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Are Memes Really Just Slacktivism?

Care2

Many thought the meme was connected to raising breast cancer awareness, but that was not the intention behind it. The point is to see how far we can spread breast cancer awareness … and make the men wonder what’s up :) ". Remember the FB meme challenge that asked women to post what color bra they were wearing that day?

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NPTech Summary: Happy Holidays!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Ed Schipu l, who grew a mustache for children with cancer last week, created a peavator. It all started when Susan Reynolds , a social media maven and artist, was diagnosed with breast cancer and started a blog to write about her experience and used twitter to fight her cancer. We'll be back before 2008 with a roundup of 2007.

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Thoughts on Chatter while the Kool-Aid flows at Dreamforce

Judi Sohn

I turned Chatter on at Colorectal Cancer Coalition months ago, and the reaction from my colleagues was one big disinterested shrug. We have a couple of email listservs on Google Groups of our top-tier advocates that we've been interested in migrating to an online community. The possibilities are endless. I get that. No one uses it.

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Tips & Tricks from the Trenches

Connection Cafe

Judi is currently Vice President of Operations of Fight Colorectal Cancer , an organization she helped start in 2005. She is co-moderator of the popular community-led Nonprofit Salesforce Practitioners listserv and will be joining Convio’s Common Ground team as a full-time employee in January 2012.

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NpTech Tag: Roundups from and about Facebook and More

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Laura's Notebook has turned pink for the month of October to support Breast Cancer Awareness Month and so has Michelle Martin. Finding a cure for breast cancer takes more than virtual pink ribbons. NTEN blog summarizes the discussion thread about wiki software from the listserv on its blog. and color schemes for your blog.

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VolCom Groups in UK and Web20 - Research notes for presentation

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

" I need to start organizing the various pile of UK examples that tagged and grab from various emails and listserv posts. A good resource mentioned was the Guardian's recent list of 100 most useful websites Steve Bridger's posts: Blogs Bertie, Blogs and Breast Cancer Care Second Life The Yak Shack GoogleMaps All by next week!

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Nedra Weinreich: Social Marketing Guru

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

My social marketing colleague Craig Lefebvre, who has a blog ( On Social Marketing and Social Change ), asked me to expand some comments I had made on the Social Marketing Listserve as a guest blogger. ve also been interested in watching what the American Cancer Society has done with its virtual walk-a-thon in Second Life.