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Ice Bucket Challenge: Can Other Nonprofits Reproduce It?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Let’s look at the possible factors that caused philanthropy to run wild and capture the attention of so many people, inspire them to participate, and donate to stop the disease. 2) Playing on Memes: The campaign took advantage of social media narcissism for a good cause. I chronicled some of these back in 2008.

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Best of Beth's Blog 2008: Finding The Top Ten Posts In Less Than Five MInutes!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Transparency and Social Media: Dealing with Criticism. The Intangible Benefits of Social Media. Reports of the Death of Social Networking for Nonprofits Are Not True! Social Networking: Part of Your Job or Just for Fun? Your Organization's Social Networking Strategy Doesn't Have To Be Like Mastercard.

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5 Keys to Effective Knowledge Transfer for Nonprofits

Wild Apricot

Grab your audience with something that commands attention â?? Think back to your school days, and which teaching style was most likely to keep your attention long enough to learn something â?? Published Friday, June 06, 2008 8:13 PM by Rebecca. June 6, 2008 10:41 PM. June 8, 2008 11:03 AM. Social networking.

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Has the Ice Bucket Challenge Spawned Charity Jacking?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Charity Jacking goes one step beyond “Social Media Meme Morphing.” ” A social media meme is an activity, concept, catchphrase or piece of media which spreads, often as mimicry, from person to person via the Internet. Phase 2: The Ice Bucket Challenge: From Fundraiser to Social Media Meme.

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The Real Housewives of Social Media: Cooking up Recipes for Nonprofit Success

NTEN

It's time to go beyond listening and responding and get into several key areas: monitoring , running bold campaigns , adding video , and fundraising in online social networks. They built an iGoogle dashboard and fed RSS feeds based on information they were seeking in online social networks. Be proactive.