Get Fully Funded

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

Note – Photos or a video of your characters are HIGHLY recommended. So in this case, the conflict would be that this family is very poor and both parents have to work very early in the morning. Large, beautiful photos of the family, perhaps in front of their humble home). Here’s a great example of one such photo.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 8, 2020

She has worked with Candid, Cornell University, the United Nations, and Vital Voices Global Partnerships, among others. Authenticity is the validation of the nonprofit’s work and legitimacy by a third party — what is sometimes referred to as “social proof.” Storytelling is core to how we as human beings communicate.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 30, 2020

Why Remote Work Is Exhausting. In the virtual workplace, being on video conference meetings and communicating via online collaboration platforms takes more energy than working face-to-face. Virtual work can easily zap our energy and drain our emotions bringing on a type of malaise called “Virtual or Zoom Fatigue.” .

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Get Fully Funded

JANUARY 19, 2024

Incorporate your visual branding Your brand represents who your nonprofit is and the kind of work you’re doing to make a difference in the community. Visuals: Visuals, like photos, videos, and graphics, add to your supporters’ viewing experience and make your website more engaging.

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Neon CRM

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

Storytelling for nonprofits is an avenue to connect with donors and help them relate to your work. Ethical storytelling for nonprofits produces stories that not only help nonprofits share their work and inspire donors but also honor the dignity of those the story is about. What is Nonprofit Storytelling?

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Non Profit Quarterly

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

The campaign rebuked and said they had no ill intent with this design, that they’d simply dropped the photo down to black and white to show contrast between the candidates and that the point of the flyer is to contrast them. And simultaneously, Devyn, you were working your magic. And we know that’s a tactic people use.

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Amy Sample Ward

AUGUST 28, 2011

—– Whether you are part of a nonprofit organization, an action campaign, a local community, or a school, you know that it is through stories you can showcase your work, change people’s minds, inspire them to make change, or join you to make a difference. Animoto isn’t a new tool, but it is still in my top five.

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NonProfit Hub

APRIL 17, 2024

For more complex content needs, it’s recommended to work with a professional developer or designer to bring your ideas to life. Add authenticity by using unposed images of real community members rather than stock photos. Create emotional ties to your content by including images, audio clips, and videos that bring your stories to life.

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The Storytelling Non-profit

APRIL 9, 2020

Most of us are working from home and sheltering in place through the COVID-19 pandemic. For some of you, that might mean that you're working remotely for the first time ever. I remember that being a challenging transition for me when I started working from home in 2013. One of the tools I rely most heavily on is Trello.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 14, 2014

If your nonprofit is lucky enough to find exceptional volunteers or interns, you should still consider paying them for their work, especially if they are recent college grads struggling to find a job. Photo and Video Editing Ability. Video content needs to be edited and embellished with visual effects, animation, and audio.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 14, 2010

TwitPic : TwitPic lets you share photos on Twitter. For an example, see UNICEF’s TwitPic Page: twitpic.com/photos/UNICEF. Trottr : Trottr allows you to record brief audio messages with your cell phone that are then hosted on the Trottr website. Just know that the buttons place differently in different browsers.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 7, 2013

We used Google Hangout because they found it was more robust for video, audio, and screen sharing in that remote location. Of course, nothing beats the experience of actually being there! So, it was fun to see the photos of the recycled water bottles and beach breaks. Photo by Be Chandra. Training Design'

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 14, 2010

They will Tweet from location, break news on Facebook, send out group text calls to action, document in real-time photos and videos, and blog report backs live from events as they unfold. TwitPic.com allows you to easily share photos on Twitter in real-time. 12Seconds.tv. 12Seconds.tv is like TwitPic, except for video.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 7, 2010

This morning Liz Karlin, who works at the Packard Foundation in Grant Operations , and I did a remote presentation for the Foundation Financial Officers Group on Organizational Change and Social Media Policy development. In the past, I have presented remotely using skype audio and video. Financial Officers Group.

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Greater Giving

AUGUST 31, 2023

Run Through Event Expectations with your Audio Visual Team Make sure you set a healthy budget for AV, since you likely won’t know all of the costs associated up front. Use Professional Photographers to Capture the Magical Moments Getting high-quality photos of your event is a great way to promote future years’ events.

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The Science Behind Engaging your Supporters

SEPTEMBER 7, 2018

Yash has worked for a diverse slate of progressive organizations, including United We Dream, the ACLU, and 350.org. How can smaller organizations start to incorporate video into their work? One of the reasons why I learned to do photo and video was because media outlets weren't showing up to the actions that I was organizing.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 23, 2014

As always, I’m delighted to share the latest Benetech highlights as we work on these ambitious 10X dreams! First, we are working to lower the barrier to the use of strong encryption to automatically protect the privacy of sensitive information. Photo credit: Katy Steinmetz, TIME Magazine.

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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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Care2

JULY 13, 2012

With so many apps coming out all the time it’s easy to miss the ones built for social good and hard to keep up on useful apps that nonprofits and causes can use to do their work. iOS/Android: This app truly takes history outside the walls of the museum by mapping several hundred historic photos across St. Hoping for more?

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NTEN

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. Working together to get more information out to the public.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 22, 2010

This certainly could work well in an art museum, where visitors can make art, or science museums, where they could participate in citizen science projects, without sharing a language. You could even get creative with documentation--photos instead of text, music instead of words--but it's limiting. What have you seen work?

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Care2

AUGUST 24, 2011

Whether you are part of a nonprofit organization, an action campaign, a local community, or a school, you know that it is through stories you can showcase your work, change people's minds, inspire them to make change, or join you to make a difference. Animoto Animoto isn't a new tool, but it is still in my top five.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 27, 2013

Use Adobe's Photoshop CS6 or Photoshop Elements to refine photos or create motion graphics. Citrix Online : Do you work within a distributed work team? Flickr : You’re probably already familiar with Flickr's features such as the ability to upload from anywhere, tag photos, create sets , and create or join groups.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 18, 2017

Within the HTML for a web page, all photos and graphics have ALT tags, allowing someone with a sight impairment to hear, via their special audio browser, what graphics and photos are on a page. 
. One of the reasons our volunteer design teams return year after year is because they love working with organizations like yours.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 2, 2011

Flickr photo: lovebugstudios As an Executive Director, I especially love talking to other leaders about technology. Evernote lets me organize files, web sites, pictures, audio, and notes, from any device. Another resource that lets you work on the files you want, when you want, is Dropbox. That's all it takes.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 10, 2009

Photo by Jon Bauer Over the weekend at Podcamp Boston 4 (which sadly I was unable attend because I moved from Boston), I caught a tweet from colleague Chris Abraham coining a term called " Reputation Dysmorphic Disorder." It's when people don't like to share their own work for fear of being called a self-promoter. My interview is here.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 3, 2011

I have the honor of co-training with some of the best folks doing work in this part of the world. (Here’s the posts from Day 1 and Day 2 ). As a trainer, sometimes we get into “ruts&# where we use the same exercises and that can make you less passionate about your work. Photo by SMEXbeirut. Photo by SMEXbeirut.

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Tech Soup

JULY 23, 2013

Your work can't always come to a stop when you're away from the office or don't have your computer. Shoot photos directly from the app or import photos from your mobile device, then edit them using a simple touch interface. With the iOS app, the photos everyone takes can be automatically saved to a shared location.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 3, 2009

Not five minutes after I mentioned on my Facebook status how much I love California Farmers' Markets and posted some of the photos, then I got tagged in a photo by a friend who is doing a little network weaving if his Facebook friends feeds. Make personal videos or audio. What has worked (or not worked) for you?

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Have Fun - Do Good

AUGUST 12, 2011

Photo by Green LA Girl ) 2. I'm pretty sure an audio recording will be available eventually. Julie has some good photos from the session in her post, And My Water Didn't Break at All. Photo of Gwen Bell by Joel Longtine. My 5 takeaways were: Checking email, Twitter and Facebook constantly can be "insecurity work.".

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 25, 2007

Photo by Kino-Eye in Flickr. If you want to get acceptable audio for video blogging on an inexpensive camera you need to control the noise/environment or get really close to your subject. The excellent photo was taken by David Tames who I had interviewed earlier. That's me interviewing Jonny Goldstein after he interviewed me.

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Tech Soup

JULY 27, 2015

The XploR's camera and facial recognition software work together, and the researchers claim that it can recognize a face from 30 feet away. The photo recognition software uses a database of photos pulled from Gmail and Outlook (and at some point will include LinkedIn).

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Care2

JANUARY 25, 2010

If writing doesn’t appeal to everyone, you may want to enlist your colleagues to publish photos, audio or video. Developing relationships should involve talking about the great campaigns that other nonprofits are working on as well and responding to @replies.

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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. Then we started working with our local design and technology firms— Ziba Design and Fashionbuddha —and in the prototyping, it became clear we had to go another way. Photos are fun. We had planned on having it be video.

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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. Stuart Holland, a web consultant at TerpSys with more than seven years of experience, works closely with each client to ensure open communication and to architect sites that further the organization's goals.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 24, 2010

My experiments were quite granular: What gets more interactions - sharing video or photos or links? Does sharing link with a 2-sentence commentary work better than sharing with a question? Media Consumption: Total photo views, audio plays, and video plays for the content you have uploaded to your Page.

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NTEN

APRIL 15, 2010

But to fuel the speed, we need software that works on all kinds of phones, not just our fancy $400 phones. And we need that software to be flexible enough to work for any type of data collection. With Open Data Kit , grassroots activists can capture and export text, photos, video, audio, bar codes, even location.

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