Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 14, 2011

Flickr Photo by SMEX Beirut. Today, I had the pleasure of doing a little planning for March, 2012 bootcamps in country with the strategic social media adviser from Jordan, Rami Al-Karmi and Heather Ramsey at IIE in San Francisco as well as Craig Newmark and Barry Newstead from Wikimedia. Stay tuned … Video and Storytelling.

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Everyaction

JUNE 11, 2018

To set your email images to automatically be sized to fit the screen that they are displayed on, insert this code into your html editor to define the image’s size by relation to the screen rather than pixels: For more instructions on using this code and other helpful tips for mobile optimizing your emails, read more here.

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Qgiv

AUGUST 29, 2023

Once your template is created, add photos, videos, and links to make your emails more visual for your donors. Make the process easier by having ChatGPT write your web page copy. Write instructions for volunteers explaining [Your Organization’s Mission], [Volunteer Duties], and [What to Bring].”

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 5, 2007

She showed me her room, her photo album, talked about her family, her daily activities, her job goals and how much she appreciated the opportunity to attend the university. I was touched that our photos and the kids drawings that we exchange on a quarterly basis were on her wall. I took this video so I could show it to the kids.

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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. Photos and slideshows. Google dominates search on the desktop Web and now they are pioneering search on the mobile Web (see also m.google.com ). Add your nonprofit under “Employment.” Powerful stats.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 21, 2010

I had to learn how to create web pages, manage email, modem escape codes, navigate the Internet, and whatever came along. And then immediately create instructional materials and trainings for the community. For almost six years, she has been integrating social media tools and tricks into her instructional practice.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 21, 2013

Clearing your personal data from a cell phone prevents anyone else getting your call history, contacts, emails, photos, text messages, calendar appointments, and many more things. Their data erase tool is a web page where you can find short videos on how to reset several different phones, the main models mostly.

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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. Photos and slideshows. Google dominates search on the desktop Web and now they are pioneering search on the mobile Web (see also m.google.com ). Add your nonprofit under “Employment.” Powerful stats.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 1, 2007

One of the ideas I've been exploring is the whole notion of video blogging from Cambodia by Cambodians. I'm going to bring over video blogging kits - inexpensive cameras, rechargeable batteries, SD cards, and Ryanne's book. I put out a call for a session "Mobile Blogging and Video Blogging: I know nothing, educate me."

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Tech Soup

JUNE 9, 2014

They hold our photos, music, videos and apps. It holds your preferences, essential apps, and your data that includes your contacts, passwords, call history, web browsing history and bookmarks, text messages, emails etc. What if you need to erase one? No problem. Here’s how. They weigh just half a gram.

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NonProfit Hub

JULY 31, 2014

Here’s a quick recap of how they handled our group: We had clear instructions and expectations prior to arriving at their facility. We were given detailed instructions on what would happen over the next four hours. An employee floated around taking photos of all of the volunteers. Back to work for the rest of the shift.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 26, 2011

The Red Cross has a simple shelter search web app , accessible via any web browser. The app was developed on the Windows Azure platform, a cloud-based platform for building and hosting web applications. Photos and video can also be included. Photo: Lee Maguire. Notifying Family and Friends.

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NonProfit Hub

JULY 31, 2014

Here’s a quick recap of how they handled our group: We had clear instructions and expectations prior to arriving at their facility. We were given detailed instructions on what would happen over the next four hours. An employee floated around taking photos of all of the volunteers. Back to work for the rest of the shift.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 21, 2009

We received over 100 submissions from nonprofits and libraries around the country (and world) who've shared their digital stories in video , photo , and GoldMail formats for the Digital Storytelling Challenge! Tags: Marketing Multimedia & Graphics Social Networking Software Using the Web and Internet Web 2.0

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 9, 2009

One of the things that is essential to good instruction (or presentation) is knowing your audience. Every time I present or facilitate a workshop, I review the web sites and social media ant trails (social media properties) of participants. . It's a shift from sage on the stage instruction to honoring the learners for what they know.

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Qgiv

JUNE 22, 2021

To give all donors an at-home virtual screening, consider livestreaming the video online. These categories can be: Most money raised Most shares on a post Most likes Most views on a video. Not only are they simple to host with the right livestreaming or video conferencing software, almost anyone can lead them. DIY Fundraisers.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 19, 2013

The server has four GForce 7600 video cards installed; each card runs two monitors. Remember we didn’t supply any instructions at all on this installation. He mentioned that it takes a robust desktop computer with enough PCI slots to accommodate the extra video cards. " Image: Photo by Reliatech. Eight mice.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 4, 2007

Watch the video that Preetam Rai took to see the game in action and the video by Thomas Wanhoff to see a report out of the game.). If there was all-day instruction on the Web 2.0 In reflection, after watching both Preetam's video and Thomas Wanoff's video of the game in process, I guess I should be so hard on myself.

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 12, 2011

Not only does a personalized website give participants a platform to share their story, upload photos, and process secure, online donations, it also helps them easily manage their fundraiser. Upload a personal photo. Each participant should be able to set a personal fundraising goal and then track donations to monitor progress.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 24, 2007

A UNIX based, text interface, later updated to be Web browser-based when the Web became more mainstream in 1995. Part of my job was to evangelize about the Internet and later the web - how artists should harness its power by getting an email address instead of using their fax machines! I think showing the Web 2.0

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 1, 2009

The point, in the context of this conversation, is that a minority of social media users are creators—people who write blog posts, upload photos onto Flickr, or share homemade videos on YouTube. These are all active social endeavors that contribute positive value to the social Web. And yet many museums are fixated on creators.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2008

Photo by Dan Zen. Instructions for Playing. Here's an example: Photo by Bitmask.   (I'm hoping that participants will have viewed or seen Chris Heuer's video interview with Charlene as part of the promotion of the workshop.  It's Hawaii Geek Week !     The Social Media Game.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 25, 2007

which was based on Marnie Webb's Ten Ways To Use Web 2.0 It also incorporates cc licensed materials from others, including videos and flickr photos. site that has photos, etc., While browsing RSS reader today, I noticed someone had favorited my recursive mashup photo that I have on the cover the presentation.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 18, 2007

Machine Is US/ing Us (video) ( transcript ). A blog with the comments feature enabled allows or sharing photos in flickrs allows Extension program participants to discuss plans and programs. Personal learning and reflection on and about your instructional topic. Research to incorporate in instructional materials.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 16, 2009

The point, in the context of this conversation, is that a minority of social media users are creators—people who write blog posts, upload photos onto Flickr, or share homemade videos on YouTube. These are all active social endeavors that contribute positive value to the social Web. And yet many museums are fixated on creators.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 19, 2006

The photo above was taken at last night's TechSoup Mixed Reality Event. The live video feed was being streamed from the Netsquared gathering in San Francisco happening at the same time as the virtual gatherng in Second Life. Both events had their share of clunkiness. that didn't last long or ruin the event.

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Get Fully Funded

APRIL 29, 2021

Many of these elements can be added to your website relatively easily with the write content management system (CMS), but if you find yourself running into technical issues, don’t be afraid to reach out to a professional nonprofit web design agency. Color contrast. Can your text be read on your website’s background color?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 13, 2007

Photo from my flickr stream View the Tagging Screencast Presented by NTEN. I've thought long and hard about how video editing amplifies my compulsive nature and how I need to reduce my ratio of video minutes viewed per hours of editing time! If you're still with me, let me share some tidbits about that photo. sharpie.???

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 18, 2008

I've long believed that museums have a special opportunity to support the community spirit of Web 2.0 They left and wrote over 100 positive reviews of the evening, 12 positive reviews of the museum, and shared over 300 photos of their revels on Flickr. Don't look at the number of videos, photos, or reviews.

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Whole Whale

MARCH 28, 2023

It exists in the algorithms that govern your Facebook timeline, explains why YouTube always recommends the perfect video, or more recently, powers the Large Language Models (LLMs) like OpenAI’s Chat-GPT , Google’s Bard , or Bing’s AI Chatbot , and others that have made headlines. Ignoring this can lead to the Grey Jacket Problem.

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Allegiance Group

DECEMBER 22, 2022

A photo and a quote combined can draw a potential donor to identify with the present need and situation and then compel a visitor to donate. Embed teaser forms on your other web pages. Load time is the time it takes for all the content on your page to display, including images, videos, and text. Include a testimonial.

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Forj

AUGUST 12, 2021

At Web Courseworks, we provide eLearning solutions for associations, including an LMS with built-in course authoring functionality. These digital assets can include stock photos, templates for various eLearning elements (ranging from page layouts to learning games), ready-to-use animations, vectors, and more. Multimedia tools.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 6, 2008

If you think about it, there are two reasons to tag things: to bookmark them for yourself so you can use them later to describe them for a large group of users who might find them helpful in finding things later I tag things on the Web all the time using Delicious. But I do it because it's useful to me as an organizational tool.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 20, 2012

I come across so many great conversations, ideas, and resources all over the web every day. " Check out the 12 Trends, from Personalized Video Thanking to Ebooks to Digital Fundraising Staffing! combines professional instruction and friendly competition into a hands-on media-making project."

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Bloomerang

JULY 6, 2022

Plus, it includes a carousel of suggested donation amounts with photos of different animals that the organization has helped. To increase your online donation form’s accessibility, design it with the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) in mind. These guidelines provide clear instructions for making your site more accessible.

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Qgiv

AUGUST 27, 2021

Provide engaging content that your supporters want to interact with and share with others— blog posts with human stories, striking images, videos that explain your mission, information on your volunteer program, event invitations, etc. Users create and share short videos overlaid with music and audio. Use striking images and videos.

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Care2

FEBRUARY 25, 2008

57) Mobile (15) Nonprofit Benchmark Studies (15) Nonprofit Events (36) nptech (8) Online Advertising (5) Online Advocacy (47) Online Fundraising (97) Online Marketing (59) Online Organizing (32) SEO (3) Social Networking (109) Technology (31) Trends (51) Video (27) Volunteering (2) Web 2.0 (60) How frequently did we email?

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