Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 7, 2006

I recently learned about an nonprofit organization in India dedicated to using video to help alleviate poverty and accelerate social change in the developing world. It's a reminder that sharing your video offline can also be powerful. The organization is called Video Volunteers.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 7, 2013

Today, however, the program has been expanded to Australia, Canada, Germany, India, Ireland, Italy, and the United Kingdom and it offers some very powerful free tools to nonprofits: Google Wallet donate button. Video annotations. Related Link: How Nonprofits Can Successfully Use YouTube and Create Video Content for the Social Web.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 8, 2020

Clarity refers to the nonprofit’s ability to concisely and effectively integrate the four storytelling framework elements referred to above (problem – solution – impact – ask), preferably in multiple formats such as audio, video, images, and text. 2) Information Hub.

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AFP Blog

OCTOBER 6, 2015

According to the video, the donations allowed International Medical Corps to provide aid to 200,000 people in the aftermath of the two major earthquakes in April and May in the tiny Himalayan nation." 'via via Blog this'

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 10, 2022

Upload powerful photos and videos. To prove that point, this video tweet from @WildlifeSOS that tells the good news story of a nail-biting rescue of a leopard in India received very high engagement compared to their other tweets: 4. Create custom graphics for powerful quotes, statistics, and call-to-actions.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 14, 2010

Note from Beth: I’m planning a year-end campaign for one of my favorite charities and wanted some good tips on incorporating video. Video Can Help Boost Donations in End-Of-The-Year Fundraising by Michael Hoffman. Video Can Help Boost Donations in End-Of-The-Year Fundraising by Michael Hoffman. How big is video online?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 19, 2017

WhatsApp Payments are launching soon in India. Since the release of Facebook Live , Facebook video exposure has increased 360% across everyone’s news feed. The world’s most popular messaging apps are WhatsApp, Facebook Messenger, and Viber. 1 in 3 use WeChat Pay in China. Snapcash launched in 2004, but it is not widely used.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 9, 2007

video team. This is so much what I'd love to see happen in Cambodia - to see a video of daily life in a developing country through the eyes of people who actually live there. I like how video blogging can build a bridge to the west for small ngos working in a developing country. I'm addicted to Swajana which means ???our

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Get Fully Funded

OCTOBER 31, 2022

Use compelling photos and video. On that thank-you page, have a bit of text to thank them for their donation and maybe a short thank-you video. Even if you don’t think you have time or space to tell stories in words, use videos and photos to let your potential donors know the difference their gifts can make. Update your blog.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 21, 2016

The top three countries are the United States, India, and Pakistan. After much experimentation, Insights consistently reveal that photo posts get more engagement than links or videos. Females are responsible for 59% of the engagement that occurs on the Nonprofit Tech for Good Facebook Page. 000003% on a good day.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 18, 2013

If our Bookshare team is trying to help a blind student in India get a book she needs for university, make it easy for us to do that. I understand from our peers in India that he was also essential in the passing of India’s recent copyright exception. We’ll all miss his presence as we approach the finishing line on the Treaty.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 12, 2019

Recently, Social Misfits Media’s Community Manager, Angharad Francis, interviewed the brilliant Pushpa Aman Singh, Founder of GuideStar India. In this interview, Pushpa discusses her journey prior to founding GuideStar India, her role in helping NGOs and how WhatsApp is driving strong communication among stakeholders.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 22, 2014

TechSoup has been running international video and photo competitions for some years now. Any charity anywhere in the world can send us a short video or five-picture Flickr slideshow that tells about their work and will be entered to win some cash prizes. Please visit the site to view this video). The Winners in Their Own Words.

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Robert Weiner

FEBRUARY 10, 2009

Tactical Tech, based in the UK and India, has published The Quick ‘n Easy Guide to Online Advocacy to help advocates find "online services that are quick to use and easy to understand."

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Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 24, 2009

The questions, and listening back to how I responded (as painful as it may be to listen/watch yourself on video!), I also think that examining this idea in a place where the 3 areas create a very clear Venn Diagram, like India, invites a wide range of voices to the conversation. Find out more about the conference here.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 19, 2017

The Resource Alliance has been presenting the NGO Awards in Thailand, India and Vietnam for 10 years, but 2017 marked a substantial change in the award program’s focus and delivery. They also had a talented filmmaker capture the winners’ stories in brief videos.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 9, 2010

Lighting of the lamp is a traditional way to begin a conference here in India. A short list of 18 nominees selected by a panel of highly respected IT experts and leaders in the field who met via video conference. Tags: india. I'm still very jet-lagged and adjusting to both the time zone and culture in Mumbai.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MAY 31, 2008

When Brij heard I was going to South India, he insisted I visit his team in Pondicherry. Planet Read added subtitles to Bollywood music videos. Hundreds of millions of people now see these videos, eager to learn the words of their favorite videos and becoming literate along the way.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 3, 2010

Note from Beth: During my trip to India in February, I was introduced to a nonprofit children's book publisher in India, Pratham Books. “It was set up to fill a gap in the market for good quality, reasonably priced children’s books in a variety of Indian languages. India has a reading problem and the problem is two fold.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 23, 2014

The application allows any user to send information—including photos, videos, audio, or text—simply and securely to a Martus account. The Oak Foundation just awarded us a grant to provide accessible content to people with qualifying learning differences (like dyslexia) in Brazil, India, and the United Kingdom.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 11, 2014

The high Internet growth countries are now India, Indonesia, Nigeria, Mexico, and Philippines. Mobile: we’re watching much more of our video (nearly 25%) now on our smartphones. Here's what I found: Internet growth: 2.6 billion people are now using the Internet worldwide, 618 million of them are in China.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 14, 2007

In a couple of days, video bloggers Jay Dedman and Ryanne Hodson will be in Cambodia doing some work with Project Hope International to help them document the work they're doing to rehabilitate people involved in human trafficking. They are taking some video cameras, including 3 Kiddie Vcams donated by Doug from the video bloggers list.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 9, 2013

How about Facebook friends in India? Whether it is through a search engine like Google or Baidu , a hashtag via social media, or a tag to use in a You Tube video then it is making your work more visible to your target market. Not every network is text based: Pinterest is primarily image-based, while some focus on video.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 13, 2016

A mentor is going to have a more powerful impact over somebody than YouTube videos. People who start novel organizations like Ashesi University in Ghana, Technology Access Foundation in Seattle, and Shanti Bhavan (a boarding school) in India. His biggest prescription is around connecting with these human forces.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 28, 2007

After the opening show, we were treated to a short video extolling the virtues of investing in Malaysia. Willing participants in a transaction of an evening of entertainment for a four minute video. It had more of a feeling of a traditional cultural experience than last year's India party (which was Bollywood to the max).

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Tech Soup

JUNE 15, 2012

Check out our new website featuring a video of Guy Kawasaki’s keynote speech in San Francisco, or follow us on Facebook or Twitter to stay tuned, and here’s our schedule of upcoming events: Toronto, Ontario – June 26. New Delhi, India – December TBA. Chicago, IL – September 19.

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Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

” – Azim Premji, one of the wealthiest and most generous business leaders in India. For example perhaps it would work well as a video? An online showcase video is relatively easy to outsource or do in house. Invest in your donors. “ Philanthropy needs patience, tenacity and time.” Try to: Revise.

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Connection Cafe

MARCH 26, 2009

So for the next hour I got to relive my Texas hail experience through photos and videos that Austinites sent by the gigabyte into our local news channels. I think this should change, because recently I had a really fun time making a volunteer video about a special nonprofit event. Now this was my first video, so cut me some slack.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 13, 2011

I’ve had the opportunity to work in Canada, Australia, Cambodia, Romania, India, UK, and Africa and enjoy the extra dimension of understanding different cultures as part of the instructional and learning process. In the video above, she talks about her love of music and philanthropy.

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Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 4, 2011

You may have seen The Girl Effect videos. Before and during her studies, she conducted field research for governmental and non-governmental organizations, as well as foundations, on maternal and child health in Sri Lanka, Ghana, Haiti, Somalia, Uganda, Kenya and India. If you haven't, check them out at GirlEffect.org.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 25, 2013

A lot of helpful and insightful digital storytelling advice was shared; below are some of the highlights: India: NASSCOM Foundation, TechSoup Global partner, led the way with How to Create High Impact Stories. Although video is popular issues like bandwidth speed, which affect many communities, photo may be the best storytelling option.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 22, 2009

Most users prefer to consume user generated content, by reading blog, watching videos, or browsing through photos. Open group blogs, photo pools, video collages and similar projects are also good examples of co-creation. community was built around a series of videos Amber Lee Ettinger made to support Obama’s campaign.

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Forum One

APRIL 22, 2009

I like how the Bank is combining the Live Interviews Online with the face-to-face event and also YouTube video questions. Or post your video or audio questions on our Youtube. Here's a YouTube video post from the moderator inviting participation. s Minister for Economic Cooperation and Development, and activist Bob Geldof.

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Get Fully Funded

MAY 16, 2022

Illuminate India and Clubhouse Guatemala both completely cover the cost of many of the children in their programs with monthly sponsors. For best results, combine your appeal with social media posts about how monthly giving makes a big difference, a short video of your nonprofit in action, and a mention in your newsletter.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 10, 2009

Tactical Tech, based in the UK and India, has published The Quick 'n Easy Guide to Online Advocacy to help advocates find "online services that are quick to use and easy to understand."

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 16, 2011

He forecasts that in a couple of years smartphones will become powerful enough to run a full desktop operating system that can do virtually everything a computer can do, including photo editing and high definition video conferencing. The proto example is the Motorola Atrix smartphone.

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Association TV

JULY 29, 2022

In the mid-19th Century, the East India Company needed a physical space to store their piles and piles of ledgers, forms and other important artifacts that managed their transactions all over the world. One disgruntled employee even diarized his distaste for the East India Company when it did away with the “yearly turtle feast.”

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