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Video Playlists From Nonprofit Radio

Here are three playlists from over 100 interviews that I’ve shot at conferences like Nonprofit Technology Conference (NTC), National Conference on Philanthropic Planning (NCPP) & Fundraising Day. The playlists are Planned GivingSocial Media, & Donor Relations.

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Nonprofit Radio for June 5, 2015: Your Video Strategy & How To Get Found

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Bridgett CollingYour Video Strategy

Video is the most popular and fastest-growing form of content. Bridgett Colling shares her advice on fitting video into your mission. Do you know about YouTube for Nonprofits? What are WooBox and TagBoard? Bridgett is director of content marketing at See3Communications. We talked at NTC, the Nonprofit Technology Conference hosted by NTEN, the Nonprofit Technology Network.

 

Elizabeth Beachy & Arika SanchezHow to Get Found

With Elizabeth Beachy (L) & Arika Sanchez at NTC

Your content strategy needs to consider that people now search YouTube, Twitter and Pinterest almost as often as they search Google. Now that search has changed, how do you create content that gets you found? From NTC, Elizabeth Beachy is director of strategic communication at Upleaf and Arika Sanchez was formerly the Communications Specialist at the Center for Nonprofit Excellence.

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Hello and welcome to tony martignetti non-profit radio big non-profit ideas for the other ninety five percent. I’m your aptly named host. Oh, i’m glad you’re with me. I’d suffer biliary calculus if you had the gall to tell me that you missed today’s, show your video strategy video the most popular and fastest growing form of content. Bridget calling shares her advice on fitting video into your mission. Do you know about youtube? For non-profits? What are woobox and tag board? Bridget is director of content marketing at sea three communications. We talked at and t c the non-profit technology conference hosted by n ten, the non-profit technology network and how to get found you’re content strategy needs to consider that people now search youtube, twitter and pinterest almost as often as they search google. Now that search has changed. How do you create content that gets you found from ntcdinosaur? Elizabeth beachy is director of strategic communication at upleaf and arika sanchez is communications specialist at united way of central new mexico. I’m tony take two thank you, responsive by opportunity collaboration, that working, meeting on poverty reduction that will ruin you for every other conference here is bridget calling from the non-profit technology conference on your video strategy. Welcome to tony martignetti non-profit radio coverage of the non-profit technology conference. Our hosts are n ten, the non-profit technology network. We are in austin, texas, in the convention center. My guest is bridget calling she’s director of content marketing for c three communications, and her topic on the workshop is video strategy how to compete and win in a video centric world. Richard calling welcome to non-profit radio. Thank you so much, tony. Pleasure to have you it’s so great to be here. Thank you very much. How does video strategy fit into our overall content strategy? Well, something that c three has been saying to non-profits for years is that you don’t just need one viral video. You need a video strategy video works five video please come get away from me. I know i know it’s so hard if it happens, but it hardly ever does. Alright. Well, especially with the ice bucket challenge happening last summer, i think a lot more non-profits now it’s, not just the viral video it’s, how can we get hundreds of viral videos in a campaign? But the truth is that that doesn’t just happen, it’s not something that you can construct inside your boardroom, it’s something that has to happen either organically or it happens over time with a lot of effort and a lot of practice and a lot of community building ondo something that we’ve seen happening really catching on with non-profits is the concept of content marketing s o producing content that’s geared towards a very specific audience with the intention of driving them toe action on dh that content is really focused around their goals and their needs and speaks very clearly to who that audience is. S o we see a lot of non-profits coming to us now asking about content strategy, wanting to know more about it wanting help with developing their own content strategy so that they can create thoughtful content around their causes on that make their constituents really excited to be involved, excited to volunteer, excited to donate on. And so we see video fitting into that really well, a za piece of i don’t know what that was. I don’t know if part of part of the science fair floor just fell down or what? Hopefully everything okay that that that that clolery but oh, it was probably the puzzle. You’re right. I don’t know what that weird little guy. You okay? Better what one i i pictured someone’s booth collapse happened. We got a little scared each foot told jungle. Yeah, well, also saying so we see video fitting into that really nicely because we we know that video is one of the most compelling forms with content you can produce on dh it really can get two people emotionally. It can really drive people to action in a way that other types of content can’t, because i mean compare i’m adding sound and video and images together just makes for a really compelling emotional story on dso, we see video fitting inside of a convict strategy really well, along with other pieces of content. So, along with your social media strategy, along with your website, along with their email, you can’t just think of video as its own entity. It’s smarter to think about it inside the lens of all the content that you’re creating from your non-profit ah, should should every piece of video in our strategy have ah have a call to action, even if it’s something small, like share should it always be a call of action? You know, i think you can’t go wrong with having a call to action. I don’t know, i wouldn’t say that every piece of video action absolutely has to have a called action, but i do think that more non-profits tend to shy away from putting a call the action at the end cause they don’t want to be too demanding was what we’ve seen in the non-profits we worked with in the audiences that we worked with is that people expect there to be a call to action. People want to take a meaningful action if they care about your cause on dh. So even if it is like you were saying something simple, like sharing or telling your friend about this or visiting this website, people tend to like somewhere to go after they see a piece of content that they find really engaging. So i i wouldn’t say that you have to, but i would say that if you want teo, you shouldn’t try away from it. Okay, i’m going, i’m going to presume to tell me if i’m wrong is the place to start with our video strategy fitting into our overall content strategy is our goals for video. Oh, yes. Okay, maybe you talk to michael about this last year. Thiss comes up a lot. Yes. Yes, absolutely. Why the hell are we doing this? My daughter? We’re talking about our goals. No, no. Why are we doing video? Our overall strategy, right? Yeah, well, i think the question isn’t why are we doing video? The question is, what do we want our non-profit to be achieving? What do we want? What kind of impact we want to make on our cause? And then once we figure out what that goal is, then we can figure out how video is an effective part of that on. And i think that’s true for all types of content. I came to see three relatively recently from a social media marketing agency and something that i heard from a lot of my social media clients was, oh, we want a facebook page so that we can get in front of young people or we want a twitter account so that we can reach more more people who are techies on and that’s great, but that doesn’t fit with your business goals or with your non-profits goals, then what’s the point on dso i think starting with what your objective zara’s a cause what you object, stars and organization is a very important place to always be able to refer back to it because otherwise things can get way out of scope. You, khun b reaching for things that don’t really matter. Michael talks about an organization not that see three works with but that michael and see three’s cofounder danny are friends with who made a really successful video, got millions of hits online, didn’t do a thing for their cause. Nobody visited the website nobody donated, nobody volunteered so you can have a viral video that actually makes no impact on and see three is definitely in the business of creating videos that actually create impact even if they don’t go go viral. Amending the michael we’re talking about. Michael hoffman was a guest of honor non-profit radio ntcdinosaur year and is the ceo? Is that right? Yeah. The cofounder of c three years ago, um, let’s spend some time talking about getting your videos found. Yes, the best video is not worth anything. If no one watches it? Absolutely where we need to be thinking about so something that we’re seeing a lot more of lately is video that’s actually directly uploaded to facebook, and i think we’re going to see a lot more video that struck the uploaded twitter as well. Youtube is still a very important platform, and we recommend that all the non-profits that we work with, upload their videos to youtube and optimize them for youtube. Eso youtube is actually the second largest search engine after google uh, number two okay, yeah, ah well, last time i check my stats, i believe that’s still true, so you choose the second largest search engine, so if you optimize your video on youtube, if you upload all the subtitles for your video, if you add really good tags to your video that will help people when they’re searching for it on youtube, you are much more likely to have it be found either in a google search argue tube search on dh if you could take the time tio upload a spanish transcript as well, we’re seeing a lot more spanish searching happening both on youtube and on google in general. On dh so uploading a transcript in spanish and english. Yes. Where do you where do you put the transcript? There is a space when you go to the creator studio and youtube to upload your transcript so you could do it there. Okay, so those are the okay, no need for me to ask what the how do you optimize for you two? You’ve just explained it. Yeah, well, that i mean there’s, other there’s other ways to optimize for you to do so i’d say i’d say creating a title and a description for your video. That is not something that’s thinking about your audience is you develop the title and the description for your video. So a lot of times in non-profit video will see things that up, things that are uploaded that say dahna gala video twenty fourteen and that’s fine if you’re just doing it internally. But if you want anybody, any of your constituents to see it who are outside of the organization, they’re not going to find it by searching dinner gala video. So you need to be thinking about your audience as you put your video on youtube and think about what? They would be looking for when they’re searching for that video in the same vein up putting are adding a description that says that tells a story about the video and invites people teo click play on not just saying, here is a video of our dinner gala in twenty fourteen um is a really smart strategy to get many more people clicking, playin and actually watching the video, alright, any other tips strategies for getting our video found? Yeah, well, i started talking about youtube and facebook at the beginning there, so we are this is a more recent trend that we’re seeing, and i actually think non-profits were a bit ahead of this curve with the ice bucket challenge last fall because so many people were uploading video to support a cause which was a less directly to facebook, and we saw that people were able to do that because we have these super computers in our pockets now and high production video teams that are located on our phones on dso, it’s amazing that people can take such high quality video insurance so easily and with the introduction of facebook auto play video, i don’t know if your facebook news feed looks anything like mine, but mine’s covered in auto player because, like, how do we stop these damn thing? You can think i can get it out now, isn’t there? That was the strategy, but there is a there is a setting for not having autoplay, isn’t they’re? Uh, they’re not off there. Maybe i think i saw i think i’ve heard about that, i don’t know specifically, yeah, but i think over time the facebook’s goal is to have mohr auto play video showing up in your news feed if you don’t have it set on auto play than at least more video showing up in news feed because both facebook and twitter positioning themselves as hosting platforms for video, not just spaces for youtube videos to be shared s so we see that all the social networks are looking at the value of video and finding ways to position themselves as a sharing mechanism between the people who are creating the video and their constituents who they want to share them with. S o, we’re actually seeing some creators who are leaving places like vine or youtube and moving to facebook as their platform. Where there is showing their videos directly, you’re tuned to non-profit radio. Tony martignetti also hosts a podcast for the chronicle of philanthropy. Fund-raising fundamentals is a quick ten minute burst of fund-raising insights, published once a month. Tony’s guests are expert in crowdfunding, mobile giving event fund-raising direct mail and donor cultivation. Really, all the fund-raising issues that make you wonder, am i doing this right? Is there a better way there is? Find the fund-raising fundamentals archive it. Tony martignetti dot com that’s marketmesuite n e t t i remember there’s, a g before the end, thousands of listeners have subscribed on itunes. You can also learn maura, the chronicle website, philanthropy dot com fund-raising fundamentals, the better way. What else does this mean? What are the other implications of of twitter becoming, for instance, twitter becoming a a, uh, cite a site where where direct content? Yeah, video video is directly uploaded. Yeah, well, i think i think the social networks want to own your content on so the way in the way that youtube, as ownership over all the videos that are uploaded on youtube, i think twitter and facebook want a cut of that as well. On day one, they want to have really direct access to that content because they know how powerful video is and they know how effective it is moving people to action. Good. Ah, let’s talk about some of the production if some production strategies yeah, i think you’ll agree that doesn’t have to be high production value moving and compelling. Absolutely no. Okay, sure, talk about yeah, well, won. And michael and i were just talking about this earlier xero propping for the presentation. Eso won really great example that if i could point your radio listeners there you look up. Twenty fifteen dot do gooder dot tv. We’re announcing the winners of our duvette video awards awards. Yeah, so those are the where it’s the ninth annual wars they celebrate the best in video for good on die only plugged this because we had a really awesome winner in the funny for good category. So this is not the official enough, it doesn’t go out till tomorrow morning, but ah, but the winner of that category was this organization called unbound, who created a parody video between two ferns with zach galifianakis. I don’t know if you’ve ever seen those videos on she’s seen the video, okay? Marissa has yeah, production assistant here at ntc geever says, yeah, but the between two friends is ah, parody of talk shows um, and so zach galifianakis and actor and usually a celebrity who come and sit between two fake for implants and zach alfano argast basically makes fun of the other actor the whole time, pronouncing their name wrong refers teo movies that they haven’t worked in and talk about how great their work was in that movie on dh so it’s, it’s it’s very funny, it’s very dry on and so this organisation unbound created a video called between two furnaces it’s a ten minute video it’s there may be two different cameras that they used on the two different interviewee are the person, the interview and the person interviewing s o they cut back and forth a bit, but aside from that, i mean there’s a little bit of sound at the beginning. Ah there’s, no motion graphics it’s, obviously, people who are in house who are doing this, the scripts are right in front of them it’s so basic, but it’s so funny on and i think it shows that, you know, we hear from non-profits all the time we don’t have the budget, we don’t have the budget and and budget could definitely be a limitation, depending on the type of video you want to create. But i think if you’re just talking about creating a video that’s getting the word out about your organization, if you think creatively, you could really push the boundaries and create something that’s, that’s really unique and very interesting. And so that video actually got over three thousand votes in the digger awards on dh we’re really poor, proud that it’s a winner because we think it shows non-profits that you could do something simple and still have a huge success. With it, how does their work related teo video they created between two furnaces, so so they actually use the video, too? Talk about the work that unbound does s o they work in, i believe it’s twenty one different countries to help alleviate poverty, and so they talk about the work that they do during the video, but they talked about it in a very funny comedy parody way on, so they kind of poke fun at the fact that it used to be a christian based our may still be a christian based organization, but they poke fun and say, you know, so don’t you hand everybody bibles? Everybody’s got to get a bible, don’t they? On dh, they poked fun of themselves, which we think was also very brave because a lot of non-profits khun feel very scared about being vulnerable like that and, you know, poking fun at their own image are their own mission or their own values, but it it was really cool seeing non-profit, you know, taking some, being a little bit bonem herbal and and getting a bigger reward in return, okay? And i guess generally the duke latto videos are good. Examples of video well done, yes. High or low production value? Absolutely. Yeah, so we definitely have a lot of other videos that contest that are very high production. I’d say our best non-profit video winner, which was cystic fibrosis trust they have a very high production video. Both of the videos that were submitted tend to be from more non-profits who have a bit of a budget? No, they’re they’re focusing on these videos, and they’re thinking about the distribution of the videos too. So when they create the videos, they know that one of the ways they’re going to promote them is by submitting them to the do gooder awards. So it tends to be organizations that have a more thought out video strategy. Um, so we do see a lot of hyre production videos, but there’s there’s a whole range in there so i’d recommend people if they’re interested in seeing examples of great video, they’ll be able to view all of our finalists in the winners on twenty fifteen that do gooder dot tv if they want to check it out. Okay. Excellent. Yeah, we still have some time left together. Okay. What more can you tell us about video strategy fitting into our overall content strategy. Yeah, well, i think so. I really i talked a lot about the low production between two ferns are between two furnaces rather, but some other video strategy chips that were going to be sharing tomorrow in terms of easy ways to produce more video, please, on some, some of those would be a really video curation using user generated content. Eso asking your fans to send our your fans i’m very i mean, youtube creator land, we’re working with a lot of youtube creators for the do gooder awards they have their fans have been a lot of videos to them, but ask your constituents. Teo create videos to help support your cause if you give them very specific talking points, tell them about what time you what length you want your video to be encouraging them to take videos but their smartphones and send them to you our upload them using a hashtag there are a lot of platforms you can use now third party platforms that will aggregate any content that sent to a certain hashtag on dh so we see a lot more non-profits using technology like that in order to really gather a lot of user generated content easy wife, what are some of those sites eso won that i’ve used before is called woobox wooo, botox, that’s good arika and so that’s actually, you can create absolute can embed on websites or you could add, is an extension to your facebook page. It’s very easy to set up on and you could you could do something like a hashtag contest that you could do, you know, hash tag non-profit radio and everyone who submitted a photo or tweet with a hashtag non-profit radio would have their content entered into this contest. Andi, it gives you all the tools basically run a contest from there another one another one of the good that’s, the main one that i’ve used in the one that i’ve used, not so much for your contest, but just just sift through content is called tag board uh, yeah on and so that’s a really good one. It it has a beautiful display. It’s totally free to use on dh i’ve used it a lot, especially when so for something like ntcdinosaur you create a tag board for fifteen and tc and see all the all of the stuff that people have submitted under, you know hashtag fifteen ntcdinosaur filter out videos, photos, tweeds, etcetera also, by the way, thank you for shouting out hashtag non-profit radio e do it often enough it’s! A pleasure to hear someone else’s thank you sort of well it’s reminding me of storify yes, but it’s maur automated yes, it’s more automated. So store five more you would take your pulling, you pull the trigger on story so this was this would be automated. So anything that kayman under that hashtag would be in there something like woobox would give you the control. Teo, sift out any content that you didn’t want to end up in there. So if someone was spamming you, someone is family. You could delete it, but something like tag board wouldn’t because a free service you wouldn’t have that, that kind of control. But i do. I find that it’s great, especially for conferences or things where if i’m live tweeting an event and i want to see it everything going on an event in one place. I use tide board to look at that. Okay, good. All right. So a little more time. Ok, tell me some more stuff that you haven’t told me yet. Yeah, sure. So tomorrow, let’s, see what else we’re talking about. A fact about video tips and tricks. We’ve talked about distribution a bit. Um, i guess i’d say some more ideas for generating video for your non-profit ah, that aren’t as high production argast high cost. We’ve been doing a lot of google hangouts recently, those great they’re awesome automatic video was completed it right at the end yet, so yeah, in order to do that, you have to do the google hangout on air. If you do, a google hangout on area video will be automatically upload to youtube. It looks great. It makes it so much easier. I know, especially for me. As a content manager, i’m looking for anything that will automate my process for me a bit and take away some of that time that that i would be taking to upload a video and optimize it. And so you could do all that in the front end through google plus, when you set up the hangout, um and it’s really great we’ve been doing hangouts we’ve been doing interviews with people in the non-profit community. So we did one a few weeks ago with jeff brooks of future fund-raising now, we did want a few months ago with joe waters and keep the lower miller on dh yeah, we’ve been really enjoying doing the girl hangouts on, and it makes it really easy to dio these quick, quick little powers with people and to be able teo transfer the video back and forth between users in a way that looks really advanced looked really polished but is very cheap and easy to dio it’s free and it’s easy today i’ve done some non-profit radio hangouts. Yeah, cool, yeah, especially when i see somebody or something that’s going to attract a lot of attention and comments. Yeah, so then we get people chatting or they’re coming into the video absolutely great, yeah, that’s so cool and the other thing i’ve been doing is webinars too, which i know is so old school, but i think especially in the age of content strategy, creating things that people that you can have people exchange their email address for in order to give them some content, so something like a webinar where you have to give your email to sign up is really valuable to non-profits we talk about condoms strategy, we talk a lot about subscription on making sure that you can have a way to collect people’s email addresses s o that you actually have their content contact information for the long term on i say a lot of times i’m not the lunar says this, but on i tell non-profits a lot that when you are building your community on facebook or on twitter, on youtube, even your but you’re building a house on rented land. Oh, and you don’t really own those network. So you know facebook could shut down tomorrow, and then your community of hundreds of thousands of likes is gone. But if you have people’s email addresses, it’s a much more secure way to stay in touch with the people who you wantto communicate within the community that you’re building. S o we always recommend that people build and email database and find ways to drive people to sign up for for your email lists and how can we use video toe? Do that so video, actually, so this is special for non-profits if you’re a part of the youtube for non-profits program, you are one of the select few on youtube who can actually take people from your video to a third party websites. So not another youtube video on and so you could take people directly to your email sign up form from a video. Ok, which is something that for-profit scant. Do what you have to be a member of your youtube for non-profit program the youtube non-profit program okay, find that sign up for it. Yeah, youtube dot com slash non-profits okay, very easy. You could drive people to third party use. A third party went from your video from your video. It was embedded clicking? Yes, exactly, yeah, and there’s a lot of other. There are a lot of other benefits to the youtube non-profit program tio they provide training and resource is especially for non-profits you get access to these things called youtube spaces, which they started creating for their youtube creators? S o they’re basically production studios that air good, especially for non-profits and their special youtube creators who want to be creating high quality video but don’t have the studios to do it themselves on and so i would say, look into the youtube non-profit program, there are a lot there are other benefits, too. I’m just signing up and it’s it’s free from non-profits to join, okay, we have another minute or two, okay, you’re loaded with information, i’m not looking like you hold back. No, i don’t remember everything from my from my presentation tomorrow i’m trying to think of anything in the topics that we haven’t covered already. Actually, the thing that we’re opening with that i’m very excited about is that buzzfeed obama video did you see that when i was making the rounds on facebook? Eso obama did a video with buzzfeed a few weeks ago that was used to encourage people to sign up for obama care by the february fifteenth deadline on and i thought that when i saw the video it’s like, gosh, this is so smart and this is going to be so this is going to be in my webinars and presentations for the next six months because it really showed that the white house understood who their audience was for that specific campaign s o they needed young people to sign up for obamacare in order to offset that a lot of people who were, you know beyond their twenties and thirties already signed up for obamacare, which is great, but they needed more young people to sign up to offset the medical costs of older people would already saying that we need help. The young people, yeah, the older but of course all the young people think nothing bad is ever gonna happen to them. They’re never going to die, so none of them were signing up. Eso aza let’s, last ditch effort the white house used busby to reach that audience on. They created a video i think it had within the first day it had over one hundred thousand shares. Had millions of hits on buzzfeed. Millions of hits on the thehe four double care act website on dh. So it was really the healthcare dot gov website, i should say on and so it was successful for the obama campaign. I looked at the stats and although i couldn’t obviously on my end, i couldn’t see specifically what factors led to this increase, but they had eight million people sign up for on healthcare dot com that govern in the last six months. What do you think? What do you think contributed to this? Well, they had. So i was going to say that eight million people saying up in the last six months, and they had one million people sign up in the last week after the video was released. So so that it was one eighth of the total sign ups, which seems pretty significant. Was it an outstanding video? So it was an outstanding video because they placed it on a network. That was really it was really targeted towards the young people who think the lights just went out in, uh, and in the science fair. But non-profit radio perseveres never own lights. We have our own electric. Unless they shut the electricity off. We’re fine. Yeah. All right. Here. We still can. You still see us in camp? Okay, wait. Persevere here. We would shut it down around us. Yeah. Means no, keep going. All right. So the name of radio but shows the right channel treyz so they knew who their audience was. First of all, they weren’t trying to reach all people. Ah, latto things were for non-profits is that? Oh, were for we’re caused for the general public and lord knows you’ve got to know your audience. They had a targeted audience. They reach him on the right channel and they use the right kind of messaging to they are on ly linked to the website once in the actual description of the videos at the very top. Ah, and then in the whole video itself, obama on lee said, you know, you have to sign up by february fifteenth, one time it was done as a joke. So and the whole rest of radio was just funny. Interesting share a bowl content. So it was really great. It was very humorous is successful. A successful video. We’re gonna leave it there. Great. Richard calling she’s director of content marketing for c three communications. Bridget thank you very much. Thank you. Johnnie. This is tony martignetti non-profit radio coverage of ntc the non-profit technology conference. The lights came back on. We don’t care if you turn them off. Turn them on. We are here at and t c for the duration ntcdinosaur when we end and not before absolutely thanks very much for being with us. Thank bridget. Time for live listener love so grateful to all our live listeners throughout the world, we had all kinds of continents checking in weekly. I am not live this week. I will be next week. 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That is sakina yaqoubi, founder of the afghan institute of learning in afghanistan and pakistan opportunity collaboration you’ve heard me talk about this, for goodness sake. Are you checking it out for pizza? You know it’s the weeklong unconference in its top of mexico around poverty alleviation, you’ve heard this there’s not profits from around the world as well as impact investors, social entrepreneurs, academics, corporation’s, even grantmaker zoho i was there last year. I’ll be there this year. You’ve heard this. You know it, for goodness sake, would you just goto opportunity, collaboration, dot net if your work is around poverty alleviation, for goodness sake, thanks so much for listening and supporting non-profit radio this is tony’s take two not a very subtle transition, but showing my gratitude nonetheless. There are over ten thousand listeners, but i really i feel my connection to you. I’m talking to you. 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That is tony’s take two for friday, fifth of june twenty third show of the year, and i should say, by the way, if you want to email me tony at tony martignetti dot com, here is how to get found with elizabeth beachy and erica sanchez welcome to tony martignetti non-profit radio coverage of the non-profit technology conference twenty fifteen we’re in austin, texas, at the convention center. Our hosts are intend the non-profit technology network and my guests are elizabeth beachy, director of strategic communications for upleaf and arika sanchez, communications specialist for center for non-profit excellence at united way of central new mexico. Elizabeth erica, welcome. Thank you. Pleasure to have you both now, erica. I understand you were pulled in-kind of last minute to substitute for someone. So you’re really just talking about the organization’s website. Yes, right? So that so i just want people to know if they don’t hear from you that much. I’m not being rude and you’re not being shy, but you’re kind of a last minute. But we’re glad you’re with us. I’m glad to be here. Thank you. Record. Okay. Um elizabeth. Oh, and your subject matter for the workshop. Is does your content strategy now? Trump theo trends and tips to help you get found in two thousand fifteen elizabeth what is changing balance between content, strategy and ceo? So one big thing is changing the balance and that’s basically the introduction of smartphones. Yes, holding up her smartphone? Yes, for podcast listeners, we don’t have the benefit of the video she’s holding up their iphones. This ubiquitous smartphone is really changing everything in terms of how people discover information. So how people search for information, how people consume information and that’s it’s changing a lot of things with with regards to search engine optimization. And so if you just think about how much how much time people spend on their smartphones now, so now more than well over fifty percent of the u s adult population has smartphones, and over sixty three percent used them to regularly to go online, and the average smartphone owner will spend will look at their phone one hundred fifty times a day for like two hundred twenty one functions on their phone today. And so when you think about that and you think about how much time people are spending on facebook, and on other aps, they’re spending a very significant part amount of time consuming information on a full variety of that can’t even stop touching yours. Keep touching your phone e i want i want to demonstrate all the acts i have here on my phone, but so we spend so much time interacting with interacting with our with information through our phones and that’s changed so much so if you think about six years ago, if you wanted to find information about something you would put your first reflex was probably to go to google right now, you may go to pinterest to find certain types of information if i want to find ah recipe here, i want to find an art project i can work i can work on or i want to find interesting gardening activities. The first place i’ll go is interest if i want to get answers to other things, the first place i’ll go to search for information, maybe youtube if i want to see what’s happening with current events, i’ll go to twitter if i want to find and so those are just the social media apse that we tend to turn to. And where we spent a lot of time, so twenty five percent of time spent on the internet today is spent on facebook that’s very, very remarkable twenty five percent, twenty five percent of time spent on the internet in the united states is spent on face just on the phone. Now, just for on the internet is spent on facebook. Yes, and so millennials say that their first source of in front of news or the first source of information about, like breaking news that’s happening, they learn about it from facebook. So you think about all of the different social media apse that we’re interacting with on a regular basis, and then you also can think about the different acts that we use for just for finding a restaurant or for finding houses for sale in your neighborhood. There’s so many different maps that are available and so, with the rise of the smartphone and there’s been kind of a fragmentation of how people find an information on the web, so that has affected the volume of content coming to websites through search engine optimization or through organic searches. And so so that’s, very significant, but then of course, the search engines themselves are adapting their algorithms to take this new reality into account as well, and so they are looking at there they’re looking at a lot more factors than they used teo and certainly a lot of the traditional search engine optimization, traditional ceo things that we think of are still very important. So of course, making sure that you’ve got the right back and configuration on your website so that as soon as you published new content it’s, the search engines are notified its index, and it gets found that remains important. And still it’s estimated that around fifty percent of traffic to websites is still coming from organic searches, so it’s still important, but they are taking into account social cues so and from what they find on social media. And so this has been something that several organizations have proven, basically, that that google at least, is looking for recognition or looking for mentions on twitter and on facebook, very nufer said, this is very new, and this is something using twitter and they’re not they’re not really so yes, they seem to be paying attention to what’s to what’s being said on twitter and also on facebook and it’s more about mentioning an organization’s name. So how many times is an organization mentioned and that gives them an indicator of the level of authority that this particular organization has in their field? And then if an organization has has strong authority in their field than their content that’s published is likely to get it’s likely to bump up the ranking of that so that’s a that’s an interesting piece of this and there, and there are other elements as well, but definitely the search engines are also adapting to this new reality and a few other things that are probably worth mentioning. Are there also rewarding websites that are mobile friendly and that’s very much related to this whole idea of consuming information through mobile phones? So websites that are mobile friendly are both getting our rights hyre entire, but also now when you search for something and this is this has been going on for weeks now you’re touching your phone with e i wish i could pick it up, just demo it, right? Well, everybody’s, not everybody doesn’t have the benefit of video. A lot of this is podcast listening. So i don’t know, but so but now when you search for something on a search engine on your phone, then the results will show whether it’s mobile friendly or not so it will actually list mobile friendly or not so you can skip the websites that are not mobile friendly, so and then they’re also prioritizing so the mobile friendly peace is important. Also, security is important, so there’s several different updates that they’re making to their algorithms to kind of to adapt to this new reality. So we’ll be talking about that tomorrow, too, okay? And the engines we’re talking about are not only google, but yahoo yahoo serious search search player or not, really they’re they’re working hard at it, but i think they’re proportion of the search market is still still pretty small compared to google. How in being a swell, pretty small, small google is still google is still the the nineties ninety i mean, in terms of percentages of search is done within with with an internet search engine. Not not considering yeah, who are you or yeah, youtube without going into the content youtube, you mentioned pinterest without doing that, google is still google is still by far by far and i don’t have exact numbers, but google is still by far the leader. They say that youtube is the second most popular search engine. Okay, which is interesting do we know the proportion of fired-up global search vs within within a content provide within a within a social site search? So google vs searching in youtube and pinterest and searching in twitter we know that proportion of the amglobal versus the the channel searches e i don’t actually have exact statistics with me, but certainly pinterest is up and coming grow in terms of a search engine, so more and more people are turning to pinterest and i think pinterest is a really interesting case study also, just because they’re they have done this amazing job of getting there, and this kind of brings it back to one of the topics that will be talking about tomorrow also, which is community generated content and how powerful community generated content can be for a non-profits overall content strategy, but pinterest is an interesting example of that because they have seventy million users and they have been able to get their users basically, too. Index all of this content from across the web, but not so google indexed uses its its bots and its algorithms to index content where is pinterest is drawing on its users and on the way that they understand information and what users think is relevant and valuable and where, how users classify that information, and so it’s a very intelligent way of indexing all of that content, because it’s basically pulling together the opinions of millions and millions of people, and so i think that will seem pinterest become a more and more important search engine in the future, and certainly their visual searches very engaging, a swell. What kind of non-profit do around community created content? That’s a lot of what we’ll talk about tomorrow and let’s. Share some some tips for strategies for engaging your community to do that. Absolutely, these weigh all have multiple communities, volunteers, donors, vendor’s maybe even boardmember sze other volunteers? Yeah. How do we how do we get them engaged? Absolutely. So there are there. I would say they’re kind of two different angles to take on this one that will be talking about tomorrow is building community generated content into your infrastructure and that is something that we’ve seen work well e well, for many different non-profits and the center for non-profit excellence is a great example of this they have, and i know let erica talk a little bit more about this, too, but just to name a couple of examples to respond directly to your question, they have a volunteer connection section of the website, and that section of the website allows non-profits to post volunteer opportunities and allows community members to say, i want to take that coming that volunteer opportunity and connect and connect directly with that non-profit it has a non-profit directory that non-profits can update themselves, it has a grantmaker directory that grantmaker is khun submit information to it has a new section that the community of non-profits in new mexico can contribute news, too, and it has a community training section as well. So if there any trainings that are happening beyond what the senator non-profit excellence does, then people can submit that information as well. And there are i’m forgetting many other things, erica, you can conjunction here, there’s also a page where non-profits can post there needs for goods like computers or other donated items, and where the community and businesses composed items that they want to donate to non-profits. Another piece is where individuals or groups of individuals can post ways that they want a, donate their time or volunteer for non-profits and it’s, very much community building. And as you said, elizabeth, really a community driven mean, the content wouldn’t content only in these sections and only comes from the community. Absolutely. Postings for volunteer opportunities and volunteer needs on dh volunteer. I want to volunteer. Yeah, okay. 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And and the news all of the news on the home page that you see right when you land on the website all comes from the community as well, and we really wanted to highlight this as a as an opportunity for non-profits because content strategy is so is becoming so, so important for every non-profit oh, and you’re content strategy becomes so important online because it helps you actually push it provides content that you can push out to all of these aps and so to meet people where they’re at. It also helps boost the volume of content on your website and the key words that you can then deal that you then have to be indexed, and it broadens your net of how you can be found. But it also becomes really is absolutely critical to engagement, so bringing new people in bringing a new supporters, engaging existing supporters, building loyalty with existing supporters and then helps a really helps when organizations launched their campaigns than it helps those campaigns be really effective. And so, but often the one of the biggest challenges that non-profits face is having the resource is for a really robust content strategy. It takes a lot of time and it takes a lot of creativity to keep that content strategy going, and so some of our client, we do a lot of trainings and a lot of non-profits will come to us and say, you know what i know it’s important, but it’s hard for us to dio it’s hard for us to get more than one article published on our website every three weeks or what? What advice do you have? And you’re after one of the smaller midsize shops? That’s it doesn’t have the resources to spend a lot of time, but there still are some things you can do. So what advice is absolutely that bring your community in so find ways to get your community to contribute content. Don’t think about your your content strategy is just coming from one person or the person that you may have fifty percent of one person’s time to manage your entire your entire communications strategy, right? That’s? Not enough so think about can you bring in your volunteers? Ask your volunteers to contribute content, other staff members to contribute content you’re bored to contribute, content your clients to community to contribute. Content other community members to contribute content and what types of interest of of infrastructures or kind of spaces within your website can you create tau host all of this information and inspire people to share and so there’s so many what is appropriate for each non-profit really depends on the non-profits mission in-kind of what makes sense for their community, but we would encourage every single non-profit to think about how can you get your community involved and and bring them in to be a part of that content generation strategy? Erica, what have you seen some of the outcomes among the community that communities that are contributing well, what? What we’ve seen, we initially started the first area that that we opened up for non-profits to post their own content was the job section of our website and on our and we’ve seen a huge increase in visits to our website, and where are our website appears in different search engine results and an increase in the number of non-profits that air posting these listings, but we also we receive so much feedback from the non-profit saying that they’ve received a lot of of really good job applicants. And so the same goes across for volunteer connection. We receive a lot of positive feedback from the non-profits who might not have, um, the timer, the resource is two to promote their volunteer opportunities, so allowing them to post them on our website, they’re receiving more traffic and more volunteer applicants. Elizabeth what? We have another, like, five minutes or so together. What other strategies can we share for, uh, getting found is basically what we’re talking about, right? Absolutely. What else haven’t i asked you? Have you have you share? So certainly so one thing that’s really important and you in looking at the infrastructure of your website and that will help this whole content strategy work is making sure that the website is social media optimized, and by that we mean that when that any piece of content that somebody wants to share on their social network, they should be able to just click a button and immediately share it. And you would be surprised how many organizations do not have their website properly configured so they may have put a simple, sure social sharing. Yeah, and so you can use a tool like add this you add that to your website, but you’ve also you’ve gotta have the meta tags that are pulled correctly, configured so that it pulls the right thing, so if you so, when somebody clicks to share on twitter, it should be set up and then and this is something that you really just have to ask your web master to do, but it should be set up so that you click to share on twitter and it’s going to pull the title of the article a shortened link, and then it should say via at your twitter handle so that you get recognition for that content that’s coming out on facebook, it should pull the right thumb now image associated with the article, a blurb about the article and a link back to the website, and you’d be surprised how often we see that that’s not actually configured like that, so someone will try to share something on facebook or you’ll try to share something on facebook and it’ll pull the logo of the organisation instead of the thumbnail of the article. Or it’ll pull the name of the organisation instead of the page that you’re trying to share so that’s a really important pieces that social, the social media optimization piece that’s a great one and great that’s a great tip toe. Everybody could understand it. And it’s it’s not incredibly technical know and it’s, not something that’s going to take your what is your web master too long to dio but it’s something that’s absolutely critical for doing two d’oh, and then another piece is make sure that your website is responsive because if if somebody is, you could be working really, really hard too create all this content put this content out across the web, and then if somebody clicks kliks through from facebook to your website because they’ve seen this link to an article that they’re really interested in and suddenly they can’t read it on their phone because your website is not responsive and mobile adapting to the size of your phone that’s a frustrating experience that they’re gonna have with your organization and they’re going to be less likely to come back so absolutely your website should be responsive and well, you said earlier, if you it’s not mobile responsive that’s going to hurt you in search results? Absolutely, it’ll hurt your search results and it also hurt it will hurt engagement with the organization, but also at the time of launching your campaign, so you’re asking people to take action. So maybe you’re launching a fund raising campaign or you’re launching a campaign to get people to sign up for an event or to take advocacy action if they’re clicking through from social media and it’s not responsive, they are not very likely to donate to take action or to sign register for your event. So you’re basically shooting yourself in the foot. You don’t have it so much trouble forget i’ll find something else. Yeah, absolutely so that’s that’s really critical, and if we have time, do we have another minute or so? And then one more piece that that we often get questions from organizations about two is the campaign piece, and that should be a piece of every organizations content strategy. So you’re putting out your regulate your articles and you’re doing a lot of messaging on social media, but periodically you need to launch very specific campaigns asking people, mobilizing people around a very specific goal because often people don’t take action unless you ask pacific also a specific call. To action. So that specific fund-raising campaign that made that ideally lasts, you know, five to seven days it’s a short campaign, you have a very specific goal, and you can just message repeatedly during that five to seven day period asking your community to help mobilize and to help you meet that goal and that’s something that we see too many organizations kind of you may go for a year or two years with all of their messaging and their articles, and they don’t launch campaigns and it’s the campaign radcampaign time that you see the return on the investment of all of the time that you’ve invested in creating this content. So the campaigns are absolutely critical. I’ve seen something that said, every piece of content you create should have some call to action ultimately, even if it’s just a simple share, but maybe it’s sign up for the email list that’s related to this issue? Yes, something in every every music content. Yes. Absolutely, absolutely. Okay, we’re gonna leave it there. All right. Thank you, elizabeth. Erica, thank you very much. They are elizabeth beachy, director of strategic communications for upleaf and erica sanchez, communications specialist for the center for non-profit excellence at united way of central new mexico. Ladies. Thank you again. Thank you. This is tony martignetti non-profit radio coverage of the non-profit technology conference. Twenty fifteen. Thank you very much for being with us. Thanks to everybody at ah ntcdinosaur and and ten, the non-profit technology network next week. I’m not sure yet. It’s weeks away. I’m a couple of weeks ahead, pre recording this. So give me a break, please. 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Dahna oppcoll hello and welcome to tony martignetti non-profit radio big non-profit ideas for the other ninety five percent. I’m your aptly named host it’s, the memorial day show i hope you enjoy your long memorial day weekend, but while you do perhaps keep in mind that many people through the years through the generations have given they ultimate sacrifice so that we could enjoy the freedom that we have today, so saluting all our active duty and veterans and those who have made the ultimate sacrifice remembering them over memorial day, i’m glad you’re with me. I’d suffer the effects of dendritic carat itis if i had to see that you had missed today’s show into focus non-profit video survey michael hoffman, ceo of c three communications, has takeaways from this survey that youtube contributed data, too. We’ll talk about what works in video, what doesn’t and how do you know how do you measure? Plus, he explains why he’s, a big fan of google plus hangouts on air that was recorded at the non-profit technology conference in april, also activating for fun, celebrity and organizing have funding your social networks because fun means viral also identifying the vips in your networks and empowering your supporters matthew fisher is chief marketing officer for vision strategy. That interview is also from the non-profit technology conference on tony’s take two, you know, festival del fund-raising that was last week. Here is my interview with michael hoffman talking about thie into focus non-profit video survey welcome to tony martignetti non-profit radio coverage of the non-profit technology conference and t c the hashtag is fourteen ntc we are at the marriott wardman park hotel in washington, d c with me is michael hoffman. He is ceo of c three communications and see three is s e and the numeral three michael hoffman, welcome to the show. Thank you. Good to be here. It’s a pleasure to have you. Thanks for taking time in a busy conference day. Your topic is very interesting and the survey says with e into focus non-profit video report could do for your orc. Tell me about the into focus non-profit video survey. Well, we’ve been working with organizations for many years now around video and non-profits and we always get asked the same questions. What can we do with video? What works with video? How do you do it on? A budget who’s doing the best work with video, all of those kinds of questions, and we realized that there is data about almost everything in the nonprofit world there’s data about e mail and there’s data about social media and there’s data about fund-raising and there was no data about video, and so we went to our partners at youtube. If you’re going to do something with video it’s a good idea to do it with you two is a good it’s, a good name in video, and we went to edelman, which is a a big p r agency, and that works a lot with data and doing reports like this on we got together and we said let’s, find out let’s, find out what people are doing. We did a survey of organizations in north america, we had about five hundred organisations respond. We also got from youtube something they had never released before, which was actual platform data about what non-profits air doing on youtube. So what? Successful there in terms of views and which channels are doing well and all of those things, so we got all of that data. We also did qualitative interviews. We we interviewed lots of folks who are from the executive director position down to the person making videos to the digital managers all about. How are they using video? What did they see working? And we put it all together in this report called into focus, which you can download fromthe sea three website at sea three dot com slash into focus. Okay? And, uh, i presume a lot of what you’re goingto share his lessons fromthe survey, right? What? How should we as we break this down through the categories with survey house, we best approaches for listeners? Well, i think that the, you know, the big question is, you know, do organizations think videos you useful tactic? And, you know, what are they doing with it? And i think overwhelmingly organizations, they’re saying videos important, we need to be doing more but then some interesting gaps because when you ask them, are you budgeting maur? The answer was not know pretty much, you know, that they’re not, and then i think one of the really interesting findings was when you asked them, how do you measure success of video? Seventy three percent on ly measure success anecdotally. Or through views of videos, which is what you see on youtube and, you know what i always tell organizations is views never solved your problem. You’re working to solve views, don’t keep the lights on youse don’t create donation very much a vanity metric, like, like facebook fans, right? Exactly. It’s, it’s, it’s fine to have that kind of metric if it is connected to something that really matters for you. And you understand how it’s connected to that, you know, i think more important than views is whose views you know, are you getting and they lead to other kinds of engagement. So those are the things that the survey revealed when we looked at who’s doing well, we saw that it starts with planning, you know, there’s. So many organizations that say we need to make a video and the question is why? What do you expect to happen? What’s your goals? How is this going to do something for you and the organizations that reported thinking about that and asking those questions? Are the organizations that reported success with video? So the idea that you know why you’re you’re working on it and what your goals? Are is the first step that remarkably many organizations are not you are not taking. Yeah, i think the thinking about the the strategy and the goals that are going to get us there is often i mean, this is not a problem limited tio our shortcoming limited to video, i had guests talked about in terms of campaigns dahna engagement, whether to dio whether to engage in a new social channel or not. All right, i’m seeing this right? We’ve always about not planning shiny object syndrome. You know, it’s, you see, you hear about the newest channel or you think you need something or boardmember tells you that you should be doing something, but it’s not grounded in a strategy, and i think that’s, really what we encourage organizations do is think, what can you do? What should you do, what’s the best way to do that? And to really understand that moving forward to ask the hard questions up front. What advice do you have around the budgeting issue since so few non-profits are aligning budget with their desires around expanding video, right? I like in it too. I feel like we’re in the phase with video. That we were with the web in the mid to late nineties. If you asked organizations you know, in nineteen, ninety six or seven do they need a website? Some would say they have one already. Others would say, oh, yeah, we’ve got to get one because we see this web thing is really taken off but if you told them at the time that they would have a whole department that worked on the web, they would tell you you were crazy. They would say, where in the world could the budget come from to do that that’s impossible that’s a pipe dream and i feel like that’s where we are with video video is eating the web in terms of the amount of content the where people’s attention are the cisco estimates that ninety percent of all internet bandwidth will be video within four years. Oh, my good, really? Yes, on you know, we’re darling, we’re seeing you know the web turn into a interactive tv platform and dahna organisations have to become publishers in the same way, and broadcasters, you know, in the same way that everybody else does on videos a big piece of that and there’s a biggest barrier is a paradigm shifting cultural barrier, which is organizations didn’t grow up needing to do video, so they have no capacity and they’re not. They don’t think that way, and so when they think about video, they think about hiring a firm like ours to make that one big, you know, gala event video or something like that and that’s, not the world we live in, right? The world we live in demands a regular content and so that’s a huge paradigm shift for gin is ations. Oh, you have a bunch of things in mind. What about mobile? As as people are going more mobile? Is that increasing their their affinity for video are decreasing, so they’d rather not see it on a little screen. Oh, actually, the opposite video is the fastest growing mobile service that there is we’re seeing as for g has rolled out across the united states were seeing video. Um, grow incredibly and the other piece about mobile and video is everyone has a high quality video camera in their pocket. That’s remarkable. I mean the quality you see iphone video incorporated into feature films so the quality that you can get from these devices that are in our pockets is amazing and it totally the gates this argument that, you know, we can’t afford to do it it’s really about mind share in time more than it is about we need, you know, big investment dollars to do some video things in addition to having a video production studio in your pocket, you also have a distribution channel in your pocket, right? Exactly. I mean, the revolution of peer-to-peer communications, you know, through social media and the ability to reach people through their social channels and, you know, to be online all the time that way is incredible, it really is. So i’m not saying and, you know, we make great video, so i’m not saying there’s, no need for outside support ever, you know, in videos, but i think of it more like a pyramid, you know, there’s that one great video that’s on your website that explains what you do that you khun keep for five years, it probably makes sense to spend some money and make that really good the day to day content that describes, you know, where you are in a fundraising campaign or trying to get people to be advocates or giving an update about a storm that just happened that you’re working on all of that can happen from your phone from other kinds of equipment that you can have in the office and really should be internal capacity. And so we’re spending more and more time training people about how do you do this and not just camera skills, but really the the strategy piece, which is what should our video strategy be? And how does that make sense? I’ve seen such moving campaigns where the organization asked donors or or even better than donors, people benefiting from the service of the work of the organization. Tell us how you make your own, make your own video turned the turn their cameras to yourself and tell us how our work has improved your life saved your life impacted you enormously. Yeah, i think if you haven’t engaged community video’s a great way to do that, it’s still, for a lot of people, high bar, ask, you know, to produce video, so makoto sharing, for example, is much more popular and easier for people to do than video, but we’re seeing now. With services like vine that allow you to make a six second video or instagram now has a fifteen second video, it becomes much easier toe to do that bond. We’re seeing, you know, cem, entrusting things that general electric. I did a thing about science. They wanted to promote science, which is just connected to their brand. But it’s really kind of a social good thing, and they did something called six second science, and they said, how much science can you do in six seconds? And they invited a community of people you know, publically to do six second videos about science, and then they aggregated those they curated and aggregated those into a youtube video with all these different six second science video and it’s terrific it’s a great way to mobilize your community. I think lots of organizations are are doing that, and many more could be doing that e-giving anything tooting getting thinking. You’re listening to the talking alternative network get in. E-giving cubine do you need a business plan that can guide your company’s growth seven and seven will help bring the changes you need. Wear small business consultants, and we pay attention to the details. You may miss our culture and consultant services, a guaranteed to lead toe, right, groat. 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Well, we are seeing some new technologies that will allow email video to be played inside email so without clicking a link but emails a great driver for your community in general, i think if you ask organizational people often, how often do you think your your donors or supporters come to your website? They’re usually wildly inflated numbers from the reality because we don’t normal people don’t go backto organizational web sites, you know, unless you’re drawn there for some reason and the most of the time what’s drawing you there is something that was in an email and email is still the number one digital way to connect with people, and we know that when you say there’s, a video to watch the open rates of email goes up and when you say there’s a video to click on, we know that the click through rates go up so video is the content of the type of content delivery that many people want to have and so thinking about how are we using video? And where is it in our stream of communications? Overall is a n’importe n’t strategic. Question that organizations need to ask compelling moving video doesn’t have tohave high production values are being particularly expensive. Teo in production, right? No, i mean, there are a lot of the videos that get shared that are wonderful and moving our high production value video eliminated, you know, no question, but no, i mean, i think story trumps production that’s what i always say so, you know, if you have that moving story and, you know, you can tell it straight to camera and it’s going to be moving, and we saw that, you know, we see that all the time, really, where there’s things that are just telling the story and organizations have that, and i think one of the demands of being able to do that is for the communicators and organizations to be more connected to those stories within their own organizations, because it’s often not the communicators who are on the ground doing the work that connects them to those stories so they need toe open up the idea that everyone in our organization needs to be a storyteller. So that becomes, again part of this cultural shift that’s going to create, you know, and have an organization thinking of themselves like their media company. They’re they’re a broadcast of publisher where our stories. How are we finding them? How did they float up to our communications folks? How do we decide what make videos about? That path is not articulated very often in organisations, particularly smaller ones. So i think, you know, it starts with just having that conversation and that’s goingto do a lot. But google plus hangouts on air to me that seems like google is giving you the tools to create a a network you, khun broadcast on dh, put your message and and but but not follow the tv model because it’s enormously interactive, you see, promise, i think that’s. Absolutely, absolutely. I think that’s a great point. So when we look at youtube channels, for example, most organizations in ninety nine percent actually one hundred percent of organism growing because i haven’t seen one that’s doing anything different yet they treat their youtube channel like a repository for everything that every video they make, right. So you make a video for a campaign. You make a video for the web site, you stick it on youtube. So you two just a dumping ground for a lot of videos, every channel on youtube that’s really successful, the ones with millions of subscribers and millions of views, and they don’t treat you tube like that as a dumping ground. They treat you too, as ah broadcast channel that needs to have regular content toe build audience, just like your radio show needs to have a schedule and a regular way for people to find it for audience to grow for people to share it. Same thing with non-profit video hangouts on air give you an easy way to create regular content. So the idea that you could do, for example, a show using a hangout where you interview people from the field or experts or donors or whatever it could be ten minutes long. But if you post that every thursday at five o’clock, you’re gonna have an opportunity to build engagement and build audience if you’re putting a video once in a while, whenever you happen to have one on youtube, you have no opportunity to build audience. So i think the hangouts to me is connected to that question of how do we create mohr and regular content you know among the content we created and how, how can a non-profit use youtube in that way to the extent that it allows it’s not as robust is hangouts on here, but you alluded to the most successful youtube channels doing regular distribution have done well, you know, the most successful youtube channels are often individuals who are making videos themselves. I mean, with no crew, no, nothing, they’re they’re shooting themselves with video, they’re editing it themselves and their, you know, and what is it about them? They’re engaging people within? You know, they’re funny or they’re engaging or they’re doing something, and i think organizations need to think about, well, who in our world has that personality? People with personality is exactly the workers on our side. I mean, it’s like into the cooking show people don’t watch cooking shows about because it’s about cooking, they watch it because about personalities or competition or other things. So where is where those people who were those people in your organization? Among your donor’s among your supporters among your clients. Hoo, you go, that guy should have his own show, or that woman should have her own show, those are the people you want to figure out, okay, how do we get them? And hangouts on air is a great free way to start you khun do alive thing and it’s recorded and you don’t have to edit anything, and it goes right on your youtube channel. So that’s an easy way to start, but it takes a commitment, teo, you know, begin doing that, and i think that this there’s so many other benefits to doing that for an organization, right, they’re going to hear more stories that they can use in other places they’re going toe, you know, they’re going to create a certain kinds of internal communications is going to be helpful for them to do an initiative like that and empowering people who don’t think of themselves bad enough that the organization doesn’t think of itself as content creation and producers, but empowering people within the organization, individuals who don’t think of themselves as frontline communicators, teo to, in fact be such exactly. And i think this is connected to the bigger trends that we see around social media. You know, the old model of communications is corporate brand voice, you know, the voice of god. Talking in a hub hub and spoke model, right? So this corporate voice produces content and pushes it out and tries to interrupt people with it. You know, a new model is individuals communicating with each other and it’s a two it’s more than a two way conversation. And so that means that you have to have these channels where people can talk back to you and you engage with them, whether it’s video or whether it’s, facebook or whether it’s any other channel and then also people don’t want to hear from corporate brands. I don’t want to hear from your logo, i want to hear from people. So who are those people? So you need toe pig peek behind the curtain is what i say. I don’t want to see oz, the great and powerful wizard, i want to see the guy behind the curtain, and so we’re seeing he was a hell of a lot more charming and and fund then then the video projection of his of his image. So exactly, and we’re starting to see it. I mean, i saw something recently with a big ngo hyre, you know, had a of some videos at dealing with a storm and instead of saying, you know, we big organization need you to do x, you know, they said here’s, we want to take you inside our war room, about what’s going on and how our planning and so you see all these people who have been up all night, you know, working on maps and all kinds of things happening and and you, as the viewer feel like, wow, they’re people behind this and they’re giving of themselves for it, and i can be part of that and that’s very different kind of communication and, you know, it’s related to ah reduction of trust in brands and maura peer-to-peer communications in general and organisations need to be there or they’re not going to succeed this morning at the opening session of ntcdinosaur wasn’t there, but i know you were there you have the do gooder awards wanted to share with listeners with what that was about? Sure, about eight years ago we started to do gooder awards because we knew with broadband that video revolution was coming, it was definitely coming, and we wanted to take the few organizations that we’re really doing it and jumping. In and doing it well and hold them up as examples to try to encourage everybody else to do it on dh. So we created the doolittle awards a few years ago, youtube came to us and said, can we adopt these awards to become the official wards of the non-profits on youtube? And we said, yeah, you could do that on dso ever since we partner with them, we’ve had wonderful sponsors and partners and ten eyes, one of them and cisco is another and dot sub this year, and nickelodeon and and and other terrific sponsors. And, um, every year at the ntc, we announced the winners. And so any organization that’s on youtube in the non-profit program, i can submit their videos. We have different categories, the four categories that we have our youth media categories. So we’re having young people who are making videos, we have an impact ex category durney that’s sponsored by cisco and that’s. Really about what did that video do so it’s? Not just about is it a good video, but it’s about did it have impact and that those groups have to submit a statement of what the impact wass then? We have a funny for good category because we’ve seen time and time again, the videos that move people to action that move people to share are funny, and we wanted to call those out and they’re fun to watch, and then we have best overall video on dh we can put the links up to these videos, i think we’re on dh point people, but buy-in, you know, they were terrific and, you know, literally the audience today they laughed and they cried and you confined the video’s, all of it, it youtube dot com slash do gooder easy enough, share one of the really poignant moving out, you know, i’m sorry, one of those sort of heart string videos that it sounds like there were a couple of, well, the winning overall video was partners and mental health from canada and a video about teen suicide, and it was the thirty second piece, and the video shows teens very angry at their parents and then slamming the door like running into their room and slamming the door and slamming the door and slamming the door. And then the last time the doors slam it’s actually the mom on. The other side of the door in the room and it says it’s, hard to live with a with a team, you know, with depression, it’s, harder to live without one it’s, a very intense and, you know, packed a tremendous amount of emotion into a very small, you know, time frame. And the funny for good video was also canadian. Remarkably, the canadians have been doing doing great and that’s, actually from the canadian cancer society, and it was about testicular cancer, and it was about checking your nuts. It’s hilarious. And so i definitely recommend you. You go to see it because it’s just it’s funny and it’s taking something that is a serious issue and it’s educating people through humor and i think that’s great. And so, you know, there’s, no issue, really, that you can’t find some humor, and i think it was that a longer one. I would need more than thirty seconds. I was, ah, a minute and a half that would be about my speech all right night. I need a little more than thirty seconds. Let’s leave with listeners with a couple of tips that come from the survey, but how they can be mohr i’ll just say generally effective, and you can choose whether that’s in production or distribution, right? Go ahead. What can we leave? Well, i think that, you know, the one takeaway i would i would want to leave people with is the idea of mohr you need mohr content, you know, we’re in theirs, you have many more channels to put content in. You have social media, you have your website, you can’t rely on a single video anymore, you have to be thinking about more now, more can come from occasionally using professionals to produce videos, but more should also come from being able to grow your capabilities around production as well. And this is important, especially for small organizations. Mork uncomfortable curating videos made by other people. So for example, if somebody was working on the storm in the philippines and they said, we’ve got to go shoot the destruction footage there and it’s gonna cost, you know, all kinds of money, i’d say, well, why would you do that on youtube? There’s a thousand videos that show that really, really well and guess what? All of them allow you to embed those videos on your website and so you can take a video that somebody else made, and you can wrap it in your own wrapper on your website with your own calls, action and utilize something that costs could have cost hundreds of thousands and millions of dollars in particular with documentary film trailers, for example, really high quality stuff on almost any issue is there for the taking, and i would say two organizations make playlists on youtube, which fills out your channel with other people’s video use this video on your website shared in your social media with your calls to action and be wrapped in the halo of somebody else’s great work, excellent! Thank you very much, michael. Thank you. Michael hoffman is ceo of c three communications and how come people follow you on twitter? I met michael underscore hoffman on twitter. All right, tony martignetti non-profit radio coverage of ntcdinosaur profit technology conference. 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Thank you, tony it’s a pleasure. I’m glad you’re here. Thank you. Invite your welcome. Thank you for taking time. Um, okay, we’re ah, we’re going. We’re going to activate our our constituents are social network for fun, celebrity and self organizing. What? What? What is the need around? What do you see that non-profits could be doing better that they’re not doing so so well? Yeah, it’s a big topic in it, you know, fun and celebrity, you’re certainly very different from thie organizing piece that i think most non-profits air, you know, on a daily basis engaged in and, you know, we sort of look at it is taking a new approach to engaging with those advocates and supporters. You know, we’re very versed in sort of the organizing concepts, but we also want to push towards making things fun because ultimately fund means viral and with viral, then we start to see things that you get a halo effect, for instance, when you start engaging celebrities ah lot of folks don’t believe celebrities, you know will engage on social media and there’s numerous examples where that’s not true, but, you know, for us we look at it is, you know, fun is more likely to be shared. It certainly is when when you get into the technicalities of facebook, you know, a drink goes up and certainly your clout creds scores as an influence or go up as things become fun because those are ultimately what we share online. So for the non-profits we really want them, and this is the lesson we want to resonate. We want to think about fun and celebrity in terms ofthe activating these guys to help your cause. Okay, well, let’s, let’s, let’s not get out, celebrity, we’ll come to it. We’ll spend a little time, but thie audience is small and midsize non-profits and and i think the likelihood of getting celebrity is kind of small. Sure. So let’s. Focus on fun and we’ll have a little time on maybe recruiting a celebrity for your cause but on the fun side how do we, uh i mean, how do we identify? What do we know? What’s going? To be fun for our, for our constituents to play with. Well, i think here we have to look at examples that air, you know, have been out in the marketplace and certainly there’s no definition of fun. Yeah, you know, but i think memorable and unexpected are to sort of elements of that recipe. I’m sure a number of people i’ve seen talks by youtube and they talk about what actually makes ah, video fun or viral on they have sort of three core principles there one is thiss unexpectedness and an example they uses, gentlemen, is riding his bike down in new york city and the bike lanes and he’s actually calling attention to a very serious issue, which is construction and hazards and so it’s it’s ah, sort of a monty python play where he’s running into construction trucks and taxis. And so this is something they show is, you know, something that touched in a core issue in new york city and ultimate lead to twenty million plus views of that video? Sort of. The next piece is something they call tastemakers i’ll use the word influences because i think that’s more relevant for us, but you know, touching and getting into something that will allow those influences and tastemakers to call attention to your your cause. And in this case, with videos, they used the example of somebody has shot a double rainbow in the backyard and sort of sat there and and yelled and screamed and couldn’t believe it. Oh, and it had been on youtube for six months and really had less than five hundred thousand views, probably extended family and friends. Yeah, and so but what happened was jimmy kimmel showed it on one of his late night shows, and almost immediately, of course it went viral. And so the key there was not the dennis lee pushed it towards jimmy kimmel, but it caught his eye, and so it really had nothing in it of it, other than sort of a fun, emotional response that we typically see and then the third is ultimately is the copycats that is ultimately what we see with buy-in viral and fun, um example, that is there’s a square cat that an animated story they’ve been going through on youtube on and really only had a couple hundred thousand views. But then as people started copying and reproducing this animated cat with different clothes on different nationalities, different holidays. And so we saw a replication of that. And so we think, sort of that unexpectedness the tastemakers. Oh, and ultimately copycats tragic can work in social media of all types, for fun. Because ultimately, you know, we believe once it gets fun, we have a balance of messaging betweens a serious issue on something that’s. More lighthearted. Yeah, wand. Your examples are well, certainly the bicycle you’re bringing you bring something that’s, light hearted. Teo, as you said, you know, a serious issue in new york city is hazards for for bike riders. So it’s got to relate back to what your charitable mission is all about. Exactly. It’s it’s gotta be it’s. Gotta be somewhat tangential to your issue. You know, the sort of the technicality behind fun or pulling it off actually, obviously is a little bit more difficult, creative. But, you know, the first part of it is, you know, we had vision and attentively are our email based platform. So we we love e mail and we see email is sort of the third leg of that social strategy and the reason is because certainly over the first two legs, certainly the first two legs are, you know, the social media platforms of facebook and twitter, they’re the big beasts, they’re the ones that have the most online time, the most phone usage time on they’ve dominated, obviously, but email has been in, you know, for the last decade has been a major source for online organizing and fund-raising still very important still very, very importantly, open rates. Well, you know, that’s that’s, the challenges that those those open rates in this click rates and those donate rates are dropping because we just have more, more email coming in and are they dropping overall? Absolutely okay, absolutely all right. And so, you know, as part of that third leg, you know, we believe that you know, you’ve gotta activate your full supporter base and there’s a number of people on your email database who our supporters, but not necessarily liking you or tweeting you. And so we really encourage people to look at that because generally speaking, you’ll have fifty times your audience in that email database. Then you will on your social media platforms now, if you get a celebrity a celebrity typically might be someone that we define as a clout score forty and hyre they might have an audience a total audience of three point two million on the reason is because they might have fifty or hundred thousand followers to start, and then they have a high enough credit score that it actually propagates through to their friends and family. But if you take your email database and you actually segmented out and look through there generally three to five percent of your email database actually can outperform one celebrity and the reason you know let’s say more about that, and the reason is because when you take your database, you generally have people who care about your cause and there’ll be a number of people in there who don’t necessarily have the huge following is saying and curry and on what she was able to do in two thousand ten with their her haiti tweet was tweeted the year, but what they are able to do is these are people who have already your message is resonating with them. They may have already donated, and what you see is a sort of one hundred twenty times. Effect and the idea being that if only if you have let’s, say, fifty thousand e mail addresses, you might actually still have an audience of roughly four million because of that effect. But how do you find these three to five percent to are the key influencers or the motivators? So, you know, certainly for smaller email list, you might just be able to visually go through and sort of figure it out manually by looking at their pages or another another way is to use platform’s like attentively, and certainly i’m sure there are others, but the idea being that it actually will match up those e mail addresses to all their social profiles and then scan those posts and pulling all those scores and the idea being that you can actually identify who those folks are and they may not be household names they made, you know, they’re not i mean, we’re down. We’re not talking about celebrity. Yeah, you know, i guarantee you that down at the washington post, there’s, probably forty or fifty journalists who have clouds scores over forty on who we would, we would certainly locally believe a sort of local celebrities, but have that reach because of obviously who they work for, who they are. Okay on, once you’ve identified these, these the top key influencers, what is it you’re asking them to do? How do you do, then approach them? Once you’ve identified, we think approaches that ultimately you’re going to, and this goes back to the engagement issue and challenge with the supporters and donors, when you start to find those people, they’re generally your vips are influencers. And so what you want to do obviously, is, you know, as the title here suggests, you need activate and the way we recognize that is we say that i’m looking at those vips, we actually want to start a segment them down into different groups based on the topics they’re talking about. And so you might have some of your supporters talking about climate change, and they may not follow you, but you might care about climate change and so weak suggests maybe take a baby step and start to follow them or reach out to them via email and say, you know, we’re talking about the same causes here. You want to join our effort, you could like us, you can also retweet some of our issues there and it’s very powerful, because when you’re looking at three to five percent it’s, not a huge number might be only thirty or forty people depending on the size that email list. But again, they still have that reach to get to three or four million people. So it’s it’s quite effective and it’s also something that it’s sort of buried inside your your database or your email platform or your syrian platform. We haven’t mentioned the blogging. I mean, they might maybe they don’t have a huge twitter following, for instance, but but their site gets a lot of hits, absolutely blogging is just as important, and, you know the challenge with blogging of courses, you know, it’s, even maurin structured content just like sort of the posts on facebook and twitter, but you, khun, obviously segment them down based on topics or terms and start to put them in a group. Let me give an example so that you know it, it makes a little bit more sense, but, you know, we typically look and work with non-profits and, you know, their databases aren’t necessarily large, you know, varies we have some customers that have very large databases, but let’s, certainly with the small ones that we want to focus on our listeners. Yes, mom, but so they might only have five, ten, fifty thousand emails, and it might be past donors. Or it might be people who showed up at rallies or somebody just signed up for the newsletter, but fifty thousands of good number, because it’s actually not that hard to get to, you know, in terms of what let’s, let’s, let’s, divide that by ten. Ok, for our for our listeners, i want to deal with something that’s manageable by most ultra z even just use five thousand as our example. Okay, so in the five thousand example, they might have five thousand, but there may be only three hundred there that are actually very active on social media and have that cloud score we talked about. And so they’re sort of your influence or group. Obviously, for three hundred, you can send very easily consent individualized message to them, you know, sort of expressing your your want for them to retweet some of their stuff and on their platforms you can also then put them into segments. And so this is one of our non-profit clients did is they started looking at who’s, mentioning some of the key words that they follow. I used the example of climate change, it might be elections. It might be a variety of terms, and so they put them in a segment called supporter no, and they actually sent him a bumper sticker. And so they’re actually trying to actually build some sort of relationship. They’re more than just sort of this mass mutual, like, yeah, especially before you’re asking for some kind of called action, you know, get to know the people start having a conversation about the fact that you know you’re sympathetic to our cause, and we notice, you know, we know you’re spending a lot of time on climate change in your example, and we’d like to get to know you better. I mean, you’re trying to build a relationship before you start asking you and we’re going to follow you and you’re gonna follow us. You’re listening to the talking alternative network. 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He’ll call us now at to one to seven to one eight, one eight, three that’s two one two, seven to one eight, one eight, three or find us on the web at www dot double diamond wellness dot com way. Look forward to serving you. Talking alternative radio twenty four hours a day. Lively conversation, top trends and sound advice. That’s. Tony martignetti non-profit radio. And i’m lawrence paige nani, author off the non-profit fund-raising solution. And so then you can start scanning their posts as you go forward. Oh, and ultimately, if they retweet you or retweet something that you think is on message with one of your issues, then they become an ambassador. They’re literally in a new segment inside the database on then that will shoot off. An email is you brought a called action, you know, for a little donation, and the idea is that, you know, we think it resonates better when you’ve built that relationship, however small it might be, and you take it off line and the example here, you know, we start to see engagement really jump because most most organizations non-profits don’t have time to do anything other than sort of a monthly blast here we start to see opens increased to two hundred forty four percent of what they normally see, which is twenty, thirty percent open rates are generally what we see because it’s personalized it’s, individualized and it’s triggered on a behavior that just happened it’s right there, the recall is immediate because they’re getting it immediately, and we also see one hundred sixty one percent increase generally in the cliques. So you’re getting that called action and you’re starting to see ultimately revenue lift or donation left here generally of three to six times of what you’d see on a regular email blast. And so, you know, it’s it’s something that no matter how small your list is, you can get a lot more effective using that third leg of sort of activating now the facebook, twitter and ultimately email to really make it a lot more powerful. Um, and we’ve got obviously hundreds of clients that are doing this in a variety different areas, but i thought that example was most apra poto what we’re doing here because of i’m sort of building that relationship, okay, part of the workshop title is for ah, activating for self organizing. So what do you mean by self organizing? So i think with self organizing, i think it’s similar to the example and that, you know, you’re calling on people that maybe are sort of like minded to you and you have to identify them. They may not know about your organization, but you you’ve been able to scan through either their posts or their tweets and understand that maybe there aligned with your organisation. And so you can do things like not just call for donations, but ultimately call for action. Real action, there’s. A number of clients that i work with capitol hill, and, obviously, their causes, and not a sign a full lobbying effort. But a call to action. It might be something that triggers a kn e mail or fax to senator based on certain votes that are coming up. And so, you know, those those air sort of the more traditional cause actions that we see in the self organizing, you know, and we think that, you know, platforms that involved. Obviously, social media, as well as email, can be more effective, similar to what we saw in terms of engagement and ultimately converting them to that call of action called action in self organizing. Okay. Let’s ah, spend a little time on celebrity a couple minutes left. What? How do we identify the celebrities that that may be appropriate for us to reach out to on? Do keep in mind our listeners are small and midsize shop, so we’re not a list that there’s not a list non-profits oh, and maybe not not even pursuing a list. Celebrities necessarily mean there are lesser known celebrities who could still bring a considerable following. Uh, so but how do we how do we identify? And every celebrity is not not open about the causes? Andi, you know what? A lot of times if they are open, they may already be allied with a charity. So prods of them coming to us, it seemed kind of small. How are we going to find the right people with knowing all that? Well, you highlighted a couple of issues. One is obviously identifying, but the other is sort of weighing the risk. And so, you know, once you take on a celebrity, take on the full persona from yesterday and tomorrow, right, way unknown tomorrow we can’t predict tomorrow, but what we do see with celebrities is that they do. Have ultimately that immediate reach. You know, in one of the earliest examples we talked about, they have the halo effect in the immediate reach and they tend to have, you know, even celebrities with relatively low cloud scores, they can still reach a million plus in a roughly about eighteen minutes that’s generally the life span of the tweets and celebrity world. Okay, so you don’t have a lot of long term promotional effect there, but what we do see is that it does activate people who maybe weren’t even close to your cause, and it also is something that we see cross platform, so it might be a tweet that ends up on a variety of different social networks because of who that person is particularly it’s funny, you know? And the other thing is, celebrities really help with the search engine optimization, and we won’t go into the reasons why, but identifying the celebrity is actually not that difficult part of where i’d like to start on part of it is this where the process starts? That’s right is picking the right one’s a part of it is sort of looking off line. Which one do you? Think you identify with your organization does do they care about the issues that you care about? Are they on the right or the left? Those are things that you certainly you care about in terms of aligning your message because you don’t want to have a celebrity activate and help you, and then all of a sudden be off message two weeks later it’s part of that risk one way you can do it certainly is toe look at what’s in the popular press and gather a lot of what some of the comments are in the popular press you can use platforms that scan similar to what we do with the donor databases and supporters. You can put a celebrity’s email address in there, most of them know one or two and identify some of the social networks they’re on and see what the types of things that they care about. You can also approach them privately, and we’ve found certainly an example. Tomorrow on the panel will be the will be goldberg example, it’ll be the pluses and minuses of this strategy, but, you know, they literally just tweeted out to them on the site on her. Her profile and we’ll be then retweeted it, and it was something that there was there was no deal backroom deal. There was no phone calls, there was no rep agents, but it was actually something that they thought she she actually cared about, and they were right, and you’ll see that an example tomorrow well, in more detail, but our listeners won’t be there so what’s right? What was the cause on? So for her, the cause was it related to her love for for animals, and i won’t go into specifically because it’s something that’s being presented, but i will give you another one that that we’re talking about two more. Another was ann curry tweet from two thousand ten it was actually the twit of the year, and she had actually been contacted by doctors out borders to help them get into haiti after that disaster, the air force is blocking the planes that were allowing some of these crucial supporters in there, and and curry saw an opportunity there to retweet to get them to help planned those doctors. Obviously, and this is an example of someone who really only had fifty thousand supporters, but our followers, but it immediately got retweeted to the point where it reached over four, point three million people in that eighteen minute span. And so, you know, there are timely causes, too. You have to take advantage of events in the news and again, if you’re scanning posts of what your supporters we’re talking about, you’ll catch a lot of those things that are in the news, locally and regionally, that may not be in the national news, and you could take advantage of that. And so, you know, we we certainly believe, you know, a celebrity can help, but we also think that the influences that are already in your database can help you just as much because they really care about what you have to say. They’ve already proven it by their interaction or their donation or their activism, and they can’t have that same reach and that’s what generally we say is take baby steps, okay? They also you know, so i don’t have that dance. You minimize your potential downside risk, that’s, right? And what the celebrities gonna be doing or saying as you, you know, tomorrow and the day after, yeah, it’s, it’s similar to putting all your money into one stock, yeah, way don’t know what the future may hold, and we certainly don’t know if that type of celebrity will, you know, have the staying power. But certainly your supporter bases it’s a much broader base, and certainly they have the same influence with their followers on their social media networks and and they can certainly broadcast to their audience with the same type of general volume that you would see. All right, we’re gonna leave it there. Thank you very much. Matthew fisher, chief marketing officer for fishing strategy. Thanks so much, matthew. Thank you. I appreciate it, tony. And my pleasure. I look forward to speaking again sometime in the future. All right, all right. Thank you very much for joining us. Tony martignetti non-profit radio coverage of non-profit technology conference two thousand fourteen. 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