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Upworthy Type Headlines: To Like or Dislike?

Care2

Upworthy, a site that focuses on curating social cause related videos and content has been receiving a lot of media attention for changing how bloggers write headlines. But is this a signal that people are growing weary of the “and you won’t believe what happened next” headlines? Any takers?

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10 Blog Design Best Practices for Nonprofits

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Create and rotate on a regular basis promotional graphics for publications, special events, volunteer recruitment programs, special fundraising campaigns, etc. Use large font for headlines and body text. To accommodate today’s Internet users, at minimum your headlines should be 18 point and your body text 13 point.

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Five Ways to Ensure Your Event Makes Headline News

Connection Cafe

Let’s look at ways to make your event stand out from the crowd and grab some headlines. Include the following key items to make it easier for a reporter or blogger to develop your story into a feature, and increase the likelihood of it getting picked up: Direct quotes from “in the know” sources. Dozer got his own Facebook page.

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5 Tips for Getting Media Pickup for Your Fundraising Campaign

Tech Soup

Getting the media to cover your organization's fundraising campaign can help you reach new donors, garner larger donations, and become a well-known, trusted entity in your community. After years of being on both the press side and the PR side of the media game, here are some of my favorite tips for elevating a fundraising campaign.

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Jocelyn Harmon: People, Words, Technology & Truth: How I Have Fun, Do Good

Have Fun - Do Good

My second guest blogger in this run of the Have Fun, Do Good guest post series is the warm and wonderful Jocelyn Harmon. Jocelyn is also a recognized blogger and speaker on online marketing and fundraising. You can read her writing in Fundraising Success magazine and her personal blog, Marketing for Nonprofits.

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10 New Year’s Resolutions for Nonprofit Social Media Managers

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Blogger and LinkedIn both launched in 2003. are now integral parts of our online communications and fundraising campaigns and like any tools of value, they requite a minimal level of financial investment. That said, here’s a tool kit to help you ask for that raise and get it. Good luck. 2) Ask for a social media budget.

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10 Ways Nonprofits Can Use Blogs and Bloggers to Support Their Cause

Have Fun - Do Good

A lot of nonprofit blogs have come on the scene in the year between these events and I feel like it is time to revise and update my "10 Ways" post to include not only ways that nonprofits can use blogs, but also engage bloggers to support their cause. 10 Ways Nonprofit Can Use Blogs and Bloggers to Support Their Cause 1.

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