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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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Ice Bucket Challenge: Can Other Nonprofits Reproduce It?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Million Dollars to fight the horrible disease, according to the ALS Association web site. Just one week ago, donations totaled $22.6 In just seven days, donations have skyrocketed by an average of $9 million per day, now totaling $88.5 2) Playing on Memes: The campaign took advantage of social media narcissism for a good cause.

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CharityBlog, A French N-TEN (Oui ou Non?), and NGO Meme

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I tagged John Howes of CharityBlog for Nancy White's NGO meme. Recently, there was a thread about online donation tools and I shared Laura Quinn's Idealware report with a caveat that it was probably more useful for NGOS in the US. Last week was very cold and damp here in the Boston area. Here's my response to her tagging me).

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Has the Ice Bucket Challenge Spawned Charity Jacking?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Charity Jacking is imitating a successful fundraising campaign theme or idea that has become popular and instead of encouraging donations to the original charity, redirecting donations to another cause. Charity Jacking goes one step beyond “Social Media Meme Morphing.”

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