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8 Social Media Ideas to Inspire Donors on GivingTuesday

Neon CRM

When humans hear a story, the chemicals cortisol, dopamine, and oxytocin are released in our brains—the chemicals that form memories, keep us engaged, and deepen our relationships. Use Video People share video content two times more than any other type of content. Solving this problem costs only $.

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Networked and Hyperconnected: The New Social (and work) Operating System

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The presentation looks at how younger generations are always connected and are multi-taskers who count on the Internet as their external brain and approach problems in a different way from older generations. It raises the question (unanswered) whether this is a good or bad thing. It is the same title of Raine’s recent book.

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14+ Excellent Nonprofit Annual Reports

Whole Whale

A unique element to this report that we don’t see very often: video. org integrated videos throughout the report so readers can get more information about two of their campaigns — Exxon Knew and Break Free — all while keeping the word count down. The annual report from 350.org The grassroots climate justice advocates at 350.org

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Games and Cultural Spaces: Live Blog Notes from Games for Change

Amy Sample Ward

Trying to engaged the teen-to-twenty-something who normally may not use the research library. The Brain exhibition, for example, has a table where people can work together to put together the pieces of the brain neuron by neuron. Babycastles is New York’s first independent video arcade. It lasted for four months.

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[VIDEO] How To Lead And Manage In Our New Nonprofit Work Reality

Bloomerang

So I can tell y’all that stuff, y’all, but I’ll tell you my most important job and how I really, really learned to hone my leadership skills was as solo mama to this teen who, my friends, she has the mack daddy of all summer jobs. I’ll drop the video. Do y’all know what that is? So it is Q&A time.

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The Participatory Nonprofit?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

gThe above video is one of the many social networking strategies that The Genocide Intervention Network used to transform itself from a small student group to national non-profit. The reality is that our brains only have the capacity to manage a limited number of relationships ??? Go read it. each of various qualities. More here ). *

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How Your Nonprofit Can Reach Babyboomers with Social Media

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I told the story about posting a video interview with my dad (who was 86 at the time) on YouTube about his first blog post and how I discovered a community of "older" people using YouTube. Boomers are still not involved heavily in writing blog articles or creating videos and posting them online. I answered no.