Get Fully Funded

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

A photo accompanied by a concise story or a short video with an attention-grabbing headline should be right there to introduce your visitor to the essence of your organization’s work. If you can create a short video, even better. Keep the video to about 30 seconds or less. Remember, you have 10 seconds!).

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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. You can then make each testimonial a piece of content for your social channels by quoting the best parts in an image.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 23, 2013

The genre of cat videos has grown so much that the Walker Art Center initiated the Internet Cat Video Festival , curated by a “cat video curator.” ” This summer, it sparked news headlines worldwide, attracted a crowd of 10,000 people—some in costumes, others with feline companions, all cat lovers.

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Classy

MAY 25, 2021

On Classy, you can effortlessly maintain brand consistency by enabling domain-masking, plugging in photos or video, customizing your messaging, and elevating your email receipts with a unique headline, background image, and thank you note. Deliver Your Form on Multiple Channels. Check out how the Eat.Learn.Play.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

FEBRUARY 26, 2008

Miro is basically a video player, which can recognize RSS feeds, and automatically download videos. There are channels for everything. PBS has quite a number, as do various and sundry video podcasters. It can download videos via Bittorrent as well. It can download videos via Bittorrent as well.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 7, 2014

Create Once, Publish Everywhere: This tip is a nod to the need to use multiple channels – email, web site, offline, mobile and social. It is also important to say thanks after the event as part of a wrap and lots of folks use videos. You want to make sure to capture those.

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Whole Whale

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

This engineering insight became his headline: “At 60 miles an hour the loudest noise in a Rolls-Royce comes from the electric clock.” Put a human face on the cause through case studies, testimonials, and videos. Focus on optimizing donation channels for mobile. This helps show the mission’s importance.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 11, 2014

There seems to be a new social media tool or channel every week. When you first open Paper, you're greeted with a short video and some instructions on how to set up the app. I added "Headlines," "Tech," "Equality," and a few others. So what does Facebook Paper mean to nonprofits?

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 19, 2017

Email is re-emerging as a communications channel that is new and powerful again. If we've learned anything in the past few years, it's that graphics and video make a huge difference in engagement, shares, and response rates. Write less lengthy copy and better headlines. Embed a video to present a call to action.

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Care2

AUGUST 22, 2013

Share a story, donate money, sign up for a contest, watch a video, etc.). Create a content calendar for the month including the target publish date, channel (Website, Facebook, Twitter, etc) topic or related initiative, call-to-action, and the staff person responsible for producing each piece of content for the month. Lists Post (e.g.

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Get Fully Funded

DECEMBER 4, 2022

There are plenty of ordinary happenings that can grab a headline, such as your nonprofit’s annual student art contest or upcoming 5K. Draft your pitch as an email with the subject as the headline you would like to see. Start with a headline that summarizes your news. Include 1 – 3 photos and a short video, if you have one.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 1, 2015

Voices are constantly peppering you with how to simplify your donation form, employ stronger calls to action, and use headlines that even a 15-year-old playing a video game wouldn't be able to ignore. Watch a video (could be a training or story of impact in the community). Watch a video. Subscribe to your channel.

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Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 12, 2021

Thinking of shopping, maybe before the end of the year, all kinds of videos and stuff that you can check out. And that can be written, videos, photos, audio, there’s a lot of ways to tell a story and it’s okay to take the same story and retell it in all of these ways. Maybe you need to make a video about that story.

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Connection Cafe

DECEMBER 1, 2017

When visitors reach your landing page there are certain things they must see in order to be prompted to give you their email address: The headline on your landing page should match the ad or post it’s linked to, otherwise people will be confused as to why they’ve reached that page in the first place. Keep them short. CTA buttons.

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Connection Cafe

FEBRUARY 3, 2009

I had the pleasure of sitting in on the DMA 2009 Washington Nonprofit Conference session titled "New Media Channels — Adding Text Messaging, Social Networks and Media to the Marketing Mix" last Friday. PS – the video is about 9 minutes long, as it was all so good, I didn’t know where or what to cut.

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Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

So people right now are on WhatsApp and we can use it as a way to start a new channel of conversation with people that is complimentary to how we already communicate with volunteers, with donors, with, you know, our support base. So people are using WhatsApp all the time for different purposes. So why do people love WhatsApp? Audios, files.

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 28, 2021

You can go on our website, learn all about us, watch videos, pretty easy to find. Nancy says, “We do a gratitude month in November with video shares from our community that listen to a grateful give Tuesday.” You need to have multiple giving channels with the same theme and branding. It’s telling your donors.

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CauseVox

MAY 11, 2021

On social media, algorithms dictate which posts show up on a user’s feed in which order, and which videos to play, based on viewing history and likelihood to watch the next video, and so on. Visuals are imperative on social media channels. They are more important than text in most cases. Pique Curiosity.

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Pamela Grow

DECEMBER 14, 2023

Make your storytelling more emotional by using the following techniques: Include direct quotes or video interviews of your story’s protagonists. Including direct quotes or video clips of the protagonist speaking about their experiences can make your storytelling much more emotional and moving. Incorporate multimedia elements.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 17, 2007

" So, does it make sense to roll your own network to appeal to those 85% of existing donors who do not participate on social networking sites, but may be engaged with the organization through other channels like email, face-to-face, or web site forums? Check out the introduction video for more.

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Nonprofits Source

NOVEMBER 3, 2017

Over the years these terms have evolved to fit the adoption of new marketing channels. One nonprofit used online channels to surpass their year-end fundraising goals. Images, videos, interactive and immersive content are also key to keeping visitors engaged on your site. Author: Who is responsible for publishing the article.

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Qgiv

MAY 11, 2021

Google lets you write three headlines and two descriptions for each ad. However, each headline can only be up to 30 characters, and each description is only up to 90 characters. When writing your headlines, you’ll want to keep in mind that the order you write them in may not be the order they’re displayed in.

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Get Fully Funded

AUGUST 1, 2022

Include your most popular social media channels at the bottom of your newsletter. Use headlines to let the reader know what to expect in each section. Use graphics, charts, photos, and video to break up the text and give the reader some eye candy. Social media links. What should be left out. Good images.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 24, 2014

Yes, it is the opposite of longform content – reports, books, slidedecks, articles – and even blog posts. Micro-content is optimized for social media channels and sharing. The e-book covers examples of micro-content on different social media platforms and channels, pretty much the usual suspects.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 5, 2014

Social channels are also used to continue to cultivate and engage with the donor to retain them. Perhaps your nonprofit has been growing its network on social media platforms and you have the opportunity to activate new supporters through your Facebook, Twitter, and social channels. Or you can borrow some ideas from Hollywood.

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 23, 2017

Episodic donors give to nonprofits in response to disasters and tragic events, viral campaigns, and in reaction to the latest headlines. Every single major disaster or incident since then demonstrates that the Internet is a first response channel of choice for donors. One dynamic area for acquiring new donors is from episodic giving.

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Connection Cafe

MARCH 22, 2017

Would these so called “slacktivists” ever do more than like a video or share a link and then feel like they had done enough? Every single major disaster or incident since then demonstrates that the Internet is a first response channel of choice for donors. Today, we now know the answer is: Yes.

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 21, 2017

Fast forward several years— more nonprofits are now using digital channels to engage with donors, but there is still resistance (or maybe it’s a lack of understanding) to incorporating and building a major gifts strategy online. Video Stories. Videos from leadership and recipients. It’s important to keep content consumable.

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Whole Whale

JUNE 5, 2020

Note, Super chat is only available to channels that have monetization and are over the age of 18, in eligible locations. This event was headlined by a collection of awesome comedians who came together to produce a massive telethon that was ultimately able to raise thousands of dollars. It’s a win-win-win for a great cause!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 16, 2010

Maine Health Access Foundation did an experiment on Facebook , including it in its channel to promote a funding opportunity but also posted the initial letters of inquiry on their Facebook page to get feedback. And, a symphony orchestra, made headlines when they crowdsourced musician auditions for the Youtube Symphony orchestra.

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Neon CRM

JULY 14, 2023

They’ve also shared thousands of pages, videos, social media comments, blog posts, and white papers discussing relief efforts and their own initiatives. Headline: Create a clear, compelling headline that covers the most important aspect of your message. Thought leadership content should be authoritative, engaging, and unique.

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Have Fun - Do Good

NOVEMBER 17, 2010

World Pulse is really at a point where we've demonstrated proof of concept, and we've tested all of our media channels over the years. All our media channels work together in a design to lift women's voices from the ground to drive change. We unite those voices to accelerate change. That's a great question and it's very true.

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Connection Cafe

DECEMBER 22, 2013

bonus: she includes video and slides}. In this blog series by Nancy Schwartz - Connect First- Your Marketing Magic Bullet (Part One) and Content, THEN Channels, Follows Connections (Part Two) – she answers the question she hears most often: what is the marketing magic bullet? And you have to tell them well. Connections.

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Nonprofits Source

AUGUST 31, 2022

These layouts also prioritize showing the most important elements of the page, like the headline of a blog post, at the top rather than decorative elements. Media like videos and GIFs can help convey messaging through a more interactive and engaging channel. That’s where more creative, dynamic media comes in.

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