Have Fun - Do Good

DECEMBER 16, 2011

Today's post is a guest piece by my pal Sherry Richert Belul, founder of Simply Celebrate, and author of the e-book, Present Perfect: 127 creative, one-of-a-kind, no-to-low cost, wow-‘em gifts they’ll never forget. Love List: A Have Fun, Do Good Holiday Gift Want a great do-good, feel-good holiday gift that doesn’t cost a dime?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

Organically promote your Shop on social media by taking photos and videos of each item, ideally showing them in use in an authentic manner. Talk about your Shop in all of your contest’s communications and celebrate the winner by asking them to take a pic or video with your product that you can share to your channels.

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The Modern Nonprofit

JANUARY 28, 2025

Gamify Your Campaigns Why It Matters : Gamification drives engagement by making fundraising fun and interactive. Encourage fundraisers to share personal stories and videos to connect with their audience authentically. Create a community hub where fundraisers can connect, share tips, and celebrate successes.

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CauseVox

DECEMBER 2, 2024

Post updates on your progress, share impactful stories, and celebrate milestones with your followers. Visuals are key here—use photos, videos, and infographics to make your posts stand out. You can also add fun incentives, like donor recognition opportunities or exclusive perks for giving at certain levels.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

Success Factors: Public Engagement: The challenge was simple, fun, and encouraged user-generated content, leading to massive social media engagement and celebrity participation. Success Factors: Celebrity Advocacy: Leveraging celebrity power attracts attention and builds trust with potential donors.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 24, 2013

Get ready for our Member Appreciation Month celebration of our members all throughout November! Our members are what makes our jobs so rewarding and well, pretty darn fun. Plus, knowing us, there will probably be a cat video or two. We can''t wait to start celebrating with you. Online discussions and special content.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 13, 2011

Online video is a tool that can help solve many of these challenges, and when executed well, also gets attention from media and decisions-makers. One key ingredient to making an effective video is authenticity. Several ideas were tossed around before it was decided to make a clean energy rap video.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 27, 2012

Animoto enables users to turn their photos, video clips, and music into videos that can be uploaded to YouTube and shared on the Social Web. Bravo enables brands to capture user-generated videos directly from the Web. This website tracks what sites are the most popular in the world today. Animoto :: animoto.com.

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The Verge

MAY 8, 2021

If you happen to be searching for a belated gift to ship over (orders placed today probably won’t arrive by Sunday, May 9th, which is Mother’s Day), check out our gift guide that’s full of fun gift ideas. Here are this week’s best deals. Save 15 percent on useful tech accessories from Satechi.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 27, 2012

Ideal for activist organizations, CrowdVoice allows organizers to create “Voices” of protest where users can monitor and contribute links, photos, and videos of protests worldwide. This website allows users to build visually appealing interactive timelines using video, audio, images, location, social media, and timestamps.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 8, 2013

Animoto enables users to turn their photos, video clips, and music into videos that can be uploaded to YouTube and shared on the Social Web. Bravo enables brands to capture user-generated videos directly from the Web. This website tracks what sites are the most popular in the world today. Animoto :: animoto.com.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 15, 2011

HSUS Director of Emerging Media Carie Lewis Celebrates. Their CEO shot a video and blogged about the milestone. For this campaign, they wanted to create a celebration so that fans could engage and participate in the fun. And good news works best, people love to celebrate and feel a part of something.”

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 28, 2013

Branding themselves as the “Play” button for the Web, Wibbitz automatically converts text-based posts and articles into engaging, interactive videos so your supporters “never have to read again.” Vine is Twitter’s mobile app that can be used to create and share 6-second videos on Twitter. Vine :: vine.co.

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Get Fully Funded

MARCH 6, 2023

There are many KINDS of events, but they fall into two basic categories: The Community/Fun Event and the Heartstrings Event. Community/Fun Events Community/Fun Events are widely promoted events that encourage people to do something active or fun while supporting your cause. People leave Community/Fun Events feeling good.

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CauseVox

DECEMBER 5, 2024

Platforms like Instagram and Facebook thrive on storytelling , so use them to highlight the impact of your work through testimonials, photos, and videos. Share posts celebrating milestones, like reaching 50% of your goal, and recognize donors who have contributed.

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BoardAssist

NOVEMBER 24, 2014

Celebrate the do-gooders who make your work possible. At Catchafire, we know that celebrating volunteers in the right way leads to a long term relationship which can result in invaluable advice, connections to new supporters, and even increase donations. It is fun and engaging. nonprofits volunteers'

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

This past weekend marked the first Sunday of the 2021 NFL season, and while it was full of exciting highlights, one may have towered over them all: the Carolina Panthers’ viral video of a giant virtual panther leaping around Bank of America Stadium. The video is ridiculous. The animations are intended to air live.

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.orgSource

DECEMBER 26, 2022

I’m never tired of hearing what my friends are up to and celebrating their latest accomplishments. The “fun stuff” at Solutions Day. Even when the speakers hit it out of the park, it’s always about the people. I’ll admit that lunch and the networking reception were high points of my day.

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Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

So thanks for joining a special Wednesday session, this is kind of fun. So if that is of interest to you, maybe you’re thinking of switching software or you’re just kind of curious about us, check out our website, all kinds of videos and stuff you can watch and, you know, we’d love for you to learn more.

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AccelEvents

DECEMBER 21, 2020

Unfortunately, the COVID-19 pandemic isn’t going to completely disappear with the ball drop—meaning New Year’s Eve celebrations will have to look a little different this year. For bars and restaurants, this is the perfect way to celebrate your brand and thank your patrons for the support during such a difficult time. Games are fun.

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Judi Sohn

DECEMBER 1, 2010

Convio has been incredibly supportive of the Coalition the last 3 years, and I was thrilled to celebrate their success with them. Once the bell ceremony was over (aka everyone stand on the platform together, wave and clap and feel a little silly) we headed outside for more photos under the large video tower. Here's where I got lucky.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 16, 2012

Make sure your posts vary and include photos, videos, polls, status updates, questions, and links. When I’m sketching out my editorial plan for the month, I column for “type” to make sure I don’t get stuck in a content type rut. I discovered this by doing a content analysis on comments.

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The Verge

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

“Infinite Bad Guy” featuring Billie Eilish’s “Bad Guy” music video. In celebration of its music video passing 1 billion views, YouTube and Google Creative Lab have turned all of those covers into an interactive AI experiment. The fun thing is that they’ve also curated different tags that you can browse. Google/YouTube.

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Bloomerang

OCTOBER 16, 2023

First names only! Here are 6 channel options: A simple phone call from you, or even better—a board member A postcard A video email A letter An email A text 3 time-saving ways to report impact with scale and efficiency (no matter how big or small you are!) Go all out with good, competitive fun! You get the idea!

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The Next Web

JANUARY 28, 2014

At the end of 2013, more than 100 entrepreneurs, artists, environmentalists, and yogis flew into Panama City’s chaotic metropolis, seeking an adventure, and a fun way to celebrate the New Year. Hotsko and two of Panama’s most celebrated artists, Thomson Moore and Anne Dillon.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 8, 2018

Work anniversary celebration, shout outs to staff, hand-written gratitude notes. Birthday cards from the board, celebrate staff birthdays at monthly staff meeting, give staff member the day off for their birthday. Review self-care activities and celebrate Friendship. Mission moments – photos, videos, make them visible.

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The Verge

JANUARY 5, 2021

The site features tweets from folks like XOXO Festival organizer Andy Baio and other Silicon Valley pseudo-celebrities touting how they use the trendy app to keep their tech teams organized as marketing. In one video, the account @cur.tas gained over 1.1 It’s pretty clear who the app’s main audience is!

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Bloomerang

JUNE 11, 2021

This’ll be a fun one. . This is kind of fun for you, I imagine, Lindsay, because you’re usually in my shoes listening to a guest speaker, but … – [Lindsay] I am. . That’s just a quick fun fact for you. So these three, and Steven and I were just talking about and celebrating Mallory Erickson.

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Have Fun - Do Good

DECEMBER 9, 2009

Two creative ways you can celebrate are by writing a letter, and making a YouTube video. Create a YouTube video about a human rights organization Each month, YouTube's Video Volunteers program asks folks to make videos about organizations working on a particular issue. This month's issue is human rights.

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Qgiv

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

Peer-to-peer fundraising—individuals raising money for a cause with the help of their family and friends—is a fun, easy, and lucrative strategy to attract awareness and generate funds for your cause. Bowl-a-Thon This is a popular way to get teams together for friendly competition in a fun social environment.

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See3

MAY 19, 2011

Change the world, one video at a time.Seriously, Serious PSA| 1:01 Malaria No MorePart of Malaria No More¹s “Comedy fights Malaria&# campaign, this video is effective as it pokes fun at fundraising videos in general and the ubiquitous celebrity PSA in particular.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

At the same time, the popularity of podcasts and live-voice streaming shows no sign of abating — speaking to the staying power of audio in a video-heavy era. Deepfake video app Reface is just getting started on shapeshifting selfie culture. London and Barcelona based audio-as-a-service SaaS startup Aflorithmic has scooped up $1.3

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The Verge

FEBRUARY 7, 2021

Every DualSense controller has 40,000 tiny PlayStation symbols When my colleague Andrew Webster reviewed the PlayStation 5, he explained how Sony’s next-generation of video games is something you can’t see — you have to touch. Poking fun at Sony’s use of the Spider-Man font for its original PS3. Photo by Vjeran Pavic / The Verge.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 23, 2013

They employ numbers throughout their site to make people feel aligned with thousands of others, and they give a face and a voice to those thousands with pictures, videos and written stories. In fact, Harrison has said that if he talks for an hour, he uses over 200 photos and videos in his presentation.

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

Showcasing your volunteers’ journeys not only celebrates their invaluable commitment, but also fosters trust and connection within the community, highlighting the human impact behind every effort. Is celebrating your volunteers and how much they mean to your work a simple but surefire way to get others to get involved?

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Get Fully Funded

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

When you think of fundraising ambassadors, you might think of celebrities who use their fame to mobilize support for their favorite nonprofits. But fundraising ambassadors do not have to be celebrities. She asked the volunteer to take the video down, which the volunteer did. Videos, done right, can be very effective!

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

Fans could wait in a digital line, chat briefly with the celebrity or creator, and get “photos” with them, just like a real-life meet-and-greet. Everything is done directly through the Fundo (not a fun new kind of bread dough) website, too, using a custom-built video chat system.

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