Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 30, 2020

Experts point to several reasons why we are feeling a loss of vitality, productivity, and wellbeing in our virtual workplaces: Online-mediated interaction and communications deprive us a full sensory experience as we are only limited to audio and visual experiences (when using video conferences) or just text. see the photo at the top).

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JUNE 23, 2022

The question of whether websites fall under the purview of the ADA is slightly unclear. Hide decorative-only images (such as stock photos) from being shown to screen readers. As of 2020, nonprofit organizations’ websites were not required to be ADA compliant. Live captions. Live ASL interpreters.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 1, 2014

Recently, we''ve been talking at our museum about techniques for capturing compelling audio/video content with visitors. Your recording booth asks participants for audio stories plus photos of themselves with their objects. We came up with a system that was much more structured and is based on audio, not video.

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SEPTEMBER 19, 2011

Staff from the radio station pulled all-nighters to ensure that official information and reports were released to the public while the community pitched in, posting photos, updates, and other information as the fire moved further into the community. The KRTS Facebook page soon became a hotbed of crowd-sourced reporting on the fires.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 24, 2010

To create a listening post to understand the questions and concerns from nonprofits about implementing an effective Facebook presence. My experiments were quite granular: What gets more interactions - sharing video or photos or links? My experiments were quite granular: What gets more interactions - sharing video or photos or links?

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 22, 2009

Flicker photo: World Economic Forum I was in DC last week to attend the NPTimes Top 50 dinner, honored to be in the same room with some of the most amazing people in the field. " I got some hilarious questions, wrote my favorites down on hotel stationery, stuck it in my clutch, and hoped he'd show.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 3, 2011

Photo by SMEXbeirut. The two discussion questions were: What are your expectations for the project as a social media trainer? In my group, we identified four broad themes for the first question: Improved training technique. Photo by SMEXbeirut. Photo by SMEXbeirut. In the above video, Naeema Zarif.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 7, 2012

Members, who are incentivized to share for a chance to win prizes, can share their stories via video, photo, or text. Submissions for the exhibit included nearly 3,000 videos, photos, paintings, poems, stories, and essays. Following the guest expert presentations, the audience asked questions, which can be found on the full recording.

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Tech Soup

JULY 27, 2015

The photo recognition software uses a database of photos pulled from Gmail and Outlook (and at some point will include LinkedIn). Users can also add photos to the database by taking pictures of their friends, families, and colleagues. Like XploR, the BlindSpot cane uses audio notifications by way of Bluetooth.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 3, 2011

Your recording booth asks participants for audio stories plus photos of themselves with their objects. We came up with a system that was much more structured and is based on audio, not video. Another good example is the final question: “If you had to give it to someone, who would it be and what would you say to them?”

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Global Giving

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

Just last month, Google launched Tez , an “audio QR” payment solution for mobile phone users in India. Microfinance institutions like Muhammad Yunus’ Grameen Bank are asking the question, “Why can these people not be served by banks?” Want more corporate giving insights?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 11, 2009

Photo by Justin Benttinen. We are also learning in public when we engage in in-depth conversation whether it is offline or online, for example in the comments of a blog post or asking questions on Twitter. Designated back channel moderators in the room to answer questions, throw links in the discussion while it was happening.

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NTEN

JULY 11, 2011

Many non-profits have embraced features such as forums, blogs, user profiles, and photo/video sharing as a means to extend their reach. Keep it simple: Minimize the number of questions asked in the registration form, and clearly lay out the content you want to capture.

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Care2

AUGUST 22, 2013

For each major marketing initiative answer the following questions. Add visual variety by highlighting new photos, captions, and links in the slide rotation every week. Media – Photos, Video, Audio. Thank people, answer questions, follow up, and show personality to build on these relationships. Did You Know?

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Tech Soup

MAY 19, 2011

While video is an effective medium, the perceived costs of equipment and editing tools coupled with the question of what will. The hour-long chat answered many commonly held questions organizations have, as well as offering follow up resources. The chat began with the most important question of what makes a video effective?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 15, 2011

Over the past month, I have been thinking about a couple of different ideas and how to incorporate them into training design to facilitate learning. My questions are: 1. I like to use a wireless mic and roam the audience and ask questions that help create a bridge between the presenters and the audience. That means I need a T.V.

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Get Fully Funded

AUGUST 21, 2009

It offers a quick way to provide timely and regularly updated information and to answer any questions your readers may have. . Blogging allows you to not only share stories about your work, but post photos, video, and audio fairly easily. Here are some of the benefits of blogging: .

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 1, 2007

Use a script: Write out your questions in advance and this keeps you on track. I have to stick it in people's faces to get acceptable (to me) audio quality. Speaking of good audio, I raised this question on the video bloggers listserv and David Tames (who took the photo stills in the video) offered some great tricks here.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 7, 2007

The post answers the questions: How do you negotiate the potential minefield of legalese surrounding your content? If you upload your images to Flickr, the license information is displayed on the photo page ; 3) Embed the license information directly into the file. What's even better, you don't need a law degree to understand it!

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Bloomerang

DECEMBER 19, 2023

Support: There’s no one readily available to help answer your questions or fix something if you have an issue with the program. Slack Platform overview: Slack is a messaging platform that enables employees to send and receive multimedia messages, including regular chats as well as audio and video clips.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 21, 2006

Looks like the last sentence got left out and wanted to make sure folks were pointed over the excellent article by Colin Delaney on Idealware on Participatory Media Tools which goes in much more detail about more tools and questions for nonprofit to consider.

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Get Fully Funded

AUGUST 21, 2009

It offers a quick way to provide timely and regularly updated information and to answer any questions your readers may have. . Blogging allows you to not only share stories about your work, but post photos, video, and audio fairly easily. Here are some of the benefits of blogging: .

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Get Fully Funded

AUGUST 21, 2009

It offers a quick way to provide timely and regularly updated information and to answer any questions your readers may have. . Blogging allows you to not only share stories about your work, but post photos, video, and audio fairly easily. Here are some of the benefits of blogging: .

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 22, 2007

I love the photos, but I think you can better visually demonstrate the ideas expressed in the reasons - For example, "Blogging Connects Us To Global Conversations" - Why not a screenshot of Globals or this photo for example example, although it is all rights reserved, but you could ask permission).

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Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 10, 2009

If after asking yourself the 10 Questions to Get You Started Using Social Media for Your Nonprofit or Do-Good Project, you've decided that a blog is good tool for you, consider incorporating the following 10 elements of an effective nonprofit, or do-good blog into your blogging strategy: 1. Interviews (written, audio, video).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 26, 2007

The photo above is from the poster session and shows what my screen looked like logging in remotely from in the Boston area. Also, my audio was very garbled and my skype and Second Life were a bit too much for my computer and it crashed. Alas, no photo as my computer just couldn't handle anymore stress at that moment.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 11, 2006

Katya Andresen of the Nonprofit Marketing Blog left me a message on Odeo in response to the question "What do you think about widgets for building community, in particular fundraising widgets?" The key is to let people upload their own text, photos, or video about why they care about a cause and then link to the cause.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 8, 2011

The campaign is also on Google+ and uses SoundCloud , a social media company that allows one to record audio messages and share them online. Through this continuous feedback loop, David and his team are constantly refining their platform and message to address the questions and concerns of San Francisco voters. Photo: Susan Chavez.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 19, 2006

The photo above was taken at last night's TechSoup Mixed Reality Event. Pathfinder gave a presentation to a small group in Cambridge , while his audio (some of the time) was streamed into Second Life along with his Powerpoint Slides. " It's a variation on that question that pioneering nonprofits will ask and answer too.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 6, 2007

Some techniques that I learned about that I want to put into practice in future work: Capturing secondary audio with an external mic and recorder and then synching them during the editing process. For example, I figured out a way to silence the audio in a "b" roll and replace it with a -over narrative. do our own thing????

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JUNE 22, 2021

And, make sure that participants document the baking process, whether it’s with a livestream or a series of photo updates! You might design trivia questions related to your mission and divide your participants into teams. Your participants can join a group call and explore the story using videos, images, and audio. Trivia night.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 22, 2007

I don't know if I'm still shaking from the excitement or the hour long multi-tasking frenzy of listening to a live audio feed, seeing a blog.tv although there was a little bit lag, there was not a major crash and the audio feed was perfect - kudos! The discussion started with Fanton and Linden asking questions of each other.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 24, 2009

Photo by Marcopolos I'm a few weeks away from SXSW where I'll be leading a session called " Nonprofit Social Media ROI Poetry Slam " which will incorporate a lot of audience interaction. They appointed a person in the room as the "Backchannel Advocate" and the speaker would ask them verbalize questions from the backchannel.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 14, 2022

Photo and Bio. Send a video or audio “thank you” through social media or email. Snap a photo of the donor while at your facility or event and frame it and send it to them (also from Get Fully Funded ). For example, time with the founders, or executive director or board chair, or the keynote in the photo booth.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 7, 2006

Asking whether widgets will foster community is a tricky question. He also relates my question to the arts sector specifically with the following points: The arts are in a unique position to leverage these video, audio, and photo sites. The predisposition for community will exist whether widgets are used or now.

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NTEN

AUGUST 31, 2010

Freedom Fone leverages audio as a mobile function using IVR, a technology that allows a system to detect voice and keyboard input. IVR allows a user to call, enter or say specific numbers, and listen to or contribute audio content. Many of the audio responses were later rebroadcast on the program. . Photo: Bart Sullivan .

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 20, 2009

Photo by Matt Westervelt Back in April I created a slide presentation for an Ignite session at NTC about the Many Uses of Friendfeed that Beth Kanter picked up on , intrigued with the idea of using it as an internal listening tool. for the last five years or so). Here’s how it works: the moderator starts a post.

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