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Trendy TikTok Tactics for Teams

M+R

By the time you’ve read this very sentence, all of those trends have become irrelevant (except for Taylor, of course!) and new trends have emerged, taking over 150 million users in the United States on a visual ride with them. By jumping in on evergreen trends, your organization’s content could become part of the ride.

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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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New on SSIR: Are we addicted to Slacktivism?

Amy Sample Ward

You may or may not have seen a message from those same friends encouraging you and everyone else to do it, too, as a way of increasing awareness of child abuse. 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

The Dress became one of the most quickly viral memes that the Internet has ever seen. Meme Me Up, Scotty. Memejacking is simply a type of newsjacking that connects your communications to a meme — that is, a pop culture trend. As communications tactics go, memes are cheap and easy to make.

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Lessons from the Left Shark To Keep Your Marketing from Jumping the Shark

NonProfit Hub

In the weeks that followed the big game, Left Shark has been a hit of internet memes , t-shirts and even a This is SportsCenter commercial. As you plan your nonprofit’s next marketing endeavor, be careful about including popular cultural trends. Here are a few points to keep in mind when diving into the shark-infested meme waters.

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Social Media Police: The Nonprofit Edition

Connection Cafe

s Fashion Police, nonprofit social media authors Amy Sample Ward, Allyson Kapin, and Melanie Mathos shared the latest trends, campaigns and faux pas in the nonprofit social media world during bbcon 2013, Blackbaud’s Conference for Nonprofits in National Harbor, Md. Channeling Joan Rivers and E!’s Have fun doing it. Measure, measure, measure.

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Tips to Beat Declining Facebook Reach

Tech Soup

Facebook has admitted to this trend, and it has also been supported by data. We were determined nonetheless to develop a way to increase our engagement and awareness, even if our content shifted from educational to entertaining. We decided to intersperse tech-related memes, comics, and other jokes within our educational content.