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How Two Nonprofits Use Social Media To Help Save Fish – #keepemwet #SaveMarinsCoho

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The Hold A Sign Meme. The “Hold A Sign” meme has been around for almost ten years. One of my favorite examples is the National Day of Unplugging Campaign. One of my favorite examples is the National Day of Unplugging Campaign. Twitter: https://twitter.com/nfswildfish.

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Social Media Police: The Nonprofit Edition

Connection Cafe

Channeling Joan Rivers and E!’s 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. Have fun doing it.

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How to structure your nonprofit social media plan

Get Fully Funded

Here’s how to create it: Make note of ALL national holidays , especially days that most people are off work, and fill those holidays in on your calendar. Memes, stories, photos – anything that causes a laugh or a smile. Any of these goals can be accomplished with original or shared content, videos, memes, and photos.

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Live Blog: Is Technology Really Good for Human Rights

Amy Sample Ward

Nor does it require that we leave our human faculties at the on switch – the internet democratizes the channels. This is politics – we need the good and the bad; the cyber army, the 10,000 bloggers claimed to be trained by the national guard, etc. They work like memes, the speed people react and join in.

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Sharing Our Way toward Equality: Social Media and Gay Rights

NTEN

Equality California, for example, uses different social media channels to engage different audiences. But LGBT and progressive groups, such as the Human Rights Campaign and Netroots Nation , have had a head start in using these tools, and are now becoming more adept at engaging small, grassroots organizations in using them as well.