Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 14, 2006

I got tagged by three different people for the same blogger meme that swirling around the blogosphere. Here's the meme: Publish five little known facts about yourself, and then tag five of your blogger pals to participate. The culprits are: Matthew Saunders , Nedra Weinreich , and Dina Mehta.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 15, 2007

So, let's unleash the NpTech Mashup Meme. I've had this post about a mashup between Idealware , TechSoup , and Social Source Commons in draft and was going over to Deborah Finn's Blog to grab the URL for her excellent post last week about Social Source Commons. I also stumbled across her more recent post about NpTech Mashups.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 15, 2007

This technique is the " hold a sign meme " where you ask your community to send photos to flickr of you (or your animal) holding a protest sign. I love the Flickr Hold A Sign Meme - but so far haven't found a great application in Facebook that allows for easy cross posting. The flickr pool of photos is here. Has anyone?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 7, 2007

This is a fun meme for user=generated content -- Take a photo of yourself with sign or message related to our campaign or cause. This has also been done by NTEN and Netsquared. And, there was a protest against Target using that technique (holding signs) although it was not on flickr: [link].

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 4, 2006

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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 6, 2006

I tagged John Howes of CharityBlog for Nancy White's NGO meme. This leads me to why I tried to tag beyond my borders with the ngo meme. Sometimes seemingly unrelated events start to suggest a pattern. I'm not quite sure what this pattern is or if it exists. So, ramble along with me as I think outloud.and blog it. Does anyone know?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 4, 2013

Supporters are encouraged to share photos of themselves wearing a hat with the hashtag and say why the campaign is important. This campaign combines the popular selfie with the time honored hold a sign meme. Have you seen great examples of nonprofits using the “selfie” meme for good? Share the link in the comments.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 25, 2012

Hulk (fill in the blank) Twitter accounts are popping up all over Twitter, the latest Twitter meme. The HULK meme has many variations and spotted easily on many social media channels like pinterest and YouTube to name a few. . That’s the tweet that showed up in my Twitter stream last week it caught my attention.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 28, 2015

The Hold A Sign Meme. The “Hold A Sign” meme has been around for almost ten years. Catie Clune asked me to participate in a “hold a sign meme” campaign her organization is running to Save Marin’s Coho.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 28, 2007

In the past two weeks, I have been mulling around what type of New Year's post to write. Should I do best of, predictions, resolutions , or something else. I'm not as creative as Chris Brogan who wrote about 2008 needs or CogDog Blog's Top Zero List.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 4, 2017

There were Ramona hashtags: #ramonaupdates , #bringbackramona , #ramonaforever and memes. He had originally posted about his daughter Ramona, but to be transparent, simply edited the post and apologized. The reaction went viral. People were so hungry to read some good news. And, of course, tons of photos of kittens and cats.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 31, 2017

While the decline of failure as a meme may be linked to a downturn in the economy or an increase in political rancor, Brian says that the reason is that we’ve gotten lazy and stopped using our imagination. Brian talks about how popularity of “failing” has faded from our conversations over the past few years.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 25, 2009

Mashable , a popular social media and technology blog and geek favorite, has caught the generosity meme with its Summer of Social Good , an initiative that raises money for the Humane Society of the United States , World Wildlife Fund , Oxfam , and LIVESTRONG.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 24, 2020

What is the most humorous COVID meme you saw in the last week that made you laugh? What beauty am I creating or cultivating or inviting in? What rainbow will I eat today? Where and what is the small blessing in this horrible situation? You can also have people share their desktop on zoom or pop the link in the chat).

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JANUARY 17, 2008

" A pithy quote from Jeff Jarvis in the side bar answers, " Starters and spreaders of memes are the most influential people. " It also identifies some other types of meme behavior including meme adapter, meme contributor, and meme reader. Maybe the phrase "meme lurker" is better?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 21, 2014

Using more visuals, such as memes, also helped. Better coordination of day-of logistics and a newly implemented call center helped ensure overall efficiency of the campaign and personalized attention for donors. Pre-event media coverage was a major part of energizing people to give.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 4, 2008

Video by Tony Hirst Full context from Stephen Downes, who I hope, continues to report on the EduPunk meme. The following works best on full screen view and with the volume turned up LOUD!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 8, 2014

With old class photos, you can leverage memes like “ Throw Back Thursday , like in this example from Reshet Ramah , a network of alumni from across the globe. Make up your own nostalgia meme. Many schools probably have wonderful archival photos – it’s a gold mine for engagement. Don’t like Throw Back Thursday?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 19, 2007

Superheros seems to be a nonprofit fundraising meme these days. | View | Upload your own. Really enjoyed this slideshow from Tara Hunt.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 6, 2006

The ngo meme is: 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. Here's the folks that I'm tagging for this NGO meme and perhaps can broadened the resources beyond US borders. Tag 5 other colleagues.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 7, 2014

Let your champions and supporters roll with adapting and remixing your content or jumping onto fun memes. Take Advantage of Creative Generosity: This is good community management practice. Make sure you acknowledge and thank them! The idea is to escalate engagement.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 3, 2009

I first became aware of it from a nonprofit blog meme from 2005 started by Ed Batista. It made me think of the phrase "Opening the Kimono" which is a vivid metaphor for organization transparency, sharing internal processes with the outside world.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 28, 2008

" He uses the ten things in ten minutes meme and writes the Ten Web 2.0 Stephen Downes points to Lisa Neal's " Ten Things You Can Do In Ten Minutes To Be A More Successful E-Learning Professional." Things You Can Do in Ten Minutes to Be a More Successful E-learning Professional. So, I'm remixing this memo into.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 7, 2007

The 8 Random Facts About Me meme is circulating in the nptech blogspace here , here , and here (I got tagged twice already, so ignored it.) I hate memes as much as Alan does. But, today, I got tagged again. by CogDog Blog. but it could serve as a nice virtual icebreaker before you meet with a group face-to-face.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 26, 2007

Meanwhile, I'm finally doing the ten-second blogme meme: I'm going to have to use my BlogHer 2005 T-shirt slogan again -- "Enough about me, let's talk about my blog" a big hat tip to Alexandra Samuels. I use it mostly to help me organize my thoughts and not as part of the presentation.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 6, 2007

I thought about this somewhat silly meme today when I was reading " Five Top Tips for Online Fundraising from a Direct Mail Dinosaur " 1. Photo by Denn. The photo is from the Lolsaur which came from PodCamp Boston and is analyzed by Chris Brogan. Segment your file 2. Incorporate variable ask strings 3. Code, code, code some more 4.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 25, 2007

Just adding to the meme of alternative gift giving ideas that Steve Garfield started last week. Save the Children.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 28, 2014

Verbal fads and memes come andgo in the blink of an eye. .” More about testing images on Facebook, see this useful article. Words : Language is tricky. Shades of meaning hide around every corner. Cultural nuances abound.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 25, 2012

So, they started a fun meme. Hanna was listening and scanning responses from the network when she noticed that someone had suggested that different, humorous, band names for these hipster farmers. Hanna networks with other social media professionals who work for online news sites – using a private Facebook group.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 30, 2008

Bryan Person has started the Twitter "MeNotMe" meme in which has analyze his last 100 tweets categorizing them into me (personal), not me, me (professional - about work). This will keep people a bit more interested in your stream as something of value, versus a ???mememememe??? mememememe??? type of Twitter user.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 3, 2007

This meme is on media consumption. This meme was started by Jeremiah Owyang , calling it "media consumption diet." So, a few days when I was particularly crazy, I went rolling through my reader. When I saw that I had been tagged on Nancy White's blog, I left a crabby comment. Heck, it's the weekend, so I thought I'd respond.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 16, 2005

Here's how my submission is introduced: A call to all geeks: start new memes! My post is included in a sub-section called "Geek Women Rule, OK?" " There is a post by Burningbird called ??? Beauty is Only Geek Deep.??? Ones that destroy myths that split women into ???types.??? Annalee Newitz says geek networking???among

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2008

He also does an " Tag-A-Thon " which is a meme spreader for a cause. During the event which is scheduled in August-September every year, Dr.Mani updates his blog every 30 minutes with a new post - taking no breaks, day and night, for 24 hours!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 30, 2008

t do memes; that???s Mani wrote another post called " The Downside of Influence " where he quotes Darren Rowse who was interviewed on ??? Aussie Bloggers ??? and said: ??? s why I don???t s why I rarely refer people to other sites which may be calling for donations for worthy causes.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 30, 2007

The red t-shirt show your support meme didn't originate online - it started offline in countries from that region showing support. On the other hand, Justin Kownacki thinks wearing red t-shirts is social media fluff. What he doesn't realize is that in other countries a call to action "to call you senator" isn't all that easy.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 16, 2007

It's a meme that emerges strongly in statistics from YouTube, which in just 18 months has gone from zero to 60% of all online video viewing.??? Guardian Online July 20, 2006. The survey results show a much higher level of contribution than this, with 20% of those who use mySpace and youTube contributing in some form.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 7, 2008

Spreading as many internet memes as possible is good. t say it, but are just REPEATING IT, then it???s Rickrolls or other fun internet games - this shows you are a bunch of fun and has people trying to do the same for you. Lyrics and quotes - especially fun are the lyrics: ???Never

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