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

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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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9 Ways to Use Text Messaging for Your Virtual Fundraising Event

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Here’s how it works: We’ll give you clues to find 10 specific photos on our social media pages (They could be on our Instagram or our Facebook). You can also share the exciting success of your event, include a link to a video thank-you , or share a real-time fundraising thermometer. Reply OK to take a quick survey.

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How To Recruit New Members for Your Association on Social Media

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In some cases, you can survey to see what people currently associate the organization with. You might want to hire a photographer for events, then get participant’s permission to tag them in photos on social media. You can run a competition, giving away free perks to the member that contributes to the best photo.

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Why Your Nonprofit Should Invest in Video As Part Its Communications Strategy

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Photo Credit: Tristan Hanson. Why Your Nonprofit Should Invest in Video As Part Its Communications Strategy – Guest Post by Michael Hoffman, CEO of See3. It’s obvious to anyone who spends time online that video is taking over the internet. 92% value the investment they have made in video. Finding the ROI.

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Youth community service: Belonging, reciprocity, and agency 

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Defining ‘community service’ broadly Based on surveys and focus groups, Leveraging the Potential of Youth Service found that young people ages 18 to 25 defined “community service” broadly, beyond volunteering with a nonprofit organization. The post Youth community service: Belonging, reciprocity, and agency appeared first on Candid Blog.

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How Big Brothers Big Sisters Used Eventzee to Host a Virtual Scavenger Hunt Fundraiser

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Because they were hosting a scavenger hunt both virtually and in person, Big Brothers Big Sisters of the Bluegrass used photo challenges to make it fair for both types of teams. The photo challenges encouraged teams to upload photos completing scavenger hunt tasks or gathering scavenger hunt items for points. Information.

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How to Report Live from Nonprofit Events and Conferences

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Instagram: Share photos and video clips and stream using Live Video Stories. Videos secure the most reach at 12.17% of total audience. Instagram: Again, due to the limitations of the algorithm, share photos or videos clips three times daily and live stream a story at least twice per day.