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Social Trends for 2024

Media Cause

The monthly social trends report from Media Cause spotlights the biggest trends on social media each month, and spotlights how nonprofits and social good organizations can use social media effectively to reach and engage with their audience. We’re back for this year’s social trends predictions.

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Infographic: How Do Social Network Users Lean Politically?

Care2

As political campaigns and nonprofits gear up for the election cycle, I thought I would share this infographic that attempts to map the politics of social media properties like Facebook and websites like Wikipedia. Users on Yelp, Reddit, Instagram, Tumblr, Zappos, and Spotify lean left but are not the most politcally engaged.

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Give a shirt: Changing slacktivists into activists

ASU Lodestar Center

Now you can return to perusing Reddit with a smug smile plastered across your face. Jason Russell, the man behind the campaign, not only asked people to spread the word via social media, but to also get off their butts and do something about it. The arms of social media only stretch so far, and Russell knew that.

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Why Your Nonprofit Should Be A Big Listener

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I started Upwell from the premise that it might be possible to do really big listening with social media. The mission of Upwell is to condition the climate for change in marine conservation, and ready people to take action. I invited Rachel to share a guest post about “Big Listening” and how they do it.

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NpTech Tag Summary: Chimp Personality, Convio Open API, and More

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Nonprofit Social Media ROI and Adoption Issues The meme of the last week continues with a look at specific metrics like engagement. A short case study about the Nature Conservancy uses e-metrics. " What do you think about measuring social media? A few more good links about strategy for social news sites.

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Little Penguins, Big Drama: Lessons on How to Go Viral from the National Aquarium of New Zealand

Connection Cafe

After our first ‘Penguin of the Month’ was announced on the sign next to the habitat, we received a number of positive comments that gave us confidence to take it to the next level by sharing through our social media channels. In our Penguin of the Month posts we elaborate on the stories of each bird to raise conservation awareness.

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Trump Is Right—And Wrong—About Section 230

Global Giving

A brief flurry of social media activity followed, with some offering the view that repealing this law would likely have the effect of turning social media giants into political censors. He knows that platforms have not been doing an excellent job on moderation. What Trump gets wrong.

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