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10 Best Blogging Practices for Nonprofit Organizations

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The best blogs engage audiences by making personal connections with readers and sharing insider mission information. This guide will explore best practices for creating a blogging and content strategy that drives audience engagement, encourages donations, and makes readers feel like part of your nonprofit’s community.

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Captivology: The Science of Capturing People’s Attention

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The book shares how and why our mind pays attention to some events, ideas, or people and not others. Parr uses the metaphor of building a fire to describe how capturing attention works. There are three stages starting with ignition, what captures immediate attention.

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Tech Tools Working Together: How Text-To-Donate Paves the Way for Text Message Communication

Nonprofit Tech for Good

With average email open rates at 20% for nonprofits , many organizations struggle to grab the attention of supporters, volunteers, and donors. We have large audiences at our events that enable us to regenerate our list often. Today, statistics show that one in five consumers has more than 1,000 unread emails in their personal inbox.

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EI Helps Teams Use Technology to Fly

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They have identified new audiences while remaining true to their core values. Daniel Goleman’s 1995 book “Emotional Intelligence: Why It Can Matter More Than IQ” brought EI to popular attention. Include EI qualifications in job descriptions and stress the importance of those skills during interviews.

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Lessons Learned Living the Virtual Experiment

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Despite the novelty, we were interviewing some of the most forward-thinking leaders in our community. Camera shy people learned that video is your best friend when you need to deliver an important message to a remote audience. But we also paid special attention to looking after each other. “To

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Audience-Engagement Successes and Failures

Museum 2.0

Audience-centered for me is a subset of human-centered. Audiences are a portion of the humans in the museum ecosystem. As first-time parents, they are the focus of most attention, almost to a fault. The reason I think of a museum as human-centered is that to become audience-centered your organization has to center people.

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[Book Interview] Nonprofit Example of Social Media Excellence: Women for Women International

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Related Links: Book Research & Interviews. ? That is the essence/purpose of social media to me: sharing our stories or experiences in hopes that someone else will relate, reach out or spread the word. Book Tour ?. ? Book Tour Sponsors ?.