Unmuted: What works, what doesn’t and how we can all do better when working together online.
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What’s really happening when working together face-to-face means screen-to-screen? Over 4,400 people at nonprofits and foundations, colleges and universities, and government agencies answered, and now you can read exactly what they said in our new report.
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Why Bad Presentations Happen to Good Causes
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Why do so many presentations fail to engage, educate, or persuade? Drawing from unprecedented research on nonprofit presentations, this book provides the answers.
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Why Bad Ads Happen to Good Causes
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Are your print ads giving readers what they want and need? Learn what readers are looking for in print advertisements.
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