M+R

APRIL 29, 2021

This year’s big headlines are: . We have a few fun social media events coming up, so be sure to follow @mrcampaigns on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram to learn more. If you’re interested in joining us next time around, sign up at mrbenchmarks.com. ). All of this year’s findings are now available at mrbenchmarks.com for free!

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Bloomerang

APRIL 11, 2023

When you book a headliner act or keynote speaker, feature them in a sneak preview of your lineup. Allow event headliners or speakers to do an Instagram takeover. Give one of your event headliners or emcees the reins of your Instagram story for the day. Conduct a lineup countdown.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

APRIL 7, 2021

headlining our first-ever Nonprofit Summit. But we’re thrilled to announce a third Summit headliner: Amal Clooney. A California native who now lives in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada, Jess brings grit, efficiency, and a team-first mentality to whatever project she’s working on — and always has fun while she’s at it.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

Instead of trying to make sure the headline and first sentence of each post is the same length, the Assembly site chose to use a masonry-style grid, which de-emphasizes the length of text and visually balances the content by organizing the blocks vertically instead of horizontally. 2) Assembly | Malala Fund. 2) Women’s Funding Network.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 10, 2018

The first question that probably comes to your mind when reading this headline is – “Pinterest? Their Pinterest boards provide ideas of fun activities that families can do together in local forests and other natural places. She regularly provides useful tips and resources to the nonprofit sector through her blog, #501SocialBlog.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 7, 2014

Engage around questions that are relevant, fun, nostalgic or evoke emotions. Craft good headlines. Here’s an excellent cheat sheet that can help you write more engaging headlines. Here’s more tactical tips from Upworthy: Find or create great content. Avoid giving it all away in the headlines. Be visual.

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Whole Whale

APRIL 25, 2022

Focus on one CTA: Donate Cryptocurrency Remember that we want to keep the important info at the top of the page (in the first screen seen) to share with the highest number of user Use the headline as a donate CTA with reference to the value proposition of donating cryptocurrency, like children.org .

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Byte Technology

MARCH 30, 2017

So use ample white space (it will help your headlines and any imagery stand out better) and put the less important stuff on a linked-to page. Lastly, if your blog is just a hobby or diversion remember to have fun. are all topics you should avoid divulging.

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Byte Technology

DECEMBER 10, 2015

Companies and corporations large and small have rolled out some truly extraordinary things, from changing what we pay for our cellphone plans to apps that make our lives easier or just more fun. Two amazing tech legends made headlines this year—one no longer with us and one still very much with us. Cell Plan Revolution.

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Achieve

AUGUST 19, 2014

I’ve got a pretty fun exercise for you. That quick bit of research is actually what spurred this fun little exercise. That quick bit of research is actually what spurred this fun little exercise. A good sense of hierarchy—IMAGE, then COLA BOTTLE, then HEADLINE, then COPY—across the page with some consideration of white space.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 23, 2013

Ideally it will appear in the headline on your homepage, but don’t stop there; follow charity: water´s lead and weave it into other parts of your site, your social media messages, blog posts and your explainer video. Get Creative With Your Copy, Especially in Your Headlines and CTAs. How can your organization apply this?

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 7, 2017

For example, you could use a series of headlines from the local news such as this (again, fictional): June 9, 2017 — The Daily News: Shelter Takes in 87 Abandoned Dogs. Being a little creative when trying to find a way to engage the reader sometimes pushes you into using quotes from testimonials or headlines in newspapers.

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Qgiv

MAY 5, 2021

There are tons of fun and random holidays nonprofits can take advantage of to create unique and interesting fundraising appeals. Have some fun with it by creating teaser videos to create anticipation on social media, like Big Brothers Big Sisters of Southern Minnesota does every year on Facebook (and this year on YouTube, as well!).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 7, 2014

It’s got to be fun – games and activities can make a big difference. Let your champions and supporters roll with adapting and remixing your content or jumping onto fun memes. I love the metaphor of a successful GivingDay campaign to a party: Timing is key. A unifying theme creates excitement and engagement.

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NetWits

NOVEMBER 5, 2010

As Blackbaud’s 2010 Conference for Non-Profits approaches this October 21-22, 2010 in Washington, DC, I’m working with colleagues to put the finishing touches on my sessions, and one in particular — one of my favorite topics — is simply too much fun to not share here: Targeted Content*. What is Targeted Content?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 23, 2013

” This summer, it sparked news headlines worldwide, attracted a crowd of 10,000 people—some in costumes, others with feline companions, all cat lovers. The genre of cat videos has grown so much that the Walker Art Center initiated the Internet Cat Video Festival , curated by a “cat video curator.”

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Everyaction

FEBRUARY 28, 2018

At EveryAction we’re on a mission to provide nonprofits with best-in-class fundraising, engagement, and advocacy tools, but we like to think that we’re a pretty fun place to work, too. In the current news cycle, it seems like bad news makes it to all the headlines. A: The people who work here. Q: What’s your go-to coffee order?

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NonProfit Hub

MARCH 10, 2014

Set a (Fun) Agenda. Yes, the words ‘agenda’ and ‘fun’ were both used in the same headline. But adding a little fun into the mix of your agenda could be just what your organization needs. You might’ve been skipping ‘fun’ because it seems like a waste of time. Crazy, isn’t it? It almost doesn’t seem possible.

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NTEN

MARCH 28, 2011

Artez Interactive For Fun Did you miss Rob Cottingham's cartoon coverage of the conference? Don't fear, you can find all of his conference sketches pulled together on the Social Signal site. And, here are all the photos on Flickr tagged "11NTC" !

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ASU Lodestar Center

MARCH 4, 2011

Consider the following: On the same day in the fall of 2007, two contradictory newspaper headlines accompanied high profile, front-page articles in both the East Valley Tribune and the Arizona Republic. The headline in the East Valley Tribune was, "More Arizona public schools are excelling." Schools are Failing or Lagging."

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NonProfit Hub

OCTOBER 26, 2016

A big block of text is like a brick wall—it’s not too fun to look at, and it’s just about as hard to get through. Captivate with headlines. Headlines are another great way to split up your content. Digging deeper into previous ideas—find something factual and go further than the original author. Split it Up. Add some visuals.

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Connection Cafe

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

Here are a few of the big headlines we keep on our minds (and on sticky notes on our desk when our minds are full) to make sure we’re keeping our urgent work from drowning out our most important work. That can make for a fun, team-based environment, but can also make lead to a lack of accountability and clarity around roles.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 3, 2013

Browsing the headlines on The New York Times , CNN , USA Today , and Google News'' sites is one long litany of horror: Murder. I''m tired of the news. Selfishness. Fighting in Congress. Natural disasters. I used to watch The Daily Show to feel better about the world, but even Jon Stewart has had enough, and is taking a break.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 27, 2015

We used the resulting brainstorm as the basis for exercises in writing headlines and creating visual content, two of the most important content creation skills for social media staff. I introduced them to the idea of walking and movement as work and incorporated some fun energizers that celebrated Latin American culture.

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 20, 2014

As a proud professional who works in the nonprofit industry, I am thrilled fundraising is making headlines. Have fun with it. And now we have people pouring water on each other all in the name of fundraising. It is madness I tell you. Simply madness. Because of this, ALS has 71,000 new donors. Not hiding behind the door.

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Connection Cafe

APRIL 29, 2014

Today, your job is much more focused on the percentage point in converting potential supporters into long term donors than being focused on the color of the new logo or the catchy headline. Target . If you are testing what variables work most effectively, use those results to inform your next campaign. Do some science.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 10, 2008

Other then this practical reason, we also syndicate headlines from our blogs, podcast, and videocast in order to pull them into the Workshops resources and eventually to our flagship website to purchase our media guide, sign up for additional training, and subscribe to our electronic newsletter.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 15, 2011

We view our social media channels as a fun on ramp to our ladder of engagement. grist.org has been experimenting with Twitter Chats and fun hashtags to attract people to their content, but also empower them to advocate for on-the-ground change. Erika Croxton, the grist.org staffer who oversees social media strategy, says. “We

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 6, 2010

It is an opportunity for classical music organizations and the conductors that lead them to connect to their community and share their stories, love and passion, one tweet at a time, and really engage meaningfully with the public and to go beyond the cut-and-paste news release headlines streaming from many accounts.

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Connection Cafe

DECEMBER 3, 2013

Shana Masterson, one of my fabulous fundraising friends, co-hosted a fun webinar on the do’s and don’ts of email for P2P boot camp. I know I’m being dramatic, but its #GivingTuesday and I did receive an email with ALL CAPS in the headline. How about we start small? Check it out. If you missed P2P Boot Camp , we have you covered.

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Get Fully Funded

DECEMBER 4, 2022

Their fifth wedding anniversary would be a fun news story. . There are plenty of ordinary happenings that can grab a headline, such as your nonprofit’s annual student art contest or upcoming 5K. Draft your pitch as an email with the subject as the headline you would like to see. Start with a headline that summarizes your news.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 27, 2008

Other then this practical reason, we also syndicate headlines from our blogs, podcast, and videocast in order to pull them into the Workshops resources and eventually to our flagship website www.newstips.org to purchase our media guide, sign up for additional training, and subscribe to our electronic newsletter.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 2, 2006

This is both the hard and fun part of making web videos. A Widget is a piece of code that enables a non-technical website publisher to pull in data and a display for that data from another website, so they can have, say, news ticker headlines or a personal horoscope, or local weather or an RSS feed. What is a Widget?

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 2, 2009

Think of Twitter as the headline machine. Have fun experimenting with writing tweets that jumps out of someone’s feed and inspires them to think, “hmmm, I want to read more”. “Why would anyone want to hear from me so many times a day?”. Why would anyone want to read what I ate for lunch?”. Honestly, do we need more than 140 characters?

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Connection Cafe

NOVEMBER 6, 2018

Even if your success doesn’t make national news headlines, you can execute a great giving day that propels your annual giving program forward. Be sure to connect nostalgia and fun social sharing activities with messaging that demonstrates the impact of their gift on students today. Want even more tips?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 9, 2007

And in response to the question of "intangible value," I think it's about being able to access as many people as possible when your version of a Katrina hits or you have a window of opportunity where the issue you're working on hits the headlines. It takes a lot of work to build a quality audience.

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Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 28, 2010

World Go Vegan Week (October 24-31, 2010) seems like a perfect time to highlight the sixth contributor to my series of guest posts by bloggers talking about how they have fun and do good. The best ways to follow her are via Twitter ( @ElisaC ) and by all the headline feeds found in her BlogHer profile.

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