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Ice Bucket Challenge: Can Other Nonprofits Reproduce It?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

2) Playing on Memes: The campaign took advantage of social media narcissism for a good cause. It goes beyond what is known as “ newsjacking ,” to analyze public reaction and also have the agility to strike while the iron is hot. (2) Ritu Sharma: Can Your Nonprofit Catch Lightening in A Bucket.

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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. Fun is almost always engaging, especially humorous photos, articles, and observations. Don’t like Throw Back Thursday?

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Social Media Police: The Nonprofit Edition

Connection Cafe

The following article originally appeared in The NonProfit Times Live from bbcon newsletter. Whether it’s creating a meme or a hashtag-centered campaign, engagement thrives on fun. To subscribe to a future newsletter, visit [link]. Putting QR codes on a billboard isn’t a good idea. So, don’t do it. Channeling Joan Rivers and E!’s

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Tips to Beat Declining Facebook Reach

Tech Soup

We've experienced this here at TechSoup Canada; articles about technology don't tend to catch people's eyes on Facebook. According to Facebook VP of Advertising Technology Brian Boland, "great content teaches people something, entertains them, makes them think, or in some other way adds value to their lives."

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37 Social Media Ideas for Nonprofits

Whole Whale

Another example from Electric Literature: They asked followers to share their literary-inspired tattoos , and even turned it into a website article (check out Account Strategist Whaler Olivia Giovetti’s Tolstoy and Milan Kundera-inspired ink). Tap into the meme stream Not just visual memes, either!

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[VIDEO] Using WhatsApp to Increase Engagement with Multicultural Communities

Bloomerang

What can they teach me?” So first I have on the left, this just a funny meme. So you can break the ice with these types of memes. I had a lot of, let’s say, the technical knowledge, but I didn’t know the reality of these people. So the first thing was like, “Okay, what do they know?