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10 Best Blogging Practices for Nonprofit Organizations

NonProfit Hub

This guide will explore best practices for creating a blogging and content strategy that drives audience engagement, encourages donations, and makes readers feel like part of your nonprofit’s community. Keep up with new nonprofit blogging trends and best practices by regularly reading top nonprofit blogs. Spotlight your supporters.

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How Nonprofit Professionals Can Manage Workplace Stress Triggers

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

As a group, I have participants take an online poll, answering the questions, “What are your workplace stress triggers?” Your logical brain temporarily shuts down, and you lose the ability to solve problems, make decisions, and think rationally. 1: Make Time Everyday for Reflection: Keep a Journal.

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How to Be a Wizard at Tech Training Design and Delivery

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The session not only included training tips, but modeled them during the session so that the audience interacted and practiced skills directly. We began the session by polling the audience on training experiences. Andrea Berry had moved onto another job by then, and so Jeanne Allen took her place.

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Reflections on a Decade of Designing and Facilitating Interactive Webinars

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Yesterday, I facilitated the first webinar in a series hosted by the Knight Foundation on taking the practice of Giving Days to the next level. It is less about disseminating content and best practices and more about pulling ideas and knowledge in through many-to-many interaction. Three Ways to Think About Content.

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How Nonprofit New Media Managers Can Manage Mobile and Social Media Burnout

Nonprofit Tech for Good

The brain needs a break from the barrage and needs to reset itself to normal operating mode. When polled on Twitter, less than 20 percent of nonprofit communications and fundraising staff have mobile and social media officially recognized in their job descriptions even though they spend hours daily on mobile and social media.

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How To Think Like An Instructional Designer for Your Nonprofit Trainings

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

As someone who has been designing and delivering training for nonprofits over the past twenty years, the most exciting part is apply theory to your practice. As I’ve expanded my repertoire to train people on other topics (not just social media or measurement), I have learned how to create practice rubrics for other areas.

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Webinars: Designing Effective Learning Experiences

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Because webinars were a new medium to trainers, I used Richard Mayer’s research on multi-media learning based on understanding how the brain works and the ability to pay attention to guide the instructional design.

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