Nothing tells the real, impactful human stories of actual constituents like video. In the years that I spent as an advocacy program director, collecting user-generated video from our supporters – advocate stories, testimonials, and messages to legislators – was always high on the priority list.
Archives for October 2012
How to get your tweets to have staying power
How Twylah can help you get more juice out of your tweets Twylah is a way to organize your tweets on a single webpage that’s SEO-friendly and search engine optimized, essentially giving your tweets greater exposure and a significantly longer life. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported.
5 smartphone apps that support great causes
Support your favorite nonprofits through your mobile device Target audience: Nonprofits, cause organizations, foundations, NGOs, social enterprises, educators, journalists, general public. Guest post by Whitney Adams AndGeeks.com There are lots of organizations and charities that help people, animals and the environment. These charities rely heavily on other people for in-kind donations, monetary donations or for volunteer work. […]
7 top video editing tools for nonprofits
Today, software makes editing digital footage faster, easier and much more affordable, and puts it within reach of anyone with a personal computer. Even better, digital video editing is “nonlinear,” which means you can access the scenes you want to edit directly. This helps speed up the process, especially for a short, Internet-ready video for which you just need to trim off the ends and add a title screen or two. Here are seven top video editing tools for your organization.
3 simple, practical social media tips for nonprofits
Tried & true techniques — plus a conference discount code Target audience: Nonprofits, cause organizations, foundations, NGOs, social enterprises. Guest post by Ritu Sharma Social Media for Nonprofits As Social Media for Nonprofits, the country’s only conference series devoted to social media for social good, plans its Oct. 5 return to the nation’s capital, we thought […]