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Moving from Story to Narrative

Tech Soup

He gave a talk at the recent SXSW conference on "Moving from Story to Narrative." Hagel characterizes stories as having a clear beginning, middle, and end. Stories are tightly circumscribed with a defined "us" and an "other." Stories are for others to witness and are mainly about the storyteller.

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Ethical Storytelling for Nonprofits: A Detailed Guide

Neon CRM

Stories are powerful. It’s incredibly important for nonprofits to tell stories about their organization and the people they serve. Telling a good story can also give your donors confidence that your nonprofit is making an impact and that their donations are used effectively. What is Nonprofit Storytelling?

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6 Tips for Nonprofit Professionals on Speaking Brilliantly with Your Slides

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Looking at your entire presentation from their perspective will not only encourage you to cut any excess information, but also help you to design more compelling slides. At the beginning of your presentation, it’s wonderful to tell your own story that relates to the organization’s cause or mission. Well, that depends.

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Nonprofit Disruption: Evolving Models of Engagement and Support

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

As they mention on the Working Wikily Blog , they are releasing the findings of the study in a more dynamic form because they want the organizations and funders to be part of telling this dynamic story. The traditional form for these type of findings would be a whitepaper.

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Nonprofit CEOs and the Network Mindset

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

One of the things they did early was to take an inventory of their team members’ skills to discover who was good at the various required skills writing, photography, and video as well as social media savvy. If we don’t participate it will be done to us.” At SF Goodwill they created a Blog Squad to kick things off.

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How Long Does It Take for 250 Super Connected Gnomedex Geeks to raise $2,500 for Cambodian kids?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

My slides are here ). I started with a story about how Ponzi and Chris helped me demonstrate the networked effect with flickr and twitter for a nonprofit training, then told my story about the Case Foundation and Parade Magazine's America's Giving Challenge , and then I set up a real time fundraising challenge. 90 minutes!

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Social Media for Nonprofits SF Conference Recap

Tech Soup

Victor d’Allant, founder of SocialEdge , kicked things off with a lively presentation of seven ways to improve your social media life, noting it’s not about the tools, it’s about the story, and making an embarrassing admission: “I am not on Facebook,” Victor said. Photos: Jim Vetter photography.