Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 30, 2018

Flickr Photo by Rex Hammock. Note from Beth: Digital storytelling is key to fundraising success, but using a storytelling lens in your organization can have further benefit of busting organizational silos. Fortunately, storytelling busts silos. To be fair, silos do exist for a reason, and do have their benefits.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 17, 2019

Be more strategic : one major benefit of a social media calendar is that it allows you to think more strategically about your posts. It’s useful to have your photos and links (to your website, a blog post, a news article etc) ready in a folder or folders so that when you want to schedule new posts, it’s easy to access the content.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 6, 2013

Share Stories, Photos, and Videos from Events. For nonprofits that have staff members or volunteers in the field, definitely encourage them to send in reports with photos for blog posts. A first-person voice is best. Your role is to give them a word limit, a general topic, and a deadline, and to solicit photos.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 8, 2012

If you are ready to jump in and want to maximize your personal profile for the benefit of your nonprofit, then be sure to: Enter a brief introduction about yourself and your bragging rights. Upload your nonprofit’s avatar as one (or all five) of your featured profile photos. Photos and slideshows. Powerful stats.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 23, 2013

They employ numbers throughout their site to make people feel aligned with thousands of others, and they give a face and a voice to those thousands with pictures, videos and written stories. Include photos of the donors or the company logo whenever possible. Harness the Power of Storytelling. Harrison has over 61.5k

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NonProfit Hub

DECEMBER 7, 2017

GivingTuesday has grown in popularity since its inception, with people from all over the world continuously giving their time, money, gifts and voices to the causes they care about. Storytelling works. Elements of effective storytelling in #MyGivingStory entries included: A polished, thoughtful and complete narrative.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 26, 2012

If you are ready to jump in and want to maximize your personal profile for the benefit of your nonprofit, then be sure to: Enter a brief introduction about yourself and your bragging rights. Upload your nonprofit’s avatar as one (or all five) of your featured profile photos. Photos and slideshows. Powerful stats.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 7, 2012

Share Stories, Photos, and Videos from Events. For nonprofits that have staff members or volunteers in the field, definitely encourage them to send in reports with photos for blog posts. A first-person voice is best. Your role is to give them a word limit, a general theme, and a deadline, and to solicit photos.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

MAY 5, 2021

The parent voice carries acute moral and emotional weight. About the Authors: Photo credit: Appendix Fotografi. DT: So why are parents important to tackle climate change? FBE: Parents are found everywhere: in boardrooms and parliaments, in factories and farms, at school gates and community centers. Frida Berry Eklund. Devi Thomas.

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Forum One

OCTOBER 20, 2021

Selecting photos for your brand in a deliberate and thoughtful way makes your organization more inclusive. Every day, we constantly see photos of people—in social media, on websites, on television, in advertisements, in print, and in our daily environment. Tips for choosing inclusive photos.

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 14, 2010

I think the most important part of designing a competition that leverages crowdsourcing is to strike a balance between too many voices, and too few. Nature Conservancy’s photo contests : The crowd, in this case it’s one that loves nature photos, shares the pictures they love about nature and in the process grow their community.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 7, 2012

Share Stories, Photos, and Videos from Events. For nonprofits that have staff members or volunteers in the field, definitely encourage them to send in reports with photos for blog posts. A first-person voice is best. Your role is to give them a word limit, a general theme, and a deadline, and to solicit photos.

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Connection Cafe

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

Information Sharing and Storytelling. Try these suggestions to connect with your HR colleagues: Provide recruitment messages with impact data and storytelling. Explore the following to increase your donations: Go way beyond the basics of convenience and tax benefits when promoting the program and conducting your campaign.

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Nonprofits Source

MAY 8, 2024

By tapping into the power of storytelling, you can connect with your audience emotionally, thereby motivating action and support. We’ll provide five tips on how you can utilize storytelling to level up your nonprofit’s marketing materials and make a lasting impression. Let’s jump in. Video clips from past auctions.

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Everyaction

AUGUST 6, 2018

What makes a great storyteller? A great storyteller is someone who can relate to those experiences, right? How do you approach storytelling with communities that you’re less directly connected to? You’ve been a storyteller and an organizer across multiple arms of the progressive movement. What makes a great story?

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Qgiv

OCTOBER 27, 2021

A position on an event committee can keep your sponsor happy with their decision to work with you, as they’ll feel they are truly involved and can make their voice heard as you work together to do good in the community. This is a great way to find volunteers with skills that can benefit your organization in a variety of ways.

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Media Cause

MAY 23, 2022

As a designer and illustrator, I’m constantly weighing the pros and cons of using photos or illustrations. Blogs communicate fresh perspectives and themes that benefit from custom illustrations that are inspired by the words of the author. Today there are very few stock photos that are usable. Staged stock photos feel ??disingenuous

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Museum 2.0

JULY 27, 2007

Yes, much was generated by the game masters, but there are now 143,000 google hits for "world without oil," the majority of which are player-generated blogs, livejournals, photo pages, videos, you name it. On an early game week, week 14 , I counted over 35 player-submitted photos, stories, and missions (actions to try to address the crisis).

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Qgiv

AUGUST 27, 2021

Up your storytelling game. Here are two strategies to implement in your direct mail materials to help you better connect with donors: Rely on strong storytelling. Instagram: Instagram is an excellent platform for sharing striking photos and connecting emotionally with your audience. Up your storytelling game.

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Bloomerang

JULY 20, 2023

The benefits of online fundraising Online fundraising offers benefits for both your organization and your supporters. Benefits for nonprofits Your nonprofit benefits from online fundraising as well. Tell stories One of the best ways to engage supporters is to use effective storytelling strategies.

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Connection Cafe

JULY 10, 2017

Don’t knock the benefits of outside assistance. Don’t knock the benefits of outside assistance. After all, donors may avoid voicing their concerns and hesitations if they feel they may disappoint someone they know and recognize. Multimedia outreach — photos, videos, infographics, etc. —

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 14, 2011

Without an explicit "I" voice, the museum's perspective on humanity is oblique to say the least. I was really impressed by the diversity of artifacts in Welcome to Pine Point --from yearbook photos to VFW badges to video and photos from the 1980s and today. The subjective "I" voice of Michael drives the whole story.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 28, 2013

Ideal for mobile social media managers, VoiceTexter is an iPhone app that instantly transcribes your voice messages. Vinepeek gives you a glimpse of Vine’s potential for visual storytelling. It provides engagement data about your photos, likes, follower growth, as well as when is the best and worst time to post.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 8, 2013

99 app allows you to easily create panoramic photos on your smartphone. This is a must-buy app if your nonprofit regularly tells your story through mobile photo-sharing. Animoto enables users to turn their photos, video clips, and music into videos that can be uploaded to YouTube and shared on the Social Web.

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NTEN

MAY 27, 2010

All this inspired by a single woman who had a breast cancer diagnosis and took one photo of herself holding a package of frozen peas on her chest. ThePort, Ning) Multimedia content sharing is a powerful tool for storytelling, providing content that is easy to share and embed. You see something like that and ask "Hey!

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Have Fun - Do Good

SEPTEMBER 26, 2008

Art in Action provides a supportive, positive place for young leaders to cultivate leadership through dance, theater, music, spoken word/poetry, painting, storytelling, and media arts." Our mission is to strengthen the voice of activist artists - 'Artivists' - while raising public awareness for social global causes."

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 27, 2012

99 app allows you to easily create panoramic photos on your smartphone. This is a must-buy app if your nonprofit regularly tells your story through mobile photo-sharing. Animoto enables users to turn their photos, video clips, and music into videos that can be uploaded to YouTube and shared on the Social Web.

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Neon CRM

JULY 5, 2023

Harnessing the power of AI to generate or enhance content can help you create compelling posts while maintaining your unique voice and style. Artificial intelligence, because it’s not human, doesn’t get that same benefit. Storytelling campaigns: This type of campaign depends on user-generated content.

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Connection Cafe

DECEMBER 22, 2013

From #batkid to #GivingTuesday, the Next Generation of American Giving to Content Marketing for Nonprofits , storytelling to social fundraising, retention rates to relationship building, the roundup below covers it all (and everything in between). million tweets and 914,000 photos shared, the Movember movement did something right.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 27, 2012

99 app allows you to easily create panoramic photos on your smartphone. This is a must-buy app if your nonprofit regularly tells your story through mobile photo-sharing. FotoFlexer is a free Web-based photo-editing tool that allows you to cut, crop, resize, and embed text and logos onto your photos. It is a must download!

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The Modern Nonprofit

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

Don’t make these storytelling mistakes. Release profile photos & banner images, social feed photos, Facebook/Instagram story images/GIFS. If you’re not sure where to start, check out our post on where to find good free stock photos and free image editing tools you can use. Do include visuals and a video.

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The Modern Nonprofit

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

Don’t make these storytelling mistakes. Release profile photos & banner images, social feed photos, Facebook/Instagram story images/GIFS. If you’re not sure where to start, check out our post on where to find good free stock photos and free image editing tools you can use. Do include visuals and a video.

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Nonprofits Source

OCTOBER 11, 2017

Storytelling is good, but no one likes to read a paragraph where a single sentence would do. The benefit of doing this is to shape the headline around the content itself so I don’t get trapped into forcing a narrative around a 70 character sentence. This is both good for the reader and for you as it forces the idea to be concise.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

Squared is a service that enables Instagrammers to print their favorite Instagram photos or convert them into magnets and posters. SnapWidget allows you to display your Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram photos in collage format on your website or blog. Paper is a mobile app for organizing notes, photos, and sketches.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 13, 2018

Squared is a service that enables Instagrammers to print their favorite Instagram photos or convert them into magnets and posters. Snappa is a simple-to-use graphic design tool with a built-in stock photo, illustration, and icons library. Photo Editing. Squared :: squared.one. Ideal for staff and volunteer appreciation.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 2, 2017

Sticky 9 is a service that enables Instagrammers to print their favorite Instagram photos or convert them into magnets and posters. Snappa is a simple-to-use graphics design tool with a built-in stock photo, illustration, and icons library. Photo Editing. Sticky 9 :: sticky9.com. Ideal for staff and volunteer appreciation.

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