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10 Years of PeaceTalks: What Does Peace Mean to You?

Saleforce Nonprofit

If you read today’s headlines, you might feel overwhelmed with everything that is going on in the world. Beyond the news headlines, there are great stories of people who are making a positive difference for peace. I know I do. The post 10 Years of PeaceTalks: What Does Peace Mean to You? appeared first on Salesforce.org.

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Fundraising Lessons from the Father of Advertising | Ogilvy on Fundraising

Whole Whale

Takeaway #1 Know Your Donors Ogilvy had an “aha” moment when researching Rolls-Royce – discovering in a trade journal that their engineers focused extensively on reducing noise. This engineering insight became his headline: “At 60 miles an hour the loudest noise in a Rolls-Royce comes from the electric clock.”

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How To Build Community Using Social Media

CauseVox

Controversial and provocative topics, large international events, and clickbait news headlines always float to the top due to the amount of engagement they receive (positive and negative). employed powerful visuals to grab your attention and storytelling designed to keep you reading. Pique Curiosity.

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NpTech Tag: Change.org To Launch White-Label Social Network for Nonprofits, GeekToys that Give Geekbumps, and Blog Readability

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication October issue is devoted to scholarly research on social networks. Marnie Webb (who appears to be blogging a bit more these days since she switched to a MAC ) tagged an interesting article from the Wall Journal that asks " Is there a numerical cap on how many friends we can have?

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10 Best Practices for Planning Successful Crowd Funding or Giving Day Campaigns

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Successful crowd funding depends on great storytelling. Now matter which type of story you choose to tell or what medium you use (video, text, photos), here is a simple storytelling structure you can use to create the first draft of your story: Once upon a time…. Social Strategies. And everyday until…. Until one day…. Because of that….

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112 Nonprofit Blog Posts, Articles, and Stories from 2013 You Can’t Miss.

Connection Cafe

From #batkid to #GivingTuesday, the Next Generation of American Giving to Content Marketing for Nonprofits , storytelling to social fundraising, retention rates to relationship building, the roundup below covers it all (and everything in between). So get out your journals and start taking note. Checklists. They’re necessary.

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