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Ice Bucket Challenge: Can Other Nonprofits Reproduce It?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Million Dollars to fight the horrible disease, according to the ALS Association web site. Just one week ago, donations totaled $22.6 2) Playing on Memes: The campaign took advantage of social media narcissism for a good cause. Can other nonprofits reproduce it? My answer: yes and no. The Ice Bucket Challenge has raised over $88.5

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Tracking the Currion Meme

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

He started the meme about asking for NGO related resources by pushing it out to Nancy White , Hell's Dire Agent , Jennine , Taran , and Declan. Note to self: This is all needs an inspiration map to show the relationships and how the content of the meme has morphed.and some reflection on memes.)

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Memejacking: Does Your Nonprofit Dare?

Tech Soup

Within days, hundreds of millions of clicks, reblogs, tweets, shares, and media stories, including a key Buzzfeed post , carried the argument around the Internet to every country in the world. The Dress became one of the most quickly viral memes that the Internet has ever seen. Meme Me Up, Scotty.

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5 Keys to Effective Knowledge Transfer for Nonprofits

Wild Apricot

This blog is for volunteers, webmasters and administrators of associations, clubs, charities, communities and other groups. Consider how you might use the interactive possibilities of the Internet and Web 2.0 Im Rebecca Leaman, and its my pleasure to join the Wild Apricot blog team in exploring how to use the internet and web 2.0

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New Pew Research Report: The Future of Digital Life and Well-Being

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The expert predictions about the impact of the internet over the next 10 years came in response to questions asked by Pew Research Center and Elon University’s Imagining the Internet Center in an online canvassing conducted between Dec. This is the ninth Future of the Internet study the two organizations have conducted together.

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How To Think Like A Nonprofit Social Marketing Genius: What's Your Brilliant Thought?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

You'll want to identify easy, simple first projects that flow from your organization’s internet marketing plan. I shared the story about the American Stroke Association's use of Twitter as a listening tool. The important thing is having the conversation.

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20 New Words Every Leader Should Know

Eric Jacobsen Blog

Friend -- (verb) To add to a list of personal associates on a website Green Audit -- Analysis of a business environmental state Green-collar -- Of or relating to workers in the environmentalist business sector Heart -- (verb) To like very much Home-shoring -- Moving jobs to employees homes (from the word "offshoring") Meme -- Image, video or phrase (..)