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Why Content Marketing is the Key to Your Nonprofits Online Success

NetWits

It got me thinking about how content is used by nonprofits to help them connect with the right audience online. In essence, Joe points out the fact that great content is the tool that moves hearts and inspire action online. What’s content marketing? Content marketing and your nonprofit.

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Need a copy editor? Look in the mirror

M+R

Instead editing is, or should be, a collaboration — where multiple perspectives combine to shape content so that it can better connect with audiences. It’s where you set the emotional tone, establish the context of time and place, and let the audience know that this content is for them. That’s not how we should approach editing.

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Attention Nonprofit Wiki Users: Let's Desconstruct Your Wiki!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Perhaps you most likely remember this amazing deconstruction by John Udell of the Wikipedia entry on ??? It really helped you understand the inner workings of the collaborative construction of content on Wikipedia. If you've been following social media closely over the past 3-5 years, you know that this isn't an original idea.

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Citizen Tech: Social Media in Disaster Response

Amy Sample Ward

There are two types of media we will look at here: direct and indirect content. Direct Content. The first example of direct content is the use of Wikipedia during the 7/7 bombings in London. Millions of editors on Wikipedia and it’s rise in public use was climbing. Indirect Content. Why Social Media?

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Microlearning: Fad or Fantastic?

Forj

Wikipedia ? Key to these short bits of content is the presence of one objective. That depends on the content but I personally like the target of between five and ten minutes of material. Research shows that learners prefer and stay attentive for six-minute chunks. Let’s agree on a general definition of microlearning.

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Digital Marketing Plan For Nonprofits: The Definitive Guide (2017)

Nonprofits Source

Or, are you throwing a ton of content on the web hoping someone will find it? By the end of this guide, you’ll learn how to get your content read … how to build brand authority & trust… And how to grow your revenues online. Think about all the emails, social messages, and ads competing for your attention online.

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The Wealth of Networks, Chapter 3

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

Chapter 3 is a discussion on Peer production – it talks about how it is that people have come together to collaboratively create software and content – basically, knowledge production. He talks about three examples which have become classic – free/open source software, SETI@Home , and Wikipedia.

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