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9 Ways to Use Text Messaging for Your Virtual Fundraising Event

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Invite guests to your virtual event by sending fun, friendly text messages that spark interest and make it easy for them to register. Here’s how it works: We’ll give you clues to find 10 specific photos on our social media pages (They could be on our Instagram or our Facebook). 1) Promote your virtual fundraising event.

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New on SSIR: Are we addicted to Slacktivism?

Amy Sample Ward

—– If you’ve been on facebook at all in December this year, you may have seen something happening to all your friends – their pictures changing to their favorite cartoon characters! The purpose of this game is to remove all photos of human for a few days from Facebook.&#.

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

NetWits

Did you notice something toony about Facebook last weekend? In an effort to raise awareness for child abuse, thousands of Facebook users changed their profile photos to one of their favorite childhood cartoon characters (full disclosure: mine was Underdog.) If it’s not fun, rewarding, or cool, viral campaigns rarely take off.

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Diversify Your Year-End Campaigns: How To Be Mindful And Inclusive Of Cultural Traditions

Bloomerang

If we post on Facebook to remind our supporters it’s National Pancake Day, then it seems insensitive (for example) to not remember Hanukkah. It’s a time when we’re encouraged to think of others and those enduring the hardships of life in a world which gets physically and mentally more testing. The Orthodox traditions.

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