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Infographic: How To Create An Awesome Meme

Care2

Telling a good story is important to moving people into action. We have found that people respond best to advocacy campaigns that tell stories and use calls to action that connect with them on a human level. Memes are a great way to talk about your issue and use humor to get your message shared. 42% of meme's are pictures.

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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.

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Memejacking: Does Your Nonprofit Dare?

Tech Soup

Within days, hundreds of millions of clicks, reblogs, tweets, shares, and media stories, including a key Buzzfeed post , carried the argument around the Internet to every country in the world. The Dress became one of the most quickly viral memes that the Internet has ever seen. Meme Me Up, Scotty.

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4 Tech Trend Predictions for Nonprofits for 2016

Connection Cafe

This week, I was fortunate to get a sneak peek at two of the nonprofit sector’s leading tech experts musing on their technology trend predictions for 2016. In 2016, we’ll stop succumbing to mission drift when donors feel a consistent, authentic, and purposeful brand story from every tweet, email, text, video, blog post, anywhere.

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4 Tech Trend Predictions for Nonprofits for 2016

Connection Cafe

This week, I was fortunate to get a sneak peek at two of the nonprofit sector’s leading tech experts musing on their technology trend predictions for 2016. In 2016, we’ll stop succumbing to mission drift when donors feel a consistent, authentic, and purposeful brand story from every tweet, email, text, video, blog post, anywhere.

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10 New Year’s Resolutions for Nonprofit Social Media Managers

Nonprofit Tech for Good

In the next few weeks I’ll be making recommendations of which tools and trends in technology nonprofits should prioritize in 2013, but for this year’s post on New Year’s resolutions I wanted to get back to basics. Despite popular memes that social media is “Free!” ” we all know that is not the case.

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The Impact of Your Donation: Laura Baum, 14NTC Scholarship Recipient, Shares

NTEN

I enjoyed learning about new trends in the field of nonprofit tech and felt that I left with some concrete tools to use to enhance the work of my organization. Some concrete examples that I’ve applied to my work have resulted in better use of memes, better use of calls to action (embedded in social media), and better ad testing.

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