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Guest Post by Chad Norman: 5 Nonprofit Storytelling Lessons from a Master of Hip-Hop

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Using the internet and social media as a vehicle to tell stories is an approachable, inexpensive, and effective way to engage your audience (Check out NTEN's social media and storytelling web seminars series for the juicy details.) Tell your story from the roots up. Tell a good story, but don't forget to bring in new voices.

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Monterey Bay Aquarium’s Integrated Mobile Strategy

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Before that, we’d heard stories of people carrying dog-eared copies of an old – outdated – paper pocket guide. We also designed the app so it doesn’t rely on an internet connection, since that romantic little spot by the beach might have lousy reception. The Seafood Watch app has been downloaded by more than 480,000 people.

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Build Communities to Enhance Your Fundraising Campaigns

NTEN

In my recent chapter “Managing Fundraising and Building Communities Online” in the book Internet Management for Nonprofits (Wiley, April 2010), I write in depth about one method to tackle the subject – what are organizations across the country doing? The e-mail is updated with a new story each month to keep the content and news fresh.

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Is There a Community of #Tech4Good Activists Waiting for You?

Tech Soup

Keep reading for a roundup of upcoming events or search the directory. Saint Paul, Minnesota: Skill Extension: Maps (on the Green Line) | Sponsors: Maptime MSP Meetup, CARTO. Kisumu City, Kenya: Netsquared Safer Internet 2017: Be the Change; Unite for a Better Internet. Bamenda, Cameroon: How to Create Digital Stories.

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Lisa Sonora Beam, The Creative Entrepreneur: How I Have Fun, Do Good

Have Fun - Do Good

She is a lifelong artist, and was a therapist working in psychiatric hospitals before she made the leap into advertising (long story). The Internet makes this so easy now, but what's even more fun is to step away from the computer and go out and find artists where they work, live and exhibit.

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How Cell Phones and Tablets Enable Telework

Tech Soup

To be able to telework, people usually need five things: a computer or tablet, broadband Internet, access to work email, access to work documents, and a phone. The processing power of our mobile phones roughly doubles every 18 months as does storage capacity, as do Internet speeds with the advent of faster 4G and 4G LTE mobile networks.

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Computer Refurbishment and Accessibility

Tech Soup

It's one of the great untold stories of nonprofit enterprise. It's the story of one person, founder Yvette Marrin, working with a disabled little girl and achieving major breakthroughs using a computer. The Largest Minority in the World. People with disabilities are one of the largest minorities in the U.S. Touch the Future.