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5 Design Techniques That Will Increase the Lifespan of Your Nonprofit’s Website

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Instead of trying to make sure the headline and first sentence of each post is the same length, the Assembly site chose to use a masonry-style grid, which de-emphasizes the length of text and visually balances the content by organizing the blocks vertically instead of horizontally. In practice: 1) Civil Voices. Conclusion.

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NTEN Members Online Round-Up: May 20, 2011

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Megaphone: Flickr: floeschie Every week we pull together interesting tid-bits from across the web where NTEN members are making – or writing – headlines! This week, we're seeing members do both: garnering headlines for awards and news and putting the spotlight on their ideas. Have more news to share?

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Let’s Play with Soap!

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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. A good sense of hierarchy—IMAGE, then COLA BOTTLE, then HEADLINE, then COPY—across the page with some consideration of white space. Newsprint black-and-white image.

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How-to: Edit for the Web

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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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Bringing Women a Global Voice: Jensine Larsen, World Pulse

Have Fun - Do Good

"I would wake up in the middle of the night and still hear their voices. I just had to take that chance." - Jensine Larsen Jensine Larsen is the Founder and CEO of World Pulse , a global media and communication network devoted to bringing women a global voice. We unite those voices to accelerate change.

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5 Questions to Ask Yourself to Make Your Donation Page More Effective

NonProfit Hub

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. Notice how they’ve replaced the magazine offer with a statement about what they do and why they do it better—aimed at convincing me, an active Google searcher , that I’m in the right place.

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22 Email Ledes That Always Work!!

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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. Rip from the headlines The news is urgent, tangible, and real. I’m not about to let that legacy be destroyed in the name of corporate profits.

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