Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 8, 2016

On Facebook, visually appealing photos and compelling graphics receive up to 4X more engagement (shares and likes). Create inspirational quotes , powerful stats , infographics , title images , event invites , and calls-to-action. Instagram : When the impulse strikes, post photos and videos in real-time. Create visual content.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 1, 2020

You might want to hire a photographer for events, then get participant’s permission to tag them in photos on social media. You can run a competition, giving away free perks to the member that contributes to the best photo. 6) Use video and live streaming for storytelling. You’ll also want to keep track of these stats.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 10, 2022

Before you follow any account, ensure that your profile is complete with (1) a well-designed profile photo and header image; (2) a bio that expresses clearly your organization’s mission; and (3) a link to your website. Don’t be a photo tag spammer either! Upload powerful photos and videos.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 27, 2012

99 app allows you to easily create panoramic photos on your smartphone. This is a must-buy app if your nonprofit regularly tells your story through mobile photo-sharing. FotoFlexer is a free Web-based photo-editing tool that allows you to cut, crop, resize, and embed text and logos onto your photos.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 8, 2013

99 app allows you to easily create panoramic photos on your smartphone. This is a must-buy app if your nonprofit regularly tells your story through mobile photo-sharing. 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.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 28, 2013

A website that provides world statistics updated in real-time in categories ranging from world population to stats about energy and water consumption. Vinepeek gives you a glimpse of Vine’s potential for visual storytelling. for awareness campaigns, staff and volunteer training, and creative storytelling and reporting.

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CauseVox

NOVEMBER 26, 2023

Whether you’re striving to make a difference in your community, protect the environment, or provide a lifeline to those in need, your storytelling ability can mean the difference between a thriving and well-funded program and one that falls flat. The Power of Storytelling in Fundraising Humans are meaning-making creatures.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 27, 2012

99 app allows you to easily create panoramic photos on your smartphone. This is a must-buy app if your nonprofit regularly tells your story through mobile photo-sharing. 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.

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DNL OmniMedia

AUGUST 25, 2021

That’s where nonprofit storytelling comes into play. That’s why we’ve created this comprehensive guide to nonprofit storytelling, in which you’ll explore the following points: The Importance of Storytelling for Nonprofits. 7 Tips for Effective Storytelling for Nonprofits Using Digital Marketing. Let’s get started.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 8, 2012

Upload your nonprofit’s avatar as one (or all five) of your featured profile photos. There’s way too much marketing happening on social networking sites and not enough storytelling. Photos and slideshows. Powerful stats. Add your nonprofit under “Employment.” Inspirational quotes.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 5, 2021

1) Maximize your Instagram Profile Photo and Bio. First, make sure that your nonprofit uses a well-designed, visually-striking profile photo a.k.a. Post Eye-catching Photos. The best practices below should help if you’re nonprofit is noticing a decrease in engagement and exposure.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 25, 2013

On Monday, April 16, TechSoup took its Digital Storytelling global with a full-day tweet chat spanning 10 time zones. Each tweet chat covered a different facet of digital storytelling and featured storytelling experts and nonprofit and library participants.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 26, 2012

Upload your nonprofit’s avatar as one (or all five) of your featured profile photos. There’s way too much marketing happening on social networking sites and not enough storytelling. Photos and slideshows. Powerful stats. Add your nonprofit under “Employment.” Inspirational quotes.

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Bloomerang

MAY 18, 2021

Will you be sharing stats and facts to support what you are saying? Examples could be: Building rapport with you audience by posting a series of “meet-the-team” photos and bios on your website and social media pages. Will you be sharing emotionally-engaging stories ? Will you be sharing behind-the-scenes pictures?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 14, 2015

With more than 250 million blogs in existence and countless online news outlets worldwide, your new media manager must excel at writing and have the ability to expand their storytelling, marketing, and fundraising content beyond traditional blog writing. Photo Essays. Summarize Research Reports and Studies.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 27, 2013

The TechSoup Digital Storytelling Challenge is back and there are some great prizes in store for organizations with the most creative, compelling, and entertaining stories. Use Adobe's Photoshop CS6 or Photoshop Elements to refine photos or create motion graphics. Flickr Pro gives you unlimited photo and video uploads and storage.

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The Modern Nonprofit

OCTOBER 17, 2023

This isn’t just about beautiful words—pictures and videos are your allies, bringing the world closer to your cause and adding a human touch to cold stats. Ideally, your page should, in 30 seconds, make clear to donors the ins-and-outs of your cause through engaging text, enthralling photos, videos, and graphics.

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Bloomerang

JUNE 29, 2021

The same goes for a photo. If you have a high-quality photo that the person has agreed to let you use, that’s fantastic! To do that, you need to tie your story in with stats, facts, and other pieces of logic that show your donors that: . If you don’t have one, that’s okay — it can still be a really powerful story.

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Tech Soup

MAY 7, 2013

I'm going to blow your mind by sharing some stats and our May events. Digital Storytelling Challenge. NetSquared organizers were jazzed by the Digital Storytelling Challenge. Ten Net2 groups held Digital Storytelling events in their community, with an estimated 360 attendees. What Is NetSquared Local?

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Nonprofits Source

MARCH 21, 2018

We’ve put together a list of the most up-to-date stats on how nonprofits are using social media to make a difference. They aren’t afraid to retweet relevant posts, or share photos. VIEW MORE SOCIAL MEDIA STATS. VIEW MORE SOCIAL MEDIA STATS. VIEW MORE SOCIAL MEDIA STATS. VIEW MORE SOCIAL MEDIA STATS.

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Qgiv

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

Like any other marketing tool or social media platform, TikTok’s value is in its storytelling ability. Label each day on the content calendar with the names of the platforms you’ll be posting on, what you plan on posting about, and any photo or video you’ll need created for the post. What problems does your nonprofit tackle?

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Get Fully Funded

DECEMBER 4, 2022

If hunger among the elderly is on the rise nationally, share what you’re seeing locally along with a few key stats and a little about how you’re addressing the need in your community. Include 1 – 3 photos and a short video, if you have one. Embed your photos in the email. Convert your press release to a PDF.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 14, 2011

Content creation, storytelling specifically, is headed in the same direction. Content and stories can be so many different things like videos created by participants, photo blogs from maintenance staff, schedule updates from instructors, sharing lesson plans, etc. based on industry standards and other YMCA stats.

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CauseVox

OCTOBER 11, 2021

It’s marketable, it’s ripe for good storytelling, and can ease the process of coming up with a fresh campaign concept. For more storytelling tips, check out our guide, How To Tell Stories that Connect, Move, And Inspire Everyone. Is storytelling a big component of the campaign? Storytelling.

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Connection Cafe

MARCH 19, 2014

It’s with this simple formula, known as the story arc, that storytellers across centuries have attracted, captivated, and motivated audiences. While stats and facts are important to share, quantitative data alone won’t motivate change. photo cred – Flickr: Creative Commons. It’s your role to guide them to a resolution.

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The Modern Nonprofit

OCTOBER 1, 2024

This isn’t just about beautiful words—pictures and videos are your allies, bringing the world closer to your cause and adding a human touch to cold stats. Ideally, your page should, in 30 seconds, make clear to donors the ins-and-outs of your cause through engaging text, enthralling photos, videos, and graphics.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 3, 2015

Find additional astonishing Creative Commons stats on the Creative Commons website. Take advantage of all of TechSoup's best digital storytelling resources. image images graphics photo digital storytelling visualization visual' How Our Content Can Be Used. Read more about Free Graphics Software and Images. spanhidden.

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CauseVox

JUNE 1, 2021

1) Visual Storytelling. Visual storytelling does exactly that. In fact, 80% of the top grossing campaigns through CauseVox use visual storytelling to showcase their cause and crush their fundraising goal. With content marketing, you and your supporters can create and upload content (blog posts, photos, testimonials, etc.)

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CauseVox

JULY 31, 2024

1) Visual Storytelling The best weapon against apathy is a compelling story. Visual storytelling does exactly that. In fact, 80% of the top grossing campaigns through CauseVox use visual storytelling to showcase their cause and crush their fundraising goal. But it’s one thing to tell someone a story and another to show them.

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The Verge

APRIL 20, 2021

Photo Illustration by Grayson Blackmon / The Verge. They’re not a creator, they’re not a storyteller, they’re not a technologist. And I think the stat that I read is that there’s over 2 million creators between TikTok and YouTube, and some of these platforms, that are making over six figures in ad revenue today.

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Qgiv

OCTOBER 5, 2021

No matter your donors’ reasons for giving, the stats above show that at the end of the year, they’re ready and willing to give. Share photos of your campaign events or volunteer opportunities to highlight the human side of your cause. Here are some storytelling tips: Tap into people’s love of narrative.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 19, 2014

Cool photos? Perhaps it is a combination of a few different storytelling elements. Our Storymakers 2014 challenge kicks off August 26, so to get you inspired, I've compiled some great examples of digital storytelling in crowdfunding campaigns. Storymakers2014 fundraising crowdfunding digital storytelling causevox'

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The Modern Nonprofit

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

It’s cheaper to do than you might think, and stats show that your appeal will be 50% more likely to succeed if you do! Don’t make these storytelling mistakes. Those stats you used earlier? Release profile photos & banner images, social feed photos, Facebook/Instagram story images/GIFS.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 6, 2016

Based upon the knowledge and experience that the nonprofit sector has gained over the last 20 years of using websites and email for storytelling and fundraising, the webinar content below was presented August 23, 2016 to 1,662 nonprofit staff. 5 Must-Know Stats for Nonprofits. billion by 2020. Prioritize image and video content.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 23, 2016

Based upon the knowledge and experience that the nonprofit sector has gained over the last 20 years of using websites and email for storytelling and fundraising, the webinar content below was presented August 23, 2016 to 1,662 nonprofit staff. 5 Must-Know Stats for Nonprofits. billion by 2020. Prioritize image and video content.

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The Modern Nonprofit

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

It’s cheaper to do than you might think, and stats show that your appeal will be 50% more likely to succeed if you do! Don’t make these storytelling mistakes. Those stats you used earlier? Release profile photos & banner images, social feed photos, Facebook/Instagram story images/GIFS.

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Connection Cafe

DECEMBER 22, 2013

From #batkid to #GivingTuesday, the Next Generation of American Giving to Content Marketing for Nonprofits , storytelling to social fundraising, retention rates to relationship building, the roundup below covers it all (and everything in between). million tweets and 914,000 photos shared, the Movember movement did something right.

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