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Memejacking: Does Your Nonprofit Dare?

Tech Soup

The Dress became one of the most quickly viral memes that the Internet has ever seen. Meme Me Up, Scotty. Newsjacking is the practice of "hijacking" or leveraging a current news story to help your messages get the attention of a wider audience. As communications tactics go, memes are cheap and easy to make.

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NGO/NPO Meme - tagged by Nancy White

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

So, the meme goes something like this -- What are the five resources that you would recommend to anybody working in an NGO who wanted to know about information management and technology but didn't know where to start. Nonprofit Online News: This is written by Michael Gilbert and is probably the oldest blog that covers nonprofit issues.

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7 Practical Tips for Engagement with a Higher Purpose On Social

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

With old class photos, you can leverage memes like “ Throw Back Thursday , like in this example from Reshet Ramah , a network of alumni from across the globe. Make up your own nostalgia meme. Here’s a great example from Teach for America sharing a funny visual about goofy year-book photos.

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10 New Year’s Resolutions for Nonprofit Social Media Managers

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Despite popular memes that social media is “Free!” Posting status updates and photos while backpacking through Central America or from a cafe in Paris is their normal mode of travel. That’s not acceptable in the 21st Century. ” we all know that is not the case.

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NTEN Member Buzz Round-Up: July 9 2010

NTEN

Tag your own news with "nten member" or "nptech" to help us find your awesome online, or contact Annaliese with your updates.) . American Jewish World Service , American Friends Service Committee , American Red Cross , AmeriCares , American Refugee Committee , Mercy Corps , Oxfam America , and others. last month.

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[VIDEO] Using WhatsApp to Increase Engagement with Multicultural Communities

Bloomerang

And so I have more than five years of experience creating online and offline communities to support social and environmental causes as Steven said and I worked a lot in Latin America. We have all of Latin America. or in Latin America, if someone texts you at 9:00 p.m., And here’s some headlines of some news I found.

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37 Social Media Ideas for Nonprofits

Whole Whale

Be a curator Make a Twitter list (hidden or not) of influencers like bloggers, journalists, news sites, and partner organizations who may share information that’s useful to your audience. Was there a recent news story related to dogs in your field? Tap into the meme stream Not just visual memes, either!