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The Storytelling Framework That Will Inspire Your Nonprofit Supporters To Take Action

Kindful

Whether you’re planning an advocacy or fundraising campaign, using a storytelling framework to create your calls to action can help you make emotional connections with your audience and ultimately move them to act. This storytelling framework asks you to answer three basic questions: Story of Self: Why have you been called to serve?

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Awesome Video, Awful Sound? Record Audio Like a Pro

Tech Soup

TechSoup has put together some great tips for how to make a good video, including pointers on how to optimize composition , lighting , and sound. This Wednesday, TechSoup will celebrate five award-winning videos at our Storymakers 2014 Gala in the SOMArts Cultural Center , 934 Brannan St., San Francisco, from 7:00 to 9:00 p.m.

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10 Tips for Writing a Better Donor Thank You Letter

The Storytelling Non-profit

Storytelling is a tactic that many non-profit organizations use in order to create empathy between the donors and the project, and to also share the results of their contributions. If not, chances are your letter sounds too formal or not human enough. But I do think there is a point at which it can start to sound a bit insincere.

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The Science of Nonprofit Video Engagement: How To Use Emotion to Increase Social Sharing

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Their work has been featured in The New York Times, NPR, CNN and AdWeek and Doug is a guest lecturer at Stanford University on the power of storytelling for nonprofit organizations. You spontaneously leap to your feet and shout as you celebrate your team’s epic win! You’re going to want to turn the sound on for this one.

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Forum One Wins 5 dotCOMM Awards!

Forum One

The dotComm Awards are judged by the Association of Marketing and Communication Professionals (AMCP), and are an international competition celebrating excellence in web creativity and digital communications.

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CommBuild Tweet Chat April 23: Storytelling and Social Sharing

Tech Soup

If a fantastic community story falls in the forest and no one is there to hear it, does it make a sound? Pacific time for a special Digital Storytelling Challenge edition of the weekly CommBuild discussion on Twitter. online community tweet chat tsdigs digital storytelling CommBuild' Join us on Tuesday, April 23, at 10:00 a.m.

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Imagery and Authenticity

Non Profit Quarterly

Now let’s look at the original photo which I have seen before when our friends were on a text chain doing a fashion review on a text chain for how amazing Kendra looked on election day when she was out celebrating with communities since she was the person who topped the ticket in the district that day. It’s not their story.

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