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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! But, what still really stands out for me, is the addition of the cause-advocacy appeal once the meme hit the English translation.

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

NetWits

Whether it started on accident, was part of a specific campaign, or originated in Greece , this meme seemed to really have legs! The campaign spread and went viral via this copied status update, “Change your Facebook profile picture to a cartoon character from your childhood and invite your friends to do the same.

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7 Practical Tips for Engagement with a Higher Purpose On Social

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

For example, use Twitter lists to track alums and subscribe to their Facebook updates. 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. Don’t like Throw Back Thursday?

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How Faith-based Nonprofits Can Use Peer-to-Peer Fundraising

Qgiv

Track progress]. You can do this with: Pictures of community members with your volunteers Videos of small groups that support your organization explaining why they’re involved. Even if they aren’t actively peer-to-peer fundraising for your mission, it’s important that your entire membership is on the same page.

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5 Tips to Guide Your 2022 Nonprofit Strategy Plans

Media Cause

And in our hyper-administrated lives, we track time and manage lists of tasks (micro-goals) by the hour, the day, the week, the month, the quarter, the year. So keep your team laser-focused on a few key activities at all times by being vocal about all the things that you could but won’t do (at least not yet!). .

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Guest Post: Hashtags Are Like #Snowflakes

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Trending Topics: At anytime on [link] , several of the most active topics on Twitter are also #hashtags. Today, #londonriots is clearly driven by events in the news, while #WhyAreYou and #ImTheTypeOfPerson are what we call “Fill in the blank” topics, where people answer a question, participate in a meme , or give their 2 cents.

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The Real Housewives of Social Media: Cooking up Recipes for Nonprofit Success

NTEN

Neff and Jordan Viator -- had the great opportunity to lead a session entitled " The Real Housewives of Social Media " Funny Photoshopped pictures were displayed of us, we sported aprons to hype the theme, and we shared information and case studies on various aspects of social media campaigning. People are talking about you.