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Nonprofit Email Basics: Master Effective Fundraising Communications

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Have Them at Hello Start with an irresistible subject line that’s 50 characters or less and grabs your audience’s attention: Convey urgency. (“Our Automate your thank-you sequences so that, if someone gives you two gifts in one month, they don’t receive the same generic script each time. Ask a question. (“How Personalize it. (“Joe,

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Nonprofit Email Basics: Master Effective Fundraising Communications

sgEngage

HAVE THEM AT HELLO Start with an irresistible subject line that’s 50 characters or less and grabs your audience’s attention: Convey urgency. (“Our Automate your thank-you sequences so that, if someone gives you two gifts in one month, they don’t receive the same generic script each time. Ask a question. (“How Personalize it. (“Joe,

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How To Turn Your Smartphone Into A Movie Production Studio In 6 Easy Steps

Global Giving

What is going to grab their attention? Try writing a script with a two-column approach. Like all good stories, your final script should have a clear beginning, middle, and end. Always pay attention to background noise. Best practices for filming are very much the same as for photography. Find your story.

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6 Tips for Nonprofit Professionals on Speaking Brilliantly with Your Slides

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Pay close attention to this because it is likely that you will lose your audience’s attention at the same moments. Ask a friend or colleague to give you honest feedback so that you know what “version of you” works best to capture people’s attention, particularly when your slides are up on screen. It’s not your script.

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6 Online Speaking Tips for Nonprofit Professionals

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Pay close attention to this because it is likely that you will lose your audience’s attention at the same moments. Ask a friend or colleague to give you honest feedback so that you know what “version of you” works best to capture people’s attention, particularly when your slides are up on screen. It’s not your script.

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Guest Post by Alan Levine: Social Media Recap from NMC 2009

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Something that got a lot of attention (we did have it set up on a large plasma screen in the registration area) was the display of our nmc2009 conference tweets using VisibleTweets one of the best visualizer tools I’ve seen- here is the embedded version (well the cheat way of embedding with an iframe). A Nice After the Conference Idea.