Have Fun - Do Good

AUGUST 21, 2008

This week's Ask Britt question comes from a friend who is helping a changemaker launch a new book. She asks (I'm paraphrasing): "How Do I Promote My Do-Good Book Online? Set up a virtual book tour I first heard about virtual book tours through Kevin Smokler. The winner gets a Flip Video camera. and the BookVideos.tv

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Qgiv

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

When the holidays roll around, little ones will love the opportunity to tell Santa their wish lists and grab a quick photo. If you’re holding this fundraiser in the spring, photos with the Easter Bunny will be just as cute, or host a short photoshoot with kids and their furry friends. Used book sale. Costume contest.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 6, 2010

A year ago Jacqueline Novogratz was featured in a guest post from Think Social about the themes in her book, The Blue Sweater. My first introduction to her book was from Lucy Bernholz and shortly after that James Wu from the Acumen Fund gave me a copy of and this profile in the Economist.

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Have Fun - Do Good

AUGUST 22, 2007

To celebrate their 20th anniversary, they are sponsoring their first national photo competition. They're looking for photos that depict innovations, people and partnerships in American sustainable agriculture. Check out SARE's video and audio profiles of "New American Farmers" and their book of the same title.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 8, 2014

Even better if you can tag the individual or do their Twitter handle. In this Twitter example below, the school is also encouraging the alumni network to RT this alum’s accomplishment. Be sure to use compelling photos and other visuals. Use Nostalgia (old class photos) to Spark A Trip Down Memory Lane. ” 3.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 30, 2015

Round three of #CelebrateAdobeCC — our three-month contest highlighting how nonprofits use Adobe products to spotlight their work and mission — is a wrap. Plus, we wanted to share all the winners in one video, created with Adobe Voice, a free tool from Adobe. Please visit the site to view this video). spanhidden.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 4, 2012

The panel featured Jonah Sachs, the creative director of Free Range Studios , which is a film studio that makes web videos for social and environmental change groups. Sachs also wrote Winning the Story Wars , a book about how nonprofits and other organizations for social good can use storytelling to capture an audience.

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Get Fully Funded

AUGUST 10, 2021

A Scholastic Book Fair for grownups.” A book fair with booze!”. I thought about it and … a Book Fair for Grownups has potential, especially if your organization has a literacy or education focus. You could partner with a local bookstore to set out some popular books and invite your book-loving friends.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 5, 2014

section of TechSoup.org we launched a contest last month for great digital inclusion stories. It also had bookshelves packed with books no one read. A local TV station employee was hired to work with the teens in a 6-week course where they created a promotional video for the library. To kick off our new success stories.

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Qgiv

JUNE 29, 2021

For an added competitive level of fun, have each attendee send a cute photo of their pet. Some things to ask for might include: Book collections Technology, like phones, laptops, tablets Certificates to local businesses Art pieces. You might even host a quick superhero trivia contest to test your attendees on their superhero knowledge.

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Connection Cafe

MAY 29, 2020

It’s been roughly two months since most of us have last been in an office, but thanks to video meeting platforms, messaging services, and modern-day technology, we can still have some sort of face-to-face interaction and continue to work alongside our teams. Virtual Book Club or TV Club. More on that below). Some Helpful Tips.

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NTEN

APRIL 26, 2012

NTCwinning 1: The Community Photo by Trav Williams You. NTCwinning 3: Napkins Photo by Trav Williams We were sure glad that Max Ward made an extra trip to replace the napkins lost in the mail for Dan Roam’s keynote. We didn’t realize quite the risk we took booking the Extra Action Marching Band to open the NTC, though.

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Qgiv

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

Check out this video to learn more: The Boys and Girls Club of Indianapolis reached 101% of their fundraising goal on Giving Tuesday 2020 by using Qgiv’s platform. Ask local performers to appear on your livestream or send in a video performance recorded ahead of time. Book a venue, entertainment, and catering. Host a concert.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 25, 2022

With a virtual format, you have the advantage of offering more variety since you can easily change the video source and even use pre-recorded video content. Consider things like ebooks, video or audio files, or even a private livestream session with a celebrity. 15) Brand design contests. 20) Book club.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 14, 2022

They can be a video interview with the donor about the mission. Photo and Bio. Send a video or audio “thank you” through social media or email. Snap a photo of the donor while at your facility or event and frame it and send it to them (also from Get Fully Funded ). Mention the donor in a dedicated email blast or several.

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Connection Cafe

JUNE 4, 2013

With an e-book you can offer a a lot of value for very little money. For example, a dog shelter can put create a short e-book of “How to Housebreak Your Dog in One Week” As you can imagine, this is a common question for all new (and potential) dog owners. Photo Contests. Thanks for joining us!

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Care2

AUGUST 22, 2013

Note , this was adapted from the book Social Change Anytime Everywhere by Amy Sample Ward and I. Share a story, donate money, sign up for a contest, watch a video, etc.). Add visual variety by highlighting new photos, captions, and links in the slide rotation every week. Media – Photos, Video, Audio.

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Tech Soup

JULY 2, 2009

Last month, TechSoup and Adobe announced the winners of the Show Your Impact Design Contest. This week, we are featuring the winner of the Social Change category in print and photo: Project Kindle's Book, I Know: Kids from Camp Kindle Share Their Stories of Living with HIV/AIDS.

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See3

FEBRUARY 13, 2008

For example… What The World Eats is a photo essay about what families around the world eat. The photographs are by Peter Menzel from the book “ Hungry Planet. Recent Posts 5 Questions to Evaluate Your Nonprofit Video ROI Enter the 2010 Tagline Awards Today! Case Soup: Nonprofit Video Secrets Revealed!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 11, 2010

Flickr Photo by Sugarpond. After Marc finished reading the Networked Nonprofit , he was curious about crowdfunding and free agents, chapters in our book. In the Assessment and Reflection Report, the authors bring other good lessons and note that “Some like Atlas Corps recruited 150 ‘Campaign Captains’ before the contest started.

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Amy Sample Ward

DECEMBER 3, 2012

In the book, Beth and Katie identify a number of themes. I am giving away a copy of Beth and Katie’s book to be sure that I do my part to spread the knowledge and share the insights. I’ll select a comment at random to win the book and we can all win by learning from each other. (I’ll Why the dog photo?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 5, 2009

If we get 1,000 video views that is good. Rachel Happe has a great list of social media metrics and it is a good starting point. In 2007, the Human Society implemented its first photo petition campaign to protest Wendy's treatment of animals. Did HSUS proclaim that photo competitions were a waste of time?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 5, 2010

Photo by Ruby Girl Creations. He explains more in the brief video. I hope you’ll spend the three minutes to watch and listen to the video – both Mark and Christian articulated the issues so well. Christian Canter, Shelter Network, and Mark Horvath, Invisible People TV.

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Neon CRM

OCTOBER 13, 2023

You can charge a door fee, set up concessions with snacks and drinks, and even have individual contests with their own entry fees. Book Sales Collect and sell donated books at a book sale event, with proceeds supporting your nonprofit. Photo Contest Photo costs are incredibly diverse.

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NTEN

MARCH 16, 2011

CCB, Inc Enter at booth 52 for a chance to win a Flip Slide HD video camera! With a design inspired by GO Campaign's work for orphans and vulnerable children across the world, this 16GB Flip provides up to 4 hours of incredible high quality HD video. Just slide open the 3” widescreen to show your videos instantly to friends.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 25, 2007

Click To Play John Kenyon tells you why video blogging is useful for nonprofits. I pulled out my video camera to do some moment capture. I also got some great video shooting tips from Nick Booth and observations from David Wilcox which will be coming soon.). 2 Video Blogging for Nonprofits.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 9, 2007

Flickr photo from jhritz NpDigg: The Insect Antennae? Who has time for Video? The point made is: Some content is going to be very well suited to video -- but other. The question is "When is video a good. Hence, they're pretty lousy photos. This was a topic for an entire book called " Crazy Busy."

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 14, 2007

They just finished a YouTube video contest. We were taking photos of the wall every week and the changes that were taking place. They would comment on the photos we'd taken and add notes with links to their own profiles. But other things--the twitter thing, the video contest was my idea. It depends.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 30, 2008

As an outside observer, the lessons that I took away from this effort were: Having people change their avatar to a pea photo gave a visual clue to the campaign and helped it spread. This one was very creative, dubbed " Trick or Tweet " focused on retweeting, incorporated a contested, and was cooked up by the good folks at FutureNow.

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Bloomerang

JANUARY 7, 2022

Introduce a Book. Photo Contest. Providing videos and educational content to your supporters. . If you’re looking for an in-depth review of engagement strategies specifically for your Giving Tuesday campaign, learn more with Bloomerang’s video on the matter. . Introduce a Book. Accept Pledges. Text-to-Give.

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Qgiv

DECEMBER 2, 2021

You could have congregants create videos on topics ranging from crocheting to canning, and then the private link to watch (and keep) the video on YouTube is sent out in the thank-you email. Or a baking contest? Go for a gala feel, complete with a “red carpet” and photos, or throw a more low-key event. Used book sale.

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Care2

FEBRUARY 25, 2008

57) Mobile (15) Nonprofit Benchmark Studies (15) Nonprofit Events (36) nptech (8) Online Advertising (5) Online Advocacy (47) Online Fundraising (97) Online Marketing (59) Online Organizing (32) SEO (3) Social Networking (109) Technology (31) Trends (51) Video (27) Volunteering (2) Web 2.0 (60) How did they do it?

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Care2

FEBRUARY 13, 2008

57) Mobile (15) Nonprofit Benchmark Studies (15) Nonprofit Events (36) nptech (8) Online Advertising (5) Online Advocacy (47) Online Fundraising (97) Online Marketing (59) Online Organizing (32) SEO (3) Social Networking (109) Technology (31) Trends (51) Video (27) Volunteering (2) Web 2.0 (60) How did they do it?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 13, 2007

Photo from Cambodia4kids. Transparency is the New Black: My Top 5 Plus 1 (That will be the name of a book title in six months.!) A favorite photo from Jon Stahl, but there are 496 more to browse. Congrats to Avaaz.org for the winning video in the NTC Video Contest. Netsquared Voting Deadline Extended.

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Qgiv

DECEMBER 22, 2022

Book entertainment like a live band and add in videos of your emcee showing off various auction items to drive bids and give your participants a better idea of what they’re bidding on. Do you have some avid video gamers amongst your supporters? Discount book sales. Don’t be afraid to get creative! Game-a-thon.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 12, 2006

Define something small and tangible - whether it be a flickr photo contest or exploring the content related to your organization's issue and identifying 10 friends or contacts. YouTube is also good in finding videos about Guimaras. I rely on photos sent to me by the filmmakers and some journalists on the field.

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Qgiv

JUNE 9, 2021

Then, once the funds are raised, they’ll livestream or post a video of their experience online as proof. Make sure that your peer-to-peer participants complete the challenge, post a video online, use the necessary hashtags, and link their fundraising pages. This will encourage others to also do the challenge and give!

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