Small staff associations: now’s your chance to get recognized by YouTube! For the third year in a row, the online video giant is awarding prizes – including grants – to the best in nonprofit videos as part of the Do Gooder Nonprofit Awards.

If you’re a member of YouTube’s Nonprofit Program, submit your video by February 29! This is a great opportunity to spread the word about your organization and get some awesome publicity! Keep in mind: it doesn’t matter how small or big your organization is. Great videos deserve the recognition!

Check out the video (above) and get even more info about the contest here!

You’ve likely seen the original Social Media Revolution video from 2009, but here’s an updated version with some mind-blowing statistics about the state of social media today.

Which social networks do you use personally? Which ones does your small staff association use?

Good morning! Take a look at these awesome presentations about how nonprofits can benefit from multimedia. Does your small staff association use video?

Happy Thursday! It’s almost the weekend – who’s pumped? If you had a short week (thanks to Presidents Day) and are trying to cram five days of work into just four days, I feel you. It’s been go go go all week, but if you have a few minutes, I definitely recommend checking out this video about the convergence of IT and marketing.

Marketing and technology truly go hand in hand; one can make the other more efficient and vice versa. But don’t let your technology become a crutch — it can certainly make your life easier but it shouldn’t be the be-all, end-all solution. There’s tons of research out there to support the fact that the best marketing strategy is word of mouth and member recommendation. Create positive relationships with and meaningful experiences for your members, and they’ll give you all the good PR you could ever want.

Thank you to Maddie Grant for alerting me to the YouTube DooGooder Nonprofit Awards! To enter, organizations must be a member of YouTube’s Nonprofit Program, and the prizes are definitely pretty noteworthy.

You could win $2500, have your video featured on YouTube’s homepage and a free registration to NTEN’s Nonprofit Technology Conference. Other prizes aside, you’d get insane traffic from being featured on YouTube.com alone!

There are awards for small, medium and large nonprofit organization videos, which we think is completely awesome for those small staffs out there whose budgets may not be as large as other nonprofit organizations. Check out the Frequently Asked Questions here, and think about submitting your video if you’re eligible! This is a great opportunity to bring even more awareness to your cause and show off your video-making skills.