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Geek Heresy

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

He uses this to analyze why many technology interventions are successful in the pilot phase and fail when they go to scale. In the pilot phase, you frequently have the best (human) conditions: the best partners and the best program staff making something work.

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Has the Ice Bucket Challenge Spawned Charity Jacking?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Charity Jacking goes one step beyond “Social Media Meme Morphing.” ” A social media meme is an activity, concept, catchphrase or piece of media which spreads, often as mimicry, from person to person via the Internet. Phase 1: Personal Challenges with Cold Water to Raise Money.

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What we know so far: NFTs, Twitch, and Tiltify

M+R

My kids had a long phase when they spent their precious and meager allowance buying Pokémon cards. Disaster Girl Meme ” (sold for $500k). Recently, Save the Children partnered with NFDoge, a platform that sells “Non-Fungible Doge” artwork. Read time: 6 minutes. Nonfungible Tokens (NFTs): What are they? I have no idea why.

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