Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 5, 2012

Use a Professional Photo for Your Profile Photo. It’s best to use a profile photo on LinkedIn that speaks to your professional career, not your personal life (that is, not photos that were taken on vacation, with the family, in costume, and so on). Customize Your Headline. Resist the urge and do not automate!

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Get Fully Funded

MARCH 14, 2022

You probably want a News page for your blog (if you plan to have one), which will help you keep your site fresh. All About Your Brand: Logo, Typography, Colors, Photos, and Tone What do you want the look and feel of your site to be? and it is communicated through your logo, typography, colors, photo style, and tone or voice.

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Get Fully Funded

DECEMBER 4, 2022

A winning strategy for spreading the word about your organization’s work is getting your nonprofit’s story in the news. . A news story gets your organization in front of a large audience of potential supporters and gives your organization instant credibility. . And, getting your story in the news still carries a lot of weight.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 1, 2018

As we all know, in early January, Facebook announced some sweeping changes in the News Feed to prioritize content from friends and family and fewer updates from brands and news. For example, my one colleague replaced her profile photo with a black and white image that states “Away.” Is it the BEST place for photos?

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NetWits

MAY 31, 2012

To get you started, here are 5 follow-up email strategies from top nonprofits : 1) Related News of the Day. They capitalized on what made news two days later by sending a follow-up email that said “The news just keeps getting worse for polar bears. 2) Progress Update. 2) Progress Update. Same theme, different options.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 7, 2014

Billboard’s audience, presumably, is passionate about songs and lyrics given it is the source for music charts, news, and events. 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.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

We have 325 social media sites that we post to regularly, but in addition to all of the ones that everyone knows about, two of the most effective are Posterous and TrafficGeyser because we can post once to these accounts and they syndicate out to hundreds of article, podcast, blog, video and photo sites at once. Anything else? Book Tour ? ?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 5, 2012

Use a Professional Photo for Your Profile Photo. It’s best to use a profile photo on LinkedIn that speaks to your professional career, not your personal life (that is, not photos that were taken on vacation, with the family, in costume, and so on). Customize Your Headline. Resist the urge and do not automate!

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Pamela Grow

JANUARY 13, 2021

This change would leave many of our donors (without email addresses) in the dark when it comes to news and feel-good stories about the organization. Bonnie herself noted that transitioning to an email newsletter “would leave many of our donors (without email addresses) in the dark when it comes to news.” The photos need captioning.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 16, 2017

Photo by Fuel Relief Fund on GlobalGiving. Dreadful disaster stories are still making headlines; isn’t the public tired of giving? And we have good news: our data looks different. For example, we saw that donations to the South Asia Floods (starting August 17) increased after Harvey Floods led the headlines in August 28-20.

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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. July 7, 2017 — The Daily News: Good Samaritans Aid Skeletal, Abused Dog. Sometimes you can create a story by tapping into documented events.

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NTEN

MAY 20, 2011

Megaphone: Flickr: floeschie Every week we pull together interesting tid-bits from across the web where NTEN members are making – or writing – headlines! This week, we're seeing members do both: garnering headlines for awards and news and putting the spotlight on their ideas. Have more news to share?

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Tech Soup

MARCH 11, 2014

While the Facebook app is more focused on personal interactions, Paper is centered around news and multimedia. In addition to seeing your Facebook News feed (what your friends are posting), you can add various news categories to your Paper feed. To look at a larger version of a photo, you tilt your phone.

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Connection Cafe

SEPTEMBER 8, 2014

Right as you’re digging up the last of your expense receipts and scraping together what looks like a favorable giving report, you look at Instagram ® , Facebook ® , or the news and see coverage of brilliantly executed events with tons of smiling volunteers, generous guests, and crazy amounts of press that people just can’t stop talking about.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 14, 2013

and training (HTML, photo-editing, social and mobile media best practices ). All that said, as social media managers, we need to read in order have moments when we are completely immersed in a story using our brains to process words, sentences, story structure, and plot lines – not just soundbites, headlines, tweets, and pins.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 31, 2011

The 24/7 news cycle is overwhelming to many people. Use bold for headlines. Videos and photos help tell your organization’s story better, and often inspire donors and supporters to give and take action in a way that text by itself simply cannot. You can view their website at defenders.org. Repetition is key. Write for Web 2.0!

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 19, 2017

Email is re-emerging as a communications channel that is new and powerful again. With the oversaturation of social media and the challenges over fake news, people are turning back to receiving email from organizations they trust. Write less lengthy copy and better headlines. Email Is Back. Use a graphic to replace a paragraph.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 11, 2012

The art of writing good teaser headlines is critical to getting more interaction. Editorial calendar provides the structure so you don’t have to randomly find content, but keep it flexible so you can post breaking or timely news related to your organization or the issues it tracks which gets more attention and interaction.

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Care2

AUGUST 22, 2013

topic, draft headline, and bulleted ideas to expand on. Add visual variety by highlighting new photos, captions, and links in the slide rotation every week. Announcements, Breaking News, or Events. Media – Photos, Video, Audio. Change 2 homepage slideshow items on the website. Spotlight/Profile, Interview.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 7, 2020

WFP USA has posted a nearly 650-word story of Rani on their blog with a big headline, full-size photos, large text, and bold quotes. For the feature image, they used a photo of Rani looking directly at the camera. This eye-catching photo invited viewers to click to take a closer look.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 15, 2011

Trust me — I know them well because I used to be one.” Giller, a journalist, established the Seattle-based nonprofit as a destination news web site for environmental news, reports and opinion with a wry sense of humor. Source: grist.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 8, 2009

Photo by Esparta A few weeks ago I did a book giveaway for the Twitter Book. I try to send out at least one per day, usually an update of our latest blog posts, podcasts, or news about Cleveland/the nonprofit field. I look at Twitter search terms and then see if the terms are related to headlines. What are your objectives?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 18, 2006

I took that photo of Marshall at the NTC in Seattle last year when I finally met him face-to-face! Anyway, there is a terrific video interview of Marshall and text transcript over at Master New Media where Marshall talks about Mashups. RG: an RSS feed.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 2, 2006

Based on photo entitled " Gear " from Flattop341's Flickr Industrial Set. 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.

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M+R

JANUARY 26, 2023

Rip from the headlines The news is urgent, tangible, and real. Climate Has Already Changed, Study Finds, Citing Heat and Floods That’s the headline on today’s New York Times front page. But for anyone on the front lines of the fight against climate change, it isn’t news at all.

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Care2

JANUARY 15, 2009

Headlines should be short. Use Graphics Strategically: Graphic elements such as photos break up cluttered text, highlights key content areas and makes e-newsletters easy to skim. 60) Search « What Makes A Campaign Go Viral? Ask them what they like and dislike about your current e-newsletter. “10 Fast Tips…”] 6.

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CauseVox

MAY 11, 2021

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). leverages catchy blog headlines and compelling opening paragraphs to hook readers in and get them to read on. Pique Curiosity.

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Care2

MARCH 4, 2009

5) Use Compelling Images And Headlines: Images can help draw your readers in and help connect them to your organizations mission and initiatives. Also try and use headlines, par"you" or "your" where possible. ” Provide links to resources, fact sheets, and important articles so users can easily click to read more.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 4, 2007

The blog also kept people informed during the second trial, when media coverage had diminished, and eventually drew attention to the trial when the blog got news coverage. Provide bloggers, and your supporters, with an RSS feed of news related to your organization so that they can spread the word for you. Don't be afraid of RSS feeds.

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Whole Whale

MARCH 28, 2023

It exists in the algorithms that govern your Facebook timeline, explains why YouTube always recommends the perfect video, or more recently, powers the Large Language Models (LLMs) like OpenAI’s Chat-GPT , Google’s Bard , or Bing’s AI Chatbot , and others that have made headlines. DO NOT ignore AI.

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Neon CRM

JUNE 6, 2023

You include images of Ruby as well as a video from the news clip when she was rescued. Instead, you would write a compelling headline, a two-to-three sentence summary of the post, add a link to read more, and include it with a listing of other summaries like it. It ends with two calls to action.

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Neon CRM

JULY 14, 2023

Visuals: Also include images that journalists can use in their pieces about your organization, like logos, key personnel photos, and event pictures. Writing a Press Release A press release is a concise, easy way to release news related to your organization. Review the publication to see how news about your story would fit.

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The Storytelling Non-profit

DECEMBER 5, 2021

I also like the fact that the content is separated very clearly by topics such as “fundraising,” “news,” and “shop online.” But what I really want to highlight is how they divide up the newsletter sections with great headlines. They use very catchy headlines that show the organization’s work.

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Connection Cafe

JULY 22, 2015

Perhaps you’ve heard the stories in the news about celebrities having their photos and other personal information stolen from SaaS providers. Nevertheless, the reasons these stories make headlines is because they are the exception, not the rule. Even the National Security Agency was shown to be vulnerable.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 20, 2007

Original photo remixed from flickr photo by Stinky Peter Screencast in conjunction with NTEN View the screencast as higher quality flash file -takes longer to download here. The Flickr widget lets you select all your photos, a particular tag or group. It lets you customize the color, size, format, number of photos, etc.

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 28, 2021

If you want to like take a photo of this, if you want to screenshot this, this is everything that I want you to be thinking about doing. Have a short story with a photo if possible. You want to use the best photo image that you have. “Is there a website that scores headlines?” This is it. Describe the need.

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DNL OmniMedia

OCTOBER 22, 2020

Let’s explore the ways that Mustard Seed promotes its mission throughout every inch of the site: Photo gallery. Their well-organized photo gallery page makes great use of space and showcases a variety of their efforts. News and blog content. Why This Nonprofit Website Stands Out. Mission page. User-friendly calendar.

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