Candid

JUNE 7, 2023

For example, our preference for video content rings true. Experts say that Gen Z: Wants to see impact through storytelling, primarily through social media videos. Has a shorter attention span, which requires content that is skimmable. Prioritize shareable content. Invest in Instagram.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 7, 2012

If your nonprofit has yet to start a blog or already blogs but struggles with ideas for fresh content, then hopefully the 11 blog content ideas listed below will help. Still, understand that the more good, high-quality content your nonprofit blog publishes, the higher your ROI. That said, mix it up! A first-person voice is best.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 14, 2018

Using a tool like Animato can make it easy for your nonprofit to create DYI videos, but to be successful you need to develop a strategy and use compelling storytelling. Mark Zuckerberg’s recently announced that Facebook’s News Feed will be veering away from branded content to prioritize content posted by personal accounts.

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Forum One

APRIL 28, 2010

I also had the privilege of speaking on another Online Storytelling panel with Roger Burks and Jay Davis. This live session rounded out our Online Storytelling Bootcamp webinar series with a focus on how to create a culture of storytelling within one's organization. Let's face it, this content doesn't come out of thin air.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 14, 2014

GivingTuesday is an excellent opportunity to use storytelling to draw in new and existing donors and supporters of your cause, on December 2 and beyond. You can drive social media to your blog as well, where you can post more substantial content within your updates , such as interviews, photo galleries, Q&As, and more.

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Connection Cafe

MARCH 26, 2020

Preparation and Resiliency: The talents and expertise are an enormous untapped resource in preparing our communities for natural and man-made disasters of all kinds, whether it’s hurricanes, earthquakes, school shootings, or global pandemics like COVID – 19. storytellers?in?the?world. Turn your employees into content creators.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 28, 2013

For SXSWCares , a crowdfunding campaign for disaster relief, we worked with the press to get featured in CNN, NYTimes, Forbes, AdAge, and more. This allows for compelling storytelling. Content marketing. To use social media effectively, you'll need to have great content. They also have a hard time approaching press.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 16, 2012

Lasa, a UK-based technology and welfare charity (and content partner of TechSoup's), published a crowdsourced report on how charities and nonprofits can engage with technology to build a stronger connection with their constituents. TechSoup's Digital Storytelling Challenge. Technology can help charities save money and time.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 14, 2011

Content Curation Across Teams & Organizations. Digital Storytelling Blender: Web, Video, Games, Events & Live! Content Curation Across Teams & Organizations. Disaster Planning: What Organizations Need to Know to Protect Their Tech. See you in San Francisco! Cloud Benchmarks: What Are Your Peers Up To?

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Connection Cafe

OCTOBER 29, 2018

It has been almost three weeks since we concluded bbcon 2018 in Orlando, and we’re still wrapping our head around the terrific content seen and inspiring conversations overheard amongst over 2,000 attendees from across the social, private and public sectors. With over 275 sessions over three days, opportunities for learning were plentiful.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 31, 2012

While emotive storytelling is crux to engaging the hearts and minds of social media consumers, advocates are ethically bound to preserve the privacy of vulnerable clients. MiACLU isn’t just a cookie-cutter to an English website—it’s an independent portal for original content in Spanish, with its unique set of tools.

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Connection Cafe

DECEMBER 11, 2017

We’ve already seen significant fluctuations in US giving behavior over 2017, with the change in presidential administrations , natural disasters and several moments in time in between – all which would otherwise point towards a more precarious situation for Giving Tuesday and end-of-year fundraising efforts.

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NTEN

AUGUST 10, 2009

Storytelling as it pertains to Fundraising. Civic Actions on website content strategy and SEO. Disaster recovery, preparedness - most of my nonprofit peers are lucky to think about business continuity at all, just like SF residents: they know they should but don't have an earthquake plan. Fundraising.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 8, 2014

Pivots can make the difference between a successful session and disaster. This include: strategic dialogue as a data, inclusion as a data, measuring results, and using data for storytelling. To frame it with a leadership skill, we asked participants to use “internal or active listening” and take notes during the talks.

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NonProfit Hub

JUNE 9, 2017

Communicating your nonprofit’s message through video on Facebook will maximize your reach more than any other form of content and help you reach the people that are passionate about your cause. That despite the fact that video was the highest performing form of content on Facebook, it was “largely underutilized” by brands across the board.

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EveryAction

APRIL 1, 2016

At frank, we divide our time among great talks by strategists, storytellers and scientists and casual opportunities to connect with other sophisticated communicators over coffee or cocktails. AIDF Global Disaster Relief Summit. AIDF Global Disaster Relief Summit. Feb 23 - 26. frank / Gainesville, FL / Invite only. Fundraising.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 14, 2015

This type of blog content is standard in nonprofit communications and should continue to be reported on regularly; however, some of your most shared, retweeted, and +1′d blog posts will be those that are out of the ordinary. Photo Essays. Or an arts organization could write about the top 10 museums to visit in a lifetime.

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M+R

JANUARY 26, 2023

But Wally Wood inspired this post, and got me thinking about how we approach the task of content creation. Striving to make storytelling work given the constraints of time, space, the boss’s demands, evolving trends, and how dang hard it is to draw horses. It will give you some why to go along with the what. Still reading?

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 16, 2007

As more museums move towards narrative presentation of content, the bank of useful design tools grows to include those used by other storytellers. Humor provides comfort, whether in the face of death or potential disaster. Tags: storytelling design. Let’s start by talking about design. Consider television.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 4, 2007

About 100,000 new weblogs were created each day According to the Pew Internet & American Life Project report, "Bloggers: A Portrait of the Internet’s New Storytellers" from July 2006: 8% of Internet users, or about 12 million American adults, keep a blog. Today, the blogosphere is doubling in size approximately every 230 days.

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sgEngage

APRIL 28, 2023

Table of Contents Why is Peer-to-Peer Fundraising Effective? Peer-to-peer fundraising campaigns can support a wide array of missions and causes, from disaster relief and healthcare initiatives to education and environmental projects. What Does a Peer to Peer Campaign Look Like?

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Classy

JULY 13, 2021

Download Your Nonprofit’s Social Media Content Planner. Written as a business fable, this book identifies the insecurities and flaws that can spell disaster not only for the corporate world, but for all kinds of teams. Free Download: Your Guide to Nonprofit Storytelling. The Five Dysfunctions of a Team.

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Everyaction

JULY 23, 2018

Using the expertise of its Chef Network, WCK works to empower people to be a part of the solution with a focus on health, education, jobs, and disaster relief. Last year disaster relief once again became the main focus of our organization as we activated and served over 4 million meals in Peru, Houston, Puerto Rico, and California.

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Qgiv

JULY 29, 2021

Storytelling is an essential component of fundraising , and especially so when it comes to mobile fundraising. So, how exactly can your mobile fundraising affect and support your nonprofit storytelling? When it comes to storytelling with mobile fundraising, make sure to put your donors at the center of the story. Text-a-thon.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 14, 2009

Session Content 1. link] wildlifewatch Not only that, but it shows how we took our return from this experiment and placed it within the programs website to show more dynamic content and interaction possibilities. increase transparency about disaster response. disclose “process” of responding to disasters. set audience.

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 21, 2017

The key to success is personalization—segmenting and targeting major donors with content specific to them. Incorporating major donor voices in your content diversifies your content and demonstrates all of the different people behind your cause. It’s important to keep content consumable. Video Stories.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 14, 2007

I'm kneedeep in the final run-up to the opening of Operation Spy at the Spy Museum, but in the fleeting moments between disasters and near-disasters, I'm thinking about AAM. When everyone in an organization is led by the same story, the organization's content output reflects that story and a mythic central storyteller.

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Achieve

AUGUST 6, 2019

Take Instagram for example – a channel with over 400 million active daily users who spend an average of 53 minutes per day consuming content on the platform! . Their Instagram feed is full of stunning imagery that highlights the impact of providing disaster relief while simultaneously conveying how rewarding the work can be veterans.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 9, 2013

We have certainly seen some examples of maps or charts that the user can interact with, but with the over saturation of static infographic images, 2014 and the plethora of tools emerging that make these options really easy, we will see more organizations using data for storytelling that users can watch, click on, and really explore."

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Connection Cafe

APRIL 29, 2017

Organizations steeped in disaster-response fundraising can shed light on how to plan around “emergency catalysts” but through a sustained strategy –which, is ultimately a balance that all organizations should work towards. Take a stand alongside your donors, and support their passions through engaging content and clear CTA s.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 8, 2013

We also noticed a significant increase in the way that mobile technology is being used in disaster relief. On a more nonprofit tech level, TechSoup Global’s content curator, Ginny Mies predicts that Infographics will gain more traction in 2013. TechSoup Global's content curator, Ginny Mies. Mobile Computing.

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