Nonprofits Source

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Share photos and videos of the animals in your care and use relevant hashtags to expand your reach. This document should include a comprehensive overview of your nonprofit’s logo, color palette, and typography, as well as define your brand’s tone of voice and other writing style guidelines.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 24, 2009

Through blog posts, photos and web video, Morgan Sully , will document the stories of creative, innovative communities found in European galleries, international events , meetups , barcamps , fabrication labs , and innovation competitions. How do artists, entrepreneurs and other ‘creatives’ support themselves doing the work they do?

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Bloomerang

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

You can get some of the same impact from embellishing a digital document with colors, shapes, arrows and other personal flairs. turn a fundraising appeal letter into an email, text, and/or social media post; write a brief impact report using a storytelling approach to summarize key outcomes). Try out ChatGPT for a quick project (e.g.,

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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. Use Adobe's Photoshop CS6 or Photoshop Elements to refine photos or create motion graphics. Flickr Pro gives you unlimited photo and video uploads and storage.

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Bloomerang

JUNE 28, 2023

These stories, preferably with a photo of the donors, can inspire and encourage other aging donors to consider making a planned gift. Older donors often appreciate storytelling and nostalgia. Offer to assist in any documentation or administrative tasks related to the planned giving process. Provide clear instructions.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 14, 2011

Flickr Photo by SMEX Beirut. Today, I had the pleasure of doing a little planning for March, 2012 bootcamps in country with the strategic social media adviser from Jordan, Rami Al-Karmi and Heather Ramsey at IIE in San Francisco as well as Craig Newmark and Barry Newstead from Wikimedia. Stay tuned … Video and Storytelling.

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Care2

AUGUST 28, 2009

The Story Tellers Project will setup a host location and then bring in a truckload of equipment to setup small stations for storytelling (written, audio, and video). Here’s how it works.

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NTEN

MARCH 18, 2011

[As part of the 2011 NTC, a group of attendees are documenting their experiences at the conference on the NTEN Blog.] A Photo Essay by Wendy Marinaccio A team of 30 NTEN-ers volunteered our mornings at the Community for Creative Nonviolence, which runs the largest homeless shelter in the country.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 25, 2013

Documenting and sharing the happenings of an event or fundraiser can be tricky if you're responsible for organizing it as well. To kick off TechSoup's 2013 Digital Storytelling Challenge , we have compiled apps to help you showcase your organization in action. Turn your photos into word collages with Wordfoto (iOS).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 16, 2011

2008 SXSW Panel: Pimp Your Nonprofit Cause photo by Ed Schipul. For the past four years, I’ve designed and facilitated panels on social media and nonprofit topics that were fun learning experiences and well documented. No brochures: digital storytelling for nonprofits. Joe Lambert, Digital Storytelling.

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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. But how can stories touch hearts and minds if they go unnoticed and unheard?

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Get Fully Funded

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

It’s a deeply personal way to give and involves estate planning and documentation in ways that others don’t. Remember, storytelling is a powerful way to share your message. After all, it can be an uncomfortable concept for some. Short (or long!)

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 3, 2013

We need to document moments of despair and of hope. It''s time for the news media to take responsibility for its profound influence as the storyteller of our time. Photo by cloudzilla. So many of the people I''ve talked with lately seem overwhelmed by the amount of challenges our world is facing. Integrated.

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Care2

AUGUST 24, 2011

Historypin Historypin is a new (and free) application for Android, iPhone, or the web that arranges photos, videos, and text in the context of time and location (leveraging the Google Maps API). I also have been taking photos of buildings and locations and sharing them back to the community to continue documenting the world around us.

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Greater Giving

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

If you don’t know where to start when it comes to telling your story, think back to the basics of storytelling that most of us learn in elementary school. Resize your photos so they don’t appear distorted in the mobile view. ? Use real stories and statistics to make your case for support.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 27, 2010

I was lucky enough to talk my host into driving me to Talkeetna so I could document this fabulous story. While it is intended for storytelling with powerpoint, I think the frameworks and templates she offers for narrative arcs are very valuable. Photo by Aliza Sherman. The Technical Stuff. Sharing the Story.

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Tech Soup

MAY 23, 2014

You point your camera at a sign, menu, or document, and the app translates the text. Digital Storytelling Apps and Tools. I'm always on the lookout for new digital storytelling tools, especially when they're in the form of mobile apps. This post-production photo editing app lets you add tones and textures to your photos.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 27, 2011

The photo above is of Rob Stuart in 1997 at a meeting in Montana to create a plan at what eventually became NTEN – thoughtfully documented in photos by Gavin Clabaugh and included in the nptech history wiki. I got hear the legends in the nptech sector in the early days talk about their work and was inspired.

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Non Profit Quarterly

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

The campaign rebuked and said they had no ill intent with this design, that they’d simply dropped the photo down to black and white to show contrast between the candidates and that the point of the flyer is to contrast them. This is well documented, and even the history of people describing themselves as white goes back to the slave trade.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 3, 2012

Streetfootballworld supports a worldwide network of organizations in well over 50 countries.The photo above is of one of their programs in Brazil. This enables streetfootballworld to call attention to its work through digital storytelling. ELOoffice allows LandsAid to bundle its electronic documents and paper documents into one system.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 8, 2014

Photo by Trav Williams. Documenter: Using a digital camera, the documenter should capture photos of the process – the set up, the activity, and the products from the activity. The documenter will also transcribe sticky notes into a word document and capture any thoughts shares via social media hashtag.

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Tech Soup

MAY 26, 2015

The nonprofit sector thrives on a community of rich storytelling. Whatever form that storytelling takes, from photo essay to member video, story-driven content is dynamic, shows impact, and can attract new potential donors. We saw how Twitter changed information-sharing in 2011 Egypt, after all. Live Streaming and Appropriation.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 26, 2015

Good, this is important: Photos and other images should never be used just as decoration. For starters, this is a stock photo, which automatically feels staged and inorganic. As my colleague Wes Holing observed, "It's the photo equivalent of a saltine." How much does the size of the photo affect this?

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Forum One

APRIL 29, 2009

On Sunday I hosted a Flickr Bootcamp, where I worked with non profit, "accidental techies," and helped them learn about better online photo sharing techniques. Recognizing the inherent strengths of incorporating storytelling strategy into online communications, Roger Burks , Perla Ni and I lead a session on " Better Online Storytelling.".

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Forum One

APRIL 29, 2009

On Sunday I hosted a Flickr Bootcamp, where I worked with non profit, "accidental techies," and helped them learn about better online photo sharing techniques. Recognizing the inherent strengths of incorporating storytelling strategy into online communications, Roger Burks , Perla Ni and I lead a session on " Better Online Storytelling.".

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 10, 2010

This includes a a wiki , Twitter conversations during the conference via the #crisisdata hashtag, Flickr photos and U-Stream (to be provided by NextGenWeb ). Again, expect a full report from Zoetica about how this worked as a tool as a back channel and documentation tool for the conference.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 17, 2011

My role was to document the event and collect stories. I was lucky enough to work along side Mark Horvath and Shawn Ahmed , both experts at capturing stories on video and sharing through social channels. This post is a roundup of the videos, photos, and tweets from the day. My role was to document the [.]

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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 24, 2011

Azavea explores this topic in a newly released whitepaper and documents how they built a prototype mobile app (for iPhone and Android) that overlays historical photos on the modern city streets of Philadelphia.

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Tech Soup

JULY 11, 2011

Is It Different from Digital Storytelling? for this one hour talk show series with leaders in the nonprofit social video field sharing their storytelling tips, production budgets, viral. The film, photos, and blog entries from the initiative can be. Fall of 2011 documenting the impact on kids and families along the.

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NonProfit Hub

APRIL 8, 2014

For example, if you always want to save photos that you take with Instagram to your Dropbox folder, IFTTT will automatically do that for you. Pinterest is a content sharing service that allows users to virtually “pin” photos, videos and other content onto virtual “boards.” Snapchat is an instant messaging app for photos.

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Bloomerang

MARCH 4, 2024

In the nonprofit sector, the annual report is often viewed as a necessary document to fulfill financial reporting obligations. However, when approached with creativity and strategic thinking, it can serve as a powerful instrument for storytelling, showcasing impact, and inspiring donors and supporters to take action.

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Forum One

FEBRUARY 22, 2010

2) Storytelling: The iPad offers a new format for one-on-one sharing of compelling interactive stories. Showing a lawmaker a photo slideshow, short video, animation, or visualization will feel more natural on a panel than on a laptop. It promises a better experience for reading electronic documents and books.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 7, 2012

Assign them key tasks and document results. Define user habits, outline behavior, document social activity, note their tendency to be tech savvy (what percentage are using a mobile platform, etc.), Bottom image: A collage of photos and other images ( Guide Creative ). and identify their top three tasks on your site.

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 2, 2022

The nonprofit world swims in an ocean of written documents. Most people will forgive an occasional grammar or spelling error, but writing letter after letter and document after document littered with spelling errors, grammatical mistakes, and choppy sentence flow will dilute the credibility of a writer—and a nonprofit.

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Neon CRM

JUNE 27, 2023

The columns on the spreadsheet can simply include the date, time, topic, caption copy, and graphic/photo for each post. Some audiences on some platforms respond best to videos instead of photos, for example. Social media provides an avenue to share these stories using photos, videos, or text graphics.

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Nonprofits Source

JANUARY 8, 2024

Now, it’s time to take another look at it to make sure the document has evolved with your campaign and is ready for the public eye. Perfect your storytelling strategy based on the tactics that have resonated most with donors so far. This will increase the relevance of your emails for each supporter, making them more likely to give.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 30, 2011

Photos matter. Curtis Wong of Microsoft Research has a wonderful presentation of Microsoft’s World Wide Telescope project where the tool for presenting the universe around us sets a stage for storytelling by allowing researchers and students alike to create a narrative through the interface. Newspapers know how to present information.

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