Tech Soup

MARCH 6, 2012

Submissions for the 2012 TechSoup Digital Storytelling Challenge have closed, but the fun has just begun! So who are these hard-working digital storytelling junkies? Let's meet the folks who will decide which one-minute videos and five-photo slide shows take home these excellent award donations from our generous partners.

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Tech Soup

MAY 6, 2016

And data storytelling is at the forefront of such initiatives. At first thought, data and storytelling sound like an odd mix. "Data" sounds dry, while storytelling weaves narratives aimed at appealing to people's emotions. Users can add text, videos, images, audio files, Twitter feeds, PDFs, and more.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 17, 2010

One of my biggest takeaways from last year's Nonprofit Technology Conference (NTC) in San Francisco was this oft-repeated advice on social networking, specifically Facebook and Twitter: you can't make them come to you. We simply needed to make Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube an extension of what we were already doing and saying.

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Qgiv

JULY 21, 2022

Sure, Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter all have millions of users as well, but LinkedIn is the perfect place to connect with businesses and network with professionals who would be interested in supporting your organization’s work and are looking for work or volunteer opportunities. Optimize your photos. Final thoughts.

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Achieve

AUGUST 12, 2021

volunteer fundraisers to brush up on your storytelling abilities. . Communicate with your audience by showing engaging photos of your work or a testimonial. Your peer-to-peer software should provide the opportunity for them to share these elements with personal photos and customized descriptions. Millennial Impact Report.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 1, 2011

Another topic that is of interest and can serve as a valuable launch pad for conversations and information, both for Romanian NGOs and organizations around the world, is a blog. A blog can provide the space for sharing news, announcements, stories, and other information and let you reshare and distribute it all over the web.

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Qgiv

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

Like any other marketing tool or social media platform, TikTok’s value is in its storytelling ability. Label each day on the content calendar with the names of the platforms you’ll be posting on, what you plan on posting about, and any photo or video you’ll need created for the post. Scroll to the left to select the “LIVE” option.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 8, 2012

Upload your nonprofit’s avatar as one (or all five) of your featured profile photos. There’s way too much marketing happening on social networking sites and not enough storytelling. Photos and slideshows. “Circling” on Google+ is equivlent to following on Twitter or liking on Facebook.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 26, 2012

Upload your nonprofit’s avatar as one (or all five) of your featured profile photos. There’s way too much marketing happening on social networking sites and not enough storytelling. Photos and slideshows. “Circling” on Google+ is equivlent to following on Twitter or liking on Facebook.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 31, 2011

Flickr Photo by Caramel - Creatives Common Licensed. And, had to laugh at the geeky recursiveness of creating a story out of qualitative data from Twitter and other sources – and then adding it to my curated nonprofit measurement collection on scoop.it). Do numbers only matter? The only valid data is quantitative data.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 7, 2012

It was much more traffic than I would have ever thought possible, but thanks to the burgeoning “Nonprofit Organizations” communities that I had built on Facebook, Twitter and Myspace, launching a blog was much easier in 2009 than it was when I tried and failed in 2004. Share Stories, Photos, and Videos from Events.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 2, 2015

So when a new digital storytelling tool comes along, we jump at the chance to test it out. Steller (free; Apple iOS) is an app that lets you build stories with your photos, videos, and text. The Brooklyn Public Library created a story about its Bike the Branches program , featuring maps, photos, and an Albert Einstein quote.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 17, 2013

TechSoup's Global Content and Community Coordinator and resident digital storytelling expert Ale Bezdikian says: If you're just embarking on your journey into social media visual storytelling using photos and videos, it's easy to become overwhelmed by the depth of information out there. Where do you start?

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Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

Read on to discover the value of data-driven storytelling and how this key feature increases trust and enables your nonprofit to drive more revenue. By applying simple information-sharing strategies, you can appeal to donors who, in today’s dynamic world, are more sophisticated and demand data when deciding how to allocate funds for donation.

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DNL OmniMedia

AUGUST 25, 2021

That’s where nonprofit storytelling comes into play. That’s why we’ve created this comprehensive guide to nonprofit storytelling, in which you’ll explore the following points: The Importance of Storytelling for Nonprofits. 7 Tips for Effective Storytelling for Nonprofits Using Digital Marketing. Let’s get started.

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Qgiv

JUNE 29, 2021

Social media is an incredibly powerful storytelling tool for your nonprofit. In addition to analytics, Loomly offers an interactions hub where you can see and reply to engagement on Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, and Instagram. For more information on how to enroll in Facebook Payments click here.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 4, 2014

In our recent webinar on super-short videos , we heard from digital storytelling experts about how nonprofits and libraries can use these tools to easily make their own super-short videos. The Internet, especially the mobile web, encourages rapid, distracted sampling of small bits of information from many sources. Really short.

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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.

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Connection Cafe

JANUARY 21, 2014

photo cred:Flickr. Guest post by Vanessa Chase : Fundraising & Communications Strategist, Storytelling Enthusiast and Philanthropy Advocate. On Twitter. . If you find yourself in a similar position, it’s time to look at storytelling as an option for scalable donor stewardship.

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Global Giving

APRIL 28, 2016

They also allow you to choose the speed of fades, which is crucial to get right, especially if you create title or caption cards to give your audience more information. News and information is what Twitter is all about, and it moves fast! On Instagram, the storytelling aspect is the most important.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 29, 2009

A first-of-its-kind Twitter widget that tracks tweets about nonprofits or social causes in real time. Visit the Socialbrite.org Media Center for tweets, information and more about the launch to help spread the word about this collaborative resource! Follow us on Twitter: @socialbrite. Subscribe to our blog updates: [link].

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 7, 2012

It was much more traffic than I would have ever thought possible, but thanks to the burgeoning “Nonprofit Organizations” communities that I had built on Facebook, Twitter and Myspace, launching a blog was much easier in 2009 than it was when I tried and failed in 2004. Share Stories, Photos, and Videos from Events.

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 14, 2010

If not, you can follow the conversation in real time on Twitter with the hashtag #crowdx. (We’ll Ushahidi : most recently, Ushahidi adpated it’s platform for use in Haiti and Chili to let the crowd both in Haiti/Chili and outside share information and data in real time via mobiles or a web browser. Embrace storytelling.

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NonProfit Hub

APRIL 8, 2014

And Twitter? Find sites that provide information directly related to your nonprofit’s cause and then use Delicious to quickly find content to post. 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. You’ve got social media covered.

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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 24, 2011

To follow more of the things I find online, you can follow @amysampleward on Twitter (which is just a blog and resource feed), or find me on Delicious (for all kinds of bookmarks). Real-time is the fastest way to join the conversation, provide help and information, and direct the messages. Social helps you be your own media.

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Tech Soup

MAY 19, 2011

Videos can be used to do anything from providing useful training information to compelling the viewer to act on behalf of a cause. An effective nonprofit video can be as simple as a Flickr photo stream set to an audio track or a really great interview. Digital Storytelling Methods: Time and Resources Needed?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 3, 2009

The photo is of the Pacific Ocean at Monterey taken by a Flickr user, Amayu. (No, it wasn't a presentation about Google Wave!). So, part of the presentation included a live demonstration on Twitter. tactphil it is about information filtering, relationship building, learning and spreading ideas. amyrsward storytelling!

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 14, 2014

It’s estimated that by late 2014 or early 2015 the majority of adults will get their information from social networks rather than search engines and that social networks will become the primary source of referral traffic to your website and blog. Prioritize storytelling over marketing. The Internet is at a tipping point.

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NonProfit Hub

OCTOBER 7, 2015

Twitter and other social media feeds. Volunteer Information. Thankfully, storytelling expert Lori Jacobwith has seven tips that can help formulate your story. Because you’re a new nonprofit, you might not have a lot of past experiences to rely on or photos to use. Blog for content. Email listserv signup. Shopping cart.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 14, 2011

Each year, we host a Nonprofit Digital Storytelling Challenge where nonprofits and libraries around the world submit short, digital stories about their organizations. Users from around the world then contributed hundreds of comments and votes to inform the decision of an expert panel of judges who narrowed the field down to ten finalists.

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Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 10, 2009

If you are using Twitter, share links to new blog posts (you can shorten the urls with bit.ly ). Write titles that tell the reader whether or not the post has information that is relevant to them. You'll build community and provide a useful information filtering service for your readers. posts, photos, video).

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Get Fully Funded

DECEMBER 4, 2022

Write the release in a straightforward manner, including relevant information with no sentimental language. At the end, include boilerplate information about your organization, such as when it was founded, the services it provides, and how many people it serves. Include 1 – 3 photos and a short video, if you have one.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 7, 2012

Test your current site: Use online or onsite usability testing to learn what information your users look for on your website and how easy it is for them to find it. Information architecture: Everyone accesses information on your website differently. Use this valuable information to plan your content's future.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 25, 2007

They are posting their introductions and photos here. Eduardo Bejar, of Fundapi , representing Yankana , one of the featured projects, says " Hola Mundo " with a photo of himself with his right foot on the southern hemisphere and left foot on the northern hemisphere. If you're on Facebook , search for the n2y2 group!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 1, 2009

Flickr Photo from SteveTookIt. Photo by RedRaspus. I need get rid of clutter, but I first need to do the redesign thinking process before getting into the details of the information design, look, and feel. And, I also need to make my information tracking a bit more systematic. Then, try to think in even broader terms.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 30, 2011

And somewhere on the internet this information is quietly collecting. An iPhone app called Memento compiles the data from your various disparate personal information repositories such as Twitter, Facebook and Flickr, and brings them back into a diary format, of all things. Newspapers know how to present information.

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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. This information may seem irrelevant to social media, but it’s key in making sure your posts resonate with the right people. Some audiences on some platforms respond best to videos instead of photos, for example.

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