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Trends in Impact Evaluation That Can Work in Your Favor

NonProfit PRO

Trends in evaluation are worth paying attention to. They may not take over your social media feed with witty memes or become the latest office buzz, but they are profoundly important for nonprofits.

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Are Memes Really Just Slacktivism?

Care2

New memes get started everyday. Remember the FB meme challenge that asked women to post what color bra they were wearing that day? Many thought the meme was connected to raising breast cancer awareness, but that was not the intention behind it. Here’s the original meme: “Right girls let’s have some fun.

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Reaching Gen Z on social media: Expert advice vs. Gen Z opinion

Candid

As a member of Generation Z (Gen Z), or today’s 11- to 26-year-olds, I have been curious about the advice given to nonprofits on capturing younger audiences’ attention. But other suggestions, like using pop culture slang and memes to catch Gen Z’s shorter attention span, feel a little off.

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New on SSIR: Are we addicted to Slacktivism?

Amy Sample Ward

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. This is when I really started paying attention. It caught my eye and I couldn’t help but wonder what it was all about, what was the story behind the story.

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[Book Interview] Nonprofit Example of Social Media Excellence: The Humane Society of the United States

Nonprofit Tech for Good

I identified a trend forming with social networking, and set up our very first profile. We still use Twitter a bit to talk about our programs, we participate and create our own memes like “ #felinefriday ”, but we focus on listening and responding to what people are already talking about. MySpace, back when it was cool.

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Upworthy Type Headlines: To Like or Dislike?

Care2

Upworthy, a site that focuses on curating social cause related videos and content has been receiving a lot of media attention for changing how bloggers write headlines. And what does this trend mean for nonprofits? However, memes and videos should not be your only source of content. These numbers are still quite respectable.

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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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