Storytelling is the most effective way to grow support and to keep donors engaged. It's all about crafting authentic, real, emotional stories about the work that you do every day.Sharing gripping stories using social media is a powerful way to showcase the results of your work. Social media, combined with great websites, blogs, and email tactics, is being used successfully to raise awareness and substantially increase fundraising success.But with all the digital tools available, how can you, as a busy nonprofit professional, choose where to place your focus? How do you identify, collect, and craft these wonderful stories that will compel people to take action? How can you mold these stories for each digital and social media platform? What are the steps you can take to develop a plan for your storytelling campaign, to ensure that you won’t just be spinning your wheels?That’s where Storytelling in the Digital Age: A Guide for Nonprofits comes in. Author Julia Campbell guides you every step of the way in a conversational, fast-reading style designed for busy nonprofit practitioners such as you. It will:Show you where to find and how to collect the best stories about your nonprofit’s work and impact.Describe the ways to tell an effective story, developing a narrative arc and hook, and how to focus on people versus programs in your stories.Address the unique and very real challenges that nonprofits face when sharing stories about their work online, including confidentiality obstacles and reluctance on the behalf of staff and volunteers.Give you tips on creating a culture of storytelling at your nonprofit, even if you have never told stories or used social media before.Walk you through the steps required to identify, recruit, cultivate, and motivate your very own army of storytellers to spread the word about your cause.Give you storytelling strategies that will turn your supporters from passive readers into passionate advocates.Provide you with the nuts and bolts of creating a plan for a digital storytelling campaign.Show you how to integrate storytelling into your nonprofit website.Give you the basics of blogging for your nonprofit, as well as a brief description of the major blogging platforms.Cover the best practices in nonprofit email marketing, how to build a powerful email list, and how to integrate email marketing efforts with your website and social media channels.Explain the basic principles of using social media to tell your nonprofit story and how to best incorporate visuals in your social media storytelling.Provide tips on using video to tell your stories, including leveraging the popularity and unique perspective of live streaming platforms.Table of ContentsPart One: Making the Case for StorytellingChapter One: We Are All StorytellersChapter Two: Culture Shift: Creating an Army of StorytellersChapter Three: Creating a Storytelling PlanPart Two: Building Your Storytelling ArsenalChapter Four: The Stories You Need to TellChapter Five: Places to Find Great Stories Your Donors Will LoveChapter Six: Stories That Turn People from Passive to ActiveChapter Seven: Addressing Common Challenges in Storytelling and Social MediaPart Three: Molding the Storytelling Gold: How to Promote Your Stories Using Your Website, Email, Blog, and Social MediaChapter Eight: Your Nonprofit Website and Mobile StrategyChapter Nine: Storytelling Through Your Nonprofit BlogChapter Ten: Creating Great Nonprofit Emails that Inspire ActionChapter Eleven: How to Use Social Media and Video for StorytellingChapter Twelve: Measuring Results and Building on Successes
✔ Author(s): Julia Campbell
✔ Title: Storytelling in the Digital Age: A Guide for Nonprofits
✔ Rating : 4.4 out of 5 base on (37 reviews)
✔ ISBN-10: 1938077792
✔ Language: English
✔ Format ebook: PDF, EPUB, Kindle, Audio, HTML and MOBI
✔ Device compatibles: Android, iOS, PC and Amazon Kindle
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