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Video Rules: Getting Started With the New Facebook Live

Byte Technology

But now social media giant Facebook has put this exciting tool into the hands of anyone and everyone via their site, giving users the ability to broadcast videos to a worldwide audience with a couple button taps. For most of those on Facebook Live, a plan involves multiple broadcasts and, hopefully, returning views. Start small.

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How Nonprofits Can Use Behavioral Science to Engage Supporters on Social Media

Nonprofit Tech for Good

A popular medium of choice, Facebook facilitates conversations and interactions among supporters in the comments section, allowing them to feel a sense of community virtually. Broadcasting supporters’ actions to their social network matters because of the human desire to belong and to present our best selves to people we care about.

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Using Facebook Live as a Fundraising Tool

Volunteer Hub

Nonprofits can create content and see who is viewing their broadcast at the same time. This allows nonprofits to speak directly to their audience, and address comments instantly. A great benefit of Facebook live is the personalization capabilities that the platform offers.

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11 Tips to Get Your Nonprofit Live on Facebook

NonProfit Hub

This (relatively) new live broadcasting feature lets any person, brand, or nonprofit live-stream events, reveals, celebrations, and more. The Humane Society, The White House, the MET, and many smaller nonprofits are broadcasting news-as-it-happens, museum tours, and even feeding time for baby raccoons ! How long should we broadcast?

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5 Ways to Gain The Upper Hand in Facebook’s Newsfeed

Connection Cafe

So they test and tweak. Facebook recently announced a test in Sri Lanka, Bolivia, Slovakia, Serbia, Guatemala, and Cambodia. Users in these countries can only see Page posts that their friends comment on or share. Facebook says they have no current plans to test this feature in other countries.

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What we can learn from the Haitian Earthquake

NCE Social Media

Do they pass the sniff test? It is how some of the major charities providing relief and news outlets are broadcasting their stories and information. Please feel free to share your feelings on this in our comments section. Are the decisions you are making now up to ethical standards? Wyclef Jean discussing Yele.

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Community Technology Alliance: Helping Address Homelessness with Mobile Technology

Tech Soup

" The CTA is also working in partnership with the Frugal Innovation Lab at Santa Clara University to design, test, and market a text messaging service for the homeless. The service will essentially broadcast shelter, food, and employment information to those who sign up for it. " scoffed one anonymous commenter.