Tech Soup

JULY 5, 2013

Digital Storytelling is in the air around TechSoup these days, and thanks to a grant from Symantec we have been able to experiment and create some new videos. We aimed to make this video informative, concise, and personable. Just as important, lighting in your set can make or break our video. What did you think about our video?

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Achieve

MARCH 1, 2024

That way, you’ll have a good idea of the project timeline, such as whether the podcast will be a miniseries or take place over a longer period. At this point, you’ll have dedicated quite some time to brainstorming and thinking about your podcast and should feel confident that this is a project you wish to commit to. Computer or laptop.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

OCTOBER 25, 2021

Salesforce.org community members who volunteer their time and expertise on the Summit Events project through Open Sources Commons. This project has also really elevated my Salesforce knowledge and experience.”. Scripts are written, reviewed, recorded, edited, and published by the community, for the community!

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Forj

MARCH 8, 2017

I know you’ve heard it, “Video is the next big thing” and “Video converts”… Marketers hear this all day long, and it’s true. Videos are a great way to reach your audience and resonate on a personal level. Video can be a scary thing, especially if you’re the one in it.

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Get Fully Funded

AUGUST 8, 2022

It’s a great idea to prepare an outline to follow, or a script to rehearse, so that you’ll be confident, clear, and determined! It’s a bit easier if you’re making a call or meeting with someone in person, but it can still be accomplished in other ways like in a video call or in writing. Transition. Connect/ Discuss/ Educate.

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sgEngage

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

Leave Them Wanting More Keep the body of your email under 200 words and link to blog posts or videos for more information. Automate your thank-you sequences so that, if someone gives you two gifts in one month, they don’t receive the same generic script each time. Preview text: “The number is smaller than you think. Thank you’s.

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Get Fully Funded

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

For example, my friend operates a food pantry, and she did not like a video a volunteer made about getting ready to volunteer at the food pantry. My friend thought the video of a volunteer deciding what to wear to the food pantry made light of food insecurity and struck the wrong tone. Videos, done right, can be very effective!

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sgEngage

FEBRUARY 18, 2023

LEAVE THEM WANTING MORE Keep the body of your email under 200 words and link to blog posts or videos for more information. Automate your thank-you sequences so that, if someone gives you two gifts in one month, they don’t receive the same generic script each time. Preview text: “The number is smaller than you think. Thank you’s.

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Bloomerang

DECEMBER 13, 2022

For as long as the Fundraising Effectiveness Project has measured nonprofit donor retention it has been abysmal. This can even take the form of a video, with you thanking the donor personally in just 15-20 seconds. Learn more in my free Donor Thank You Calls eBook + Script. Donor Negative ACTIONS. People give.

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Candid

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

Skip to the video to watch a short conversation between Chantal Forster, Candid's C. Project Demographics/Orientation/Status (2 percent). Qualitative Staff Characteristics (project-related experience, shared backgrounds, executive biographies, etc.). You can find Robinson's scripts used in this analysis here.

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DNL OmniMedia

MAY 25, 2023

For example, you might create an email list of supporters who live in your local area and send them messages about ongoing community projects they could easily join or see the results of. Create a video. Create a script that your callers can use to keep these conversations short but impactful. Show appreciation.

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

This is the easiest way forward as you will have an immediate template for your grant project. Additionally, make sure to read through the FOA/RFP/NOFA and include: A response to how your project aligns with the funding sources’ priorities. The reason is that research anchors and validates the entire reason for your project.

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Global Giving

APRIL 28, 2016

Still wondering if you have what it takes to tell a story through video? By the end of this post and with a bit of practice, you’ll understand and have the skills to turn your story into a great video, from planning to shooting to editing to publishing to sharing, all on the smartphone you carry in your pocket! Of course you do!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 7, 2007

And, I have to prepare some instruction in a completely different context, get organized to visit Sharing Foundation projects, pack T-shirts, AND finish the massives amount of work before I go. The jing project is their first experiment in the Mac platform. The project will eventually turn into something else.

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The Modern Nonprofit

APRIL 6, 2021

One of our favorite posts is about data hygiene (which can easily be a snooze to read about), but they take on the subject by creating a script for an old-school PSA. Because they cover a broad variety of topics, you’re likely to find insights related to your current projects in your inbox when you subscribe for their updates.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 20, 2012

It’s the goal of every nonprofit that creates a video – creating a video that has impact. Examining what makes video have an impact was the topic of TechSoup’s recent Digital Storytelling Challenge tweet chat. Creating a short video that has meaningful impact might seem daunting but isn’t impossible.

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Classy

JULY 19, 2021

Nonprofit video is an ever-evolving marketing method, but remaining well-informed on the latest industry best practices gives your organization a major advantage. . Instead, nonprofit video only continued to climb in popularity and organizations began doubling down on their video strategies. .

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NTEN

JUNE 28, 2012

We're looking for a project that fuels social change through technology. Last, but definitely not least, this simple example of a stellar low-cost nonprofit video comes to us from former Technology Leadership Academy participant and Director of Marketing and Communications for the ALS Association Golden West Chapter , Jenica Lancy.

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Get Fully Funded

MARCH 21, 2022

Work from a list of prepared questions , but be prepared to go off-script if the donor goes in a different direction. Some may have an offbeat response, such as a sweater they knitted or a houseboat they built using YouTube videos. Or you might learn which program, project, or appeal first sparked their heart. Awesome, right?).

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 30, 2021

The Fundraising Effectiveness Project (FEP) noted that while 2020 saw an overall increase in giving, that year’s donor retention rate dropped by 4.1 You can find a sample script here. Thank you videos for making a personal, human connection between the gift and its purpose.

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Bloomerang

JUNE 4, 2021

So check that out if you’re interested, if you’re curious, all kinds of good stuff on our website, videos you can watch. I have a really hard time getting started on new projects.” So it’s a practice I’ve tried to start in terms of my videos. So thanks for having me. Steven: Yeah.

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

There’s lots of videos, lots of things you can look at to get a sense of what we offer. And a lot of this content that I’m talking about today is in my book called “Cloudburst” on fundraising, you’ll find scripts and things in there you haven’t ever seen before. And the thank-you video.

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Bloomerang

MAY 14, 2021

Talk to each other, introduce yourself in the chat if you haven’t already because we will save some time for some Q&A once we kind of get through our scripted questions. So I have a few different ones who were kind of giving me small projects. LinkedIn | The post [VIDEO] You’ve Been Let Go From Your Nonprofit Job – Now What?

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Bloomerang

JUNE 4, 2021

So check that out if you’re interested, if you’re curious, all kinds of good stuff on our website, videos you can watch. I have a really hard time getting started on new projects.” So it’s a practice I’ve tried to start in terms of my videos. So thanks for having me. Steven: Yeah.

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NTEN

AUGUST 3, 2011

Bow Street Runner was one of the first projects out of the gate for Channel 4 Education in the UK. We'd previously worked on games of this scale, had used video in previous projects and had produced our own stories in animated and game form, but this was the first project that brought all these things together on such a grand scale.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 29, 2011

Heyning spoke of the process she undertakes to run events, which rely on detailed scripts and content carefully curated on the team’s internal wiki. Although she is the newest member of the team, she has quite adeptly grasped the many working parts that make up the Online Community Team’s projects.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 3, 2007

I am beginning to post the photos, videos, and notes that I took while I was there. As many of you may have already read, part of my project budget was to include video blogging camera kits to give as prizes or awards to encourage video bloggers. If I am a winner and get a video camera I will use it with my project.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 10, 2008

Last week for WeAreMedia project, I put a call on Twitter for case studies, best practices, and links about nonprofits using social networking sites, including Ning. Developers who are more experienced can create customized scripts and widgets on their site to accommodate the needs of their users. We then invite participants to join.

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

AUGUST 11, 2006

Aptana is an integrated development environment for HTML/CSS/JavaScript projects, built on the Eclipse desktop. Take a look at their little demo video. With an integrated debugger, Aptana will leave pure script debugging tools like SplineTech in the dust. Aptana is available for Windows, Mac, and Linux.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 10, 2010

The pitches included costumes, music, video filmed on-site, mock-ups, and social media demos. They threw themselves into writing scripts and filming, gathering costume pieces, and otherwise doing much more in 24 hours than I would have thought possible. They spent the next 24 hours refining the pitch. And then the fun really started!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 28, 2006

Jeff Reifman's other project is actionstudio Here's how it works: NewsCloud readers submit stories as they browse news sites and blogs from around the Web. Videos: The site also includes videos! Bloglines: They offer a greasemonkey script that allows their readers to add stories to directly from Bloglines.

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

JULY 22, 2007

This capable tool lets you view -- and more importantly, modify in real time -- the css, scripts, images, cookies, and form elements in any page you are viewing. On this video I found via Nick O'Neill's blog, Facebook's 23 year old founder and CEO Mark Zuckerman - discusses Facebook's future plans for the platform with a group of developers.

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 28, 2021

You can go on our website, learn all about us, watch videos, pretty easy to find. ” Write your phone ask scripts and plan your list of who you’re going to call and what you’re going to ask for. If you do that, I recommend giving them a script to make it super easy. It depends on your project.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 27, 2008

For every online social network training we do, we actually present the ning site and demonstrate ways participants can create and customize profiles, syndicate RSS feeds, post blogs, photos and videos and more. Developers who are more experienced can create customized scripts and widgets on their site to accommodate the needs of their users.

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Bloomerang

JULY 2, 2021

Maybe think about making a switch or, if you’re just curious about what we have going on, visit our website, all kinds of videos you can watch, kind of get a sense of what we’re all about. That Zoom briefing of where your organization is at becomes a video. . People like pictures, video over words.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 17, 2005

The timing errors make it more of a comedy than an instructional video, but you have to start somewhere. Here's the script. and needed a small project. will scan later) Also, I haven't fully mastered the editing features yet as I was just trying to get it from script to filming. I hope you get a good laugh.

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Bloomerang

JULY 17, 2023

By now you probably know data from the Fundraising Effectiveness Project (FEP) shows the average nonprofit in the U.S. TIP: Attach a brief video or a photo showing how their gift will be used. Video Anyone with a smart phone, or even Zoom, can create a perfectly serviceable thank you video – one that is warm and genuine.

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