Tech Soup

JUNE 2, 2011

Fine's first bit of advice was to be sure pitches feel authentic, have personality, and are newsworthy. Expert advice: Fine stressed that while its important to share successes, it can be even more important to share mistakes so others can learn from them. Feel free to share them in the comments section below.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 8, 2012

Ash Shepherd wrote a guest post earlier this week that offered fabulous templates and steps for developing the graphic images for your Facebook Page. Couple that advice with Nancy’s marketing advice, and your organization will have knock out Facebook Page. 3) Include Messaging Within The Image Itself.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 17, 2013

TechSoup's own social media team weigh in on the report and offer their advice for making wise social media decisions. But the best advice out there, if you haven't already started experimenting with visual storytelling, is to just do it. Turning to the experts seems reasonable, but conflicting advice abounds.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 20, 2014

He shared an example of an initiative that demonstrates their approach to funding — the NPR One app — which personalizes the listener’s experience by curating content suited to their interests. Readers experience the media through a more customized lens, underscoring the possibility of vertical news coverage and deeper storytelling.

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Achieve

JULY 2, 2019

This often leads to social media efforts being an afterthought, which turns into a cycle of posting reactive content vs. proactive content. . Once you’ve ironed out your timeline and key goals, it’s much easier to plan strategic campaigns and upcoming content calendars. . Fortunately, the solution is simple – be strategic!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 28, 2012

Ami’s one and only board is called “ Really want these ” and instead of Louboutins, iPhone cases and nail art she’s dying to try, Ami’s pinned images include plain rice, faucets for clean drinking water, and chalk for school. The images link to your fundraising landing page. It links to a donation landing page.

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Pamela Grow

DECEMBER 14, 2023

Include images of people. Research has found that emotion-based storytelling in communications can trigger positive reactions through the release of brain chemicals like dopamine and oxytocin. If your current content management system doesn’t support multiple content types, consider switching to a more robust platform, like WordPress.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 14, 2014

The sooner your nonprofit can master content distribution on social networks, the more likely (and faster) your fundraising and content strategies will result in success. Prioritize storytelling over marketing. And Pinterest and Instagram, two of the most popular new social networks, are entirely image- and video-based.

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Qgiv

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

But content on each channel shouldn’t exist in silos. Before you hit send, use this helpful advice to get the most out of your email marketing for Giving Tuesday. Instead, try using multi-channel marketing to earn more Giving Tuesday donations. Here are some tips! What is multi-channel marketing? How to use email marketing efficiently.

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NTEN

MARCH 24, 2015

Check out this ridiculously long list of 15NTC content. Advice from #15NTC , Tessa Srebro, VolunteerMatch [2015 Nonprofit Technology Conference] Part 1 - How do I configure it? We ate BBQ by the pound , celebrated inspiring campaigns and community members , rode around on Segways , and did a lot of photoshopping. Did we miss anything?

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The Storytelling Non-profit

OCTOBER 18, 2021

Over the last few weeks, I’ve posted articles about fundraising messaging and writing advice for fundraising appeals. My goal is that these articles is to provide you with fundraising advice that will help you year-round and especially as we careen towards year-end fundraising season, which is like the Olympics of annual fundraising IMO.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 1, 2014

Those of us here at TechSoup work diligently, day in and day out, to provide the social sector with access to better technology, advice, and education. engaging in digital storytelling. ” I never get tired of hearing that phrase, and I have to say, it’s my favorite part of getting to attend nonprofit conferences like NTC.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 3, 2020

3) Upload visual content that tells the story of your organization. To be successful at fundraising through “Donate” buttons in your posts, you need excellent content (written and visual), an engaged community, and an advertising budget to boost the posts. To begin, add a “Donate” button to one post a week.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 17, 2007

It's called VoiceThread , and it's a program that allows you to create an elegant slideshow of images with audio (and text, and scribbles) to go along. You can use it to create your own narrative experience, and you can also allow other users to comment on and add their own commentary to the images. to educators permanently.

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Top Nonprofits

JUNE 30, 2022

Images are powerful because they can communicate what words cannot. If you need tips for creating compelling graphic designs to make your organization’s storytelling professional, poised, and poignant, keep reading! Are you going the more traditional route, with stock images and business-style infographics?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 14, 2015

This type of blog content is standard in nonprofit communications and should continue to be reported on regularly; however, some of your most shared, retweeted, and +1′d blog posts will be those that are out of the ordinary. Your photo essay should include at least five images, and each image should fill the entire width of the page.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 1, 2009

I have years of blog content and resource collections. I've gotten a lot of great advice about how to get started and I will share it as I plan to blog what I learn about taking this blog to the next level. Over the past couple of years, one way that I synthesize blog content has been to do presentations. I have a confession.

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NonProfit Hub

MARCH 27, 2020

I asked them to describe their organization, their position, and offer their expert advice. . A strong, content marketing strategy. Human storytelling. The strength of your campaign’s proof points won’t necessarily ensure success, but the strength of your storytelling with the right influencer partners will. Stacy Caprio.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 23, 2013

It's no secret that we are advocates of digital storytelling at TechSoup. This April our 2013 Digital Storytelling Challenge offers resources to sharpen your skills and an opportunity to enter your short video or five-image slide show by April 30 to win awesome prizes! Want to move your images into motion?

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Connection Cafe

MAY 7, 2015

I was lucky enough to sit down with Sean Sheridan , photojournalist, author and speaker who has spent nearly two decades elevating people and brands through storytelling, to learn more about his focus on storytelling through imagery and how his work amplifies the cause-minded organizations he partners with. Q: How do you define story?

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Tech Soup

JULY 14, 2017

Fresh content is what keeps a website alive. Three or four paragraphs that tell the story succinctly and that include at least one image (preferably more) is great content that helps keep your website alive. Ensure that content and calls to action are easy to find. Collect and Create Images.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 25, 2008

I got pulled in to help create weekly Web content for the broadcast, because of my interest in and knowledge of HTML programming and the Web. Online communication is growing at an incredible rate and organizations cannot stay behind to shape their online image and story. s what makes it fun. d be foolish not to make that a priority.

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Qgiv

JULY 21, 2022

The most important one for our conversation—95% of donors consider content created by nonprofits to be trustworthy! We hope you find their advice for nonprofit multi-channel marketing helpful! Lean into your storytelling skills to explain the need that the donor’s gift will fill, and then ask for a specific dollar amount.

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Qgiv

JULY 29, 2021

Storytelling is an essential component of fundraising , and especially so when it comes to mobile fundraising. So, how exactly can your mobile fundraising affect and support your nonprofit storytelling? When it comes to storytelling with mobile fundraising, make sure to put your donors at the center of the story.

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Connection Cafe

DECEMBER 22, 2013

From #batkid to #GivingTuesday, the Next Generation of American Giving to Content Marketing for Nonprofits , storytelling to social fundraising, retention rates to relationship building, the roundup below covers it all (and everything in between). When writing your fundraising appeals, it’s important to opt for the latter.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

The analytics tools will also evaluate your posts to deduce the best possible times to share your content. The service also provides analytics about content performance. Once you know the basics of HTML, you can either write the code from scratch or use a HTML editor to easily generate HTML for tables, images, and formatted text.

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Steve Bridger

JUNE 25, 2008

Redesigning Charity for the Digital Age Skip to content Home More about Steve Bridger UK Charities Twitter 100 This was written by. And, if you have a minute to offer some advice. Since joining a few recommended groups on flickr from people looking at pics, enjoy seeing others updates and finding new friends, images and inspiration.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 2, 2007

Definitely a must-read, particularly the post by Steve Bridger on the power of storytelling. Unthinkingly points us to the last mile wikipedia , a 400,000+ article no-images version of the wikipedia that fits snugly into a CD and launched by Geekcorps. Maybe it is time to re-read the nonprofit version of Flipping the Funnel ?

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