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Crafting Sticky, Emotional Stories That Reach Your Audience

Tech Soup

For instance, take this long, amazing story, Invisible Child: Girl in the Shadows: Dasani's Homeless Life by Andrea Elliott, published in The New York Times. As a co-coordinator for NetSquared DC, I recently helped organize a storytelling event in DC. That story took 15 months to develop.

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NpTech Summary: Advocacy 2.0, Sketchcastes, and NpTech in Different Languages

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

As both a lesson and as a metric, failure is potentially productive at every level of socialmarkets - from the repeated return of one homeless person to shelter, to the repeated attempts to attach a value like SROI to such a story." An interview with Allen Gunn of Social Source Commons by Britt Bravo over at Netsquared.

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Pamela Ashlund talks about blogging in the nonprofit workplace

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Pamela Ashlund's first job was with a small nonprofit that provided services for the homeless and mentally ill over twenty years ago. ???I She caught my attention when she announced her blog over at Netsquared. Now, I try to keep my working relationship with my employer quite separate from my blogging life.

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Mark Liu from NetSquared: Part 2

Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

(. in which I continue to interview my former dorm-mate, Mark Liu, now the project manager for TechSoup's NetSquared initiative) [Me] What can you tell us about the April NetSquared conference? First, we hope to build a community of active participants in the NetSquared website over the coming months.

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Solutionary Women: Alli Chagi-Starr, Ilyse Hogue, Melinda Kramer and Reem Rahim

Have Fun - Do Good

You don't want to write about everything, because then people won't find you in the same way as when they search on Google about "homelessness issues", or "the environment." In 1995, I'm giving you my life story; I took a class called Challenging White Supremacy. What I do is, I write for several blogs, as she mentioned.

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