Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 23, 2008

Feedly - it’s a really nice tool for making your feeds more readable, and it syncs with google reader, so that when you read something using Feedly, it’s marked as read on Google Reader. I also use varied greasemonkey scripts to make things more interesting. Fire.fm - I’m in love with both Pandora and Last.fm.

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Byte Technology

FEBRUARY 11, 2015

For instance, ever get swept up in the Facebook videos that automatically play as you scroll through your feed page? These tools can be simple, such as examples of fundraising emails, social media posts, phone scripts and even official logos. Build your campaign around the concept of letting the community create the content.

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Judi Sohn

JUNE 30, 2009

So far, I’ve created SSBs for my task manager ( RTM ), my 2 main Google email accounts, my timesheet & expense application ( Clicktime ), Salesforce, Convio Admin, Box.net , and my feed reader ( Fever ). If I had any feeds set to show unread counts, I’d see that in the Fever icon, too: Support for userscripts.org.

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Get Fully Funded

AUGUST 8, 2022

You’re asking people to help you feed hungry families or save animals or provide scholarships for at-risk youth. It’s a great idea to prepare an outline to follow, or a script to rehearse, so that you’ll be confident, clear, and determined! Fundraising is not about you. It’s about those you serve. See how that works?

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Get Fully Funded

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

And if you can use your Core Number to share what it costs to feed that child lunch, even better! If you are producing a video (rather than just filming things onsite), prepare an engaging script or captions. In our story, the resolution would be raising enough funds to provide every school child with a nutritional breakfast and lunch.

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sgEngage

MAY 31, 2023

BikeMS organizers arrange kickoff events, meet-ups, cycling safety clinics, social hours, and other non-scripted events that have no agenda other than building the BikeMS culture and helping supporters make personal connections. Build unique partnerships that amplify the lifestyle.

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Greater Giving

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

They educate and entertain viewers quickly, feeding information to them in a comfortable, effective way. The script should provide insight into the nonprofit by following to the common writer’s mantra of “show don’t tell.” To get the right message across to your viewers, it’s important to understand the purpose of your video message.

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 30, 2021

You can find a sample script here. We’ll put it to work right away to feed a family!” Thank you phone calls for first-time donors, major donors, monthly donors, and other targeted groups to offer immediate gratification, establish trust, and demonstrate the need for the just-received gift.

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Connection Cafe

JUNE 23, 2016

Spielberg-esque production values, clever scripts, glitzy montage sequences, and enough moving narratives to make Godard feel warm & fuzzy. 7 Feeding America: “Four faces of Hunger” (website). Because when potential supporters experience your real stories of impact, they’re more inclined to join your fight.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 2, 2008

so to avoid feeling overwhelmed I sometimes use mark read all on all feeds -- I read too many blogs. " These are really simple products; the video was done in less than 30 minutes, not counting the time it took to write the script and upload it to YouTube. Anyway, she has started a YouTube Channel. Go subscribe.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 20, 2009

These services are powered by the RSS feeds that each network offers to its users and makes following activity across sites easier and in one spot. In fact, I watched Laura crowdsource some of her presentation on FriendFeed. FriendFeed also has "rooms" that can be public or private - these feeds with discussion items.

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The Science Behind Engaging your Supporters

AUGUST 28, 2018

The event page's form should feed contact data into a CRM (Contact Relationship Management system) or event management software. It’s also a great idea to send along a call script and encourage folks to get on the phone to make personal invitations. Major donors expect this kind of personal touch. Make Your Follow Up Calls.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 9, 2006

Gather your ideas Create a script - don't go free form or you might end up with a lot of ums and ahs. Feeds - Important for distribution to pick up podcasts via Itunes and orther feedreaders. This is the call of action - get people to subscribe to your feed. Third-party services will create your feed for you.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 7, 2006

I was excited because the other way to do this is to bookmark your comments in delicious with a tag like comments and use the feed to display them on your sidebar. Submit your comment Okay, there is a greasemonkey script so you can skip the clicking on the bookmarklet. So, I registered. Then off to bookmark some comments.

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

FEBRUARY 15, 2005

These folks are in the business of developing scripts you can use to read these values from within your pages. Speaking of scripts, we found a nice little Visual Basic script made available by Telepro for reading an RSS feed and formatting it for display on your website. The script can be found at the Telepro site.

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NTEN

JANUARY 22, 2009

After the mp3 file is complete, you need to upload it to a hosting service and add it to your podcast RSS feed. I personally recommend LibSyn.com for hosting your podcast files and RSS feed generation. Archive.org will host the mp3 files and OurMedia.org provides tools to create the RSS feed and promote the podcast.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 1, 2014

scripting and editing videos and short films. A/B testing the layout of our fundraising forms. engaging in digital storytelling. applying SEO best practices. launching keyword campaigns for search. drafting advertisements. and testing testing testing. Email Matters.

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Connection Cafe

NOVEMBER 28, 2011

Your key message and key actions should also feed naturally into wireframes for your mobile site. As you build the site, you'll want to be sure to include a browser detect script that can direct mobile visitors to your mobile site without having to click or type a distinct URL. Build and test.

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Nonprofits Source

APRIL 19, 2017

This means you can target Facebook ads to appear on the feeds of people who have donated to your nonprofit. To add this code you’ll need access to place the script in the header or footer tags of your website. Custom Facebook audiences are an effective way to leverage your existing email lists.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 10, 2010

We have a mix of staff who dived into social media long ago (see our business innovation blog and green business twitter feed ), and others who have maybe sort of heard of Twitter. They threw themselves into writing scripts and filming, gathering costume pieces, and otherwise doing much more in 24 hours than I would have thought possible.

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

AUGUST 3, 2006

But pretty soon find yourself lying in bed at night wondering about the best format to use to feed data to the web page. But before long you'll get fed up with the tediousness of parsing individual data elements out of the raw XML feed. XPATH promises a way out. Still seems pretty complicated?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 10, 2008

For every online social network training we do, we actually present the ning site and demonstrate ways participants can create and customize profiles, syndicate RSS feeds, post blogs, photos and videos and more. Developers who are more experienced can create customized scripts and widgets on their site to accommodate the needs of their users.

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Care2

MAY 1, 2008

frogloop Home frogloop Home Receive monthly updates Subscribe to our RSS feed Follow frogloop on Twitter Most Popular Posts Social Network ROI Calculator Social Networking for Nonprofits: ROI, Tracking Tools and More "While Theyre Hot!" More frogloop articles on video can be found here.

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Care2

JANUARY 23, 2009

Never miss a post by subscribing to frogloop's RSS feed. Click here to check out Health Care for America Now’s Click2Call campaign as an example. What has been YOUR experience using patch-through call campaigns for YOUR organization? Let us know in the comments below, so we can learn from your successes (or mistakes)!

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Classy

JULY 19, 2021

Use a script to communicate with your audience . This is great news for nonprofits with tight budgets or small teams seeing as though polished brand advertisements can involve professional lighting, sets, script writers, and more. . The video streaming market is projected to hit $184.3

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 27, 2008

For every online social network training we do, we actually present the ning site and demonstrate ways participants can create and customize profiles, syndicate RSS feeds, post blogs, photos and videos and more. Developers who are more experienced can create customized scripts and widgets on their site to accommodate the needs of their users.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 2, 2006

For the script, before jumping into the how-to of widgets, the screencast will give some context, of course. Based on photo entitled " Gear " from Flattop341's Flickr Industrial Set. If you've been following my widgets category , you know that I'm working on a screencast and have been researching and playing with widgets.

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Byte Technology

MAY 23, 2017

And those tools—in the form of style sheets, scripts etc.—have Lastly, if your social media forte is with Instagram, the plugin Instagram Feed will throw your images onto your WordPress site. You can also build multiple feeds from multiple Instagram accounts and have them come together as one single stream of images.

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Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

It’s the seed that blooms into funding and feeds every organization’s mission. Likewise, fundraising pages and scripts should weave the art of storytelling with data to highlight accomplishments, plans, and success stories. It’s at the heart of donor giving and the key element nonprofits need to acquire and retain donors.

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AccelEvents

JANUARY 7, 2021

Live streaming is where an event streams live video feeds so that viewers can see what’s going on. Depending on the clout of your brand, you may want to carefully control the speaking portion with scripts. . Or it can be a digital experience where customer avatars explore a new brand.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 22, 2007

The Shooting Script Colonizing Social Spaces , looked more broadly at the benefits and drawbacks of museums utilzing social networking sites. In designing and developing The American Image: The Photographs of John Collier Jr. website with The Maxwell Museum of Anthropology we???ve ve found ourselves spending a lot of time in Flickr.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 24, 2006

In the sense that there isn’t a way to, for instance, add the same bookmark to several social bookmarking sites at once (there is, however, a cool greasemonkey script that allows you to copy del.icio.us and other of it’s acquisitions – adding another good reason to switch away from del.icio.us.) bookmarks to ma.gnolia.)

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Bloomerang

APRIL 9, 2021

” You’re going to provide your board members with the script. ” To each board member, have the script, they pick up their cell phones and they make those calls. I eat breakfast and lunch at school, but I come here after school because they feed me, and that’s my three meals a day.” Things like that.

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Judi Sohn

JUNE 18, 2009

I’m always subscribed to way more feeds than any person can read on a regular basis, covering everything from Salesforce and nonprofit technology to knitting and entertainment headlines. Thanks to Fever , a brand new RSS feed reader from web guru Shaun Inman , it’s okay. Sparks are those feeds that, well, feed the kindling.

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Judi Sohn

JUNE 18, 2009

I’m always subscribed to way more feeds than any person can read on a regular basis, covering everything from Salesforce and nonprofit technology to knitting and entertainment headlines. Thanks to Fever , a brand new RSS feed reader from web guru Shaun Inman , it’s okay. Sparks are those feeds that, well, feed the kindling.

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AccelEvents

JANUARY 7, 2021

Live streaming is where an event streams live video feeds so that viewers can see what’s going on. Depending on the clout of your brand, you may want to carefully control the speaking portion with scripts. . Or it can be a digital experience where customer avatars explore a new brand.

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AccelEvents

OCTOBER 8, 2020

Or allow remote participants multiple camera feeds to choose from. Then consider a script or production, where the kiosk exhibitor will be able to interact with the camera on their own or be shot candidly. Give them the option to switch back and forth from side cameras, or focus on a single front camera. .

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