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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. 6) Social Proofing the Call To Action: Another reason is the social proofing element or social validation , where friends tag their friends on social network.

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Tagged Again. Media Consumption.

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

When I saw that I had been tagged on Nancy White's blog, I left a crabby comment. This meme is on media consumption. This meme was started by Jeremiah Owyang , calling it "media consumption diet." Now who to tag. leave a comment and you're tagged! Heck, it's the weekend, so I thought I'd respond.

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CharityBlog, A French N-TEN (Oui ou Non?), and NGO Meme

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I tagged John Howes of CharityBlog for Nancy White's NGO meme. Here's my response to her tagging me). Last week was very cold and damp here in the Boston area. This leads me to why I tried to tag beyond my borders with the ngo meme. This leads me to why I tried to tag beyond my borders with the ngo meme.

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Notes, Reflections, and People I Met at Podcamp Boston

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

This weekend was Podcamp Boston 2. I attended Saturday, but just like podcamp Boston 1 last year, I learned an incredible amount and met some extraordinary people. I met Boston area documentary filmmakers including Marie Agui Carter , Rhonda Moskowitz and Cheryl from Women in Film and Video New England.

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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 1: Personal Challenges with Cold Water to Raise Money.

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Revenge of the Female Nerds: Myth Busting

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

She suggested that we "propagate memes" - as she called to the bloghers in the room - go forth and propogate memes! She then gave these examples: DorkBot Linux Chix University groups for women engineers MentorNet.net Blogher ( Deborah Finn told her to add Boston TechnoBabes to the list after the talk.). Myth busting.