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Web Video for Social Benefit Sector: Some learnings.

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

His list of benefits include: Video is a powerful storytelling medium and has the potential to engage people and build relationship, particularly if using some of the video/social networking sites. They make it somewhat difficult to incorporate storytelling techniques. Attracts a younger (and perhaps more generous audience?).

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Drive Attention and Gain Donations on Facebook with Video Storytelling

NonProfit Hub

Storytelling in a sound-off world. The notion of storytelling might seem grandiose. Using a handful of photos and video clips shot entirely on a mobile phone, ShelterBox created a video days after the landslides hit Peru and Colombia in an effort to drive donations in the wake of the devastation.

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Our EveryAction Hero: World Central Kitchen

Everyaction

Last year disaster relief once again became the main focus of our organization as we activated and served over 4 million meals in Peru, Houston, Puerto Rico, and California. How is storytelling important to your organization and what is your process for collecting and sharing those stories? Stories are central to our mission.

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Online Storytelling & Cause Marketing: An Interview with Jonah Sachs of Free Range Studios

Have Fun - Do Good

Before I left for Peru, I did an interview for the Big Vision Podcast with Jonah Sachs, the Principal of Free Range Studios , an advertising and marketing firm with offices in Washington DC and Berkeley, California that specializes in non-profits and socially responsible businesses. Meatrix Jonah Sachs marketing cause storytelling

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Big Vision Podcast: Interview with llyse Hogue Rainforest Action Network

Have Fun - Do Good

I think a very, very big part of social change is storytelling, and I know that's why you do what you do. A friend of mine, David Solnit, put together a book called Globalize Liberation , which is a really good primer for people understanding different mechanisms of social change.

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