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5 Ways Neuroscience Helps Your Nonprofit Understand Donor Behavior

Classy

For instance, fear now influences social interactions. Still, the answer to this question could influence whether nonprofits should appeal to donors through extreme (and often negative) emotions. . The mesolimbic part of the brain assigns values to the sensory stimuli, helping us classify what we feel. Understand Donor Values.

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What Makes an Innovative Idea Actionable?

Museum 2.0

If the venue is successful and we share our honest results, won't others want to adopt some of our practices? There's a whole section of this blog called Unusual Projects and Influences. And yet, as Peter pointed out to me, if we love those unusual standouts so much, why don't more museums adopt elements of their practice?

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How To Think Like A Nonprofit Social Marketing Genius: What's Your Brilliant Thought?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Given my right brained, non-linear and visual way of presenting ideas, I thought it might be helpful to write up a few notes about the above talk. His tweets reveal him as a renaissance thinker, not just a narrow-minded tech geek. . You have early adopters, a big scary chasm, and then more mainstreamed adoption of the tools.

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5 Tips And Tactics To Become A Master Nonprofit Wordsmith

Bloomerang

Good writing, and I mean good writing, should be a top priority at your nonprofit because good writing is a tool of tremendous power, influence, and leverage. Each of these communication vehicles influences its readers in some way. It’s all very humbling. Why is good writing important? Case Study: The lost art of writing.

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Tagging and Communities of Practice - Reflections from KM

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

(BK: I wonder how the "network" feature or "private groups" feature of delicious influences this?). One of her points resonated with some other reflections I'm seeing on this side of the pond from early adopters in the nonprofit space in using tagging for resource sharing.

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The Ultimate Online Fundraising: Guide + 10 Top Ideas

Bloomerang

Keep in mind that you can (and should) revise your plan in accordance with the other steps listed below. Keep in mind that you can also leverage social media tools for your fundraising campaigns. When people read stories , chemicals like dopamine and oxytocin are released in their brains. Social media.

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[VIDEO] How to Talk about Legacy Giving Without Seeming Creepy

Bloomerang

And let’s see if we can get your slides going here, if you don’t mind sharing again. And again, this idea that death is as natural as birth, it’s inevitable sooner or later, we’re all hoping for later, of course, but, at times in life, it’s more top of mind. So, Claire, I will pipe down here. Here we go.

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