Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 7, 2012

Post a wide variety of blog content and have some fun with it. Share Stories, Photos, and Videos from Events. You should be regularly photographing and recording videos at important events that your nonprofit hosts. Interview Experts. That said, mix it up! Share and Comment on Breaking News.

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 27, 2010

You can learn more about John and OpenAction in the interview below. On July 5 the real fun began. Essentially, we give organizations a simple tool to manage project information, like photos and videos. Tags: interview maps data openaction opensource philanthropy socialactions. How was the project developed?

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Have Fun - Do Good

MAY 20, 2011

A list of some of the people, things, and events that inspired me, or added fun to my week • Finishing Kathy LeMay's book The Generosity Plan, and interviewing her for the Big Vision Podcast. Interviewing Kim Rosen, author of Saved by a Poem , for the Arts and Healing Podcast. I've posted a video of her singing it below.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 17, 2011

A list of some of the people, things, and events that inspired me, or added fun to my week: 1. I'll post the interview soon. Also excited to start editing my Arts and Healing Podcast interview with the lovely Susannah Conway about the healing power of photography. I haven't stopped listening to it since. Soooo good.

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Neon CRM

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

These 31 ideas for online fundraising for nonprofits will help you reach your yearly goals and have fun while you do it! However, modern platforms, smartphones, and short video formats allow nonprofits to take advantage of this powerful tool in a number of ways. Here are 10 ways to use video in online fundraising for nonprofits.

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CauseVox

MARCH 30, 2022

We recently sat down with Meat Fight’s CEO, Alice Laussade, to have a fun conversation about her experience with CauseVox, key fundraising tips from Meat Fight that allowed them to raise more money, and the do not do’s for nonprofit fundraisers. VIDEO: Watch the full interview recording here. Who is Meat Fight? 5 minutes each.

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Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 25, 2010

Happy Monday, Have Fun, Do Gooders! T he fourth guest post in my have fun, do good blogger series is by Amy Sample Ward. I have two rules of thumb I use almost always: #1 Make it interesting Because there are so many ways to "have fun and do good" I can fall victim to the option paralysis syndrome.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 24, 2020

Visual Icebreakers: Video allows us to see people’s faces and objects on your desk or something you bring to the meeting. A fun and playful icebreaker that can also be done on zoom is called “ Sketch Your Neighbor.” Another one is to have folks share something that is meaningful or fun on their desk. It is a lot of fun!

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 7, 2012

Post a wide variety of blog content and have some fun with it. Share Stories, Photos, and Videos from Events. You should be regularly photographing and recording videos at important events that your nonprofit hosts. Interview Experts. That said, mix it up! Share and Comment on Breaking News.

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Bloomerang

APRIL 11, 2023

For instance, you might share photos from last year’s successful event or a behind-the-scenes look at your event setup. Ensure your photos are a good mix of candids and posed photos and avoid distracting filters or editing styles. Plus, you can also take photos of attendees throughout the event.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 15, 2011

Cute Dog Photos! They’re inviting folks to submit their own cute dog photos. grist.org has discovered what social media folks who work for zoos, aquariums, and animal welfare organizations already know. They’re inviting folks to submit their own cute dog photos. Those dinner videos or cute animals?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 2, 2010

Flickr Photo by WiserEarth - WiserEarth's team from Around the World play Peek-A-Boo With Book. The photo above shows WiserEarth ’s team from around the world in the Bay Area during break from a staff retreat reading the Networked Nonprofit. Photo by KK. Flickr Photo by KK. Flickr Photo by James Leventhal.

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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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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 1, 2011

It was a lot of fun, and as much as I was asked to share some of my knowledge and ideas, I learned a great deal from the local participants. Do you have videos, pictures, or slides? You can use videos or images, you can hold competitions for ideas, you can post your favorite links or have guest contributors. Just let me know!).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 10, 2008

She interviewed Manny Hernandez from Tu Diabetes and Es Tu Diabetes , and Ayumi Stubbs from the ASPCA Online Community. Recently, Thom Clark, Gordon Mayer, and Demetrio Maguigad did an email interview with me. Users can import their Flickr photos from their account and promote their profile pages and widgets on Facebook.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 3, 2011

Lots of museums these days have video comment booths to invite visitors to tell their stories, but how many of those booths really deliver high-impact content? Your recording booth asks participants for audio stories plus photos of themselves with their objects. Why did you choose this format instead of video? Photos are fun.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 14, 2022

Does anyone carve, knit, sew or create t-shirts… or fun food? They can be a video interview with the donor about the mission. You can even have fun engaging your supporters and board members when coming up with these designs. Photo and Bio. Send a video or audio “thank you” through social media or email.

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Have Fun - Do Good

NOVEMBER 15, 2011

As a Bay Area liberal blogger who lives in Oakland , I feel like I should be taking part in occupations, posting photos, interviewing organizers, and sharing ways to get involved, but I haven't done any of those things. Flickr photo credit: Occupy Protest tent 99 percent by Ano Lobb. It just makes me sad, and a bit tired.

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NTEN

APRIL 27, 2012

If you attended the 2012 Nonprofit Technology Conference , our amazing photographer may have snapped your photo. Review all the photos from the conference , including all the fun moments captured in the old technology photobooth. Too many NTEN members to name were interviewed in Convio’s recent video survey.

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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. Auctions are fun at any time of year, but Giving Tuesday presents extra opportunities for your nonprofit to host a successful auction. Host an auction.

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Kindful

APRIL 12, 2021

Whatever you do, be sure to include a photo or a video, plenty of supporting text, and a call-to-action in the form of a link (where possible) for folks to take a similar action. Given its frequency and the more formal, tactile feel of the medium, an interview format may be appropriate.

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Connection Cafe

SEPTEMBER 13, 2019

If homecoming has a theme, you can source the stories, people, and photos that will convey it in an exciting manner. Event-driven social media is supposed to be fun. If your homecoming alumni and friends are having fun at the event, prompt them to post and share. Will there be especially photogenic moments?

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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. Include photos of the donors or the company logo whenever possible. Harrison has over 61.5k How can your organization apply this?

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CauseVox

OCTOBER 11, 2021

For Fiver, this means pulling client testimonials from thank you letters written by program participants or through phone interviews with families. This fall, we will bring the fun home, and the whole family can participate virtually for prizes and bragging rights, all while raising funds to support Fiver’s mission of empowering youth.”.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 1, 2014

Recently, we''ve been talking at our museum about techniques for capturing compelling audio/video content with visitors. It made me dig up this 2011 interview with Tina Olsen (then at the Portland Art Museum) about their extraordinary Object Stories project. Why did you choose this format instead of video? Photos are fun.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 25, 2022

However, that doesn’t mean you have to miss out on the fun. 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.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 17, 2010

Last week, I had a fun time moderating the June #4Change Twitter Chat on Online Community Building. From @rootwork: Social media is inclined toward leadership development — it’s built around people posting, blogging, photographing, videoing, etc. From @winwinapps: Make it fun. Make the goal easily quantifiable.

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Connection Cafe

MARCH 26, 2009

So for the next hour I got to relive my Texas hail experience through photos and videos that Austinites sent by the gigabyte into our local news channels. I think this should change, because recently I had a really fun time making a volunteer video about a special nonprofit event.

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Forum One

AUGUST 17, 2009

During the event we took full advantage of the Summit's virtual presence to post session notes, encourage ongoing collaboration and discussion with discussion boards, blog entries, and live chat, and to feature conference media such as podcasts, video montages, and photos. If you shoot video, make a reel of outtakes.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JULY 31, 2009

On July 9, 2009 I interviewed David about Spot.us Below is an edited transcript of the interview which you also can listen to online , or subscribe to via iTunes. It's not fun for some people. We also did an interview with the reporter to get a feel for what went into the reporting. Is it video and audio?

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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. Make it personal, maybe you just saw them in the gym, make a fun note about that, I mean, or around town, or wherever it might be. You can send a custom thank-you video. And the thank-you video. That’s what Bloomerang is.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 17, 2008

Photo by DrumsWhistles Next week is going to be a busy, busy week of work and travel and a little bit of a fun.  Charlene Li , author of Groundswell , isn't going to be able to make it over to PodCamp Hawaii or Social Media Club Workshop Hawaii , but Chris Heuer had the pleasure of interviewing her.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 5, 2010

After lunch, I got an opportunity to do a FLIP camera interview with Mark and Christian – posted above. 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.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 25, 2008

Find more videos like this on Internet Time. Video from Jay Cross and more about Matt from Jamie Nelson. Thousands of photos in flickr (and really good ones). Later that summer, I had the honor of being interviewed by Ponzi at BlogHer. They key takeaway for me is that photos without a story in them are less powerful.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 7, 2009

And I think it’s good that we’re building such a fun, vibrant community…but not good enough. Photo by clyatt.jasper ( Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 2.0 You may find some of these comments in the thoroughly engaging video as well, though some of the Ann’s more salient points didn’t make it into the footage.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 30, 2012

Group Photo with Certificates. See the above video, created by team in Tunisia, which summarizes the program.) Here’s an interview with the translators about best practices for facilitating training activities that need to be translated. Design for Flexibility. And, indeed we had journalists present.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 9, 2007

I'm slowly blogging the posts, videos, and photos that I captured last week along with some reflections. Eric's magic eightball evaluation video was fun to make, but there was a point. I've been thinking a lot about the use of video as an evaluation or documentation tool. I was only able to interview volunteers.

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