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Your Brain On Good Stories: Why Storytelling Matters For Nonprofits

TechImpact

Your brain loves a good story. There is a distinct chemical reaction that happens in one’s brain when they’re reading a compelling or interesting story. According to this study, the amount of Oxytocin the brain actually produces effectively predicted how willing people were to help others. The formula.

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Nonprofit Content Creation: Back-To-The Basics of the Writing Process

Bloomerang

So, you want to write new content; or maybe you need to write new content. The brain dump. Now that you have your story content , you can go back and revise. However, a word of caution, don’t let your need to be perfect keep you from completing your content. Then set deadlines for different content.

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Top 2021 Fundraising Strategies: Mastering Relevant Content Marketing

Bloomerang

Mastering relevant content marketing. Master relevant content marketing. That means that you must work to make relevant content marketing more readily accessible to your constituents. . Make your content something with which they’ll want to engage. Where do you find that content? Something useful to them.

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5 Design Techniques That Will Increase the Lifespan of Your Nonprofit’s Website

Nonprofit Tech for Good

The mindset (or emotional journey) helps you understand how to write the content, the order in which people will be visiting links, and even what colors would be more appropriate to use. In practice: 1) The Brain Donor Project. Most people probably have never thought about donating their brains to science.

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3 Content Creation Tips For When You’re Short On Time

Bloomerang

If that’s how you’re approaching the content you’re sharing on social media or in your newsletters, this blog post is for you. . Keep reading for three content creation tips to use when you’re short on time, as well as a few examples I’ve brainstormed just for you. . Tip 1: Batch your content. . Create a content calendar.

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10 Content Marketing Stats That’ll Make Your Jaw Drop

TechImpact

Only recently has a definition of content marketing been widely accepted. Before, content marketing was a loose collection of ideas, thoughts and conjectures about the way consumers MIGHT respond to a new marketing models. According to the Content Marketing Institute , consumers reject banner ads at a rate greater than 99%.

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Does Extreme Content Delivery = Learning?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Or do you learn better when you get a chance to process the content every 15 minutes by thinking about it quietly or talking with a peer? Now that could be hard reading, but Sharon Bowman’s “ Using Brain Science To Make Science Stick ” has been a terrific resource. And, what do you actually apply?

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