Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 18, 2012

Allowing those to speak for themselves is more compelling than anything we could script ourselves. We couldn’t have scripted better ads. So many of them are quite moving—people telling their stories of tragedy and loss, or how they were saved by a friend or even a complete stranger. They are why we do the work we do. (6)

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sgEngage

JUNE 22, 2021

Here are some examples: User Interviews. All you need is a basic script of questions you’ll ask and 6-8 participants. Data obtained from user interviews can be used to develop Audience Personas , to help guide design and content creation for your website/emails and to get ideas for improving events.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 13, 2015

We [ myself , @MeganSoffe r , and @PIRDave from OnGood ] streamed an interview and a short 20-minute session, but with creativity and time for planning, Periscope streaming as a storytelling tool is untapped and a future fundraising success story yet to be told. Have a two-person team for streaming interviews, site visits, and events.

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NonProfit Hub

APRIL 29, 2021

This could include interviews with patrons or testimonials, but the best option is often the simplest. For example, if your team put together a YouTube video about your summer programs, adapt the script of the video to a blog post, and post a related photo on Instagram. Remind them you are still here doing good work.

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Kindful

MARCH 11, 2021

They don’t follow a script. Ascertaining this is difficult when interviewing a facilitator, but you can glean insights from former clients, which is why you want to watch testimonial videos and call references. Facilitating a high-impact, memorable retreat is an art and the best facilitators are master artists.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 10, 2008

She interviewed Manny Hernandez from Tu Diabetes and Es Tu Diabetes , and Ayumi Stubbs from the ASPCA Online Community. Recently, Thom Clark, Gordon Mayer, and Demetrio Maguigad did an email interview with me. Nonprofits, support groups, and nonprofit professionals have found their homes on Ning. What did set out to accomplish?

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The Science Behind Engaging your Supporters

SEPTEMBER 7, 2018

The highlights of our interview are below: Why is video such an important component of an organization’s digital strategy? Instead of scripting anything, you spend a day with the organization and you see what you get. Grassroots movements have been doing it because they didn't have the resources to script.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 22, 2007

If you're making a screencast, and you end up having a vertical monopoly on the process (you write the script, do the filming, operate the mouse, do the editing, and produce it), you need to become a super learner. For this screencast, I conducted several interviews lasting approximately 50 minutes. I used a hybrid of his approach.

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Whole Whale

MARCH 22, 2023

Video Scripts : AI writers can help nonprofits create compelling video scripts that showcase their work, impact, and vision. We did this with George, and then he interviewed the AI version of himself , we think it scared him. Build a model trained on your founder and then have it summarize articles with opinions.

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NTEN

AUGUST 3, 2011

The creative freedom we were given enabled us to bring the best out of the studio and the fact that we had control over the script meant we could really explore the story we wanted. A key factor in enabling the project to happen was trust and collaboration from C4.

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Judi Sohn

JUNE 2, 2009

Salesforce’s Dreamforce site used to load and immediately start with interviews of folks excited about the conference. I know there are plug-ins I can install that will disable flash and scripting, but I’ve found those to penalize my surfing experience on other sites that know how to respect their visitors.

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DNL OmniMedia

MAY 25, 2023

Create a script that your callers can use to keep these conversations short but impactful. This could be an interview, a video, or a story you crafted based on information your beneficiaries shared with you. You can’t meet every donor in person to thank them, but you can get in touch with a lot of them through a simple phone call.

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NonProfit Hub

AUGUST 23, 2014

Steven has spoken at national and local conferences, and is frequently interviewed by media outlets for his expertise in digital marketing. _. You don’t have to create an overly-produced, polished and rehearsed video with meticulously scripted talking points. I found the greatest online video ever made by a nonprofit.

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NonProfit Hub

JUNE 2, 2014

For the third article in our nonprofit culture series, we interviewed Rich Sagall—founder of NeedyMeds. We don’t have any scripts [to help callers]. We have points that we need to touch on, of course, but we don’t have any set scripts. NeedyMeds was named one of the NonProfit Times Best Places to Work for 2013.

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Connection Cafe

APRIL 2, 2020

As planned giving expert Dr. Russell James says in a recent interview , one of the least effective methods of marketing planned giving is to lead with having people contemplate their own mortality, which leads to an “avoidance” reaction. You see a sample phone script for this call here. can get involved.”

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Get Fully Funded

MARCH 21, 2022

Try to make the conversation a conversation, not an interview. Work from a list of prepared questions , but be prepared to go off-script if the donor goes in a different direction. Remember, the point here is to learn more about your donor and you can’t do that if you’re doing all the talking!

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Connection Cafe

APRIL 28, 2020

Host a Zoom call for supporters to write letters, send emails, make scripted calls to elected officials like Swing Left is doing. Facilitate virtual mentoring, college application review, or interview skills workshop, like Mission Graduates is doing. Virtual solutions. In-person volunteers are disappearing for key activities (e.g.,

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NTEN

OCTOBER 10, 2011

The tempo of the dialogue, which can be scripted, interview format, or even visual dialogue is another element that establishes the rhythm. Many of the copy cats incorporated the same motion graphics style, but few managed to achieve this level of emotional connection.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 1, 2007

I'm pleased to present my fourth installment in my interview series with famous video bloggers about video blogging techniques that nonprofits or others might use. In this segment I interview Jonny Goldstein about how to shoot video without shooting yourself in the foot in the editing room. Jonny's tips include: 1. You shoot something.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 3, 2007

The father of screencasting, Jon Udell , who of course is a technical expert in everything, uses this technique -- the screencast interview or talk show. I haven't been able to locate an article or interview where he talks specifically about this technique. I'd love to know: How much scripting does he do prior to the interview?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 18, 2007

especially when you are vertical monopoly on your screencast -- director, producer, script writer, researcher, narrator, set designer, etc. I had to do a lot of background reading and interviewing. But, I blogged all my research notes.

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Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 15, 2008

I was particularly moved by an interview with one Stanley Hotel resident, a heroin addict, who said, "I wish people had a better understanding of the kind of people we are, 'cause we're not animals, and we're not contagious. The 501c3Cast's most recent show featured an inspiring interview with Sandy Bettger of GivingCircles.org.

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Connection Cafe

APRIL 23, 2015

Inspectlet seemed too whiz-bang good to be true, but with a small embed script you can record and playback anyone using your website. How can I capture where my website can be improved without doing surveys or interviews? It’s more fun than cat videos. Questions Inspectlet answers: How can I monitor if my website is easy to use?

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Have Fun - Do Good

DECEMBER 29, 2006

Read an interview with Paul Arè s , the former WFP regional manager for West Africa, about his experience in Sierra Leone in the 1990s. Yes, there are Hollywood moments in the script where you cringe, but there are many real moments when you suffer with Djimon Hounsou's character, Solomon Vandy, as he tries to reunite his family. (I

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Have Fun - Do Good

JANUARY 11, 2008

This 58-page book provides all of the information you need to host a house party including a pre-party checklist, a sample fundraising "ask" script, and sample thank you notes and invitations. My Urban Report's post, Atlantans Party for Obama , includes video footage from an Obama house party and an interview with one of the attendees.

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

MAY 30, 2006

She also features interviews with the developers of projects that catch her interest. mHub is eHub for developers - instead of serving up applications, Max leads us to sites that offer usable scripts, snippets, widgets, or techniques for our development efforts. In other words, its a candy store for programmers.

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NonProfit Hub

SEPTEMBER 8, 2014

There are several ways to collect these stories, but the best way is to conduct interviews with people that have benefited from your nonprofit’s work. As a journalist, interviews are a necessary tool to every single story I wrote. Before you get started, you need to know what you want from the interviews.

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Bloomerang

MAY 14, 2021

How do I deal with going through the interview process all over again? Talk to each other, introduce yourself in the chat if you haven’t already because we will save some time for some Q&A once we kind of get through our scripted questions. ” I’ve lined up a couple of interviews. You can also tweet us.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 3, 2007

Our project is making some interesting topic (traditional, culture and Khmer script) in Cambodia with concept mapping. Our mission will make many interviews to some people who know on topic above and will travel to some where in Cambodia which relate to topic. Read his blog post about winning ).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 9, 2006

She was one of the few women presenting too and later during a brief podcast interview I did with her, we discussed that issue. Note: She'd like a developer to create script where you could submit to all these directories in one click version going to each one seperately because it is very time consuming.).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2010

Be prepared to improvise more and drop the script if it isn't working with the audience. An NTEN staff person interviews the expert on a conference call line, while people listen and post questions in the back channel. Live in a tool for a month, and experiment with only one tool at time. I love the way NTEN does these sessions.

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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. Robin Good recently interviewed Marshall Kirkpatrick about Mash-ups and he asked Marshall to define widgets in the context of the conversation. Based on photo entitled " Gear " from Flattop341's Flickr Industrial Set.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 7, 2010

For the second interview, I even built a little lie detector and brought it in. I learned about game design, theme park design, video production, script-writing, show programming, and air compressors, working with cranks and fire marshals and brilliant folks of all kinds. The Spy Museum was a dream place for me.

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Bloomerang

APRIL 9, 2021

Here’s the industry that we’re trying to fill, and now here’s a list of potential candidates, let’s interview these candidates.” ” And when you’re interviewing those candidates, of course, you’re going to ask some questions. Let’s sit down and talk about a script.

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

So instead of just talking about the wide needs as if it’s a fact, include: testimonials, statistics, reports, articles, interviews, etc. While this would be a great article to submit to a newspaper, script for a video at a fundraiser, etc., Without this, your entire project will fall short. This is a must.

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Nonprofits Source

MAY 23, 2019

Explainer videos are usually 30-90 seconds long, which translates into a script of around 150 to 200 words. Interview Videos – Build Trust and Authority. Interview videos are great for your nonprofit because they accomplish two goals at the same time. “Meet The Team” Videos – Share Your Values.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 6, 2007

For more on that topic, read the excellent interview with Carie Lewis of the HSUS here. " If your organization is using social media, perhaps you've been wondering how to measure or whether if you can even measure "embeds" (that cut and paste script for videos, badges, widgets, and the like).

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