Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

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Newspaper Headline Generator

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Newspaper Headline Generator Originally uploaded by cambodia4kidsorg. Celeste found the fake Newspaper Headline Generator and has thought up some ways that nonprofits can use it. Meanwhile, if you are interested in tagging and nonprofits - come on over the N-TEN Affinity Groups and join the NP Tagvocates Group!

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Widget for Publishing RSS Headlines

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

This isn't the only widget that uses RSS stream headlines or content from feeds. It took some experimentation but it seemed fairly straight forward. The newsbox explanation seemed clear and also the wizard tools seemed flexible. A quick search on widgetbox and found a few more.

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The Secret To Social Media Engagement: Kiss A Squirrel!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Craft good headlines. Here’s an excellent cheat sheet that can help you write more engaging headlines. Here’s more tactical tips from Upworthy: Find or create great content. Write at least 25 headlines —simply because your first one will likely suck. Avoid giving it all away in the headlines. Be visual. “If

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Mindful News Consumption Tips for Nonprofit Professionals

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

One communications director shared that she scans the headlines every morning and only goes deep into stories that are relevant to their communications strategy and limits her time. In the last few weeks, we have been pummeled with disturbing headlines about the current events.

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Content Curation: Are You A Fire Hose or A Focusing Lens?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

If that headline caught your attention, thank Robin Good , a virtuoso content curator, who will join me remotely from Italy when I do a talk on content curation at the next Social Media 4 Nonprofits Conference in January. Robin re-wrote the headline of this post from Seth Godin called “ The Trap of Social Media Noise.

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The Surprising Truth About Donor Fatigue And What Nonprofits Can Do To Avoid It

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Dreadful disaster stories are still making headlines; isn’t the public tired of giving? For example, we saw that donations to the South Asia Floods (starting August 17) increased after Harvey Floods led the headlines in August 28-20. What You Can Do To Prevent Donor Fatigue.

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Donate to Hurricane Sandy Relief

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Hurricane Sandy has crippled the East Coast is this morning’s New York Time’s headline. But the story is personal for me.

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