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Your Nonprofit Should be Using Public Service Announcements (PSAs)

Nonprofit Tech for Good

By creating a script with pronunciation as well as a pre-recorded audio file, you’ll have a better chance of your PSA airing since you provided a variety of options. TV stations and cable networks usually air spots in 30 or 60 seconds but some are playing around with 15-second spots as well. Step 3: Produce the PSA.

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Pheed and Sulia: Two New Social Networks for the Nonprofit Early Adopters

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Followers tend to grow the fastest during the early adoption phase and being one of the first nonprofits to have a presence on a new social network tends to solidify their popularity on the social network over time. Pheed: The Next Social Network for Teens? Sulia: The Hottest Social Network you’ve Never Heard Of.

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How to Measure Podcast Downloads

Whole Whale

A podcast is basically a coded feed of XML that lists the information about your podcast, titles, descriptions and a link to where the MP3 audio file lives. Once this file is downloaded by a user’s device, your ability to track what they do with that file falls off of a cliff. Trying to track podcasts is pretty similar.

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The Future (and a Little History) of Network Neutrality

NTEN

It all started in 2008, when Comcast deliberately slowed Internet traffic for BitTorrent, a file-sharing site, and the Federal Communications Commission told the ISP it can't do that. Audio and video have proven to be highly effective media for nonprofits -- and throttling would impact all orgs -- no matter where they fall on the spectrum.

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Digital Donor Acquisition Strategy Best Practices

Allegiance Group

Paid search has become a channel that reliably generates new-to-file donors, even when brands bid on their name alone (branded search). Reach top-funnel users with podcast & audio ads. Allegiance Group works with podcast networks to serve ads on some of the most popular podcasts in production.

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10 Volunteer Training Ideas for Onboarding All Types of Volunteers

Qgiv

or “I love filing so much! Even if shoveling soil or filing reports is their volunteer role, chances are they’re with you because they believe in the higher purpose of your nonprofit: the mission. Now, we’re getting closer to why your volunteers are here at all. Focus on your mission. That’s why I volunteer.” About Nonprofit.Courses.

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Nonprofit Radio: How to Make Podcasts That Promote Your Brand and Engage Supporters

NTEN

From questions about the actual production of the files, to distribution, to listener metrics and feedback, there are plenty of moving parts that can raise questions. Podcasting is formally defined as the act of distributing syndicated audio content online via RSS to listeners who use software or a hardware device to receive updates.

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