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Ideation takes place May 7-9 in Chicago. (Photo by @america) Planning for the month’s top conferences & events There are quite a few conferences and events in the nonprofit/social change/education sector this month, and I’ll be at four of them: the Women’s Funding Network Summit in LA on Thursday, the California State PTA annual conference […]
PopVox: How to advocate your cause in Congress
PopVox: Get through to Congress from JD Lasica on Vimeo. Online service offers easy way to contact members of Congress on behalf of a cause Target audience: Nonprofits, foundations, NGOs, social enterprises, cause organizations, businesses, Web publishers, educators, journalists, general public. One of our matras here at Socialbrite is that online actions only matter if […]
10 secrets to video storytelling success
If there was one buzzword at last week’s Nonprofit Technology Conference, it was storytelling. On Wednesday Debra Askanse wrote about our Future of Storytelling panel. And there were at least two or three other sessions about nonprofit storytelling.
One of the most informative was the session “Sight, Sound, and Motion: Video Storytelling and Using Video for Advanced Messaging” put on by Michael Hoffman and Danny Alpert of See3 Communications, which works with nonprofit clients to create compelling video stories.
GroupMe: Keep in touch with your team members
At last week’s Nonprofit Technology Conference in San Francisco, the Socialbrite team debated which app would be most useful for us to locate each other and easily share our plans on which sessions or which parties to attend.
Highlights from the Nonprofit Technology Conference
Last week’s Nonprofit Technology Conference in San Francisco was easily the most fast-paced and frenetic of the three NTCs I’ve participated in, and not just because, at 1,800 attendees, it was the biggest NTC to date. Several reasons for the frenzy: Four Socialbrite team members led sessions or participated on panels; I wound up also attending the Where conference on geolocation technologies, two blocks away; I commuted home each day (a three-hour round trip by train) even after attending the evening social gatherings; and I reached out to a number of attendees to sit down and share their nonprofits’ experiences and challenges with social media.
