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HOW TO: Launch a Broadcast “TV” Channel for Your Nonprofit

Nonprofit Tech for Good

The current technology of live-streaming on the Web has been around for a few years, but only recently with the launch of smartphone Apps that convert phones into video cameras and social media integration, has the technology started to reach mass adoption by Web users ( its up 600% in the last year !). For example, www.ustream.tv/user/nonprofitorgs.

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HOW TO: Create Videos for Your Nonprofit Without a Video Camera, a Budget of $0, and Little-to-No Tech Skills

Nonprofit Tech for Good

A couple of things to notice: 1) People can “Share&# your videos on Facebook, Twitter, MySpace and via E-mail with one-click. Tags: Animoto Facebook Online Video. To prove how easy Animoto is to use, as I was writing this blog post I created a video about our new kittens that can be viewed on my Animoto profile: [link].

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Social Media Usage Guidelines: Don't moon people with cameras (or at least hide your face when you do)

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Yesterday, I attended a webinar about social media policies called " E-Privacy: Can You Legally Monitor MySpace, LinkedIn, E-mail, & Blogs? I did some additional research on Facebook to look at how different nonprofit people fill out their individual profiles. Source: www.facetime.com/survey08/summary/. Brownstone, Esq.

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10 Twitter Apps for Nonprofits

Nonprofit Tech for Good

12seconds : 12seconds allows users to easily record videos with your laptop camera or cellphone, and then upload them to your 12 seconds video channel in order to easily post them to Twitter. After you record a message, you are given a URL for the message that you can post on Twitter, Facebook, MySpace, etc.

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Kentucky Nonprofit Workshop on Web 2.0: Slides, Reflections, and Notes

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

That's a video blog post I did to demonstrate how a simple technique for creating effective videos using your cell phone or digital camera and placing it one the web, in this example, on YouTube. That is, it takes more than just throwing up a blog or myspace profile or start twittering to make this work.

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The Flickr Hold A Sign Meme: Protesting Wendy's Frosty Attitude Towards Animals

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Today, I happened to see HSUS that staffer Carrie Lewis posted a note on her profile and it showed up on my friends feed on Facebook. The text of the Facebook note is below in case you want to take action.) I'm assuming the messaging on Facebook is slightly different from that on other networks or via email. It's so easy.

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Internet Strategy on the Cheap: Tools and Resources

Have Fun - Do Good

[link] Opuzz [link] FreeAudioClips.com [link] FlashKit [link] Creative Commons’ OWL Music Search [link] Photo Sharing Flickr [link] Flickr for Good [link] Video Sharing Platforms YouTube [link] YouTube Nonprofit Program [link] DoGooderTV [link] Google Video [link] blip.tv [link] Video Camera Flip [link] $130-180 Social Networks Facebook [link] MySpace (..)

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