Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 23, 2013

Ideally it will appear in the headline on your homepage, but don’t stop there; follow charity: water´s lead and weave it into other parts of your site, your social media messages, blog posts and your explainer video. Harness the Power of Storytelling. After all, the people on the charity: water team are masters at storytelling.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 14, 2013

4) Read more books. Now I am lucky if I can get through a first chapter much less read an entire book in less than 6 months. I bought a reading lamp and three new books and make an effort to go to bed at least 30 minutes earlier to have time to read. Reading books does that. In 2013, I am focused on changing that.

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Whole Whale

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

Decades before the dawn of digital ads and social media, advertising legend David Ogilvy penned his seminal book “Ogilvy on Advertising” sharing hard-won lessons on how to effectively persuade consumers. I think there are many timeless lessons that still apply to current strategy that can be gleaned from looking backward.

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Get Fully Funded

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

A photo accompanied by a concise story or a short video with an attention-grabbing headline should be right there to introduce your visitor to the essence of your organization’s work. Write a headline for your story that tells the visitor what your organization does. Remember, you have 10 seconds!).

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M+R

JANUARY 26, 2023

That catchy alliteration makes him sound like a comic book character, like Clark Kent or Lois Lane, Peter Parker or Bruce Banner. Striving to make storytelling work given the constraints of time, space, the boss’s demands, evolving trends, and how dang hard it is to draw horses. It will give you some why to go along with the what.

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CauseVox

MAY 11, 2021

Controversial and provocative topics, large international events, and clickbait news headlines always float to the top due to the amount of engagement they receive (positive and negative). employed powerful visuals to grab your attention and storytelling designed to keep you reading. Pique Curiosity.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 4, 2007

About 100,000 new weblogs were created each day According to the Pew Internet & American Life Project report, "Bloggers: A Portrait of the Internet’s New Storytellers" from July 2006: 8% of Internet users, or about 12 million American adults, keep a blog. Today, the blogosphere is doubling in size approximately every 230 days.

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Connection Cafe

DECEMBER 22, 2013

From #batkid to #GivingTuesday, the Next Generation of American Giving to Content Marketing for Nonprofits , storytelling to social fundraising, retention rates to relationship building, the roundup below covers it all (and everything in between). When writing your fundraising appeals, it’s important to opt for the latter. Checklists.

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