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4 Ways to Boost Your Nonprofit’s Digital Storytelling with WhatsApp

Nonprofit Tech for Good

By Elizabeth Ngonzi , is an Adjunct Faculty at New York University Center for Global Affairs where she teaches Digital Storytelling, Innovation and Fundraising. Storytelling is core to how we as human beings communicate. Storytelling Framework. Ideal Digital Storytelling Ecosystem. Digital Storytelling Framework.

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New on SSIR: A New Tool for Digital Storytelling

Amy Sample Ward

—– I’m really excited by tools that enable digital or transmedia storytelling. I think there’s huge potential for organizations to use multiple mediums, content, and locations to help document and advocate for the change they want in their communities and around the world. Do you have a hyperlocal online network/space?

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Nonprofit Blog Writing 101: Best Practices, Tips & Tricks

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Use your About page as a jumping-off point and go more in depth, using engaging historical photos, maps, and documents as much as you can. Adding high-quality images can also help your SEO, and it’s a great opportunity to showcase your nonprofit’s photos. Another great topic is the history of your organization. That’s totally natural.

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Forum One Takes Home 8 WebAwards!

Forum One

Since then, thousands of volunteers have transcribed hundreds of thousands of image files of the more than 1.7 million pages of documents in the Freedmen’s Bureau archive, the largest transcription project ever undertaken by the Smithsonian. To date, more than 400,000 pages of records have been transcribed.

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5 Ways to Use Data Storytelling for Advocacy

Tech Soup

And data storytelling is at the forefront of such initiatives. At first thought, data and storytelling sound like an odd mix. "Data" sounds dry, while storytelling weaves narratives aimed at appealing to people's emotions. From Dry Legal Documents to Interactive Visualizations.

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How to Choose the Right Image for Your Website

Tech Soup

Oh stock images. Here are a few key considerations to help you choose fantastic images for your site. Are You Treating Your Images as Content? Good, this is important: Photos and other images should never be used just as decoration. Good, this is important: Photos and other images should never be used just as decoration.

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Zen and the Art of the Nonprofit Donation Receipt

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If nothing else, these things will ensure that your receipt is useful as a tax document. Include stories and images that show the real-world impact of your organization and your donor’s gift, specifically. Check out how Mercy Ships uses images and quotes to tell stories in their receipts: Add conditional content. There’s more!

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