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Hurricane Irene and the Nonprofit Social Media Storm

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The organization also worked with Twitter to create a special badge that marked volunteers' Twitter accounts as valid and official sources of information. FEMA updated their Facebook account with survival tips, like how to navigate around a flooded city, and information on how to access FEMA on your mobile phone.

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15+ Giving Tuesday Campaign Ideas (and Expert Tips) for 2021

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Giving Tuesday was created in 2012 at the 92nd Street Y’s Belfer Center for Innovation and Social Impact in New York City. Include extra elements in your trivia game, like the opportunity to phone a friend or steal a question from another team. Try offering incentives such as: Digital incentives like badges.

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The Dallas Museum of Art Took a Major Risk, and The Outcome Has Been Remarkable.

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Apps like FourSquare, where users can earn badges just by checking in at locations, have turned social media into gamification. And in a world where we can play video games anywhere on sort of tablet or smart phone, more and more people are proving daily that gamification works. The museum has taken Web 2.0 into the real world.

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