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Tips for nonprofits from Candid’s year of TikTok, Instagram Reels, and YouTube Shorts 

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Having a library of pre-made videos is helpful for the days when planned content falls through. Additionally, following trends is difficult for nonprofits when you take copyright challenges into account (organizations aren’t permitted to use a lot of trending audio). Second, it gives us a backlog of content.

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Nonprofits Live: User-Generated Content Recap

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In this edition of TechSoup's Nonprofits Live, our guests spoke about why they employ user-generated content and how they tap into their communities for it. Welcoming User-Generated Content. Sample Ward started off the discussion by speaking about creating a community that welcomes user-generated content. Spreading the Word.

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Bringing Millions of Books to Billions of People: Making the Book Truly Accessible

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Lack of access to the knowledge in books perpetuates ignorance, generates poverty and squanders human potential. With a press of a virtual button, an ebook can be printed, displayed in large print (on a page or on a display), made into braille (on a page or on an electronic braille display), or read aloud as audio. We can do better!

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How to Use Storytelling for Nonprofits to Tug Heartstrings and Raise Funds

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There are many sites that offer free, royalty-free music for videos, in all sorts of genres, that generate all sorts of moods. YouTube also has its own audio library offerd free of charge. A note about music: Do not use licensed music without permission. A few I can recommend: Mixkit: [link]. Free Music Archive: [link].

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Losing Mobile Users? Easy Mobile-Website Builder Can Help You: New TechSoup Program

Tech Soup

With an exponential increase in people accessing the Internet on mobile devices, the nonprofits, charities, and libraries that don't have a website optimized for mobile devices or that haven't created a separate mobile website risk irritating — or losing — their supporters. What can you do with your mobile site?

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Creating a Culture of Storytelling Webinar Recap

Tech Soup

The webinar provided case studies of how one nonprofit and one library created storytelling cultures within their organizations. The case studies were presented by Zoe Blumenfeld, communications manager for Global Fund for Women , and Viktor Sjöberg, digital services librarian at Escondido Public Library.

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Team ReadyWoof’s Pawsitive Impact

Tech Soup

ReadyTalk , a provider of audio. ReadyTalk provides audio and web conferencing services, webinars and professional services, and recording and syndication tools. Learn more at www.readytalk.com and view their donation program for eligible nonprofits and public libraries. conferencing and webinar. More About ReadyTalk.

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