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Can Memes for Good Work for your Nonprofit’s Content Strategy? Not on Facebook!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

This “ Keep Calm and Shine On ” t-shirt is a riff on the popular “ Keep Calm and Carry On ” meme used by Autism Speaks to help promote the annual World Autism Awareness Day. Even though you interact with these memes, we’ll help you be more sophisticated by not showing them to you.’

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Reaching Gen Z on social media: Expert advice vs. Gen Z opinion

Candid

But other suggestions, like using pop culture slang and memes to catch Gen Z’s shorter attention span, feel a little off. As I dug into the advice, I couldn’t help but reflect on the way I engage with nonprofit social media: Is the use of humor and short-form video crucial for brands to grab my attention?

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New on SSIR: Are we addicted to Slacktivism?

Amy Sample Ward

It caught my eye and I couldn’t help but wonder what it was all about, what was the story behind the story. According to ABC news : According to the trend-tracking website Know Your Meme , the cartoon fad started with Facebook users in Greece and Cyprus in mid-November. National Child Abuse Prevention Month isn’t until April.

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Ice Bucket Challenge: Can Other Nonprofits Reproduce It?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Let’s look at the possible factors that caused philanthropy to run wild and capture the attention of so many people, inspire them to participate, and donate to stop the disease. 2) Playing on Memes: The campaign took advantage of social media narcissism for a good cause. What can or cannot be reproduced? (1)

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Slacktivism: Can Cartoons Raise Awareness or Just Make Us Feel Good?

NetWits

Whether it started on accident, was part of a specific campaign, or originated in Greece , this meme seemed to really have legs! While there is a Facebook page setup to promote the campaign , it doesn’t appear to have organized from a particular nonprofit or cause. Slacktivism: To Make Ourselves Feel Good or To Help Others?

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Selfies for Good?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

” But do selfies have benefits, especially for social change causes? I wondered whether selfies can be used as part of your social content strategy to help support a social good cause? The use of selfies helps mobilize library fans in a new way and make going to the library a more integrated online experience.

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Changeblogger Meme: Pass it on

Have Fun - Do Good

Qui Diaz posted a 3-question Changeblogging Meme , which I'd like to participate in, and I hope you'll pass it on: What is one change - big or small, local or global - you want to see in your lifetime? How are you going to use your Web/tech/marcom skills to further this cause? (Or, Or, what are you already doing that works?)

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