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Ice Bucket Challenge: Can Other Nonprofits Reproduce It?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

In deck above, you will see a graph that shows that the Ice Bucket Challenge had more search volume than other news such as Ferguson and Iraq during the last few weeks. This shows the importance of timing and playing off current events. 2) Playing on Memes: The campaign took advantage of social media narcissism for a good cause.

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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. As a result, been behind with the online/blogging part of my life.

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More on Burma - Protests in Real Life and Online

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Via Facebook updates, I learned from Tharum that Preetaim Rai, the Southeast Asia Editor for Global Voices, posts a roundup of protests and prayer vigils in neighboring countries. The conclusion: This data goes to show just how much online marketing share matters and how well this medium works for global messages and movements.

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10 Facebook Best Practices for Nonprofits

Nonprofit Tech for Good

According to the Global NGO Technology Report , 47% of nonprofits purchased Facebooks Ads in 2019. Perhaps they can not get a Facebook ad budget approved or they are simply stuck in the outdated “social media is free” meme. Then, target a global, open audience. Of those, 89% said they would likely do it again.

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

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Nonprofit Social Media ROI and Adoption Issues The meme of the last week continues with a look at specific metrics like engagement. Global NpTech Inveneo is a non-profit social enterprise whose mission is to get the tools of ICT to those in remote and rural communities in the developing world, mostly in Africa.

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I look for patterns

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The how do you write meme is swirling through the edtech community and now Vicky Davis, Cool Cat Teacher Blog , has tagged me. My reader has lots of blogs feeds, comment feeds, tag feeds, search feeds, and more. I often use flickr as a pre-writing tool, often searching by tag clusters to think through the idea. I apologize.

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Live Blog: Is Technology Really Good for Human Rights

Amy Sample Ward

Annabelle Sreberny, Professor of Global Media and Communication, School of Oriental and African Studies (with special interest in Iran, bloggers & social media). They work like memes, the speed people react and join in. Susan Pointer: Majority of our advertising is contextual – the search you made and the content on the page.

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