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Top 2021 Fundraising Strategies: Mastering Online Appeals and Messaging

Bloomerang

Are you using video and/or compelling images to tell relevant stories? . If you’re doing this on your own, it’s a good idea to ask a few friends or volunteers who know nothing about your organization to serve as user guinea pigs. . Develop a written plan to promote your online appeals, blog posts, videos, and other digital content.

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Testing Your Donation Form Part 3: Wrangling Guinea Pigs

Connection Cafe

If you think 5-8 participants won’t be enough for some stakeholders, show them one video clip of your testing where a participant says, “Um… I guess at this point I’d leave the website (without making a donation)” If that doesn’t get their attention, invite them to watch a round of testing personally.

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Win a Trip to Report for the NYT with Nicholas Kristof

Have Fun - Do Good

Possible destinations this year are Guinea-Bissau, Guinea, Liberia and/or Ghana. For more information, and to watch Kristof's video invitation to apply, go to his post, Win a Trip! You must be 18 or older to apply, and can submit an essay or video. The student reporter will blog and vlog for nytimes.com.

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[VIDEO] 5 Must-Do’s of Year-End Fundraising Success

Bloomerang

There are all kinds of great videos, case studies you can dive into and kind of get to know us a little bit more. . George heard about this and he grabbed his phone and he videoed a whole bunch of people saying, “Thank you to the Smith Family Foundation. The video alone brought us to tears. We’re a donor database.

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How to plan and run a good web conference

Forum One

Have a guinea pig user log in as a participant so you know what they are seeing and can work out any glitches. Use the technology available to vary activity with video or slides, interactive polling, application sharing or whiteboard. Don't forget clear instructions about audio, whether using teleconference or VOIP.

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New Screencast: Web Analytics Demystified: A Primer for Nonprofits

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Laura Quinn for serving as my guinea pig for recording and incorporating brief interviews into screen cast (as well as her for terrific introductory article that helped me get started). I'd also like to thank Jeremiah Owyang who graciously allowed me to use 25 seconds from his video interview with Avinash Kaushik.