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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. Invest in Instagram.

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Early guidance on Threads, Meta’s answer to Twitter

M+R

Maybe you (or your audiences) are still waiting on an invitation to Bluesky. Here’s what we like about Threads: Easy, captive audience. If you have an Instagram presence, you can quickly build your Threads audience based on your IG following. Threads has a built-in audience and simple integration with Instagram.

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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

Use human centered design principles, not your arrogance of thinking you know what works for your audience without testing. Good testing begins with a hypothesis and collecting data to understand if you are right or wrong. His creativity: I have a theory and I’m going to test it. Don’t let your vision become delusional.

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Upworthy Type Headlines: To Like or Dislike?

Care2

Just because this tactic works for Upworthy (who is driven by a ton of testing on their own website) does not mean it will work for your organization. However, trying to amp up your creativity with headlines and testing them to see if they resonate with your audiences is something you should always be investing resources into.

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Accessibility on Social Media

M+R

Video-first platforms like YouTube have provided auto-captioning for quite some time now, while Tiktok launched it in April of this year and Instagram is testing functionality in Stories. But be aware that not all non-serif typefaces will work equally well for your audiences. And to be honest, it doesn’t always look that great.

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7 Practical Tips for Engagement with a Higher Purpose On Social

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

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. Be sure that you test, test, test to see if there are certain types of questions that work best for engaging your alumni.

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How to Pick the Right Fundraiser for Your New Nonprofit

Get Fully Funded

How to Choose the Right Fundraiser To choose the right fundraiser, start with your audience. Then think about what type of event people in your audience would enjoy. Remember, if it doesn’t look fun to your audience, they won’t support it, no matter how excited you are about it. A meme got my attention recently on Facebook.