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Video Marketing on Social Media: Best Practices & Inspiration for Nonprofits

Nonprofit Tech for Good

By Becky Brooks , Director of Communications at Animoto , an online video maker that makes it easy to create marketing videos for social media and beyond. Facebook has, for a couple years now, committed to making their platforms “video first.” Consumers ranked video as their favorite form of content from brands.

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The Blue Sweater 500

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The winner was Lethal Sheethal who was about to leave for six months on her Kiva Fellowship in Peru. Before leaving, she did a fundraiser and raffled off her copy of the book. After reading it, I did a book giveaway on my blog asking readers to suggest ways they might apply the ideas in the book.

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Web Video for Social Benefit Sector: Some learnings.

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

It's called Web Video for the Social Benefit Sector. The moderator, Patrick O'Heffernan, shared his thoughts based on his experience with The People Choose which is connected to Link TV and the first non-profit site to launch user-generated video as a community building process in a non profit environment.

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Social Media and Community-Building Tips from Not For Sale's Sarah Potts

Tech Soup

Please visit the site to view this video). Not For Sale operates in Peru, the Netherlands, India, South Africa, and Romania. You can watch the full presentation (she's a great speaker - I recommend watching it!), or read on for a recap. Choose Your Message. Their work is very different in each of these locations.

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The value of attending Gnomedex: Priceless

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Find more videos like this on Internet Time. Video from Jay Cross and more about Matt from Jamie Nelson. There were approximately 250 social media power users. There were two full-days packed with excellent content and fabulous speakers. There were 15 sponsorship partners and tasteful sponsorship giveaways and promotion. All in all.

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Drive Attention and Gain Donations on Facebook with Video Storytelling

NonProfit Hub

Communicating your nonprofit’s message through video on Facebook will maximize your reach more than any other form of content and help you reach the people that are passionate about your cause. We now live in a video-first world, in large part due to Mark Zuckerberg. And as such, most of them are watching their videos with sound-off.

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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. Most people don't have the time to read through full report, so atweet, video, or infographic can give you essential information that’s actionable.