Amy Sample Ward

JULY 8, 2009

" Facebook Users Are Getting Older. Much Older. - "Analytics company iStrategyLabs has examined the demographics stats from Facebook (Facebook)’s Social Ads platform, and they’ve reached some very interesting conclusions. Facebook’s userbase, as a whole, is getting much older very fast."

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Qgiv

MAY 5, 2021

It couldn’t be done without professional (and expensive) camera equipment —and a tech-savvy cameraperson and editor to boot—so we had to pick our video topics wisely. If no one at your nonprofit is comfortable being on camera, never fear! We’ll share some tools down below). Tools for Livestreaming. Get animated.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 14, 2014

Being behind the camera takes confidence and a familiarity with digital equipment. Quite often when working in an e-newsletter publishing tool or with a blogging platform, you’ll need to go into the HTML view to tweak fonts, page layout, and image sizes. Multitasking. It’s rare that any web-based activity lasts longer than 30 minutes.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 14, 2010

They may not even know the tools exist. Once you start browsing around and experimenting, you’ll quickly come to realize that there are a phenominal number of free Twitter tools now available to nonprofits – that can also be used to improve website, e-newsletter, blogging, and social media campaigns. Bit.ly : Bit.ly

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Neon CRM

JULY 13, 2023

Go Live Most social media platforms (such as Instagram, Facebook, YouTube, and TikTok) offer the ability to do a live broadcast. It doesn’t have to be a well-produced live broadcast; someone on your team talking to the camera will do. Then, thank them for their work and invite others to get involved!

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Greater Giving

MARCH 4, 2021

They will be used as promotional tools and bring depth to the event presentation. Host – Your host, or master of ceremonies, must be able to work well on camera and in a digital world. Facebook is a good place to start. Additionally, Facebook and other social platforms offer special services for nonprofits.

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AccelEvents

AUGUST 14, 2020

This obviously means cameras, lights, microphones, projection screens, and projection capabilities. . Using a tool like Accelevents , you can seamlessly manage all ticketing and registration while facilitating participation and networking across physical and virtual sessions. . But it also means a virtual events platform.

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Qgiv

JULY 27, 2021

Do a survey, do a poll, do a Facebook Live, call people on the phone, do a focus group. If you’re on Facebook, you have to constantly do research–they’re constantly making changes–content creation, community management, and measurement. Stop looking at Facebook as an ATM. Also you can ask your audience!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 27, 2010

I couldn’t help but think – what if Joe Page or other community foundation board members had flip cameras, some video and story telling training and shared their stories on the Alaska Community Foundation Facebook page? Shoot close to your subject so the audio doesn’t suck especially when using a camera with built-in mic.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 6, 2007

I've also added the pink ribbon to my Facebook profile. Facebook The Non-Profits on Facebook Group is for those who work for, belong to, or support nonprofits on Facebook. Why not join, upload your logo in the photo pool, and write a wall post promoting your latest your Facebook project! more about it here.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 13, 2015

Like all new tools there is a learning curve, but for nonprofit social media managers that spend a good portion of the their time on social and mobile media, Periscope is intuitive, easy to use, and a welcome break from the daily routine of posting, tweeting, sharing – repeat. Show the Periscoper.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 3, 2011

In December, we launched the The Zoetica Salon on my Facebook Page with my Zoetica colleagues, Geoff Livingston , Kami Huyse , and Julie Pippert (the newest Zoetican ) where almost 8,000 nonprofit folks have been engaging in informal learning about nonprofits and social media. I used it analyze the Facebook page.

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 12, 2009

When I talk with organizations about how they are using social media tools to engage online, whether they’ve already started or not, I find that the most common approach is to set up that Facebook group, add a blog to the website, or even set up a wiki for an event. But that’s it.

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AccelEvents

JUNE 25, 2020

Social media platforms like Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, and LinkedIn, are powerful marketing tools and they present a number of ways that your event can generate event brand recognition and excitement. This person direct camera placement, lighting, and the optimal audio set up. Social Media Moderator.

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NetWits

MARCH 31, 2011

He worked at the American Cancer Society (ACS) for 9 years directing their web and interactive strategy. Since then he’s gone on to start a non-profit focused on helping other non-profits tell stories through video ( Lights. David an I talk about his new startup HelpAttack!

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Twenti - Digital Marketing For Nonprofits

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

To help you cover as many bases as possible, we’ve chosen the top five social media platforms by audience size: Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, LinkedIn and Twitter. Facebook is the largest and most popular social media platform of our day, so where better to start? When posting on Facebook, it’s vital to avoid lengthy posts.

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Twenti - Digital Marketing For Nonprofits

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

To help you cover as many bases as possible, we’ve chosen the top five social media platforms by audience size: Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, LinkedIn and Twitter. Facebook is the largest and most popular social media platform of our day, so where better to start? When posting on Facebook, it’s vital to avoid lengthy posts.

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Tech Soup

MAY 19, 2011

A topic covered in its Nonprofit Social Media 101 wiki , video can be a powerful tool for. While video is an effective medium, the perceived costs of equipment and editing tools coupled with the question of what will. Week three of TechSoup's Social Media Mondays in May focused on use of video for nonprofits and libraries.

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Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 17, 2008

We've compiled a list of Tools and Resources to share with participants, and thought that you might enjoy seeing it as well. Tomorrow, October 18th, Eric Leland of Leland Design , and I will be presenting about, "Internet Strategy on the Cheap" at the San Francisco Bay Area Nonprofit Boot Camp.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JANUARY 26, 2012

Besides a website, the musts of nonprofit social media include a Facebook page and Twitter account. The Facebook and Twitter pages had already been set up, but they were scarcely used. Within a year, both the Facebook and Twitter followers more than doubled, and engagement increased almost 300%.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 8, 2010

The other day, Matt Sharp shared this link to a social media policy generator called the Social Media Policy Tool. You could do your organization a disservice if you think that the written policy that results from this tool is your final product. The social media policy tool helps you with part of the of step 1. .

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Non Profit Quarterly

DECEMBER 14, 2021

I would say that we made the best use that we could of the tools that we had,” she said, “but I’d say about 10% of our volunteers are not tech savvy and so they got left behind.”. Sure, there are tools out there, Google Translate and the like, but they are not yet robust enough to replace human interpreters and translators.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 4, 2014

In our recent webinar on super-short videos , we heard from digital storytelling experts about how nonprofits and libraries can use these tools to easily make their own super-short videos. You can also share Instagram videos on Facebook, Twitter, and other channels. Vine is the other popular short video tool.

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AccelEvents

JUNE 25, 2020

Social media platforms like Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, and LinkedIn, are powerful marketing tools and they present a number of ways that your event can generate event brand recognition and excitement. This person direct camera placement, lighting, and the optimal audio set up. Social Media Moderator.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 14, 2011

The project was lucky enough to receive a donation from Cisco of FLIP cameras and I think the most fun I had creating curriculum was the one above on storytelling and making simple and effective content for NGOs. The Facebook page was developed during one of the E-Mediat training workshop s, along their social media strategic plan.

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Achieve

JULY 2, 2019

If you can only focus on one channel, I’d pick Facebook for its advanced advertising capabilities and. Between the visual storytelling opportunities, real time update capabilities, almost all of the same advertising options as Facebook, and 1 billion active monthly users* – Instagram is a no brainer to me. Facebook Donation Account.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 19, 2022

First, organic reach is at an all-time low and the value and effectiveness of social media advertising is questionable : Facebook: 2.9 Are you raising funds using Facebook & Instagram Fundraising Tools ? If the tools are performing for your nonprofit, then keep at it in 2023. 6) Embrace Instagram Fundraising Tools.

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AccelEvents

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

But, with a virtual event solution and the right technology tools, you can make each participant feel like they are attending and meeting in-person. . To help you get started, we’ve created this list of the 7 best virtual event technology tools. 7 Best Virtual Event Technology Tools. Facebook Live. Your options include:

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 23, 2012

A staff member began experimenting with using Facebook to reach out about events and opportunities. “We Let’s see, now we do Facebook, Twitter and a YouTube channel, and we guest blog for the local Patch (community news website),” she said. “It Facebook was an immediate channel to keep people up-to-date.”.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 31, 2012

We learn to use mobile production tools, cooperative social sites for group curation and unique filesharing services like Dropbox , Skype along with new tools like Instagram, WeVideo , Stroome and many new apps to edit our captured video and photos for story creation. A regular contributor to PBS MediaShift Idea Lab, Tom.

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Amy Sample Ward

OCTOBER 14, 2009

How can we and how are we using social media tools for social change? “Social media is a storytelling tool, it’s let voices effected by climate change be heard around the world&# (@ amysampleward ). Social media is still the tool or the medium, not the change or the action. Lesson #3: Local vs Global.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 25, 2013

Also, make sure to follow TechSoup's Online Community Coordinator, Alexandra Bezdikian, as she tests the digital storytelling tools of the trade. CoverItLive is the go-to liveblogging tool for journalists all over the world. You can add filters and effects to your photos and share them with Twitter or Facebook.

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Care2

NOVEMBER 18, 2011

You'll now have access to see what kind of mobile device, and even click a camera icon to see how your site appears on their particular device. Google Analytics reported that people have shared that they've had difficulties using traditional path analysis tools. This tool enables users to see a "Visitors Flow" and a "Goal Flow.".

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Tech Soup

MARCH 29, 2016

We also have a contest in which we're giving away US$7,000 in cash prizes and a new camera (but don't be afraid to start with the cell phone in your pocket!). Topics include the latest storytelling tools, fundraising strategies, and a video 101 seminar. Portland, Oregon: Websites as Storytelling Tools: A Case Study.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 2, 2015

So when a new digital storytelling tool comes along, we jump at the chance to test it out. Before you get started, you'll need to sign up for a new account, either with Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, or email. The next icon in the tool bar is a plus sign, which you press to make a new story. Creating a Story with Steller.

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Get Fully Funded

JULY 4, 2022

Your email tool can help you clarify the best day and time to send the email and sending it from a person always gets better results that sending it from an organization, which is too impersonal. You need a strong photo, preferably of a person or animal looking directly into the camera. Did you specify what you need money for?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 13, 2012

Some of the tools needed to do this work are obvious: a camera, microphone, headphones, tripod, laptop, and maybe a light. As an independent producer, I can tell you that these are merely a fraction of the tools that one needs in order to properly document and later tell a story. Now, fast forward to 2012.

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