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Early guidance on Threads, Meta’s answer to Twitter

M+R

We know from our media advocacy campaigns that Twitter offered a public gathering place for journalists, thought leaders, and influencers to exchange ideas and comment on the news cycle. Post what you’d normally share on Twitter: A witty quip, a photo or video from an action, a link to your op-ed, or a meme about being the first to the party.

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[Book Interview] Nonprofit Example of Social Media Excellence: The Humane Society of the United States

Nonprofit Tech for Good

I identified a trend forming with social networking, and set up our very first profile. What social media tools are you currently utilizing? Who maintains your social media campaigns? Every full time staffer we have on the Emerging Media team has been paid for by raising money on social networks.

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5 Steps To Increasing Your Facebook Reach

TechImpact

Whether to make us work harder, or make a little bit of extra cash , Facebook’s new algorithm has made the social network a pay to play model, making it difficult for nonprofits to penetrate their Likers’ news feeds. While both posts might be meant inspire, you might have used a meme for one post, but used a news article for another.

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Upworthy Type Headlines: To Like or Dislike?

Care2

Upworthy is a great example of how compelling content can generate a lot of shares and comments on Facebook too. Should your organization adopt a similar model and share popular memes and videos with your audience on Facebook to generate more engagement? However, memes and videos should not be your only source of content.

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NGO/NPO Meme - tagged by Nancy White

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

So, the meme goes something like this -- What are the five resources that you would recommend to anybody working in an NGO who wanted to know about information management and technology but didn't know where to start. On the social networking end, I would swim through the various frappr groups that are nonprofit technology related.

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How a Few Tiny Horses Bucked the Facebook Algorithm

Tech Soup

The photo of Faith with Magic along with her story has 5,302 likes, 1,007 shares, and 1,948 comments as of this writing. If you manage your nonprofit's presence on Facebook, you're probably very familiar with the difficulties of getting fans, likes, and comments on the content you share. Post Timely, Thematic Content.

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

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The paper goes on to explain that measuring influence on blogs by number of subscribers and how many people linked to it isn't longer a credible metric because people are using a variety of different social media tools to connect with their audiences. Maybe the phrase "meme lurker" is better?