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Keeping Your Nonprofit Relevant with Engagement and Storytelling

Connection Cafe

While a phrase I personally find a bit crass, as a resident of New York City, I am constantly reminded however of its truth and poignancy. Every week there seems to be new restaurants, clothing stores, entertainment venues… you name it, that are popping up in locations I’ve long known as something else.

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6 Must-Read Climate Fiction Novels for Our Changing World

Saleforce Nonprofit

Like so many climate fiction authors before me, I had to resist the urge to make it a purely dystopian story. These stories are set in the future and accurately depict the current climate change predictions. This is the first climate fiction story I read and it holds a special place as one of the first (published in 1993) and best.

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Go Around the Globe with #Storymakers2014

Tech Soup

Are you ready to join a global, Storytelling conversation on Twitter at #Storymakers2014 spanning the globe from India, Libya, Kenya across Europe, Canada and the United States. New Zealand. 3:00 pm New Zealand Standard time / 3:00 am Coordinated Universal Time. Topic: AWESOME Digital Storytelling case studies.

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Data and Storytelling: 6 Ways to Use Data to Move Your Mission

NTEN

One effective way to transform your data from an afterthought into a powerful communications product is through visualizations that help tell your story. Here are 6 ways to tell your stories with data that you can apply to your own web and communications work: 1. Focus the Story We touched on this principle above.

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4 Things We Learned from #GivingTuesday 2017

NonProfit Hub

Five years ago, at the Belfer Center for Innovation & Social Impact in New York City, #GivingTuesday started as a response to the Black Friday and Cyber Monday crazes that follow Thanksgiving. Storytelling works. A story length of only 500-600 words. It was an international effort.

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How to Gain Support for Your Niche Organization

NonProfit Hub

They created a campaign called #GiveAShit , where they made a series of custom poop emojis for social media’s biggest stars to share online, promoted a free app that lets people create their own emojis and held a poop-themed art gallery event in New York City. Own your mission.

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Join Our 24-Hour Round-the-World Twitter Chat

Tech Soup

Since our last storytelling Twitter chat , both the opportunities and challenges in producing a great digital story have increased. More stories flooding our social media airwaves mean that it's increasingly difficult to get a non-visual story heard. Topic : Storytelling in central and eastern Europe and Eurasia.