Amy Sample Ward

AUGUST 11, 2011

—– I’m really excited by tools that enable digital or transmedia storytelling. I recently attended the US launch event for Historypin is a new (and free) application for Android, iPhone, or the web that arranges photos, videos, and text in the context of time and location (leveraging the Google Maps API).

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The Modern Nonprofit

OCTOBER 17, 2023

You’ll want to tell a compelling story that breathes life into your cause and paints a vivid picture of the powerful difference every donation makes. This isn’t just about beautiful words—pictures and videos are your allies, bringing the world closer to your cause and adding a human touch to cold stats.

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Allegiance Group

MAY 1, 2024

Your nonprofit can have your best year-end campaign by incorporating data-driven planning, tapping into overlooked segments, crafting impactful storytelling strategies, maximizing digital fundraising channels, and cultivating donor fundraising and stewardship throughout the year. Keep reading to find out more! #1

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Candid

JUNE 7, 2023

For example, our preference for video content rings true. As I dug into the advice, I couldn’t help but reflect on the way I engage with nonprofit social media: Is the use of humor and short-form video crucial for brands to grab my attention? Has a shorter attention span, which requires content that is skimmable.

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Bloomerang

APRIL 26, 2023

Storytelling is a powerful way to connect with your followers. Share stories of your fundraising campaigns and the cause that you’re promoting. Include pictures and details of their contributions, express how thankful you are. You can thank your supporters weekly with images and videos. Show that you are grateful!

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Connection Cafe

NOVEMBER 29, 2018

Modern technology provides us all with new opportunities for storytelling, including new ways to approach the ever-important visual element. That is the topic of the most recent episode of The sgENGAGE Podcast: Visual Storytelling: A Picture is Worth 60,000 Words. Wrap our heads around the idea of visual storytelling.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 25, 2013

Documenting and sharing the happenings of an event or fundraiser can be tricky if you're responsible for organizing it as well. To kick off TechSoup's 2013 Digital Storytelling Challenge , we have compiled apps to help you showcase your organization in action. Cinemagram (iOS) is essentially the Instagram for video.

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Tech Soup

MAY 28, 2013

That's what the Digital Storytelling Challenge seeks to accomplish every year. At the 2013 Digital Storytelling Awards Gala on May 28, the community's successes were clear. Our team was quite impressed with the quality of photos and videos submitted, and all the hard work that was put into each. First Place Video.

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TechImpact

JULY 28, 2014

Visual storytelling. If you’re a nonprofit that has a lot of events, use Instagram, Pinterest, and Facebook to share pictures and videos from those events in the community. It’s also a good idea to ask for retweets, shares, and even likes. One of those leads could turn into a life long donor or volunteer.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 19, 2014

Is it an inspiring video? Perhaps it is a combination of a few different storytelling elements. Our Storymakers 2014 challenge kicks off August 26, so to get you inspired, I've compiled some great examples of digital storytelling in crowdfunding campaigns. The page opens with a video of a previous KaBoom!

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Tech Soup

APRIL 30, 2013

Digital storytellers! But what good is a digital story if it’s not shared? You spent time and talent on creating your video or picture slide show, now we invite you to show it off! tsdigs digital storytelling' We have so many wonderful stories rolling in! How It Works. Voting begins at 8:00 a.m.

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Nonprofits Source

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

If someone was scrolling through their social media account and came across a post from your nonprofit, would they like, comment, or share it? Longer-form content suits Facebook users, while shorter-form videos work well for Instagram users. Use your logo as your profile picture. What should you post? When should you post?

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ASU Lodestar Center

AUGUST 11, 2021

Nonprofits must never forget that they are called to be active participants in the lives of people, learning stories, and, when appropriate, storytelling for further impact. This makes storytelling a necessity and a digital discipline.

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The Storytelling Non-profit

JANUARY 4, 2022

And more importantly, it’s your opportunity to clarify how storytelling will support your fundraising or communications goals. After all, storytelling is a tool and we want to be strategic in how we use that tool. In this article, we’re going to take a step back from reactive storytelling to get intentional and on message!

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Qgiv

JANUARY 12, 2023

However, creating a strong social media presence isn’t as simple as writing a post and hitting “send” or taking a few pictures and uploading them online. Use your organization’s brand colors, fonts, and logos in all of the pictures and videos you post on social media. Focus on storytelling. Determine what channels to use.

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Whole Whale

AUGUST 16, 2022

A picture is worth a thousand words. We are about to enter into a golden age of storytelling more unbound from resource constraints than ever before. Plus, readers will be more likely to share your posts if they contain compelling imagery. It can be hard to get a picture of a specific item with perfect lighting.

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NonProfit Hub

JUNE 28, 2016

In our Hubinar with Jeremy Vest, we learned that video is powerful. We also learned that the problem with video is that it’s difficult. Coming up with content, conveying a message effectively, and editing and promoting a video are all challenges for creating sensational video content, especially for nonprofits.

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Tech Soup

MAY 7, 2013

Digital storytellers! But what good is a digital story if it's not shared? You spent time and talent on creating your video or picture slide show, now we invite you to show it off! The video with the most votes wins a $400 Best Buy gift certificate while the most popular slide show takes home a slick new Lytro camera.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 4, 2014

Super-short videos have become one of the coolest (and easiest!) Free video services like Instagram and Vine that feature short videos now attract millions of users, offering nonprofits, charities, and libraries an opportunity to connect with new audiences. Why Super-Short Videos? Fundraising videos. Really short.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 22, 2014

TechSoup has been running international video and photo competitions for some years now. In previous years, we called it our Digital Storytelling Challenge. Any charity anywhere in the world can send us a short video or five-picture Flickr slideshow that tells about their work and will be entered to win some cash prizes.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 3, 2011

Dedication: This book is dedicated to all the nonprofit staff and volunteers worldwide who Tweet, Share, Update, Friend, Like, Check-in, Join, Connect, and Post for Social Good. The Big Picture: Social Networking. The Big Picture: Microblogging. The Big Picture: Storytelling through Video and Photos.

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Tech Soup

MAY 19, 2011

Week three of TechSoup's Social Media Mondays in May focused on use of video for nonprofits and libraries. A topic covered in its Nonprofit Social Media 101 wiki , video can be a powerful tool for. While video is an effective medium, the perceived costs of equipment and editing tools coupled with the question of what will.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 6, 2011

I'm going to start by telling a story about storytelling. Apparently, pointing to pictures of wedding things and saying "that's gross" doesn't count as feedback, so it was time for me to come up with better suggestions on my own and give her some well-deserved rest. I want to share the basics that your org should think about.

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Qgiv

DECEMBER 15, 2021

Using Storytelling in Your Appeal . Whether you choose one animal’s story to highlight all year, or you highlight a different story every month, this is a great way to communicate impact to potential donors and encourage sharing. The dodo’s popularity brings up another excellent point: the importance of video in storytelling.

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Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 18, 2021

If a capital campaign is on the horizon for your organization, Aaron Bishop and Brian O’Neil will share strategies and resources available to confidently predict your project costs and resources needed. Lots of videos on there you can watch. Full Transcript: Steven: All right. Aaron, Brian, I got 2:00 Eastern. Brian: Let’s go.

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The Storytelling Non-profit

OCTOBER 11, 2021

In this article I’m going to show you my approach to narrative and storytelling in email that has helped me raise just shy of $1m in a year for one of my clients. If you want another example of a great opening paragraph, check out this video tutorial I have that breaks down a high performing fundraising email.

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Qgiv

JULY 21, 2022

Make sure your “About” section provides an accurate picture of your mission and what your organization does. The two most important pictures on your profile will be your profile picture and header image. Visual storytelling is important on LinkedIn, so make sure you’re posting high quality, informative images.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 1, 2011

It was a lot of fun, and as much as I was asked to share some of my knowledge and ideas, I learned a great deal from the local participants. A blog can provide the space for sharing news, announcements, stories, and other information and let you reshare and distribute it all over the web. Multimedia Storytelling.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 6, 2013

Share and Comment on Breaking News. People are much more responsive and likely to share your blog post if its subject matter is related to a breaking news story. Share Stories, Photos, and Videos from Events. You should be regularly photographing and recording videos at important events that your nonprofit hosts.

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Connection Cafe

JULY 26, 2016

3 storytelling techniques to effectively communicate donor impact: Share impact through pictures. They say a picture is worth a thousand words… so get creative! If possible, take some pictures of your organization’s impact in action. Make a short video. Then, upload and share away!

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Care2

OCTOBER 22, 2012

Editors Note: This week Frogloop is devoted to a blog series on storytelling. More seriously though… I’m in the midst of a storytelling deep dive, and some of the most memorable nonprofit stories I’ve found were shared on.org social media channels. Narrative plus photos (or video) is the best combo there is.

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 19, 2016

The movie conveys the action, the emotion, and the narrative much more powerfully than just pictures and words. Why we love video. Unless you’ve been living under a rock with no Internet, you realize that the amount of video content on social media has skyrocketed over the past few years. But why is video content so compelling?

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Qgiv

JULY 27, 2021

In this interview, Julia shares some of the strategies she teaches her clients, including her secret formula for social media calendars, how nonprofits can improve engagement on their social channels, and the one thing she wishes nonprofits would stop doing online. 20% can be promotional. Now, they still have to be interesting, right?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 7, 2012

Share and Comment on Breaking News. People are much more responsive and likely to share your blog post if its subject matter is related to a breaking news story. Share Stories, Photos, and Videos from Events. You should be regularly photographing and recording videos at important events that your nonprofit hosts.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 22, 2009

Donnie Claudino (pictured), TechSoup Canada's Marketing Manager, brought a lesson about how to use storytelling in online media. He began by sharing his own story: as an American, he found himself wanting to immigrate to Canada and used storytelling to land a job.

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Greater Giving

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

Telling one person’s emotionally compelling success story through an appeal video can be the single most powerful way to inspire donors to give generously. How can we help people share their stories in ways that empower them and inspire donors without exploiting their struggle and pain? We are all our own best storytellers. ?

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NTEN

MAY 1, 2013

nap and dusted the snow off, we want to share the huge outpouring of blog posts, videos, pictures, and other media from the NTEN community. We would love to share it, so if you see any media we missed, please let us know in the comments! Increasing Share of Heart , Jeff Shuck. Whew, what an NTC! NTC in Numbers.

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