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5 Design Techniques That Will Increase the Lifespan of Your Nonprofit’s Website

Nonprofit Tech for Good

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. In practice: 1) Civil Voices.

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Build a Non-profit Website that Works [Steal These Ideas!]

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and it is communicated through your logo, typography, colors, photo style, and tone or voice. You can also emphasize your headlines and key phrases by bolding them, increasing the font size, and capitalizing the letters. Tone: Your website has a voice. What do you want that voice to be? Work on your voice.

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Getting meta: Why the #CommBuild chats have evolved for three years and counting

NTEN

In July 2010, Amy Sample Ward wrote a blog post called Monthly Chats About Community Building: Are You With Me? Just two weeks later, having received a ton of thoughtful comments on that original post, her new headline was Join the Monthly Community Building Chats !

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Getting meta: Why the #CommBuild chats have evolved for three years and counting

NTEN

In July 2010, Amy Sample Ward wrote a blog post called Monthly Chats About Community Building: Are You With Me? Just two weeks later, having received a ton of thoughtful comments on that original post, her new headline was Join the Monthly Community Building Chats !

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How-to: Edit for the Web

NTEN

I skim through headlines, looking for items that interest me, read the first few paragraphs of an article that catches my eye, and then decide if it's worth my time. Ideally, one person at your organization will take on the role of editor, to help ensure a consistency of voice. " Think about your own reading habits.

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10 Fast Tips to Boost E-newsletter Performance - Online Fundraising, Advocacy, and Social Media - frogloop

Care2

Headlines should be short. Experiment with A/B Testing: Try sending out two different versions of your e-newsletter to small samples of your list -- either with different subject lines, different copy or both. Ask them what they like and dislike about your current e-newsletter. Many e-newsletters are too long and not well organized.

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[VIDEO] Using WhatsApp to Increase Engagement with Multicultural Communities

Bloomerang

And the last thing which is super important as how can I include the voices? And I’ll give you a bit more of a sample of this, you know, how can they share what they know? They can send you a voice note also if it’s people that, you know, have a hard time writing or don’t have the time to write so much.