Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 14, 2017

My colleague, Julia Campbell, has just published a book, “ Storytelling in the Digital Age: A Guide for Nonprofits ” and was kind enough to share an advanced copy. In a digital age where there is so much online available online and attention is your supporter’s most precious resource, are you saving or seizing it?

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sgEngage

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

Your nonprofit has worked diligently to build programs, events, and campaigns that help make the world a better place. No matter the details of your story, you can leverage that sense of empathy to solicit a response from your audience. Your story goes far beyond simply telling the tale of how you got started.

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Get Fully Funded

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

Everyone loves a good story, and your skills in storytelling for nonprofits can make the difference between getting big bucks and donation requests that fall flat. The good news is that great stories are all around you. EVERY nonprofit has stories to tell! What Makes a Good Story?

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Nonprofits Source

JUNE 22, 2023

One way to encourage people to support your organization is through great nonprofit storytelling. By using narrative and storytelling techniques, you’ll be able to communicate your nonprofit’s mission and impact while building stronger emotional connections with your audience. Where Should You Use Nonprofit Storytelling?

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See3

APRIL 9, 2024

Additionally, since these personas are created based on information about your real constituents, you already know things about them – like what they read, where they work, what they like to learn about from your organization and what kinds of communications work best for them. Push your organization to start telling new stories.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 2, 2020

charitable market works, its scope, where potential competitors and collaborators are, and how to overcome hurdles. donors need to tell their stories effectively online to differentiate themselves from the more the 1.5 charitable giving in 2018 was $428 billion, yet most international organizations are unaware about how the U.S.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 9, 2014

I don’t have to tell anyone who reads Beth’s blog about the value of storytelling. Few would deny that storytelling is a powerful tool for inspiring action and influencing thought leaders, donors, and decision makers. However, few of us working in the social impact space could admit to utilizing storytelling to its fullest potential.

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The Modern Nonprofit

JUNE 20, 2023

Estimated Reading Time: 3 minutes From Events to Online: Adapting Traditional Fundraising Methods for the Digital Age In the grand theatre of nonprofit work, fundraising is the showstopper act. Yet, for many nonprofits, the shifting backdrop of the digital age is presenting new challenges and opportunities.

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Qgiv

JULY 10, 2023

As new thinking continues to emerge and donor positioning shifts, ethical storytelling is evolving, and a new messaging strategy, called strength-based messaging , has emerged. The challenges of strength-based messaging Finding the balance in your story. Finding the balance in your organization.

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Amy Sample Ward

AUGUST 11, 2011

—– I’m really excited by tools that enable digital or transmedia storytelling. It’s been a few weeks now; I’ve used it to share photos from a work trip to Portland, Maine, and to explore my neighborhood in New York. People can follow along via the mobile application or the website. I’d love to hear your ideas.

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The Storytelling Non-profit

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

When I talk with non-profit professionals about their storytelling endeavors, I often get asked questions about interviewing someone for their story. Story interviews for non-profits are a skill you can master. Story Interviews for Non-Profits – Why You Need to Have a Conversation and Not Just an Email Exchange.

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ASU Lodestar Center

AUGUST 11, 2021

The reason that we begin with the question – How can nonprofits strategically implement digital tools to achieve impact? – is because our society has shifted from being a “civil society” and into a “digital civil society,” according to a report from the Stanford Center on Philanthropy and Civil Society. Larger, contextual shifts” (e.g.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 30, 2018

Note from Beth: Digital storytelling is key to fundraising success, but using a storytelling lens in your organization can have further benefit of busting organizational silos. How and Why Stories Can Bust Nonprofit Silos – Guest Post by Miriam Brosseau and Stephanie Corleto . Stories are for people.

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Robert Weiner

SEPTEMBER 21, 2009

My friends at TechSoup asked me to pass along info about their upcoming digital storytelling event. Looking for an innovative and compelling way to tell your organization's story? What do we mean by Digital Storytelling? 10/1: Digital Storytelling Challenge kickoff webinar.

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EveryAction

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

Fresh Eyes Digital Donors, volunteers, and supporters are the lifeblood of many nonprofit organizations. Share a personal story: Ask your clients or beneficiaries for feedback on how your nonprofit’s programs have positively affected their lives. Alternatively, you can highlight your supporters’ stories! Here’s what they said.

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Forum One

MARCH 5, 2024

This Women’s History Month, we celebrate the work that the Smithsonian American Women’s History Museum does each and every day to bring women’s stories alive and into focus. We invite you to explore one of the initiatives we’ve been honored to be part of creating to expand access to women’s stories in our nation’s history.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 17, 2012

TechSoup invites you or your organization to participate in the 2012 TechSoup Digital Storytelling Challenge ! Remember that video is the content people are spending the most time with online these days, and digital stories are a powerful way to share the passion and hard work your organization puts toward your mission!

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 12, 2017

Storytelling is the currency of fundraising. In the digital environment of email, social media, and mobile, we can use storytelling in innovative ways to inspire supporters and donors — and raise more money. Photos, videos, selfies, and personal stories allow us to embed emotional content in fundraising campaigns.

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Forum One

DECEMBER 1, 2021

“Digital transformation” may sound grandiose, but it just means the people, processes, and systems that leverage digital tools to help organizations realize impact. But that transformation was imposed without warning and caused many organizations to react rather than plan, pouring digital water on fires.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 29, 2019

By Julia Campbell , a social media and storytelling consultant for nonprofits and author of Storytelling in the Digital Age: A Guide for Nonprofits. While Facebook and Twitter may be waning a bit in popularity and usage, visual storytelling platform Instagram keeps growing in engagement and daily time spent on the site. .

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Greater Giving

DECEMBER 15, 2022

How do you keep up with the ever-increasing need for digital donor engagement ? In this guide, we’ll discuss how to use digital marketing strategies to update your organization’s nonprofit marketing and outreach plans both now and into the future. Yes, physical mail can be a part of digital marketing! Social media.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 25, 2013

On Monday, April 16, TechSoup took its Digital Storytelling global with a full-day tweet chat spanning 10 time zones. Each tweet chat covered a different facet of digital storytelling and featured storytelling experts and nonprofit and library participants. led the bilingual tweet chat.

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Allegiance Group

MAY 1, 2024

Your nonprofit can have your best year-end campaign by incorporating data-driven planning, tapping into overlooked segments, crafting impactful storytelling strategies, maximizing digital fundraising channels, and cultivating donor fundraising and stewardship throughout the year. Keep reading to find out more! #1

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Amy Sample Ward

AUGUST 28, 2011

. —– Whether you are part of a nonprofit organization, an action campaign, a local community, or a school, you know that it is through stories you can showcase your work, change people’s minds, inspire them to make change, or join you to make a difference. Bonus: nonprofits can apply to get Animoto Pro for free !

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Tech Soup

APRIL 30, 2013

The 2013 Digital Storytelling Challenge is underway! If you haven't heard, during the month of April TechSoup is hosting our 4 th annual Digital Storytelling Challenge designed to inspire, educate, and empower nonprofits, libraries and social good organizations to tell their story through video and photos.

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Care2

JANUARY 26, 2011

The second annual TechSoup Digital Storytelling Challenge is coming up on January 31 st. Here’s how it works. Create a digital story (60 seconds or less video or 5-panel picture story) that conveys your nonprofit’s mission and work in a compelling and creative way.

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Tech Soup

MAY 28, 2013

We all have a story. That's what the Digital Storytelling Challenge seeks to accomplish every year. 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.

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EveryAction

MAY 2, 2023

That’s why we often say that advocacy is for everyone: when decisions are being made that affect your organization’s work, mission, and vision, it just makes sense to get involved, unite your supporters, and move them to take action with you in pursuit of a specific mission-oriented goal.

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CauseVox

OCTOBER 11, 2023

A captivating fundraising site and donation page make all the difference, but not every nonprofit has the resources or technical know-how to create an eye-catching digital home. CauseVox’s New Site Editor allows you to craft your perfect page without any design or tech experience and elevate your visual storytelling.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 30, 2013

Digital storytellers! We have so many wonderful stories rolling in! But what good is a digital story if it’s not shared? In addition to our expert judges selecting top stories , we are awarding a community choice prize as voted on by YOU! How It Works. tsdigs digital storytelling'

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 5, 2020

He and his team work with nonprofits across the U.S. Their work has been featured in The New York Times, NPR, CNN and AdWeek and Doug is a guest lecturer at Stanford University on the power of storytelling for nonprofit organizations. Emotional stories of beneficiaries. But how do you create engaging nonprofit videos?

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Pamela Grow

JANUARY 11, 2024

But what we’ve found is that when you implement what works, your donors will always come through for you. Yet, we know in our work that when it comes to your nonprofit’s bottom line, nothing quite beats excellent creative, and genuine human communication. In other words: you have to do the work. You publish a regular newsletter?

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Tech Soup

MARCH 27, 2013

The TechSoup Digital Storytelling Challenge is back and there are some great prizes in store for organizations with the most creative, compelling, and entertaining stories. However, before we can talk about prizes or even sending submissions, we need to cover how to create those digital stories.

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CauseVox

AUGUST 18, 2022

In our effort to highlight brilliant changemakers, we sat down with Cylinda Nickel at Compassion Services International to dive deeper into their global fundraising initiatives – particularly their work for Ukraine- and hear about her top fundraising tips. Using The Power Of Storytelling To Sell The Need. Donation Tipping.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 7, 2017

Evening meals sometimes went on for hours as we continued our storytelling. We are surrounded by stories: our own story, the stories of our families and friends, and the stories of the work we do every day. These stories simply exist in our minds until we add language and share them with others.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 8, 2012

In September, the San Francisco Online Community Meetup welcomed Cara Jones , founder of Storytellers for Good , and JD Lasica , chief strategist at Socialbrite. Jones and Lasica spoke on the topic of using storytelling for community building. Principles of Storytelling. Give structure to your story. Aim for the heart.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 6, 2011

Storytelling has gone digital. Get the tools to produce high-quality photos and video that showcase your library's work. Our Digital Storytelling Event will begin January 13 and includes webinars, discussions, and a contest to show your work and win prizes. Want ideas?

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