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Reaching Gen Z on social media: Expert advice vs. Gen Z opinion

Candid

Experts say that Gen Z: Wants to see impact through storytelling, primarily through social media videos. When ranking factors that motivate them to support a nonprofit, 53% indicated “an urgent need related to disaster, crisis, or tragedy” as the most motivating, while 47% ranked “clear evidence of impact” the highest.

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News Media: Take Responsibility for Your Influence

Have Fun - Do Good

Natural disasters. It''s time for the news media to take responsibility for its profound influence as the storyteller of our time. Browsing the headlines on The New York Times , CNN , USA Today , and Google News'' sites is one long litany of horror: Murder. Selfishness. Fighting in Congress. Photo by cloudzilla.

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The New Culture of Storytelling

Forum One

I also had the privilege of speaking on another Online Storytelling panel with Roger Burks and Jay Davis. This live session rounded out our Online Storytelling Bootcamp webinar series with a focus on how to create a culture of storytelling within one's organization. Have everyone buy into the idea that storytelling matters!

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Top 10 bbcon Sessions for Nonprofit Fundraising and Communications Professionals

Connection Cafe

Derrick Feldmann – INFLUENCE|SG. Innovators of the Social Good Startup Challenge: Meet the winners of the first “Social Good Startup Challenge” who help you extend your Blackbaud fundraising and marketing software in new ways to maximize giving, power video storytelling, and much more. Cheryl Contee – Do Big Things.

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Valuable Fundraising Lessons We Learned in 2017

Connection Cafe

Standing on the brink of the 4th Industrial Revolution , this was certainly a year of transformation, from a changing political landscape, to a string of terrible disasters, to new technologies impacting how we engage with our supporters. 2017 is no different.

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Guest Post: Infusing “Social” into Social Justice Organizations

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Time Magazine provocatively named “The Protester” as its 2011 “Person of the Year” for its riveting influence on last year’s social and political events. While emotive storytelling is crux to engaging the hearts and minds of social media consumers, advocates are ethically bound to preserve the privacy of vulnerable clients.

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When ‘Doing Good’ is the Focus: Enabling Donors to Create Positive Change

Connection Cafe

We’ve already seen significant fluctuations in US giving behavior over 2017, with the change in presidential administrations , natural disasters and several moments in time in between – all which would otherwise point towards a more precarious situation for Giving Tuesday and end-of-year fundraising efforts.

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