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The Science of Nonprofit Video Engagement: How To Use Emotion to Increase Social Sharing

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Their work has been featured in The New York Times, NPR, CNN and AdWeek and Doug is a guest lecturer at Stanford University on the power of storytelling for nonprofit organizations. Your goal is to make storytelling decisions for your video that will elicit arousing, high-dominance emotions with an element of surprise in the viewer.

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10 Mistakes Your Nonprofit Is Making On Social Media

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This sounds so obvious, but not planning ahead is easily one of the most frequent mistakes I see organizations making. Hint: A great time to do this is when you are creating your annual budget and marketing plan. Hint: I typically recommend posting 3-4x per week per channel as a starting point. Mistake #1: Not Planning Ahead.

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22 Email Ledes That Always Work!!

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That catchy alliteration makes him sound like a comic book character, like Clark Kent or Lois Lane, Peter Parker or Bruce Banner. Striving to make storytelling work given the constraints of time, space, the boss’s demands, evolving trends, and how dang hard it is to draw horses. It will give you some why to go along with the what.

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Preservation in Action: Ambition and Excitement at Zealandia

Museum 2.0

And yet earlier in the week, at the Zealandia nature sanctuary in Wellington, I’d seen some hints of how to do just that. There are interpretative trails and helpful staff to aid visitors in tuning in to the bird sounds and identifying the native animals now thriving in the preserve.

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Game Friday: The Beauty of Finding Things Out

Museum 2.0

They encourage exploration of spaces, focusing on evoking emotion through rich graphics and sound. My game source is Casual Gameplay , where you can also find reviews and hints on these and other games. Tags: storytelling design Unusual Projects and Influences game. Both of these games are museum-esque.

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Mobile Fundraisers: Explore Best Practices & Campaign Ideas

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Storytelling is an essential component of fundraising , and especially so when it comes to mobile fundraising. So, how exactly can your mobile fundraising affect and support your nonprofit storytelling? When it comes to storytelling with mobile fundraising, make sure to put your donors at the center of the story.

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Treasure Hunts, Tactile Domes, and Other Layered Beings

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At first listen, the book sounded like a childhood favorite of mine, The Eleventh Hour , a lavishly illustrated whodunit riddled with ciphers and a solution in a sealed envelope. Tags: storytelling design Unusual Projects and Influences interactives. But A Treasure's Trove is far more than an armchair adventure. It's a good question.

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