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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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Top 2021 Fundraising Strategies: Mastering Relevant Content Marketing

Bloomerang

Investing in digital-first fundraising and marketing communications. 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. . Mastering online user experience and messaging.

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Thought Leaders Blaze Trails of Discovery and Engagement

.orgSource

But, here is a more contemporary take on the concept from Leah Hardy, Head of Gaming Marketing, Americas, Facebook. Hardy captures what most marketers are striving to accomplish today. Be Deliberate Thought leadership is an important top of the funnel marketing tool. My YouTube examples don’t quite fit this lofty definition.

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Donate Your Brain! Microvolunteering at TechSoup

Tech Soup

Our virtual volunteering offerings also include Donate Your Brain , a microvolunteering initiative. In our Donate Your Brain initiative, volunteers choose how and when to participate whenever they want to. And then actually marketing those tasks! We mapped out the process we would use to promote Donate Your Brain opportunities.

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Notes From A Brain Tweetup

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

In early January, the American Museum of Natural History announced that it would hold a Brain Tweetup for 75 of its Twitter followers. The event promised an after-hours look at their special exhibition Brain: The Inside Story , a chat with its curators, a behind-the-scenes tour of the museum, and an opportunity to meet other fans of AMNH.

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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. The marketing and advertising purists balked. The 5 reasons why content marketing works.

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7 Totally Surprising Brain Tricks to Sell Your Cause

NTEN

Yet we spend a lot of time trying to persuade people by focusing on the 5% rational brain with statistics, rational arguments and feature lists. Yet we spend a lot of time trying to persuade people by focusing on the 5% rational brain with statistics, rational arguments and feature lists. It may be worth using the proportion online.

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