Byte Technology

AUGUST 10, 2016

Remember that Facebook users are bombarded with photos and videos constantly, and it can be hard to really grab a potential customer’s attention. For instance, hitting older age groups with an intense hard-sell headline accompanied by a fast-and-loud video won’t likely get you very far. Leverage the best possible imagery you can.

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Candid

MARCH 21, 2024

At first glance, it would be easy to put a gloomy headline on the Council on Foundations ’ most recent CF Insights field survey tracking trends in community foundations’ 2022 asset growth, giving, and the activity of donor-advised funds (DAFs).

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 17, 2020

For example: in a lead campaign for a homeless charity, a photo of two empty beds performed much, much better than an emotive photograph of a man living in homelessness. . Remove all the lower performing ads, and test different headlines on the best ads. Let the different headlines test for a week.

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The Modern Nonprofit

OCTOBER 17, 2023

Have a clear message Kick off your giving page with an attention-grabbing headline that captures your mission and what you’re asking for. Ideally, your page should, in 30 seconds, make clear to donors the ins-and-outs of your cause through engaging text, enthralling photos, videos, and graphics.

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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.

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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? It’s not about what you are eating in the moment or your current vacation photos. You can directly pin your videos from YouTube and your photos from Flickr. That’s just for pinning clothing and home improvement ideas, right?”.

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Get Fully Funded

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

Something in the photos and the language on the page pulled me in and made me care. A photo accompanied by a concise story or a short video with an attention-grabbing headline should be right there to introduce your visitor to the essence of your organization’s work. Don’t lead with a photo from your latest fundraiser.

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 23, 2013

Let’s look at ways to make your event stand out from the crowd and grab some headlines. Photos that help tell your story. Great photos can help ensure your story gets picked up. The charity 5K and walk is so common that municipalities struggle to schedule parks and roadways for these events every weekend.

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Get Fully Funded

MARCH 14, 2022

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. But photos can pose a lot of challenges when building a nonprofit website. Next, think about photo quality.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 23, 2015

First, the body text column is wide enough to feature photos and large font. Use large font for headlines and body text. To accommodate today’s Internet users, at minimum your headlines should be 18 point and your body text 13 point. Insert large photos that encompass the width the blog post. Next City Blog.

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TechImpact

JANUARY 13, 2014

Each part of your posted link is highly customizable; from the image to the headline, every part can be changed to your specifications. Highlight important organization achievements, announcements, and photos from big events. Your hands are not tied when sharing links on Facebook as you might be with other social media applications.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 30, 2012

Hurricane Sandy has crippled the East Coast is this morning’s New York Time’s headline. But the story is personal for me. You can only look at the photos for so long before you want to do something. ACBoardwalk #Frankenstorm #Sandy twitter.com/ChrisBonanni/s…. Chris Bonanni (@ChrisBonanni) October 29, 2012.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 8, 2017

The photo was my classroom. One communications director shared that she scans the headlines every morning and only goes deep into stories that are relevant to their communications strategy and limits her time. In the last few weeks, we have been pummeled with disturbing headlines about the current events.

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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.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 7, 2014

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. Write at least 25 headlines —simply because your first one will likely suck. Avoid giving it all away in the headlines. Be visual. “If

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NetWits

JANUARY 3, 2011

Do you know if people are more likely to click through and register if they see a photo of the golf course, or one that connects them to your cause? A golf course photo is tested against a photo that connects visitors back to the need for pediatric cancer research. Does the color of the “Register Now” image matter?

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The Science Behind Engaging your Supporters

SEPTEMBER 27, 2018

There are many elements of your donation pages that can be adjusted to test their impact on the form’s conversion rates, including the headline, photos or images, and the number and layout of fields in the form. Testing several versions of your donation page will help you ensure the maximum amount of conversions.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 9, 2021

Upload your avatar/logo (250 x 250), a cover photo(1128 x 191), add a description and website URL, your company/organization size, industry, and city and country. Your organization’s name is featured in their headlines and your organization’s page is listed and linked on their profiles.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 12, 2011

Flickr Photo by Salendron. If that headline caught your attention, thank Robin Good , a virtuoso content curator, who will join me remotely from Italy when I do a talk on content curation at the next Social Media 4 Nonprofits Conference in January. Does your nonprofit do content curation as part of its content strategy?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 1, 2018

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? But one thing I’ve been noticing about my friends on Facebook, particularly nonprofit professionals, is that they are signaling that they are spending less time on Facebook.

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NonProfit Hub

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

Make sure the subject line is an intriguing headline, not “April Newsletter from Our Charity.”. For very involved donors, create a photo book featuring both your mission and the way their family supported it (for example, photos from galas, volunteering or a named space in your building.) . Happily Married!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 23, 2013

Include photos of the donors or the company logo whenever possible. 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. Harrison has over 61.5k

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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?

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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? 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. What You Can Do To Prevent Donor Fatigue.

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NetWits

MAY 31, 2012

The pig was featured throughout the email – header photo, headline and the clever subject line (“Make your honey happy as a pig in mud”). A week later, the second email featured a cat and sheep, with a different header photo, subject line and messaging. This first email focused on a pig and dog.

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Byte Technology

DECEMBER 10, 2015

Depending on the amount of pressure you put down on the screen, a host of options are at your disposal, including link previewing, a quick jump to your contact list and “live” photo taking that transforms boring old shots into works of art. Google Keeps Intriguing Us. Driven Personalities.

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Classy

JUNE 16, 2021

In your instructions, you can also include helpful tips for things like what campaign photo the fundraiser might want to use, or ideas for their campaign page’s headline. Explain the process step by step and have someone who has never done it before test your instructions to make sure they’re easy to follow.

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NonProfit Hub

MAY 22, 2017

It could be a photo, a short story, an op-ed—anything. We’ve all seen those horribly clickbait-y headlines , which always seem to include “You’ll Never Believe What Happens Next!!” Instead of writing baiting headlines, try reorganizing your content to increase readability. Don’t sacrifice good content for going viral.

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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. Photo by cloudzilla. I''m tired of the news. Selfishness. Fighting in Congress. Natural disasters. According to a Pew Research study, Americans are spending more time following the news.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 26, 2013

Photo by Andrew Watt. X Number of Tips, Resources, Tools, Things, Shortcuts Lists : Anytime you can create content that has a headline like X number , it screams easy to skim and useful. Take for example, John Haydon’s ” 8 Ways To Get More Reach With Your Facebook Page.” I’m a list maker!

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Get Fully Funded

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

Component #2: A short paragraph that nudges the donor toward giving Once you’ve hooked people in with your headline, it’s time to fan the flames you’ve kindled in their heart with a very short paragraph designed to pull them in even closer. Don’t let stale photos languish on your fundraising donation page. Save that for social media.

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Classy

MAY 25, 2021

On Classy, you can effortlessly maintain brand consistency by enabling domain-masking, plugging in photos or video, customizing your messaging, and elevating your email receipts with a unique headline, background image, and thank you note. Check out how the Eat.Learn.Play. Foundation utilized Classy to elevate their donation form.

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Pamela Grow

JANUARY 13, 2021

The photos need captioning. For instance, a headline like Helping Families in Need becomes: Helping Families Through Crisis. There’s nothing to look forward to anymore” speaks volumes about what kids’ lives are like these days and really draws the reader in. Put the donor in the picture. Your Support Makes it Happen!

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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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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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Global Giving

MAY 22, 2018

With GDPR coming into effect in the European Union and privacy scandals making headlines, many nonprofit professionals are concerned about data protection. Featured Photo: A Ray Of Light For The Women In Plight by The Layton Rahmatulla Benevolent Trust. The process can be intimidating! Want more tips like this?

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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? Janet Fouts has your back!

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