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TSDigs: Creating Impact & Effective Storytelling Tweet Chat Recap

Tech Soup

Examining what makes video have an impact was the topic of TechSoup’s recent Digital Storytelling Challenge tweet chat. Effective storytelling requires distilling the message you want to get across without diluting its importance. Creating a video with impact requires developing a story concept and turning it into a script.

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NTEN Leading Change Summit #14lcs: Reflection

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I like to use a rock band metaphor. This include: strategic dialogue as a data, inclusion as a data, measuring results, and using data for storytelling. To frame it with a leadership skill, we asked participants to use “internal or active listening” and take notes during the talks. Defining Roles.

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#IFC2015: Viral Fundraising Campaigns One Year Later: What Can We Learn?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Our session used the following structure. Both organizations had to embrace improvised leadership versus scripted leadership. You can read a summary of the viral campaign here and here. Each presenter gave a summary of their campaign as follows: The Genesis: How did it get started?

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[VIDEO] The Board’s Role in Fundraising & Resource Development

Bloomerang

” You’re going to provide your board members with the script. ” To each board member, have the script, they pick up their cell phones and they make those calls. Is your agenda structured in a way that board education is included on every board meeting for 20 minutes? Do you have a board education plan?

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Philanthropic Leadership: Engaging Board Members As Fundraising Ambassadors

Bloomerang

They are natural storytellers and advocates for your organization. And the way that I’m going to talk about these case studies is the purpose, the structure, and the outcome of each. Because, you know, is it giving them a script for a phone call, or a template? They provide access to potential avenues of new support.

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[VIDEO] You’ve Been Let Go From Your Nonprofit Job – Now What?

Bloomerang

Talk to each other, introduce yourself in the chat if you haven’t already because we will save some time for some Q&A once we kind of get through our scripted questions. Storytelling is just so important to me. It might be a little easier for us to see if you use the Q&A, but that’s okay. You can also tweet us.

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This Digital Marketing Process Will Make You Write Better Content

Nonprofits Source

Structure Content With An Introduction, Body, and Conclusion. This is what makes structure such a critical component of any content marketing process. It’s not a sexy topic, but structuring your ideas is what constrains our thoughts to adherable guidelines. As mentioned, thoughts are tough to translate into words.

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