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Days of Service – Let’s Evolve the Vision

VQ Strategies

Because national days of service such as MLK Day and 9/11 Day of Service and Remembrance garner great media attention, organizations can leverage this spotlight on volunteerism to broadcast their mission and volunteer opportunities more widely. How can we collaborate with funders to re-imagine a vision for days of service?

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You Can Stand Up for Health Care on Twitter and Facebook, What About On Google +?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The message is consumed by a target audience that goes through the stages of attention, engagement, and finally action. Stephen Downes said: Google is very deliberately designing G+ to not be a broadcasting network, and a lot of social activist stuff is about broadcasting messages. G+ is very very cleverly designed.

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11 New Year’s Resolutions for Nonprofit Social Media Managers

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Many of your supporters are becoming overwhelmed with tweets, status updates, emails, texts, and print and broadcast media and because of that it’s getting more difficult for your “Thank You” message to stand out from all the noise. Since I have returned from Asia I have cut my consumption of broadcast news by 95%.

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Successful E-Learning – A Roadmap

Gyrus

Elearnings as a whole are very attractive, as they offer an inexpensive alternative to classroom training. However, their effectiveness is often debated in the educational software community, as not all eLearnings are made with the same attention to detail. I like to refer to this as the Sesame Street Rule.

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30 Virtual and Hybrid Event Fundraising Ideas for Nonprofits

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Although this appears at first glance to be beyond reach in a virtual setting, consider breaking down each aspect one by one to consider online alternatives. As an added benefit these types of classes are often easy to broadcast live. Alternatively, create a virtual gala with this as a component, but give free entry to your candidates.

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Seven Ways to Make Sure Your Blog Gets Noticed

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

These blogs were compelling and personal, like Latina blogger, Nicole Presley, who shared her experience of providing an alternative to junk food to neighborhood kids in her native community of East L.A. The goal was to draw attention both online and on the ground to expected USDA standards for school snack foods.

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Five Ways to Ensure Your Event Makes Headline News

Connection Cafe

Get to know the alternative and “emerging” news outlets and most influential bloggers (known as “influencers”) in your area. Have an event hashtag that lets people tweet about the experience preparing and participating, but also broadcast messages to a wider audience by using existing hashtags that relate to the cause your event supports.