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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. 2) Assembly | Malala Fund. In practice: 1) Freely in Hope.

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Art Brings People Together: Measuring the Power of Social Bridging

Museum 2.0

Earlier this fall, I read this headline: "Stanford study: Participation in a cultural activity may reduce prejudice." While this would be difficult to do in a museum en masse, it could certainly be done with a small representative sample of visitors. You can measure the change in that comfort before and after the research activity.

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11NTC Round-Up: Your Posts, Highlights, and Take-aways

NTEN

Highlights DoGooder Video Awards announced , Maddie Grant NTC 2011 Science Fair shines light on new nonprofit technologies , Andrea Lum NTC Plenary, Dan Heath, Flip the Switch , Beth Kanter Taking the time to analyze success , Nicole Wallace Session Blog Posts 11NTC and nonprofit technology mapping resources , Jeremy Heffner Accidental Technologist (..)

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Data in the Museum: Experimenting on People or Improving Their Experience?

Museum 2.0

Even as the reporters acknowledge that museums are trying to better understand and serve their visitors, there''s a hint of menace in headlines like " The Art is Watching You. " These articles tend to portray museums as Big Brother, aggressively tracking visitors'' actions and interests across their visit. We''re trying to personalize.

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10 Fast Tips to Boost E-newsletter Performance - Online Fundraising, Advocacy, and Social Media - frogloop

Care2

Headlines should be short. Experiment with A/B Testing: Try sending out two different versions of your e-newsletter to small samples of your list -- either with different subject lines, different copy or both. 60) Search « What Makes A Campaign Go Viral? Ask them what they like and dislike about your current e-newsletter.

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NpTech Tag: Change.org To Launch White-Label Social Network for Nonprofits, GeekToys that Give Geekbumps, and Blog Readability

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Michael Hoffman from See3 points us to the 1 Second Film , a collaborative art project, micro video blogging example, and micro fundraising campaign. Perhaps there is a lot to learn from headline writing skills. Amy Sample Ward has an interesting take on adoption issues as related to micro-media tools.

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The Beginner’s Guide to Writing the Perfect Fundraising Letter

Get Fully Funded

This means you need to use strategically-chosen photos, images, and headlines so that the skimming reader can get the gist of your letter even if they don’t read the whole thing. They’ll see who signed the letter and they’ll read the “P.S.”. Then they MIGHT go back and actually read the letter but probably not.