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Ice Bucket Challenge: Can Other Nonprofits Reproduce It?

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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) 5) Whacky, Goofy, and Fun: “Stunt Philanthropy” has been around for years.

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NpTech Tag Summary: 10 Web 2.0 Things You Can Do In Ten Minutes!

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The NpTech Tag Summary went on hiatus to give some space to. The summaries will be briefer, focused on a social media theme or a social media question related to practice. " He uses the ten things in ten minutes meme and writes the Ten Web 2.0 re enjoying this blog, please consider subscribing for free. And if you???re

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Accessibility on Social Media

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These captions shouldn’t be used to just provide a summary of what is being said; they should detail everything. . When she’s not helping build content strategy for world-changing clients, you can find her in the garden—scrolling memes and growing veggies. Audio Descriptions . Reach out at rjones@mrss.com. .

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Book Review: The Imagination Gap

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What I like is that each chapter includes a good summary of the content, plus an imagination challenge where we can work our imagination muscles. The book also describes the barriers and challenges to using our imagination and provides some steps that we can take to close the imagination gap.

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NpTech Tag Summary: Chimp Personality, Convio Open API, and More

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See3 Blog writes about the advantages of the Convio Face App (integration with organization's Convio database) and the limitations (can only run one Facebook app at time). The Non-Profit Tech Blog drills down deeper on the limitations and suggests waiting before adopting. This week was Blog Action Day for the Environment.

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Social Media: Distributed Influence Quantifying the Impact of Social Media - A New White Paper from Edelman

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Combining this with the advent of socialmedia tools such as blogs, Facebook and Twitter has made an individual???s The white includes a summary of discussion from a roundtable of social media experts discussing the attributes and dimensions of influence and how it differs from other attributes, for example attention. someone like me???

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7 Things I learned About Social Media Powered Online Fundraising and A Big Heartfelt Thank You for #OceanLoveEarl

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If you have been following me on Twitter, Facebook, this blog or other social media channels, you know that my father passed away several weeks ago. 8% of donors were “weak ties” or people that I know online only who may read my blog, follow me on Twitter or Facebook. Surf Rider CEO Blog. Marion Conway: Blog Post.