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Vlog Fundraising and Widgets

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I'm thinking about the use of video or vlog posts coupled with fundraising widgets as well as some other possible ways (ad revenue from web videos?) They raised $1,500 in two weeks from $10, $20, and $50 donations. (I to raise money for sponsoring a college student in Cambodia via the Sharing Foundation. I did a campaign video.

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Vlogging and Nonprofits?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I've been experimenting with vlogging and looking for examples by nonprofit organizations. There are a handful of emerging examples of vlogging in nonprofit land that have moved past some of the barriers. A few folks responded to my query of the vlogging community , a community that hopes to spread vlogging far and wide.

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Guest Post by Michael Hoffman: Why Nonprofits Should Be on YouTube

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Donate Now”, or “Sign the Petition” become links that really work. Tags: vlog. It gives amazing benefits to nonprofits in terms of branding and functionality. The best part of the YouTube Nonprofit Program is linkable annotations—the ability to put links, anywhere in a video, that actually go to your website. No excuses.

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Virgin America As Connector

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

It turned out that I was sitting next to Eve Penny Cowan who is the founder of Future Leaders Institute that guides and mentors youth to employ social entrepreneurship to solve the world’s most pressing needs and Dan Jacobs who is the founder of EveryWun is a platform where individuals can leverage business donations to causes.

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Guest Post by Michael Hoffman: YouTube’s Game-Changing New Feature for Nonprofits

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

would be able to use the overlay advertising feature to create donation links. If you still aren’t sure what all of this means, it means that nonprofit YouTube videos can have buttons built into the videos that say DONATE NOW or SIGN THE PETITION and these buttons will work—they will link to any site you point them to.

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Changeblogger Ning Group, Meetup, Meme and Wiki

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In early May, I wrote a post asking all of you for suggestions for "changebloggers," people who are using their blog, podcast or vlog to raise awareness, to build community, and/or to facilitate readers/listeners/viewers' taking action to make the world a better place. Changeblogger Facebook to connect with other changebloggers.

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Let The Change Blogging Meme Hit The Road.

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I just donated a small amount to his effort! Britt Bravo wrote a post several months back defining the term: people who are using their blog, podcast or vlog to raise awareness, build community, and/or facilitate readers/listeners/viewers' taking action to make the world a better place. Alex is a great example of a change blogger.

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