Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 3, 2011

The Big Picture: Social Networking. The Big Picture: Microblogging. The Big Picture: Storytelling through Video and Photos. Getting Started with Video. Producing and Editing Videos. The Big Picture: Merging Your Personal and Professional Brands. Deciding What Social Media Tools to Use.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 1, 2014

2013 Digital Storytelling Challenge Participant - KI EcoCenter. Nonprofits can change the world through storytelling. Best story promoting youth engagement in Science, Technology, Engineering and Math - $5,000. But to do that, their stories need to stand out and be noticed. Participate and Learn. Best story overall - $5,000.

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Qgiv

DECEMBER 15, 2021

Using Storytelling in Your Appeal . The dodo’s popularity brings up another excellent point: the importance of video in storytelling. Video has long been the most popular way for audiences to consume media, and that’s not going to change any time soon. Luckily, animal shelters tend to have some great stories! .

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Tech Soup

JUNE 22, 2009

This week, TechSoup Canada was a proud participant in My Charity Connects, a conference about teaching charities about using online technology to improve their fundraising and marketing. Donnie Claudino (pictured), TechSoup Canada's Marketing Manager, brought a lesson about how to use storytelling in online media.

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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. What We Learned at NTEN''s 2013 Nonprofit Technology Conference , Big Duck NYC. Nonprofit Technology Conference Takeaways from Afar , Katy Teson. Whew, what an NTC!

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 1, 2011

The social media/technology landscape in Romania is very interesting – with a diverse set of issues, struggles and opportunities. Multimedia Storytelling. Do you have videos, pictures, or slides? Your blog is for you to share the storytelling you want to, with the kinds of media you want to!

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NTEN

MAY 12, 2011

Using video explanations of even simple charts and graphs can help site visitors quickly get the big picture - and arms them with an understanding of the data that lets explore and discover more confidently on their. He also advises senior executives about technology, trends, investment planning, and execution.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 14, 2009

Screen capture of video blog I was an early adopter of video blogging and screencasting. I really miss making videos and screencasts. For inspiration, I had to look no further than the " On the Road: Tanzania ," a video blog from the UN World Food Programme. For example, storytelling. Video Guides for Nonprofits.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 6, 2013

Share Stories, Photos, and Videos from Events. You should be regularly photographing and recording videos at important events that your nonprofit hosts. A day or two after the event, write up a brief blog post summarizing the event, with a Flickr slide show or YouTube video recapping the event. Provide Organizational Updates.

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NTEN

MAY 7, 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. What We Learned at NTEN''s 2013 Nonprofit Technology Conference , Big Duck NYC. Nonprofit Technology Conference Takeaways from Afar , Katy Teson. Whew, what an NTC!

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Forum One

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

The W³ Awards competition honors creative excellence on the web and recognizes the creative and marketing professionals behind award-winning sites, videos, and marketing programs. We are so very excited to announce that Forum One has been recognized in nine categories in this year’s W³ Awards competition. AARP Livability Index.

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Forum One

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

The W³ Awards competition honors creative excellence on the web and recognizes the creative and marketing professionals behind award-winning sites, videos, and marketing programs. We are so very excited to announce that Forum One has been recognized in nine categories in this year’s W³ Awards competition. AARP Livability Index.

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Get Fully Funded

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

Picture this: You’re about to hold the fundraising event of a lifetime. With the right technology and management strategies, overseeing registrations can become a breeze, allowing you to focus more on making your next fundraiser a success. Integrate with your existing technology.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 7, 2012

Share Stories, Photos, and Videos from Events. You should be regularly photographing and recording videos at important events that your nonprofit hosts. A day or two after the event, write up a brief blog post summarizing the event, with a Flickr slide show or YouTube video recapping the event. Provide Organizational Updates.

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Get Fully Funded

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

On social media, storytelling is a powerful tool that can draw in people who have stumbled across your platform. The more images, graphics, and videos you can incorporate into your platform, the better. Remember, a picture is worth a thousand words. Storytelling can help distinguish your social media from similar organizations.

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Non Profit Quarterly

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

There’s a lot of videos out there that exist of a lot of these encounters. The George Floyd video’s out there, the Christian Cooper video is out there, Ahmaud Arbery’s video’s out there. And the visuals are also hard to look at for some of this. So I thought it was powerful audio to use.

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Greater Giving

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

However, with the rise of online fundraising technology and virtual events, nonprofits are moving away from the traditional strategy of hosting just one larger event each year. If you don’t know where to start when it comes to telling your story, think back to the basics of storytelling that most of us learn in elementary school.

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Tech Soup

JULY 30, 2013

But nonprofits should still keep tabs on movement in mobile as it is shaping workplace technology. If you're not active on the technology your community is using, how can you reach them? Video-Sharing Apps and Super Smartphone Cameras. Capture and Share Events with Mobile Apps. More on Mobile.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 11, 2012

To quote a somewhat recent YouTube blog piece , "if a picture is worth a thousand words, then is a video worth a million?" Storytelling with Mobile Video. It's reasonably easy to upload videos to Facebook or YouTube even without the phone being on a data plan. " May well be. Tell Your Story.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 11, 2006

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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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 22, 2009

Dragonfly Forest took second place in the TechSoup Digital Online Storytelling Challenge for their photo story , but they haven't stopped there! They have a new video about their work as well. The second is to get educated about technology and how we can use it in support of our mission and goals. We use TechSoup in two ways.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 18, 2009

I've been away from making media for a little bit and so it is nice to come back to it with a little perspective on how cameras and video editing have gotten so much easier. I made a movie about another interesting piece of technology that is on my desk called The Watt Stopper. For example, storytelling. FLIP Camera.

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NTEN

MARCH 24, 2015

These socks were made for walkin'' The 2015 Nonprofit Technology Conference in Austin, TX was a-mazing! Advice from #15NTC , Tessa Srebro, VolunteerMatch [2015 Nonprofit Technology Conference] Part 1 - How do I configure it? ChangeON Trendspotting: 2015 Nonprofit Technology Conference , Debra Askanase, Community Organizer 2.0

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 7, 2012

Share Stories, Photos, and Videos from Events. You should be regularly photographing and recording videos at important events that your nonprofit hosts. A day or two after the event, write up a brief blog post summarizing the event, with a Flickr slide show or YouTube video recapping the event. Provide Organizational Updates.

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Bloomerang

APRIL 9, 2021

That should be one of the expectations of the board members because that is going to give them a true picture of what it means to serve the clients in the community. And you have to think of the bigger picture as the executive director. And so they created a series of videos, not complicated, didn’t charge them a lot.

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Achieve

MARCH 11, 2015

We’re great for sharing information about a cause on Twitter or helping YouTube videos go viral, but, other than that, we are useless to fundraising efforts. They execute creative, well-coordinated peer fundraising campaigns that utilize technology, messaging, design and storytelling. A generation of slacktivists?

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Qgiv

MARCH 31, 2021

The vendor that raises the most money will win prizes that help with their business, like a free video ad or partnership with the organization. They can upload their videos with a specific hashtag. Then, video participants will receive small, set donation amounts (like $5) as “votes” for the favorite submission.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 20, 2012

Nonprofits and Mobile Technology. More nonprofits and libraries are using mobile technologies to educate, activate, and engage audiences and constituencies of all shapes and sizes. AMOLED screen is a beauty for sure, and lends itself quite nicely for video and photo capture. Please visit the site to view this video).

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Connection Cafe

JANUARY 13, 2020

Engaging supporters (and attracting new ones) with storytelling techniques. At DNL OmniMedia, we help nonprofits refine and then implement new technology plans and strategies. The start of the new year is the perfect time for reviewing your technology and making improvements of any size.

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Connection Cafe

OCTOBER 27, 2015

Nicholas Kristof brought out a few tears (at least from me) in his keynote session that covered everything from the value of storytelling, the struggle of partisan politics, Random Controlled Trials (RCT’s), the role of media for causes, demining rats, deworming children and teenage pregnancy rates in the Us compared to Europe. Take a Risk.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 23, 2013

It's no secret that we are advocates of digital storytelling at TechSoup. This April our 2013 Digital Storytelling Challenge offers resources to sharpen your skills and an opportunity to enter your short video or five-image slide show by April 30 to win awesome prizes! A Jamboree of Tools. Sounding It Out.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 30, 2011

I keep on telling my story of how I moved between the East and West, between physical environments (architecture, urban design) and virtual (web and mobile development and strategy), between technology and the humanities. When will you have the time to go back through hours of video to find and edit the interesting or meaningful parts.

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CauseVox

MAY 11, 2021

According to the Global NGO Technology Report, 94% of NGOs worldwide agree that social media is effective for creating online brand awareness. On social media, algorithms dictate which posts show up on a user’s feed in which order, and which videos to play, based on viewing history and likelihood to watch the next video, and so on.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 13, 2017

In my last post about nonprofit bots, I discussed the big picture of automation in the nonprofit space and what I learned from the “ The Beth Bot ” experiment. For this post, I did a landscape scan to identify some of the best examples of nonprofit bots. My conversation with the Albert Einstein Bot. Momconnect.

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Qgiv

JULY 21, 2022

As technology has advanced, so have the variety of choices and channels available to us. Even though the definition below is focused on product marketing, we fundraisers know how effective storytelling is with donors in our communications. When you go where your donors are, you expand your reach to a larger potential audience.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 28, 2011

Whether it seems important in the moment or not, it’s really valuable to make a list or chart or picture, whatever you want, of all the information you have about your community. Which technologies support the work? Community-Driven Technologies. Libraries: The Oldest New Frontier for Innovation. Where’s the sweet spot?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 22, 2018

The conversation with Yeshi is “smart,” meaning that she asks and answers questions with a variety of images, maps, text, and videos. Yeshi is part of the family of technologies we call “bots” that includes robots, artificial intelligence, cyborgs and virtual reality. Innovations like these don’t have to break the bank.

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