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Memejacking: Does Your Nonprofit Dare?

Tech Soup

The Dress became one of the most quickly viral memes that the Internet has ever seen. Meme Me Up, Scotty. Newsjacking is the practice of "hijacking" or leveraging a current news story to help your messages get the attention of a wider audience. As communications tactics go, memes are cheap and easy to make.

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7 Practical Tips for Engagement with a Higher Purpose On Social

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Asking for feedback about how to improve the school experience is also a good technique, as used in the example above is from URJ Camp Kalsman. 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.

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The Heart and Soul of Lean Impact: A/B Testing Experiments and Validated Learning

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Certainly, nonprofit marketers could use it in the marketing channels and customer relationship blocks to set up a hypothesis and do experiments – and use what they learn to get better results. A/B testing is one technique and you don’t have to be a math genius to apply it. Words : Language is tricky. Cultural nuances abound.

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Nonprofit and Flickr Resource List: Not listed, Add in the Comments

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

he Hold The Sign Meme : Examples of different campaigns on flickr. Flickr 101: Techniques Basic Guidelines for Tagging on flickr Flickr for Beginners: Tips from LifeHacker. Getting Attention on Flickr. More Advanced Techniques. Community-Powered Campaigns. Overview article from December NTEN newsletter. How-To Resources.

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Best of Beth's Blog 2008: Finding The Top Ten Posts In Less Than Five MInutes!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Donor Solicitation Techniques on Twitter. Effective ROI StoryTelling Techniques. Microblogging Reports Worth Your Attention. Let the Change Blogging Meme Hit The Road. Social Media ROI: Compare With Paper. An Internet Lesson in Rural Cambodia. You're Never Too Old To Change the World. The Kids in Cambodia Say Thank You.

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5 Keys to Effective Knowledge Transfer for Nonprofits

Wild Apricot

Grab your audience with something that commands attention â?? Think back to your school days, and which teaching style was most likely to keep your attention long enough to learn something â?? Your message should be easy to take in, easy to understand, and easy to repeat: clear, concise, and memorable. Evaluation. Google Analytics.

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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. It helps bloggers remember and use the best writing techniques. JournaMarketing tells us why it isn't important to get every blogger's attention online.

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