Comments on: What’s Your Nonprofit’s Soundtrack? http://www.nonprofitmarketingguide.com/blog/2009/09/01/whats-your-nonprofits-soundtrack/ Written for do-it-yourself nonprofit marketers and one-person nonprofit communications departments. Mon, 15 Mar 2010 12:06:01 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Kivi Leroux Miller http://www.nonprofitmarketingguide.com/blog/2009/09/01/whats-your-nonprofits-soundtrack/comment-page-1/#comment-111756 Kivi Leroux Miller Thu, 24 Sep 2009 17:53:02 +0000 http://www.nonprofitmarketingguide.com/blog/?p=1732#comment-111756 Matt followed up with a blog post of his own here: http://www.brandywinecounseling.org/2009/09/whats-on-your-recovery-playlist.html It includes a playlist player by http://www.imeem.com/ that lets you share 30-second snippets of the songs on your soundtrack. Love it! Matt followed up with a blog post of his own here:
http://www.brandywinecounseling.org/2009/09/whats-on-your-recovery-playlist.html

It includes a playlist player by http://www.imeem.com/ that lets you share 30-second snippets of the songs on your soundtrack. Love it!

]]> By: Matt Friedman http://www.nonprofitmarketingguide.com/blog/2009/09/01/whats-your-nonprofits-soundtrack/comment-page-1/#comment-111688 Matt Friedman Wed, 02 Sep 2009 16:59:49 +0000 http://www.nonprofitmarketingguide.com/blog/?p=1732#comment-111688 This is a wonderful idea! As a music lover and a nonprofit marketer, I would love to do this. Beth Ann, I think we are local to the radio station you mentioned. Would you be willing to put us in touch with your contact? I will send you an email. We do drug and alcohol treatment and HIV prevention in Delaware. My playlist would start with Neil Young's "The Needle and the Damage Done," and k.d. lang's version of "My Old Addiction." Then I would need to mix in some upbeat stuff, hmmm... This is a wonderful idea! As a music lover and a nonprofit marketer, I would love to do this. Beth Ann, I think we are local to the radio station you mentioned. Would you be willing to put us in touch with your contact? I will send you an email.

We do drug and alcohol treatment and HIV prevention in Delaware. My playlist would start with Neil Young’s “The Needle and the Damage Done,” and k.d. lang’s version of “My Old Addiction.” Then I would need to mix in some upbeat stuff, hmmm…

]]> By: Beth Ann Spiegel http://www.nonprofitmarketingguide.com/blog/2009/09/01/whats-your-nonprofits-soundtrack/comment-page-1/#comment-111687 Beth Ann Spiegel Wed, 02 Sep 2009 15:55:39 +0000 http://www.nonprofitmarketingguide.com/blog/?p=1732#comment-111687 Good morning, Kivi! Our radio debut was last night and all in all, it was an awesome experience! One thing we realized is that two hours can fly by really fast. We were only able to play 9 of our 26 songs between our conversation with the host and explaining our programs and services—we had to leave out some real gems, too! We started off with Will.i.Am’s (of Black Eyed Peas) "Yes We Can" which many people may have heard during Obama's campaign. It has a wonderful message of hope. Other songs we played included Old Crow Medicine Show's "I Hear Them All", about class and power struggles and ultimately, setting aside our differences and uniting; and Elvis Presley's "Don't Be Cruel" (because a lot of the people we support LOVE Elvis, and the lyrics are appropriate for our population). We also included Iz Kamakawiwo'ole's version of "Somewhere Over the Rainbow", The Beatles’ "With a Little Help from My Friends" (refers to both community support and the staff who support our clients), and Xavier Rudd's "Better People" which is about how we can all do our part to change the world. We closed with Yael Naim's "New Soul"--and a shout out to you, Kivi, for the suggestion :) We were bummed we didn’t have time to play a cover of Christina Aguilera’s “Beautiful”, also suggested by Kivi, but like I said—time flew by! “New Soul” happens to be one of our CEO’s favorite songs, and it also describes some of the people we support in a way. Many people with developmental disabilities that come into our program for the first time were quite sheltered prior to joining The Arc. We’ve seen so many people blossom thanks to the support they receive and the experiences they’re offered, so this one was perfect. If anyone did tune in, you may have noticed we were having technical difficulties with the music—a lot of the songs skipped because of an incompatibility between how the CD was burned and the CD player. When we tried to improvise and connect the iPod to the computer and play our list through iTunes, there was a problem with the operating system! It was a little distracting to say the least, so if you do get an opportunity to submit your play list to a radio station, make sure you have backups and alternatives and do a test run if you can. Thanks again. This opportunity also offered proof that business networking—and social networking (or social NOT-working as our CEO likes to refer to it…although she’s quickly changing her tune!) —is really beneficial to nonprofits. Meeting the radio host at the local mixer and then using Facebook for song suggestions really paid off for The Arc! I’m curious to know what soundtrack songs other nonprofit marketers come up with for their specific cause. Feel free to email me at bspiegel@arcatlantic.org. Good morning, Kivi! Our radio debut was last night and all in all, it was an awesome experience! One thing we realized is that two hours can fly by really fast. We were only able to play 9 of our 26 songs between our conversation with the host and explaining our programs and services—we had to leave out some real gems, too!

We started off with Will.i.Am’s (of Black Eyed Peas) “Yes We Can” which many people may have heard during Obama’s campaign. It has a wonderful message of hope. Other songs we played included Old Crow Medicine Show’s “I Hear Them All”, about class and power struggles and ultimately, setting aside our differences and uniting; and Elvis Presley’s “Don’t Be Cruel” (because a lot of the people we support LOVE Elvis, and the lyrics are appropriate for our population). We also included Iz Kamakawiwo’ole’s version of “Somewhere Over the Rainbow”, The Beatles’ “With a Little Help from My Friends” (refers to both community support and the staff who support our clients), and Xavier Rudd’s “Better People” which is about how we can all do our part to change the world. We closed with Yael Naim’s “New Soul”–and a shout out to you, Kivi, for the suggestion :) We were bummed we didn’t have time to play a cover of Christina Aguilera’s “Beautiful”, also suggested by Kivi, but like I said—time flew by!

“New Soul” happens to be one of our CEO’s favorite songs, and it also describes some of the people we support in a way. Many people with developmental disabilities that come into our program for the first time were quite sheltered prior to joining The Arc. We’ve seen so many people blossom thanks to the support they receive and the experiences they’re offered, so this one was perfect.

If anyone did tune in, you may have noticed we were having technical difficulties with the music—a lot of the songs skipped because of an incompatibility between how the CD was burned and the CD player. When we tried to improvise and connect the iPod to the computer and play our list through iTunes, there was a problem with the operating system! It was a little distracting to say the least, so if you do get an opportunity to submit your play list to a radio station, make sure you have backups and alternatives and do a test run if you can.

Thanks again. This opportunity also offered proof that business networking—and social networking (or social NOT-working as our CEO likes to refer to it…although she’s quickly changing her tune!) —is really beneficial to nonprofits. Meeting the radio host at the local mixer and then using Facebook for song suggestions really paid off for The Arc!

I’m curious to know what soundtrack songs other nonprofit marketers come up with for their specific cause. Feel free to email me at bspiegel@arcatlantic.org.

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