Nonprofits Source

JANUARY 13, 2017

It ensures you’re writing content that will attract and retain your audience’s attention. Include video testimonial – If possible, record a video testimonial to supplement your case study. This provides additional ways for your audience to consume content. This is why persona research is so important.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 10, 2012

You can find the description and bios here and if you want to the video of the whole session, you can find it here. The conversation was non-linear, insightful, and allowed for debate on different points of view from the panelists. What action or new way thinking do you want your audience to embrace. Think about the end first.

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