Picture Perfect
Connection Cafe
DECEMBER 13, 2012
It is end of year fundraising time. You’re likely sitting in front of … Annual Fund Direct Mail Fundraising online giving photos
Connection Cafe
DECEMBER 13, 2012
It is end of year fundraising time. You’re likely sitting in front of … Annual Fund Direct Mail Fundraising online giving photos
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NCE Social Media
MARCH 11, 2013
Social media tools that allow you to post pictures and videos are very helpful tools to let folks get a glimpse of life from your point of view. Looking at it from the point of view of a person with disability, how would you want to share your life in pictures with someone who may not have seen how someone with a disability lives? A picture is worth a thousand words.
EveryAction
APRIL 8, 2015
Stock photos are a problem. On the one hand, they’re a great way to make your content more interesting and attractive by emphasizing a point, breaking up text, or just by helping you stand out from the crowd
Idealware
DECEMBER 15, 2016
I met a lot of people who had trouble seeing the bigger picture beyond their immediate frustrations,” Meyer said. They struggle to see the whole picture. The post The Bigger Picture appeared first on Idealware. Jill Meyer is like a lot of nonprofit tech geeks. After more than 15 years working in a corporate setting, she decided it wasn’t satisfying enough. She wanted to work with nonprofits—people who changed lives for the better.
Byte Technology
OCTOBER 24, 2017
The post Picture This: Automatically Add Instagram Photos to Your WordPress Site appeared first on Byte Technology’s Web Design Insights Blog. There’s no denying the overwhelming popularity of Instagram and the impressive place it holds among social media sites. And for those owning, operating or administering a WordPress site, having a tie-in between Instagram and their pages can really boost hits and visits and add serious curb appeal that helps drive traffic to a website.
Byte Technology
APRIL 25, 2017
On it you can showcase and highlight photos that give users a more complete picture (no pun intended) of what you hope to accomplish with your site while helping draw more traffic and creating a dedicated follower base. However, depending on the amount of time you want to spend uploading pictures, this may be a good option, especially if you don’t intend for your imagery to be the main crux of your site.
Find the free stuff
APRIL 30, 2020
Here we are going to talk about the best tips and strategies to get more likes on your Instagram pictures and watch your profile skyrocket. The post How to Get More Likes on Your Instagram Pictures appeared first on PhreeSite.com. Hearts, faves, double taps, or whatever you call them, Likes are the main form of currency on Instagram. Every Instagram user from fashionistas, dancers, gym guy, photographer, chef, to influencers.
Confessions of a Non-Profit Executive Director
NOVEMBER 6, 2019
Photo editing allows photographers and designers to edit pictures in a variety of ways. Picture can be edited in a subtle way where the viewer may not be able to notice the difference or you can edit pictures more drastically. Haze effect: Haze effect is used to make the picture more cinematic. You are just required to adjust the intensity of haze particles available in the picture. It helps to create a memorable picture for tourists.
Connection Cafe
NOVEMBER 29, 2018
Notable Quotes from Ira Horowitz: “Everybody knows the old adage that a picture is worth a thousand words. A picture is worth about 60,000 words because studies have shown that the human brain processes images about 60,000 times faster than plain text.”. Storytelling is important in the social good community. It’s through stories that donors become interested and engaged in an organization and its cause. It’s not enough to just tell the stories in words.
Mobile Commons
SEPTEMBER 7, 2012
If a picture is worth a thousand words – how much more valuable is that in the world of mobile messaging, when every character counts? You can also send picture messages to your subscribers’ phones. And you can ask your subscribers to submit pictures of their own. This post will give you an overview of how easy it is to send and receive pictures using our platform. Send out a picture greeting new users when they subscribe to your campaign.
Byte Technology
FEBRUARY 23, 2017
The post Picture Perfect: A/B Split Testing Your WordPress Site Imagery appeared first on Byte Technology’s Web Design Insights Blog. Whether you’re posing proud for a formal portrait or grabbing a quick selfie with friends on vacation, everybody wants to look their very best.
AFP Blog
SEPTEMBER 23, 2013
A new tool for Twitter search out of the Knight Lab portrays trends in a single picture Nieman Journalism Lab : It’s a couple days old by now, but make sure you take a look at TwXplorer, the tool out of Northwestern’s Knight Lab. In addition to showing a list of recent tweets that include your search term, twXplorer displays the most popular words, hashtags, and links in those tweets
Beneblog: Technology Meets Society
APRIL 7, 2011
They are especially in need of big picture information that will help guide their response to do the most good with the resources employed. Captain Lopez helps her team assess the quality, quantity and usefulness of these different streams, each of which plays a part of the picture of the situation. It takes an extra six hours for the real picture to come through, and that delay has real impact.
Connection Cafe
AUGUST 25, 2009
This means time spent translating my thoughts into both words and pictures that convey the meaning in the best, clearest, and most persuasive way. I have noticed that, personally, I respond better to the presentations that rely more on the pictures than the words. ” If this is true, than more than half of the people reading this post are already looking for the picture to get what I’m talking about. Author: James Young.
SocialFish
MAY 15, 2008
Courtesy David Wilcox, of the Designing for Civil Society blog. social media
NetWits
AUGUST 17, 2009
Everyone loves a cut-throat game of Pictionary®. It is not long before emotions run high and furiously scribbled stick figures give way to a litany of erroneous guesses: “An astronaut!", "An ice cream cone!", "A cotton gin!", "Trotsky
Byte Technology
JANUARY 11, 2017
After uploading the picture use WordPress media to give it a title, description and caption. The post Picture Perfect: How to Remedy the Most Common WordPress Image Issues appeared first on Byte Technology’s Web Design Insights Blog. WordPress experts and website designers are constantly reinforcing to their clients the importance of having great imagery on their pages.
EveryAction
SEPTEMBER 24, 2018
Custom reports offer a real-time picture of your supporters across all channels. With customizable analytics dashboards , nonprofits can build beautiful charts and graphs of their digital, fundraising, advocacy, and organizing data to paint a better picture of their work. #9. Thousands of nonprofits use EveryAction every day to raise money, manage offline fundraising through pledges and grants, send emails, run nonprofit digital advocacy campaigns, and so much more.
Wild Apricot
JUNE 21, 2010
There are lots of free and low-cost image editing tools , but for a really quick way to add a special effect or picture frame to your online images, try Tuxpi. A nonprofit blog or newsletter that’s illustrated only with traditional “news release” photos can get a bit dull after a while – except maybe for the folks in the photographs! Could your illustrations use a bit of a fresh look for summer?
EveryAction
DECEMBER 6, 2018
The Humane Society’s annual report has so much to love: clear and concise info about the years progress, compelling copy, and adorable animal pictures. weave a picture of the year’s impact. Not only are the pictures themselves beautiful, but it’s a great way to visually change the subject and keep readers engaged throughout. Annual Reports are a staple of nonprofit life, but are they worth it?
SocialFish
OCTOBER 15, 2013
Check out this fab infographic from Avectra. ( via ) – times they are a’changing… Nimble Nonprofit Open Community Social, In Theory Useful Data
Tech Soup Blog
MARCH 27, 2012
Throughout the campaign, TechSoup invited nonprofit digital storytelling experts to share their best practices for creating stories with impact using pictures. Although most people tend to think of videos when they think of digital storytelling, the TechSoup Digital Storytelling Challenge (TSDigs), powered by Lights. Camera. demonstrates the power photos also have to tell stories.
Gavin's Digital Diner
MARCH 28, 2007
Comments Posts Home Some Stuff About Me Contents & Site Map Disclaimer Lifestream « Neon Clocks and NTEN Sonnets Holding Horses » DAM Pictures While there are lots of consumer-level products to manage digital images, photographs and the like, institutional options, it seems, are not that plentiful. I load my pictures up there on a regular basis. It’s a neat little menu that lets you pop selected pictures into Office apps.
Mobile Commons
OCTOBER 31, 2012
They used text and picture messaging to build a network of prayer and emotional support between the nation’s teenagers and the people who rode out the one of this year’s most destructive weather events. If they were able to do so safely, they also used MMS to send images of the damage, harnessing the power of pictures to not just tell but show how the hurricane was affecting them, their families, and their communities.
EveryAction
OCTOBER 3, 2018
For example, dynamic fields could allow you to display a picture of the Badlands to readers in South Dakota, while readers in Arizona see the Red Rocks of Sedona. It’s no secret that storytelling in the digital age is essential for nonprofits , but the efficacy of stories depends largely on how clearly and strategically they’re communicated to each unique segment of your audience, also sometimes known as a persona.
Influence
APRIL 4, 2012
The Picture of Health: A Data Design Challenge is offering $10,000 in awards to entries that successfully depict public health data in new and interesting ways. Do you love storytelling with data? Are you passionate about open data and health care costs transparency? The California HealthCare Foundation is hosting a data design challenge to seek out engaging presentations that bring to life the story of rising health care costs.
Beaconfire Wire
AUGUST 10, 2007
What you can keep in your head right now could become a major nightmare in ten years when your replacement’s replacement is looking for that one photo you used in a montage… all anyone remembers is that it’s in the folder marked, “Pictures. Skip to content Clients Services Portfolio About Us Contact Blog Home > Blog Recent Posts 07/16/2010: The Wisdom of the Old Spice Man 07/12/2010: Is your online campaign going to succeed?
See What's Out There
FEBRUARY 13, 2008
Home • About Us Mission Team News Partners Careers • Services Overview Interactive Marketing Video Web Design and Development • Clients Clients List Client Login • Resources Overview Events YouTube for Nonprofits Guide to Online Video Video FAQs Our Blog • Contact POSTED BY Michael Hoffman FEB 13, 2008 Pictures Tell The Story: What The World Eats We talk a lot about video, but pictures can do amazing things as well to educate and inform and move an audience.
Network-Centric Advocacy
NOVEMBER 6, 2007
» November 06, 2007 A Picture Is Worth a Thousand Words | Sunlight Foundation Open Earmarks.Google Where on Earth is my money getting earmarked. Link: A Picture Is Worth a Thousand Words | Sunlight Foundation. And as they say: a picture really is worth a 1,000 words. Link: A Picture Is Worth a Thousand Words | Sunlight Foundation. And as they say: a picture really is worth a 1,000 words. NetCentric Advocacy Advocacy Strategy for the Age of Connectivity.
EveryAction
SEPTEMBER 12, 2018
A clean and complete contact record saves time and provides fundraisers with the full picture. For fundraisers, the clarity of each donor contact record matters. Development teams need to know how the relationship with each donor has evolved over the years. It is impossible to track the nuances of all of those relationships without a little extra help from your CRM. With the personal email to notes feature, fundraisers can easily document their email conversations with donors.
See What's Out There
APRIL 17, 2009
One big issue in getting good pictures with amateur camera equipment is controlling the flash. ash can blow out the picture, giving your best friend a ghost face that looks like it was photographed during a nuclear test. A no-flash picture is almost always better-looking and more realistic than a flash picture. If you can learn to identify these situations, you’ll get much more realistic, attractive pictures.
NTEN
MAY 6, 2011
Flickr: vnoel It's member round-up time again and this week we're seeing members looking at the big picture, whether it's for the work they do or the work we can all do together. Have more news to share? Drop us a line or include your links in the comments! Ami Dar , founder of Idealist.org , reflects on the lessons he learned over the last 15 years in the foreword for the new book Nonprofit Management 101: A Complete and Practical Guide for Leaders and Professionals.
Tech Soup Blog
AUGUST 7, 2012
Your website is more than just a pretty picture. Kelley Jarrett is Guide Creative's market manager. Guide Creative is Blackbaud 's new design agency. The August GUIDE series, free educational webinars from Guide Creative focused on the importance of strategy, visual elements, and cues in successful nonprofit websites, is open for registration!
Rebooting Charity
JUNE 15, 2007
Meant to blog this last week, but other (actually, quite important) stuff got in the way. Thanks to Britt Bravo for tipping me off (via Netsquared ) about Amnesty’s Eyes on Darfur website, where it is asking supporters to monitor 12 villages in Darfur that they have deemed “vulnerable to attack via satellite. And get a load of this.
See What's Out There
AUGUST 15, 2014
cause marketing Nonprofits social media Video youtube als foundation andreesen horowitz buzzfeed buzzfeed motion pictures ice bucket challenge justin timberlake mark zuckerberg ze frank August 15, 2014 There's a lot happening in video. Here are some of our favorite headlines from this week. Andreessen Horowitz Announces $50 Million Investment In BuzzFeed Legendary investor Andreesen Horowitz put a lot of his eggs in the Buzzfeed basket early this week.
ASU Lodestar Center
MARCH 22, 2011
Disclaimer Tuesday, March 22, 2011 Picture This: A Look Back at This Years Spring Forum posted by Kayla L. Picture This: A Look Back at This Year's Spring Fo. ASU Home ASU A-Z Index My ASU Colleges & Schools Directory Map About Blog Academics Organizational Assistance Emerging Leaders Professional Development Philanthropy Research News & Events You are here: Home → Blog Pages Blog Home Write for us!
NTEN
JANUARY 19, 2011
We need to identify individuals and organizations who are already working toward online capacity mapping and resource matching tools, brief them about the big picture and its potential, promote convergence and collaboration among the developers, and work out the organizational and technical basis for moving forward together. Deborah Elizabeth Finn At a time when money is tight, it's especially important to ensure that surplus assets, capacities, and resources do not go unused.
EveryAction
JULY 18, 2018
Be sure to provide a full picture of the expenses you expect to incur, not just snapshots at different points along your timeline. can help you determine who should stay and who should go, keep your fundraising emails out of spam folders , and provide a clearer picture of your audiences. For some things, spontaneity is highly desirable, but any fundraising professional will tell you that planning a campaign isn’t one of them.
See What's Out There
AUGUST 18, 2014
Nonprofits Video flickr instagram pictures stories storymakers 2014 techsoup wine Our friends at TechSoup are hosting the Storymakers 2014, a campaign to help nonprofits, libraries and charities tell amazing stories about the work they do, and share their message with the world. Starting August 26 through September 26, participants can submit any of the following digital stories to be in the running for $13,000 in cash prizes: a […].
NTEN
OCTOBER 10, 2014
Here are the latest highlights from your fellow NTEN Members making news: Well, Ello there! Have you checked out the latest social media platform, Ello? Allyson Kapin of FrogLoop offers tips and tricks for exploring and experimenting with Ello. Take part in Philanthropy Talk''s upcoming Measure It! workshop , Oct. 21st, in Portland, OR. NTEN Members save 25% with the promo code: NTEN-Members. Do you need a new website?
Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology
JANUARY 17, 2008
Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology This week in FOSS January 17, 2008 Sun Microsystems buys MySQL AB for $1 Billion (yes, that’s ONE BILLION DOLLARS) Acquia (a Drupal company) gets a large chunk of change (no, actually that was last month in FOSS, but it’s part of the picture.)
Mobile Commons
APRIL 8, 2015
This means that you can send and receive pictures and animated GIFs as part of your text messaging campaigns! Pictures and GIFs are eye magnets. Since we’re visual creatures, pictures immediately pique our curiosity. Once you grab the attention of your subscribers with a picture or GIF, use this opportunity to get them to take action. With MMS, not only can you send pictures to your mobile list, but you can also receive them from your users!
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