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Nonprofit Blog Writing 101: Best Practices, Tips & Tricks

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Use your About page as a jumping-off point and go more in depth, using engaging historical photos, maps, and documents as much as you can. Link to resources In your blog posts, make sure to reference other pages on your blog. If you’re a beginner, don’t be overwhelmed. Long-form writing performs better with SEO.

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Great reads from around the web on December 22nd

Amy Sample Ward

." Here’s What People Look at on Facebook Brand Pages – "In an effort to catch your eye on their Facebook pages, brands have experimented with apps and splashy profile photos. “Invisible dogs” refer to the forgotten pets found in city shelters that face tremendous odds to get adopted.

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How Nonprofits Can Get the Most Out of Flickr

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Photo Bank: An international organization sends volunteer doctors to developing countries around the world to perform medical services. The physicians document the impact of their work through photos that they upload to the organization's private Flickr group. So, if this is Flickr 101, what is Flickr 201?

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Social Media 101 TweetChat Recap: Tagging

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While it is a feature of many social sharing sites, often times those very sites do not provide beginner-friendly instructions on how to use tags effectively. Adding tags to content, whether blog post; video; photo; and so on, helps content creators organize content and, more importantly, helps your intended audience find it on the Internet.

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How to Send a Nonprofit Appeal and Get Results

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If you’re a beginner at mailing fundraising appeals , it’s really important that you understand the strategy and psychology behind what makes a good letter. This will enable you to include more pull-out quotes and photos. Refer to these instructions at each step along the way. And knowing how to do it right is a skill.

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NpTech Tag Summary: Penguin Day in New Orleans, Fondling the Tools, and More

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Photo from LolNPtech.org (Registration is here ) Mashups, Meatballs, and New Orleans Do you look at all of the data available online, and imagine ways to combine and connect it to increase awareness about an issue? Of course, referring to the newish book by Seth Godin called Meatball Sundae: Is Your Marketing out of Sync?

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6 Reasons Why People Won’t Give to Your Fundraising Appeal Letter (and what to do about it!)

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Consider photos, color graphics or logos, or highlighted text in the letter as well. Thank-you letters should be personalized and should include a reference to the story you included in your fundraising letter. Both the letter and the envelope it arrives in can be designed to attract the donor’s attention. Where does it draw your eye?

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