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3 Ways to Use Social Media in Your Next Fundraising Campaign (and free ebook!)

Amy Sample Ward

I’m honored to be included in a new ebook about marketing, fundraising, and social media. You can download the ebook, check out the various topics, and much more from: https://www.blackbaud.com/npexperts. Get the full ebook at: https://www.blackbaud.com/npexperts. Well, sure – it does happen.

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Do Negativity And Alarm Really Raise More Funds?

Bloomerang

Other studies show that use of positive empathy—like a happy face—encourages donors because they either see the result of their generosity, or they want to experience the joyful mood portrayed in such an image. One important study shows that a positive image of a child leads to a higher average gift donation than a negative one.

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Zero-cost, maximum-impact professional development for fundraisers

Candid

We offer a wide variety of free training resources on fundraising topics, including live webinars as well as on-demand courses. Once you’re ready to write a grant proposal, check out free eLearning courses such as Introduction to proposal writing or, for more step-by-step guidance, delve into Crafting compelling grant proposals.

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3 Easy Upgrades Can Work Wonders for Digital Donor Acquisition

sgEngage

Other content ideas we have helped create for Doing Good Digital clients: checklists, coloring pages, eBooks, videos, activity books, and stationery. Content that serves as a lead magnet can be promoted via a pop-up, a header image, a sidebar, or linked on specific pages.

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On the Future of Braille: Thoughts by Radical Braille Advocates

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

The increasing focus on digital content, rather than its printed form, and the shift to electronic distribution of ebooks pave new avenues for removing the barriers to accessibility. At Benetech, we want to ensure that in this brave new world of digital content, braille is as available as any other ebook format to those who want it.

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Technological Protection Measures and the Blind

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

This has created the ironic situation where blind people, who because of their disability require access to digital copies, have been effectively locked out of purchasing ebooks for the last decade. In many cases textual content is not delivered as text, but as a digital image of a page of text.

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Increasing Accessible Publishing Globally

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

The world has finally moved beyond just electronically creating books that are then distributed as ordinary print books to actually delivering digital ebooks. In technical terms, this means that the next version of the DAISY format, version 4, will be the same as EPUB3, the main format used by commercial publishers of ebooks.