Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 5, 2014

Stories with purpose don’t just materialize—they’re strategically planned, they’re creatively crafted, and designed to achieve measurable outcomes. Hatch is a concierge that connects you to a suite of tools and a growing community of storytellers to help you leverage your stories to drive social impact. What Makes a Story Great.

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Top Nonprofits

DECEMBER 28, 2021

Remember these words: Your nonprofit’s logo is not your story. They want to use every tool, including their logo, to tell their story. Here’s where you can get stuck in focusing on your logo as representing your story: . Telling your whole story with your nonprofit’s logo is not necessary. It makes sense.

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Whole Whale

AUGUST 16, 2022

Imagine if you didn’t need an expensive camera, artistic mastery, or a ton of time to create what was in your mind’s eye. Small organizations are about to get a huge leg up on their ability to create stunning visuals at a price that will be within reach. Create Imagery for Social Media. Create Visualizations for Annual Reports.

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Top Nonprofits

DECEMBER 28, 2021

Remember these six words: Your logo is not your story. They want to use every tool, including their logo, to tell their story. They want to use every tool, including their logo, to tell their story. Here’s where you can get stuck in focusing on your logo as representing your story: . Holding hands around a globe.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 12, 2017

Photos, videos, selfies, and personal stories allow us to embed emotional content in fundraising campaigns. Tip 1: Create a Strategy. As you plan your next fundraising campaign, consider how you'll use stories as a central element of your messaging. How will you tell your story to create both authenticity and urgency?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 14, 2014

As nonprofits have gotten better at implementing multichannel communications and fundraising campaigns and improving their tracking and reporting systems, many nonprofits have come to the conclusion that creating a paid part- or full-time new media manager position is worth the financial investment. Good Writing Skills. Experience.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 22, 2011

Adobe’s software donation programs through TechSoup help organizations design powerful print collateral, create video accounts of their successes, build their web presence, and more. See how nonprofits like yours are benefiting from their donated products and services, and creating professional-quality videos.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 17, 2013

With this simple recipe, you can create a great text overlay image to illustrate a blog post and use on social channels in less than 15-30 minutes. Photo Source: Mlaraevski on Flickr. High Quality Ingredients. Kitchen Equipment. Balance, Font Readability, and Contrast. Have you incorporated text image overlays into your content strategy?

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Get Fully Funded

MAY 2, 2022

It’s harder to create a fun event when everyone is sitting at home in front of their computer. But with so many success stories out there, it’s clear that virtual fundraisers can be just the right thing at the right time for the right organization. Have fewer details to stress over. Stand-up comedy can feel a little more risky.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 20, 2014

To share what inspires him, Marcelo road a bike into the large plenary room from the back and right on the stage. He shared an amazing story of how his institution has adapted to online networks and digital photography, but the even more inspiring were the many photos and the stories of social change behind those photos.

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Global Giving

APRIL 28, 2016

Still wondering if you have what it takes to tell a story through video? As charities, we tell stories all the time—it’s how we show our donors their money is making a difference! Find your story. This may sound hard, but a clear, concise, key message is vital to creating a successful video. Of course you do!

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Tech Soup

MARCH 29, 2016

We know that good stories power fundraising and marketing, so join one of our events to discover powerful case studies and connect with digital storytelling experts in your community. Bamenda, Cameroon: How to Create Digital Stories. Cleveland, Ohio: A Well-Told Story Is Powerful. Kampala, Uganda: Story Makers 2016.

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Twenti - Digital Marketing For Nonprofits

SEPTEMBER 1, 2019

These campaigns present the importance of creating a recognisable brand for your campaign. Make-A-Wish is all about personal stories and experiences, which makes compelling content that people really want to know about, as well as being powerful to convert supporters to donors. Project Life Jacket. WaterAid: #giveashit.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 28, 2014

Sharing stories is arguably the most ancient and long-lasting way of engaging and influencing emotions, values, judgments, and imaginations. But how can stories touch hearts and minds if they go unnoticed and unheard? The winner of best story overall is "Hope House: Camp Counselor Tyron" by Stone Soup Films.

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DNL OmniMedia

MARCH 31, 2021

However, these brands go much deeper than the logos and images they share. Conduct research to determine your nonprofit’s story. Your nonprofit’s branding shouldn’t be created in a vacuum, taking into account the opinions of your organization’s leadership and little else. Let’s take a look at how you can do just that.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 7, 2011

Letting members get hands-on is another method of creating engagement. Use the opportunity of getting your members together to ask them to share knowledge – ask them who they are and what they know – their expertise could benefit the community at large.

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Care2

JANUARY 13, 2012

Pinterest has a lot of potential, especially for organizations whose stories lend themselved to visual storytelling. Now I’m excited to see how cause communities embrace this emerging network to create value and mission impact. Beth summarized some of the guidelines Joe shared for using Pinterest: Be useful.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 13, 2013

In this guest post, Jeffrey shares the story behind their big hit with a visitor co-created exhibition. The result of those meetings and brainstorming sessions recently manifested itself in our Forum Gallery as an experimental photography project called Oh Snap! Your Take on Our Photographs. At its core, Oh Snap!

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Tech Soup

APRIL 26, 2016

Since our last storytelling Twitter chat , both the opportunities and challenges in producing a great digital story have increased. More stories flooding our social media airwaves mean that it's increasingly difficult to get a non-visual story heard. Topic: Improving how NGOs use photography and video. AUSTRALIA.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 6, 2013

Even more importantly, what motivates them. So, was delighted when Darren Barefoot asked if he share a guest post about how to do audience analysis. Imagining Supporters with User Stories. Give them a name, find a photo of them on a stock photography site and flesh out their biographical details. How old are they?

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Tech Soup

JUNE 7, 2017

Tell a Compelling Story. As humans, we are brought to action through stories. Stories resonate with our emotions, far more than the latest facts and figures ever will. To make those all important conversions, your nonprofit e-commerce website needs to tell a compelling story. And know what they're looking for.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 30, 2012

It means sharing by default. She went on to tell a story about how she first realized that a network mindset was a key to her organization’s future success and being relevant. Her organization was in the middle of some layoffs, not an easy process for any one. She thought, “I better call my board chair because he calls me.”

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Tech Soup

MAY 28, 2013

We all have a story. We want to help inspire and educate you to be able to tell your own story with confidence and with success. We want to help inspire and educate you to be able to tell your own story with confidence and with success. Watch their story. Without further ado. First Place Video. Cisco Flip camera.

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Get Fully Funded

NOVEMBER 3, 2009

Bad pictures are used way too often by nonprofit folks who are trying to tell a story in a visual format. Here are a few points I want to share with you. Great photos tell a story. To tell a story, you need some detail and some interesting action in the photo. we talked about what else she could do with it.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 24, 2013

Additionally, I wanted her to share how they determine which social networks to use and their most successful campaigns. AP: One of our most successful campaigns is attached to an annual documentary photography exhibition, Global Visions. Got any social media stories or tips? Share them in the comments below.

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Connection Cafe

APRIL 15, 2015

The exhibit is designed to walk the viewer through a meaningful exploration of ERD’s humanitarian work, which is focused on alleviating hunger and improving the food supply; creating economic opportunity and strengthening communities; promoting health and fighting disease; and responding to disasters and rebuilding communities. And I love it.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 20, 2009

I'm working on a section of my book about sharing social objects and am writing about the most common way that visitors share their object experiences in museums: through photographs. Conservation: Objects may be damaged by flash photography. There are thriving groups of Flickr users who share photos of themselves imitating art.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 30, 2015

They are most likely already sharing great stories about your organization on their social media streams and making suggestions to their friends and followers about how awesome your organization’s programs are. How to Practice Good Content Curation: Seek, Sense, Share. Instagram and Device Photography 101.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 23, 2012

(My favorite practical principle from Shenk was “Give A Hoot, Don’t Email Pollute” when talking about the need for developing will power in consuming and sharing digital information.). His chapter on “Data Literacy” describes what sounds a lot of good content curation skills minus the social sharing part.

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Tech Soup

JULY 11, 2011

now for nonprofits creating videos with impact? Social video includes the sharing of videos across networks and channels along with the rise of video meetings, workshops, and collaboration sessions integrated with social media tools. video sharing, production toolkits, and resources for nonprofits looking. Video production is a.

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Forum One

APRIL 28, 2010

We've provided training on how to interview subjects, tips for photographing and video-recording, as well as best practices for writing strong stories that encourage and elicit action. Provide resources for people to tell stories more effectively: digital cameras, video cameras, audio records, and a solid blogging platform or web site.

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BoardAssist

DECEMBER 15, 2014

Creating a dynamite case. Creating a killer ask in the letter. Creating a plan and scheduling your mailings. Creating a mailing packet that brings results. Create an entire campaign. Create a budget and look at it as an investment. Start with a story to draw your readers in. Welcoming new donors.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 4, 2012

I couldn’t help but also think how powerful it would be if an organization like the Case Foundation hosted a convening of those involved with various giving days and challenges to share best practices and learning, perhaps leading to something even global. Incentivize video creation and video sharing.

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Connection Cafe

JULY 8, 2014

Russell’s role in projects ranges from new business development to content strategy to photography and video creation. . The good news is everyone wants to be involved with sharing your nonprofit’s story, from the board to the executive director to the staff. Lack of Direction.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 4, 2006

While writing my mentor post last Sunday I got to thinking about how artists use art for social change and accumulated a bunch of links for related projects, programs and organizations that I thought I'd share: Change Me: The Power of Imagery to Create Change. This is a project of the Getty Museum. (I

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DNL OmniMedia

AUGUST 25, 2021

That’s why we’ve created this comprehensive guide to nonprofit storytelling, in which you’ll explore the following points: The Importance of Storytelling for Nonprofits. How To Identify and Build Your Nonprofit’s Story in 5 Steps. That’s where your nonprofit’s story comes into play. Map out the basic arc of your story.

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Get Fully Funded

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

By thinking through your fundraising strategy before October 1, you can collect your stories and integrate your efforts, keeping your messaging and images consistent through mail, email, social media, events, and any other channels you may use. You need stories that show the impact your organization makes in the community.

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