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How Nonprofits Can Use Instagram for Fundraising

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Work With Influencers. Influencers are prominent online figures with sizable, dedicated followings. Influencers can lend some legitimacy to your nonprofit or help you connect with a community you haven’t been able to reach. Posting both photos and videos will ensure you reach the most people possible with your content.

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How Gen Z uses the internet to self diagnose and get help

Mashable Tech

Relying only on social media accounts or influencers, even those who seem qualified, for medical and mental health advice can also be dangerous, Chatterjee says. She also advises people to vet the influencers they follow. If a person's self-diagnosis is incorrect, it's highly unlikely that they'll get the tools they need to recover.

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Trainer’s Notebook: Finding Inspiration and New Ideas for Facilitation Techniques

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I always learn something from his participatory style, humor, and techniques. Here’s a few things I learned. Others have also documented and used the technique or taught others how to do it. I’ve used these techniques myself and been in many other sessions where facilitators used design-thinking techniques.

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Is Influencer Marketing Part of Your Nonprofit’s Social Media Strategy in 2018?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

According to Lee Odom , influencer marketing is one of those trends. Before social media, “Influencer Marketing,” was a matter of finding a celebrity who had an affinity for your organization’s brand or programs and the goal was to get them to talk about it with their audiences. Not all influencers are the same.

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Proven Techniques To Increase Positivity And Boost Success

Eric Jacobsen Blog

The Negativity Fast is an inspiring new approach to improving your outlook, leadership techniques, resilience, and productivity. You’ll learn to harness the power of positivity, optimism, and empathy as you steadily reduce the sources of negativity you expose yourself to and replace them with positive influences.

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Leaders, stop talking so much. Here’s why it’s hurting your team

Fast Company Tech

Perhaps most damaging, leaders who talk too much paradoxically undermine their own influence. Perhaps the most powerful technique is practicing strategic silence. An increase in influence After my encounters last week, I reflected on a leader I’d coached several years ago. .

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Scientists hunted for planets around our cosmic neighbor. They found 4.

Mashable Tech

Kornmesser To find these worlds, the astronomers used something called the radial velocity technique, wherein a specialized instrument on a telescope looks for a star exhibiting extremely slight wobbles. Credit: ESO / M.

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