Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 19, 2015

I taught a section on developing and implementing an effective content strategy after some exercises to help participants identify target audiences, create personas, measurable objectives, and channels. It struck me that an effective nonprofit content strategy is a process of continuous improvement. What are your best tips?

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The Storytelling Non-profit

JANUARY 24, 2022

In this article and video tutorial, I’ll walk you through how to set up a story measurement system, and how to track and analyze your data. You’ll start with your initial “investment” costs like staff time and additional costs (ie photos). Like a week or a series of posts where you did not use story-based content.

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Get Fully Funded

MARCH 14, 2022

Though they have tutorials and customer support, setting up your site to accept donations can be challenging. All About Your Brand: Logo, Typography, Colors, Photos, and Tone What do you want the look and feel of your site to be? and it is communicated through your logo, typography, colors, photo style, and tone or voice.

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The Storytelling Non-profit

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

In this post, you’ll learn why storytelling is a key component of your year-end fundraising campaign and how to start planning the storytelling aspects of your campaign today. . Next, if you have a story or content bank , review what you’ve already got against what you brainstormed. video, text, graphics, photos, etc).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 4, 2016

Snapcha t is a mobile app that lets users exchange text messages, photos and videos that disappear in 24 hours. Thank god there are teenage YouTube celebrities who share excellent SnapChat tutorials like Aaron’s Break the Internet. Instagram is for jealousy-inducing photos. What have you learned?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 26, 2012

Upload your nonprofit’s avatar as one (or all five) of your featured profile photos. Post quality content to the Google+ Stream. However, in the beginning I want you to ask yourself before each and every post to the stream: Will this content be interesting to our followers? Photos and slideshows. Powerful stats.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 8, 2012

If your nonprofit is already on Google+, then the best practices below are meant to help you better learn how to tap into and inspire the Google+ community. Upload your nonprofit’s avatar as one (or all five) of your featured profile photos. Post quality content to the Google+ Stream. Photos and slideshows.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 24, 2015

As a content curator, I’m not just on the hunt for learning and sharing snippets of the new or what’s buzzing. Content curation is ultimately organizing, synthesizing, presenting, and maintaining your resource collections. Cheat Sheets and Tutorial To Coach Your Nonprofit CEO. Instagram Overview.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 28, 2015

Bonus: Photoshop is the ultimate photo-editing program, so it's the best for editing photos and other rasterized images. If you want to learn more about vector graphics, this Wikipedia article can give you a broader understanding of how they work. What We Learned. Adobe: Photoshop CC Tutorials. Congratulations!

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Tech Soup

APRIL 28, 2015

Bonus: Photoshop is the ultimate photo-editing program, so it's the best for editing photos and other rasterized images. If you want to learn more about vector graphics, this Wikipedia article can give you a broader understanding of how they work. What We Learned. Adobe: Photoshop CC Tutorials. Congratulations!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 4, 2010

The inspiration was part The Lab Theater a place where you try out contemporary or experimental works before you bring them to the main stage and part peer learning program. Participants design and launch a social media experiment that helps them improve their practice and share learning with one another. Photo by James Leventhal.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 30, 2016

Are you interested in learning how to create and deliver effective tech training? To attend the event, you'll need to create an account on our learning platform and sign up for the course. She has founded the nonprofit NPTechProjects, assisting nonprofits with IT strategy, project management, and online learning spaces.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 29, 2009

That’s why eight leading nonprofit technologists and social marketing experts have come together to create this learning and sharing hub. Socialbrite is here to offer articles, videos, resources and tutorials on how to take command of all this Web 2.0 jazz and put it to work for your organization or cause.

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Tech Soup

MAY 2, 2011

You might not be able to develop a new website by yourself, but once you teach yourself the basics of HTML code, you can edit and update content without having to get help every time from your technical staff member or volunteer. For starters: HTML, CSS, and Javascript from the Ground Up (Google-produced video tutorials).

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 29, 2009

The site, which serves as a learning and sharing center for nonprofits and social change organizations, debuted today at [link]. Scores of additional articles, guides and tutorials to help newcomers and veterans alike get better acquainted with this fast-moving space. Subscribe to our blog updates: [link].

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Tech Soup

MAY 28, 2015

Our five-part Photoshop for Nonprofits tutorial shows you how. You Know That Stock Photos Are the WORST. If you need free and legal-to-use images for your website, newsletter, or social media, our Top 10 Sources for Free Images will help you break your cheesy stock photo habit. And what would you like to learn next year?

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Tech Soup

APRIL 9, 2013

After picking up the latest version of Office through TechSoup, make sure to check out our content and resources on getting the most out of the software: Microsoft Word 2013 makes it easy to make eye-catching publications with new image formatting tools and templates. Webinar: Working with Photos in Office. TechSoup Resources.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 13, 2015

Photoshop is the ultimate tool for enhancing photos, designing creative assets, and even cutting exes out of old photos. With Photoshop, you can do everything from quickly tuning up photos to controlling every detail of your digital vision in one powerful application. Expand the contents of the zip file. Final Product.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 12, 2011

Too many nonprofits have rushed in without proper training or know-how, and unfortunately have learned later on that they’ve made many mistakes—some of which cannot be rectified. Learn Basic HTML. You should also never automate content using these tools, or spam each community with the same message. Learn from them.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 26, 2015

But before you spend time loading up your online shopping cart, take a few minutes to learn a little about managing your digital footprint and also protecting your online privacy. Your camera and smartphone usually record your time and location in each photo you take, and when you share those photos, you could be sharing that data.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 2, 2015

The photo of Faith with Magic along with her story has 5,302 likes, 1,007 shares, and 1,948 comments as of this writing. What Nonprofits Can Learn from Gentle Carousel. Check out my colleague Jim Lynch's post on taking photos of your patrons or constituents. Post Timely, Thematic Content. Other Animals to Learn From.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 13, 2016

TechSoup organizes an annual event called Storymakers ; organizations from around the globe participate in a multimedia contest for a chance to win exciting prizes and learn how to effectively tell their story. We provide tutorials on video production processes and photo editing so you can tell your story like a pro. Windows 10.

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Tech Soup

MAY 26, 2011

Tagging, a feature found across many social media channels, is used to help surface content during searches. Adding tags to content, whether blog post; video; photo; and so on, helps content creators organize content and, more importantly, helps your intended audience find it on the Internet.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 21, 2010

I've been involved with teaching and learning technology for nonprofits since 1993 when I worked for the New York Foundation for the Arts' online network for artists, Arts Wire. And, many of our community members were just learning too. . I was immediately thrown into a situation of dynamic teaching and learning.

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NonProfit Hub

FEBRUARY 28, 2017

Instead of trying to learn every feature of every channel at once, you can learn the basics and decide where you should be spending your time. You can share photos and videos, interact with your audience and expand your network of supporters. The motion will be more eye-catching than a still photo. Helpful tools: Later.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 3, 2007

Photo by David Tames from his flickr stream. I always learn so much when I attend. I always learn so much when I attend. David Tames took notes here and, as always, has a set of gorgeous photos. I'm going to flesh out my notes on the promotion and outreach discussion and put it as tutorial. He noted that Blip.TV

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 6, 2008

Photo by Stitch. Because at some point, you need to learn how to use tools effectively and efficiently. Share Your Story: You share the impact of your organization's programs through blogging, podcasting, sharing photos on Flickr, or YouTube or other video sharing site. Photo Sharing. Crowd Sourced News and Content.

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Qgiv

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

Explore this definitive guide to learn more about Giving Tuesday, get great campaign ideas, and soak up some best practices. Ready to learn more about Giving Tuesday and how your nonprofit can make the most of it? Read on to learn more! Read on to learn more about livestreaming in particular!

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Tech Soup

JULY 11, 2011

There are a handful of tools that encourage collaboration with video and other media content: Watchitoo - allows for video meetings with 25 guest speakers, whiteboards, and social media. videos together, presentations, video meetings, and 3D design that can be recorded for public media sharing or YouTube tutorials. Make it easy to.

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Connection Cafe

JULY 8, 2009

In the words of the site: “Socialbrite is a learning hub & sharing community that brings together top experts in social media, social causes and online philanthropy.” ” Who can you find adding content on Socialbrite? What is Socialbrite.org?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 10, 2006

Election Day Debriefs What we can learn about online politics from the 2006 Campaigns from e-politics offers some lessons and takeaways about social networking and other traditional technology tools deployed for political campaigns. CHBN provides a free service for broadcasting member-generated political video content. Click To Play.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 24, 2007

Don't learn difficult technology first, wait until it becomes easier. I wish I could learn how to do that more elegantly with the Webinar. I had too much content. I knew I had too content. My blog commenters told me I had too much content in my initial draft. Thank goddness Beth Raney has this tutorial.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 23, 2007

Flickr photo from handsome monkey. " Some commenters suggest that bells and whistles are mostly for early adopters who can build a lot of buzz and help a site reach critical mass, although clever functionality is not a replacement for good content. Engagement Strategie s. A Few NpTech Conversations. Social Network Fragmentation.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 30, 2008

It's an inspiration to anyone trying to create an online community around informal learning. There are almost 15,000 design galleries on ScratchR, ranging from small critique groups to tutorial groups to Christian groups to anything goes groups. As an adult, my profile shows my username, photo, city, state, and country.

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Qgiv

APRIL 26, 2021

If your event is particularly inspiring and the content resonates with your audience, your supporters are going to want to donate. Anything that might draw a crowd at an in-person event, like a professional speaker, live music, or a series of performances, would likely make great livestreaming content. Texting During Events.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 18, 2011

This post was originally authored by TechSoup's Carlos Bergfeld in 2010 and was recently updated by Wes Holing, also a web content developer here at TechSoup. All of these should be enough to create great-looking photos for a website, online photo library, or even basic printed outreach materials like pamphlets and flyers.

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The Storytelling Non-profit

DECEMBER 5, 2021

The content you select for your newsletter can make all the difference. But, what if you're not sure what content to include in your charity's newsletter? view email ) One of the great things about this newsletter is the quick snapshot of the content right at the top. After recent post where I wrote about. Not sure what that is?

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