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

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Videos with Mobile In Mind. Another consideration is that around 80% of videos in social feeds are watched with the sound off. Facebook recommends that you “design for sound-off, delight for sound-on.” You really only have a few seconds to grab attention. Get their attention with a “hook” (i.e.

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6 Tips for Nonprofit Professionals on Speaking Brilliantly with Your Slides

Nonprofit Tech for Good

As you develop your presentation, notice whether your mind wanders at moments where information isn’t easily digestible or understandable — either in your slides or in what you are saying. Pay close attention to this because it is likely that you will lose your audience’s attention at the same moments. Go deeper — use empathy.

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6 Online Speaking Tips for Nonprofit Professionals

Nonprofit Tech for Good

As you develop your presentation, notice whether your mind wanders at moments where information isn’t easily digestible or understandable — either in your slides or in what you are saying. Pay close attention to this because it is likely that you will lose your audience’s attention at the same moments. Go deeper — use empathy.

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How To Find What You Love And Love What You Do

Eric Jacobsen Blog

Sounds simple, but the real challenge is how to do this in a world not set up to help you. To help identify your loves, Buckingham recommends you: Pay attention to what you pay attention to. This is what bestselling author, Marcus Buckingham , explains in his book, Love + Work.

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Video Making for Nonprofits

The Modern Nonprofit

As iPhone video technology advances in quality, it’s certainly possible to make a great video with your iPhone — but keep in mind that this should be done with care if this is the tool you have to use. Optimize your content: Keeping your goal in mind, write out your ideas and think of the story you’d like to tell. Use subtitles.

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Drive Attention and Gain Donations on Facebook with Video Storytelling

NonProfit Hub

I’ll go over some simple tips to keep in mind for creating high-performing videos for Facebook. Storytelling in a sound-off world. And as such, most of them are watching their videos with sound-off. Due to the muted, auto-playing nature of Facebook videos (and nearly all social networks), videos must work with sound off.

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A Simple Way for Nonprofit Leaders To Incorporate Mindfulness Into Their Daily Work

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

We started with mindfulness from Chris Block, improvisation from David Havens , and Heather and I co-facilitated a session on networks. Expect a few blog posts from me on these topics, but in this post I’d like to reflect on what I learned about mindfulness lead by Chris Block , CEO of American Leadership Forum in Silicon.

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