Bloomerang

JUNE 24, 2021

So use images and tell stories about your work which motivate support and make them feel the significance of leaving a gift in their will to your nonprofit. We use local media advertising (newspaper, magazines and local radio) to drive uptake. Our marketing spend is limited. How do you bridge budgeting limitations?

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

FEBRUARY 15, 2011

WordPress started out with a focus on ease of use for bloggers and content creators, and secondarily providing a platform for developers to build plug-ins and such. WordPress was born as a blogging tool, primarily, and has expanded outside of that realm, to encompass different kinds of content management use cases. eCommerce sites.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 8, 2011

Written for the June 2011 issue of Fundraising Success Magazine , where I am writing a quarterly column throughout 2011. Unfortunately, many nonprofits upload horizontal logos to serve as their avatars, resulting in the obvious cropping of the images. Quite often your nonprofit’s story can be much better told through images.

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Non Profit Quarterly

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

At first glance I noticed the words and what they were signaling [image] which is a fearful discourse, and it immediately raised concern in me from a framing and messaging perspective. It’s just ridiculous to say that they didn’t alter this image and darken it in any way. But let’s just quickly go through the technical part of that.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MAY 24, 2011

How to Create a Juicy Blogging Vision Board Materials: Magazines you don't mind cutting up, a manila file folder, a glue stick, scissors, a timer, Mod Podge (optional), and a paper grocery bag. Before you start selecting images, answer the following questions about your blog as best you can: Why am I blogging? Just do it.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 8, 2014

This is the type of news sound byte you will typically see in Alumni magazines or that alums (or their parents) might share with your organizations. You want to celebrate their personal , social, or professional accomplishments. 5. Images, Questions, and Comments Inspire Facebook Engagement. Images work for engagement.

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Media Cause

MARCH 4, 2022

The idea was the same as what we did in kindergarten as children: cut out images from magazines and assemble them into a new layout. Only now the directive was to think about color, contrast, composition, content—the building blocks of graphic design. One exercise I particularly enjoyed was collage for designers.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 30, 2016

She's also responsible for editorial review of the site's content. Prior to joining GCFLearnFree.org, Jackson spent 12 years as a magazine editor. Image : Startup Stock Photos / CC0. Ben Williams is a data services analyst with Tech Impact, where he creates training plans for tech adoption. spanhidden.

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Tech Soup

JULY 8, 2013

For content creators, a news story can inspire a moving blog or article. Flipboard (Android, iOS) is like your own personal magazine for your smartphone or tablet. You can save any link along with an image, pin it as a tile on your Symbaloo desktop, and then organize your feeds by category. More Resources.

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NonProfit Hub

AUGUST 11, 2014

I have (tried to) run a nonprofit at my college, a campus magazine set up with attached 501(c)3 entity so as to give us financial flexibility and maintain independence from our student senate and Board of Publications. Instead, it took us a year just to start uploading digital copies of our magazine onto Issuu. 1) Embrace Technology.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 5, 2013

A simple "Donate now," "Give to a child in need," or "Support us" call to action placed within an engaging image on your home page will not only draw someone in, but will make them much more likely to take the action you want them to take. Remove Obstacles to Action. source ).

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NTEN

OCTOBER 19, 2011

WordPress started out with a focus on ease of use for bloggers and content creators, and secondarily providing a platform for developers to build plug-ins and such. WordPress was born as a blogging tool, primarily, and has expanded outside of that realm, to encompass different kinds of content management use cases. eCommerce sites.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 14, 2022

A set of screensavers and background images. Shoutouts to donors on images and cover pictures. Text or attractively designed images on Twitter, Linkedin, TikTok, Instagram, Facebook, Reddit, Clubhouse, etc. Feature your donor images and quotes in social media advertising. Hint: It’s the XYY Soup Kitchen.”

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 28, 2015

I learned of two terrific examples of small nonprofit leveraging social media and user created content for their campaigns. It also has a benefit of generating campaign content as well as documenting support for an issue. Recruiting additional supporters through high quality content and action opportunities.

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NonProfit Hub

MARCH 14, 2016

Creating web content, a blog post, an email, an e-book or a press release can be intimidating even for professionals. Even a magazine ad or a billboard that reaches millions of readers is seen by only one person at a time. The best copywriting is direct and to the point, uses an active voice and often creates mental images.

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Achieve

AUGUST 19, 2014

Google search “ads from the 1950s” and brush yourself up on the iconic advertisements that once graced the pages of magazines, periodicals, and outdoor boards of the time. Newsprint black-and-white image. A good sense of hierarchy—IMAGE, then COLA BOTTLE, then HEADLINE, then COPY—across the page with some consideration of white space.

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Tech Soup

MAY 16, 2014

I also like Marlene Oliveira’s Nonprofit MAR Community content. I really enjoying reading science magazines like Nautilus , as well as the classics like Popular Science , and Popular Mechanics. I like reading old-fashioned paper magazines. Images: Jason Shim, NTEN. I look at the /r/nonprofit subreddit of Reddit.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 5, 2016

Whether it's a favorite show on Bravo, the tabloid magazine we read in the check-out line at the grocery store, or that box of Girl Scouts cookies hidden in a desk drawer, there are certain things we become attached to and will not give up, on pain of death. Image 1 : U.S. Image 2: Derrick Feldmann. spanhidden.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 19, 2013

What I’d expect from an online blog from such an established institution is a weighty selection of content from equally businesslike sources. Even his pointers to traditional stories like the Fundraising Success Magazine ’s “ Fundraising Advice From Katya Andresen Over the Years ” are good insightful pieces.

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 23, 2010

Gerald Marzorati, Editor of The New York Times Magazine , has revealed that "contrary to conventional wisdom, it's our longest pieces that attract the most online traffic." If we don't find it quickly enough, we can much more easily jump to another source of information than we could with a stack of magazines.

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Care2

JANUARY 13, 2012

Pinterest is a new(ish) and growing a image based social network and the newest darling of social media marketers. Beth explains that much of her attraction to Pinterest is due to her visual learning style and role as a content curator. Pin images of endangered species. Pinterest Guidelines.

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Tech Soup

MAY 16, 2014

I also like Marlene Oliveira’s Nonprofit MAR Community content. I really enjoying reading science magazines like Nautilus , as well as the classics like Popular Science , and Popular Mechanics. I like reading old-fashioned paper magazines. Images: Jason Shim, NTEN. I look at the /r/nonprofit subreddit of Reddit.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 1, 2010

Tags: Content Networks Philanthropy.

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Have Fun - Do Good

DECEMBER 14, 2007

Just like you would read a magazine or newspaper to decide if it was an appropriate place to pitch a story, you need to read the blogs you are considering too. An image they can illustrate the post with. Choose a subject line that tells them that your email contains possible blog post content. Search del.icio.us Read blogs.

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Top Nonprofits

JUNE 30, 2022

Images are powerful because they can communicate what words cannot. Are you going the more traditional route, with stock images and business-style infographics? Some more goals that you should figure out ahead of time with your team are your content goals. Figure out what kinds of content your graphic design is going to enhance.

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Connection Cafe

APRIL 2, 2009

In both the for-profit and nonprofit world, executives spend some of their time (ok, maybe much of it) worrying about the image and reputation of their organization. Like many of you, I was excited about the prospect of our blog but anxious about the "what ifs."

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NonProfit Hub

JUNE 29, 2017

There, you’ll find all of the education we provide in podcasts, classes, webinars, a print magazine, and online articles that are published throughout the week. You are asking them to share your content on their social network. P.S. as we all know isn’t as strong as the call out, so their task is to share the content to their networks.

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M+R

JANUARY 26, 2023

But Wally Wood inspired this post, and got me thinking about how we approach the task of content creation. Which is fitting, because Wally Wood was an illustrator and innovator who drew sci-fi novel covers, pulp magazines, and, most importantly, comics from the 50s through the 70s. It will give you some why to go along with the what.

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NonProfit Hub

AUGUST 12, 2021

No images, logos, testimonials, statistics, or other supporting elements? Seen below is their regular donation page, which comes with an offer of a free magazine subscription that might appeal to a casual website visitor. Andrea Schlottman is a graphic designer, copywriter, and content strategist. Not necessarily.

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NTEN

MARCH 7, 2011

Chris Bernard, Senior Editor, Idealware Idealware's first report on Open Source Content Management Systems for nonprofits, published in March of 2009, covered WordPress, Joomla, Drupal and Plone. Updating and editing images and text is also quite straightforward, and multiple add-on modules are available.

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

AUGUST 9, 2005

Pages can have comments, images, and a list of file attachments. You can use it as a classic wiki; but I've seen how some small organizations have used it as a poor man's content management system for their main web site. won PC Magazine's Editor's Choice back in Dec 03 for best wiki service. a month, it's hard to complain.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 12, 2012

The content focuses on the question of WHY we collect and how our collections reflect our individual and community identities. While the Love exhibition was popular, it was our first attempt at full integration of interdisciplinary content on a big human idea, interactivity, and participation. A million thanks to them.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 18, 2008

Several libraries have started to offer gaming nights where you can drink soda and play Wii to your heart's content. Librarian Aaron Schmidt tells the great story of a game night of Dance, Dance, Revolution at his library in which a teen asked him: “Hey Aaron, can I go upstairs to grab a magazine and book to read?”

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 4, 2007

Last week, I received an inquiry from Mary Maher, editor of Hand to Hand, a magazine put out by the Association of Children's Museums , about Museum 2.0. It's hard to fool yourself into thinking you define the museum experience when your visitors are jumping on, chewing, and giggling at your content.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 26, 2009

The wiki did become more active when I started to organize workshops and asked participants to contribute inspiring images. After that, the wiki grew into a channel to accompany the workshops, supporting Nina Simon’s statement : "Wikis are great for documenting events with many parallel content tracks." A completely dark museum.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 4, 2011

In a time when photographs circulate around the globe at an unprecedented scale and speed, and revolutions are propelled by viral images, it has become more important than ever for mission-driven organizations to create impactful visual media that can drive action and fuel awareness. Photo by Alex Masi on behalf of The Bhopal Medical Appeal.

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NonProfit Hub

AUGUST 12, 2021

No images, logos, testimonials, statistics, or other supporting elements? Seen below is their regular donation page, which comes with an offer of a free magazine subscription that might appeal to a casual website visitor. Andrea Schlottman is a graphic designer, copywriter, and content strategist. Not necessarily.

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