The Modern Nonprofit

JUNE 27, 2023

Promote the event as a way to support both local artists and your cause, and include a variety of artistic disciplines, such as painting, sculpture, photography, and pottery. This approach not only raises funds but also provides valuable content to engage your audience and showcase your organization’s commitment to its mission.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 14, 2014

Too often new media managers are bogged down by a strategy or content approval process that saps them of their creativity. To effectively work with image and video content, your new media manager must be adept at using photo and video editing software. They need to be given creative freedom and trusted to act upon their instincts.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 8, 2012

Get the necessary training (HTML, digital photography, video, social media, and mobile technology). Write content and secure photos for website pages. Select a blogging platform. Write content and secure photos for blog pages. Write content and secure photos for mobile pages, or import via RSS. 1) Website.

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Care2

OCTOBER 29, 2015

One of the best ways to support your stories is through photography and imagery, especially as social platforms like Instagram, Facebook, and even Twitter to some extent prioritize visual content, including videos.

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Twenti - Digital Marketing For Nonprofits

MAY 11, 2020

You’ll agree to them posting about a project on certain platforms, or perhaps attend an event or a project site to see your work and show their followers. Their supporters will see and engage with the content, and be encouraged to donate. This will make their content more compelling and convincing to their followers. Yes Please!

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Whole Whale

APRIL 13, 2022

What technologies (platforms like WordPress or Drupal and development environments like Ruby or PHP) do they have experience with? In their proposal, have they accounted for additional costs unrelated to staffing, such as stock photography or software subscriptions? Will the agency have a role in migrating existing website content?

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Twenti - Digital Marketing For Nonprofits

SEPTEMBER 1, 2019

No other platform offers the same huge global reach for promoting awareness of important, yet suppressed, issues. These outstanding examples are social media campaigns that have expertly used the platform to further their cause. They leveraged humorous content, and the millions-strong audiences of these famous faces.

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NetWits

NOVEMBER 5, 2010

Reduce/Reuse/Recycle: Repurposing Content for Various Channels. Building a Community Across Platforms. How to use social photography to drive donations, interest and action. Nonprofit Social Media Jam Session. Are you the picture taker??? Your Mission “To Go” – Nonprofits Gone Mobile! I’ve Found My Free Agent, Now What?

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Achieve

MAY 22, 2014

The key is to connect with others on an emotional level, and using beautiful photography or video content is an effective way to do that. The popularity of visual platforms such as Instagram, Tumblr and Pinterest is a hat tip to this notion: We respond to quick visuals that tell a story and make us.

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DNL OmniMedia

MARCH 31, 2021

To brand your organization and ensure that branding is maintained across your marketing platforms, you’ll need to design a comprehensive brand narrative that will last the test of time and communicate that clearly across all who are in charge of conveying it. Make sure everyone is on the same page. Different background colors?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 18, 2016

The platform attracts many brands because of the opportunities for brand story telling. It may be no surprised that he is an excellent photography and each shot is carefully crafted and described. Here’s a summary of content posted by world leaders. Instagram is about photo sharing and tell stories in photos. Relevant.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 12, 2017

Photos, videos, selfies, and personal stories allow us to embed emotional content in fundraising campaigns. How can you obtain supporter-contributed content? Avoid using stock photography, since this turns off donors. For example, Children's National uses a platform that lets families raise funds for its cause.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 6, 2013

Note from Beth: One of the most common questions I get at workshops or webinars is, “Should our organization be on XYZ social or mobile platform?” Give them a name, find a photo of them on a stock photography site and flesh out their biographical details. Flickr Photo by Matthew Field. How old are they? Where do they work?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 30, 2015

All Staff on Twitter In Support of the Organization’s Communications Strategy : Human Rights Watch has all staff using Twitter as their personal brands to share content from the site and build their networks in support of the overall goals. How to Practice Good Content Curation: Seek, Sense, Share. Nonprofit Examples.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 12, 2016

If you have automation tools at your disposal with your online platform, then I recommend sending the first message immediately. Tone and Content Are Important for Cultivation and Engagement. Also review click rates to understand which content is most engaging to your new subscriber audience. Image: Jennifer Leahy Photography.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 20, 2009

While the majority of experience-based museums like children's and science museums have unrestricted noncommercial photography policies, many collections-based art and history museums continue to maintain highly restrictive photo policies. Conservation: Objects may be damaged by flash photography. But what about visitors?

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Forum One

APRIL 28, 2010

Let's face it, this content doesn't come out of thin air. Too many groups set up a perfect web site platform for storytelling, only to find that they can't populate it because they haven't gotten senior leadership buy-in, or they haven't identified regular contributors to develop content.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 14, 2011

Greg Ligon, our guest blogger for the Social Media for Nonprofits conference, is an online communications professional with experience in building a brand via online channels, social media communications, and website content development. Photos: Jim Vetter photography. Learn more about Greg on LinkedIn.

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Connection Cafe

NOVEMBER 4, 2019

Additionally, many social media platforms offer advanced search options that allow you to reach specific audiences and find those who are engaging with your target audience. Once you know who these social powerhouses are, share your best content with them to drive clicks, generate interest, and keep your institution top of mind for students.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 16, 2011

Since our outreach efforts focused on providing nonprofits with social media resources, email templates and content such as a video PSA for use on their homepages, it would seem those efforts paid off when it came to driving traffic. Traffic sources to the Give to the Max Day webpage on November 16.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 3, 2007

is the platform for this and I wondered whether that was part of their services. The site content will be moderated and if inappropriate (off topic) content is posted - it will be removed - but that long term the site will be community moderated. I learned one of the secrets of David Tames excellent photography - raw talent!

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Care2

JANUARY 30, 2014

What technologies (platforms like WordPress or Drupal and development environments like Ruby or PHP) do they have experience with? In their proposal, have they accounted for additional costs unrelated to staffing, such as stock photography or software subscriptions? Will the agency have a role in developing the website content?

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ASU Lodestar Center

MAY 24, 2016

When a well-designed mobile application is published, staying connected creates an endless amount of possibilities and the exciting part for nonprofits is to keep the content new and fresh. On the other side, DuoLingo creates an atmosphere for individuals to learn a second language by making its platform simple, exciting, and mobile.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 28, 2014

In the past few years, we've seen the transformation from long to extremely short-form digital content like that on Vine and Instagram, and we've experienced the rise and fall of numerous storytelling apps never to be seen or heard of again.

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Forum One

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

Foundations can make greater progress on addressing critical social issues by using digital platforms to elevate the work and success of the many players in their sector. Think of a digital platform as: . Think of a digital platform as: . The functions that digital platforms can provide include: . Images of Empowerment.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 1, 2012

If I’m that taken by a story, I know my readers will be too, and if I’m going to put that much time into something, I have to turn it into content I can use — I’m trying to blog five days a week after all, and it’s not always easy! All the visuals are linked to Allison’s campaign.

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Care2

JANUARY 13, 2012

Joe explains the what makes Pinterest demographically unique in his recent Huffington Post piece, Why and How Causes Should Use Pinterest : “The heavy presence of women 25-44 on Pinterest is what distinguishes it from other new social media platforms, which are generally populated by men 18-24. Pinterest Guidelines.

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Tech Soup

JULY 11, 2011

share your stories by using common platforms and encourage meaningful. 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. 2010 as a way of using film, photography, and real-time reporting.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 15, 2009

Teens are perceived as an audience that is particularly disaffected and hard to reach, and institutions are continually seeking new techniques that might connect them to core content experiences. While some youth (and adults) may be seduced by sexy technology, is that really the reason you want people to engage with your content experiences?

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Connection Cafe

MAY 21, 2009

You can avoid this mistake by identifying 4-5 priority audience groups for your online presence and ensuring that you provide information and pathways through your content that are specific for each group. However, a design must accomplish much more than just wowing the visitor with fancy fonts and slick photography.

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DNL OmniMedia

AUGUST 25, 2021

Create a content library. To make translating your story across multiple channels as easy as possible, assemble a content library that contains a variety of assets relating to your story. In your digital content library, include: Copy: This is the written version of your story. Adapt your story for different platforms.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 22, 2009

In some cases, the use of institutional content or facilities is known to the institution; for example, when a museum allows a community group to hold meetings on the premises or develop their own exhibits. Working with the museum or using the museum as a platform to do your own thing?

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Bloomerang

JULY 20, 2023

When your nonprofit uses online fundraising platforms and follows best practices, you can meet your supporters where they are—online—and enable them to give quickly and easily. The cost of online fundraising software can be fairly inexpensive, only requiring a small platform fee and processing fee. Increase brand awareness.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 6, 2012

My goal wasn’t to compare raw numbers of each organization’s Pinterest scores to each other, but more to use the numbers to find those with highest engagement and reach and take a look at their boards, techniques and content. The board topics with the most followers from this sample of seven early adopters include: Photography.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 30, 2021

95% of business meetings take place on platforms like Zoom and Microsoft Teams. Did you know that when you speak through popular online video platforms there’s a good chance you can come across as low-energy, even when you think you are dynamically making a point? Crank it up! A slightly elevated energy level. Shutterstock.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 14, 2007

If you post interesting content, the word of mouth aspects will follow. can really provide content for audiences who use those sites—AND it provides a way to broadcast on your own site. I read an article by the founder in Wired about how that platform was so different in terms of application development. Oh, we could do this.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 18, 2007

I'll be using a new online learning platform that I haven't used before and the participants are a slightly different audience than nonprofit staff or at least I think. A willingness to share information and content, also known as transparency ; planning is discussed and user participation is welcomed. I'm nervous. Openness - ????A

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