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Upworthy Type Headlines: To Like or Dislike?

Care2

Upworthy, a site that focuses on curating social cause related videos and content has been receiving a lot of media attention for changing how bloggers write headlines. But is this a signal that people are growing weary of the “and you won’t believe what happened next” headlines? What about Facebook?

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A Mind on Design: Things to Avoid When Building a WordPress Blog

Byte Technology

A frustrated blogger—especially one who is just starting out—could truly go mad trying to get respect in the flooded field when they’re just not sure what’s working and what’s not. So use ample white space (it will help your headlines and any imagery stand out better) and put the less important stuff on a linked-to page.

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Blog Tips to Boost Your Web Traffic

Care2

That's a lot of competition for all you nonprofit campaigners and bloggers. Utilize bullets, short paragraphs, and bolded headlines to make the blog posts scannable. Headlines – Use short, catchy headlines that summarize blog posts. Did you know that there are over 156 million public blogs, according to Wikipedia.

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10 Blog Design Best Practices for Nonprofits

Nonprofit Tech for Good

The same is true with website and web articles. Today’s fast-scanning Internet users need online content that is visually appealing and easy to read on desktop and mobile devices, and they have little patience with poorly designed blog and web content. Use large font for headlines and body text. Next City Blog.

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10 New Year’s Resolutions for Nonprofit Social Media Managers

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Blogger and LinkedIn both launched in 2003. We’re now 10 years into the Social Web. One of the biggest downsides for me personally from being connected to the Social Web 50-70 hours a week is that my brain has a hard time reading for extended periods of time. Good luck. 2) Ask for a social media budget. 4) Read more books.

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Blog Roundup: Lessons from Kony 2012 Video Campaign

Care2

It’s been close to two weeks since Invisible Children released it’s "Kony 2012" video, which quickly spread across social networks, blogs, and made headlines across major news networks and newspapers like the NYT and the Washington Post. With over 80M views on Youtube, the video is still being shared and talked about.

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10 Ways Nonprofits Can Use Blogs and Bloggers to Support Their Cause

Have Fun - Do Good

A lot of nonprofit blogs have come on the scene in the year between these events and I feel like it is time to revise and update my "10 Ways" post to include not only ways that nonprofits can use blogs, but also engage bloggers to support their cause. 10 Ways Nonprofit Can Use Blogs and Bloggers to Support Their Cause 1. From Yahoo!

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