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10 New Year’s Resolutions for Nonprofit Social Media Managers

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premium services (WordPress themes, Flickr Pro, Facebook custom Tab generators, etc.), One of the biggest downsides for me personally from being connected to the Social Web 50-70 hours a week is that my brain has a hard time reading for extended periods of time. In 2013, keep these two words at the forefront of your mind.

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Lame spam of the day: Raw spam merge text

Robert Weiner

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How to Improve Your Website’s Emotional Appeals: 5 Tips

Pamela Grow

Research has found that emotion-based storytelling in communications can trigger positive reactions through the release of brain chemicals like dopamine and oxytocin. If your current content management system doesn’t support multiple content types, consider switching to a more robust platform, like WordPress. Tell compelling stories.

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9 Captivating Content Ideas to Enhance Your Nonprofit Blog

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Compelling images The human brain can process images as quickly as 13 milliseconds. However, keep in mind that a user-friendly CMS like WordPress makes it simple to add engaging content like quizzes and polls to your blog content. Let’s dive in! Visual content is easier to interpret and remember than long chunks of text.

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Can Nonprofit Organizations Work More Like Clouds? How?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

My practitioner brain went right into the weeds, or rather Twitter and I posted this question: I used the hashtag #answerbeth and lots of retreats and some responses: . "I As a Leader - become deeply aware of - and truly mindful about - the scope and reach of interconnected markets and flows of information.

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How do we do make change if we keep doing things the same way?

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

April 7, 2007 I had heard about this new journal a while ago, and it was sitting in some small corner of my brain, waiting for me to pay attention. I am the one who, with the interests of the sustainability of my own small organization in mind, refused. I’m in an absurd position, personally. 4 Sonia Lyris 04.09.07

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6 Tips for Choosing Effective Nonprofit Website Visuals

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Whether you’re working with Drupal or WordPress , you should be able to compress images right within your CMS. To conduct an effective experiment and understand which changes actually made a difference, keep these best practices in mind: Only change one page element at a time, or you won’t be able to isolate the most impactful changes.