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

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Videos with Mobile In Mind. Square videos provide 78% more space in social feeds than landscape and they don’t require that the user tilt their phone to view it in full-screen. Another consideration is that around 80% of videos in social feeds are watched with the sound off. To recap: Create videos regularly with mobile in mind.

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Guest Post: Facebook Video Tips from Non-Profit Marketers

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

16:9 ratios require that the viewer tilts their phone and watches it in a non-vertical orientation. ShelterBox USA had a very busy year, due to the sheer number of natural disasters that struck in 2017. They kept their followers informed on a per-disaster-basis through video shared on Facebook. “We

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A Fundraising Cliff? What does the data say?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

” Also keep in mind that only 30% of American taxpayers itemize their deductions, which often gets overlooked in end-of-year holiday appeals. Disaster giving is not a zero-sum game. Giving to disasters does not take away from other nonprofit causes. Disaster giving has provided some temporary relief to the situation.

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Mastering the Art of Work/Life Balance in a Digital World

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Meet my colleague, Meico Marquette Whitlock, who is the Founder and CEO of Mindful Techie. I had an opportunity to interview Meico about being a Mindful Techie. You have now moved into the area of “Mindfulness and Technology,” what inspired the move from nonprofit techie into mindfulness?

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The Future of Fundraising is Already Here. Stop Fundraising! Start Inspiring!

Connection Cafe

At bbcon 2015, some of the top minds in the nonprofit industry came together to present Big Idea sessions. It might sound like I am just trying to be confrontational by giving this advice, but I assure you this approach is rooted in the very fabric of philanthropy. This sounds overwhelming, but stay with me. 24/7 philanthropy.

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[VIDEO] 5 Must-Do’s of Year-End Fundraising Success

Bloomerang

And I’m on the upswing, so if I sound a little groggy, that’s why. George heard about this and he grabbed his phone and he videoed a whole bunch of people saying, “Thank you to the Smith Family Foundation. I know that thank you calls sound time intensive. They sound scary, because who wants to talk to someone?

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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.