Tech Soup

MARCH 29, 2016

Topics include the latest storytelling tools, fundraising strategies, and a video 101 seminar. San Francisco, California: Nonprofits and Storytelling: How to Create Social Impact, First-Person Stories. Saint Paul, Minnesota: Video and Photography 101. Looking for inspiration or hands-on help with your digital storytelling?

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ASU Lodestar Center

APRIL 15, 2020

Millions of videos are watched online every day. After a video of koala being rescued from an Australian brush fire went viral, donations to the animal hospital caring for injured koalas saw an influx of donations. If photos and messaging do not line up nonprofits run the risk of donors becoming confused and leaving the website.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 3, 2013

Coordinated Universal time Topic: Instagram photo contests. San Francisco, California, Unitied States 10:00 a.m. Check out this how-to in TechSoup's Nonprofit Social Media 101 Wiki and watch the video below. Please visit the site to view this video). Naples, Florida, United States 11:00 a.m. Eastern time / 1:00 p.m.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 27, 2013

Adobe : Adobe products aren’t just for creative professionals — with a little know-how you too can make powerful digital images and videos. Use Adobe's Photoshop CS6 or Photoshop Elements to refine photos or create motion graphics. Flickr Pro gives you unlimited photo and video uploads and storage.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 7, 2013

” Unfortunately, I could make it to Thailand, so I presented and lead a discussion remotely using Google Hangouts from California. We used Google Hangout because they found it was more robust for video, audio, and screen sharing in that remote location. Photo by Be Chandra. Format: Our session was 90 minutes.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 2, 2014

15 groups held live events which helped drive video submissions to the contest and allowed TechSoup to reach more NGOs with educational opportunities. San Francisco, California: Code for America Civic Hack Night (weekly). San Francisco, California: Let’s Help 826 Valencia Launch Their Tenderloin Location! NPTech Social.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 2, 2010

Flickr Photo by WiserEarth - WiserEarth's team from Around the World play Peek-A-Boo With Book. The photo above shows WiserEarth ’s team from around the world in the Bay Area during break from a staff retreat reading the Networked Nonprofit. Photo by KK. Flickr Photo by KK. Flickr Photo by James Leventhal.

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Tech Soup

MAY 23, 2014

To stop the growing problem of smartphone theft, a state senator in California has introduced a bill that would mandates manufacturers to sell devices with built-in kill switches. Weirdly, in California, there was some resistance to the bill by a domestic violence nonprofit. Any mobile news catch your eye this month?

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JUNE 24, 2021

You can also create a branded registration page for your website that includes a welcome video, photos of people having a great time at past events, a branded header, your logo, and all event details. You can create a photo booth for auction winners to take a picture with their prizes to post on social media.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 30, 2015

Plus, we wanted to share all the winners in one video, created with Adobe Voice, a free tool from Adobe. Enjoy the video, and thanks for all the creativity shared by the nonprofits that participated in our contest. Photoshop helped to clean up the photos and make the gold number 15 really pop. Check out their submissions below.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 15, 2012

For example, younger donors may prefer to see the impact of their donations through photos on Instagram or short 15-second Viddy videos, while older members enjoy data-driven blog posts, white papers or podcasts. Order your Social Branding Blueprint now and receive an extra online access pass FREE to give to a non-profit colleague.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MAY 2, 2012

The event was hosted by Google on its campus in Mountain View, California, which is home to some of the most cutting edge technologists in the world. During the party we had a surprise video message from Stevie Wonder, a long-time Bookshare member who told us that he is using Read2Go to read accessible books from the Bookshare library. “I

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 3, 2009

I am enjoying the weekly Farmer's Markets in California. 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.

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 20, 2021

There are all kinds of great videos, case studies you can dive into and kind of get to know us a little bit more. . They have someone that goes out to take photos, learn stories. This is a stock photo. The video alone brought us to tears. We’re a donor database. That’s what Bloomerang is. Visit our website.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 6, 2012

Let's meet the folks who will decide which one-minute videos and five-photo slide shows take home these excellent award donations from our generous partners. Aaron's favorite cause-related video: (Please visit the site to view this video). He also blogs at davidleeking.com , and loves making video!

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 8, 2014

For the past decade, she has been running her own mortgage business, which lends in California, Washington, and Oregon. He also founded the Positive Light project, a crowdsourced and crowdfunded photography project and coffee table photo book that is changing the way the world sees Bangladesh. Mikey Leung. Bailey Rosser.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 19, 2022

TikTok: There is a lot of pressure right now to create (time-consuming) long-form videos for TikTok (and Instagram Reels), but only experiment if you have 3-10 hours per week and staff that are comfortable on camera. Give your website a quick refresh with new photos, feature stories, and an updated right bar. 55+ Templates and Canva ).

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 3, 2020

Ensure that when potential new followers land on your Facebook Page, the design of your cover photo and your avatar is visually compelling. That said, in addition to posting a thank you message and photo, your nonprofits could also post a link to an opt-in for your fundraisers to capture their contact information.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 26, 2013

He told me to go back to California and not to neglect my family or work. The last good photo we took together was as “selfie,” although in 1963 we took one together using his Minox camera. He was interested in my work used to say, “My daughter the blogger.” ” He wanted to learn how to blog.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JUNE 25, 2018

This actually matters when it comes to stakeholder engagement because it has been shown that while photos receive more engagement than videos, external links, or plain text, and longer posts have more impact than shorter posts. Another thing to consider is balance.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 10, 2009

video [link] MJRovner @ kanter talk to Greenpeace USA -- Marie Michelson -- "online to on the ground" program What are your best tips and practices for activating the activists offline? Give them a wide range (in terms of difficulty) of activities to do offline.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 19, 2013

In this case, we simply found out that San Pablo, California-based nonprofit Reliatech had tried out the application all on their own. The server has four GForce 7600 video cards installed; each card runs two monitors. He mentioned that it takes a robust desktop computer with enough PCI slots to accommodate the extra video cards.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 13, 2012

The organization has a staff of 40 across three offices (Washington DC, New York City, and Oakland, California). With a distributed global staff, we depend on things like Skype video chat to reduce travel. We have weekly global Skype video calls for various teams. An example is 350 Mexico. For file sharing we use Box.net.

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Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 23, 2007

I've also created lists of environmental and other nonprofits using blogs, podcasts, videos, Flickr and MySpace along with some resources to create your own blog, podcast or video. feed * Starbucks Challenge Map * Starbucks Challenge photos tagged on Flickr NONPROFIT CAMPAIGNS USING MULTIPLE SOCIAL WEB TOOLS ONE Campaign.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 22, 2007

The video above is a thank you message from the President of Oxfam and an Ethiopian farmer. One of the campaigners was working with Ethiopian bloggers and asked them to embed the video on their sites, which they did. Then they sent an email to Oxfam's supporters and asked them to look at the video and comment. Pretty cool stuff.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 26, 2007

photo of Lucy Bernholz live blogging during the Northern California Grantmakers Briefing. Photo in flickr from Community Technology Foundation. Northern California Grantmakers Briefing called From YouTube to Podcast: Digital Media, Philthanthropy, and Social Justice was live blogged by Lucy Bernholz here. Need a chuckle?

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Tech Soup

APRIL 13, 2012

Washington DC, New York City, and Oakland, California). With a distributed global staff, we depend on things like Skype video chat to reduce travel. We have weekly global Skype video calls for various teams. More than 19,000 citizen generated photos and videos, and posted them onto the Internet.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 17, 2014

Here are some of the things it currently does: It takes photos and videos by voice command and can upload them to the web. It also makes phone and video calls. I had a chance to meet Mark Godwin and Dr. Neesheet Parikh who have started a Santa Clara, California-based company called Wear MD. Wearables for Good.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 25, 2010

Photo: Jim Harrison. We basically pulled our entry together in three weeks – editing down an existing video to the required 90 seconds, drafting the content, selecting the photos, and submitting the entry. Here's my analysis. Pepsi decided to give away their Super Bowl ad budget and instead give away $1.3

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 11, 2010

Flickr Photo by Sugarpond. Note from Beth: Last month I had the pleasure of presenting on a panel at Association of California Orchestras with Marc van Bree , an arts and social media blogger I met in 2007. After Marc finished reading the Networked Nonprofit , he was curious about crowdfunding and free agents, chapters in our book.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 16, 2015

During the last several years, TechSoup's Storymakers project has been focused on highlighting the most compelling nonprofit videos. In 2016, video will continue to be the most interesting media on the Internet. If we want to get our story out there in a form that will get attention, videos are the ticket.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 9, 2009

For example, note their call to action right on the YouTube video. ACLU-Northern California: They are recruiting for a social media intern on Facebook. Photo by Nelson Layag. For example, one of the organizations all of sudden had a famous rap star alumni who made YouTube videos for the organization's campaign.

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CauseVox

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

Oak Hill School of California Trivia Night Fundraiser. One of the best parts of No Shave November is that it’s inherently virtual: your participants take part by individually participating, then sharing photos and making donations. Your nonprofit would then be responsible for promoting the event and recruiting teams. GivingTuesday.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 22, 2009

AARP California Twitter Account Last week at the WeAreMedia Workshop, someone asked a question about babyboomers and social media use. I told the story about posting a video interview with my dad (who was 86 at the time) on YouTube about his first blog post and how I discovered a community of "older" people using YouTube.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 25, 2013

See this short video on using this methodology in QuickBooks with a sample nonprofit organization. Photo: GenBug. This, as explained above, is very important information to many readers of the financial statements. SUGGESTED METHOD #2. You can contact Mark McCallick at markm@mac-cpa.biz or markm@nonprofit-connect.com.

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Socialbrite

JANUARY 29, 2023

This might include photos, videos, infographics, or other types of media that help to tell your organization’s story. Kevin Xu is the CEO of MEBO International, a California- and Beijing-based intellectual property management company specializing in applied health systems. million in an effort to combat food insecurity.

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Care2

JUNE 13, 2009

57) Mobile (15) Nonprofit Benchmark Studies (15) Nonprofit Events (36) nptech (8) Online Advertising (5) Online Advocacy (47) Online Fundraising (97) Online Marketing (59) Online Organizing (32) SEO (3) Social Networking (109) Technology (31) Trends (51) Video (27) Volunteering (2) Web 2.0 (60) Guess what the results were?

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