Wild Apricot

MARCH 19, 2009

When the venerable Fieldstone Alliance surprised its readers this week with 25 Random Things that Make the Nonprofit Sector Great , picking up on a popular fad that’s been making the rounds of Facebook, it was a strong hint to take a closer look at that odd phenomenon of online culture, the meme. What’s a meme? read more ).

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Amy Sample Ward

JULY 31, 2012

That song, “Call Me Maybe” by Carly Rae Jepsen, quickly also became the soundtrack to an Internet meme —that is, an idea that spreads online (“ I Can Has Cheezburger? That’s right, a widely recognized nonprofit organization has created a parody so that it can propagate a meme. Why meme at all?

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M+R

JULY 6, 2023

But we do need a place where we can reach supporters, share content, and look at pictures of other people’s dogs — preferably without being subjected to harassment, trolling, misinformation, and attacks on our democracy. Reading time: 4 minutes Look, nobody really wants to join a new social media platform. So the search continues.

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Candid

MARCH 22, 2022

So many things are competing for your supporters’ (and potential supporters’) attention, from the latest meme to their endless email queue—how can you capture their interest amidst all that noise? The answer: tell an engaging story.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 26, 2008

Working with cutting-edge websites like epolitics, Future Majority, Change.org, and many others, I plan to share this content with and contribute to as many relevant outlets and individuals as possible. She ends her post with change blogging meme -- asking and answering three questions and tagging other bloggers. What's that?

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CauseVox

APRIL 22, 2021

Use a Facebook Business Page when… You want to use Facebook to make announcements and updates about your organization You want to primarily produce your own content and post updates You want to establish an official, public presence for your organization You want to advertise. Let’s check out some examples. CauseVox (hey that’s us!)

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M+R

MAY 10, 2021

Our society is marked by inequities of race, gender, ability, and more—and the content we create can either challenge these inequities or reinforce them. As well-intentioned as content may be, when done wrong it can disempower, objectify, or misrepresent those we intend to serve. The good news? Captions .

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TechImpact

JULY 21, 2014

It is your first chance to draw in a reader’s attention and get them interested in your your email;s content. Get specific, exciting, and jazz the subject line up with specifics about the content that’s sitting in their inbox, that’s just a click away. Newsless newsletter content. Try using funny images or memes.

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TechImpact

JUNE 24, 2014

List your nonprofit’s content themes. Look at your nonprofit’s goals and label the types of content you’re posting as they relate to those goals. Look at your content and start slapping some of these buzz words to specific posts. List sub-content categories. Do you want to educate donors? Inform the community?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 6, 2006

He started the meme about asking for NGO related resources by pushing it out to Nancy White , Hell's Dire Agent , Jennine , Taran , and Declan. Note to self: This is all needs an inspiration map to show the relationships and how the content of the meme has morphed.and some reflection on memes.)

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 11, 2014

In fact, that's exactly the kind of license TechSoup uses for most of our content! Creative Commons licensing isn't just a way to promote sharing of your content. Creative Commons-licensed content is also a great resource for you when you're creating a digital story. Don't know what to ask?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 15, 2007

So, let's unleash the NpTech Mashup Meme. This post was in draft because I was starting to devour all the great content on the NTEN Blog , including Marshall's post called " Ten Cool Tools for Working on the Web " and I strongly resisted the urge take Thinkature out for a test drive.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 28, 2010

We still use Twitter a bit to talk about our programs, we participate and create our own memes like “ #felinefriday ”, but we focus on listening and responding to what people are already talking about. We accept that and cater to them on Facebook by providing them fresh, interesting, and relevant content where they are.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 7, 2007

This is a fun meme for user=generated content -- Take a photo of yourself with sign or message related to our campaign or cause. I read a post about user-generated content from the fresh+new blog which is focused on new media in museums. It describes various sub-groups of consumer co-created content.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 28, 2011

A huge thank you to all those who participated in the #ThanksAmy meme (on the blog , on Twitter, or on facebook), and especially to my friend and NetSquared Local organizer Ivan Boothe for starting the meme after my departure was first announced , and to Claire and Laney for taking it to the next level. My Next Steps.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 4, 2013

” But do selfies have benefits, especially for social change causes? I wondered whether selfies can be used as part of your social content strategy to help support a social good cause? Have you seen great examples of nonprofits using the “selfie” meme for good? Flickr Photo - NYPL Photo Booth.

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Care2

JANUARY 27, 2014

Upworthy, a site that focuses on curating social cause related videos and content has been receiving a lot of media attention for changing how bloggers write headlines. Upworthy is a great example of how compelling content can generate a lot of shares and comments on Facebook too.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 4, 2006

So, the meme goes something like this -- What are the five resources that you would recommend to anybody working in an NGO who wanted to know about information management and technology but didn't know where to start. that is I love the content, consume way too much, and can spend a lot of time wandering around having a wonderul time.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 6, 2015

The Dress became one of the most quickly viral memes that the Internet has ever seen. Meme Me Up, Scotty. Memejacking is simply a type of newsjacking that connects your communications to a meme — that is, a pop culture trend. As communications tactics go, memes are cheap and easy to make.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

MAY 11, 2022

It can be as quick as sending a text to someone to let them know you’re thinking of them, sharing your daily Wordle score, or sending a funny meme to your coworkers. How can you foster social connection, especially when navigating a digital world? At Salesforce.org, we’re passionate about giving back — and we know our community is too.

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Whole Whale

AUGUST 16, 2022

These images could be used for a wide variety of storytelling and attention-grabbing hooks for content. No offense to generic photo stock sites that let every customer get rights to the same photos so often that meme websites can resist making jokes but… People Are Adding Dad Jokes To Cringy Stock Pics, And Here Are The 40 Funniest Ones.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 28, 2015

I learned of two terrific examples of small nonprofit leveraging social media and user created content for their campaigns. The Hold A Sign Meme. The “Hold A Sign” meme has been around for almost ten years. It also has a benefit of generating campaign content as well as documenting support for an issue.

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NonProfit Hub

FEBRUARY 19, 2015

In the weeks that followed the big game, Left Shark has been a hit of internet memes , t-shirts and even a This is SportsCenter commercial. Here are a few points to keep in mind when diving into the shark-infested meme waters. Does the meme you want to recreate fit with the overall mission and marketing persona of your nonprofit?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 31, 2017

What I like is that each chapter includes a good summary of the content, plus an imagination challenge where we can work our imagination muscles. The book also describes the barriers and challenges to using our imagination and provides some steps that we can take to close the imagination gap.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 28, 2016

Where creating content was once labor-intensive (for instance, taking photos with a digital camera, uploading them to your computer, and then posting them), nowadays the whole process can be done on your smartphone anywhere, anytime (assuming you have a data plan). It's purely emotional content that adds value to people's lives.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 8, 2014

Celebratory interactions should be a consistent part of your engagement and content calendar, so set up systems to capture and share alumni personal, social, and professional news. This has an added benefit of increasing your “people talking about” metric which gets the content into more newsfeeds. Make up your own nostalgia meme.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 7, 2014

Let your champions and supporters roll with adapting and remixing your content or jumping onto fun memes. The content you create doesn’t have to be from scratch for every channel, you are simply tweaking or optimizing it for the channel. The skill of writing good headlines is an important one to develop!

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 14, 2013

Despite popular memes that social media is “Free!” If your communities are not growing, then something is missing from your social media strategy (good content, right voice, e-newsletter, blogging, etc). That’s not acceptable in the 21st Century. ” we all know that is not the case.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 25, 2012

As a trainer, I strongly believe that learning experiences need to weave content delivery with participant interaction. Also, it is far more effective to have peers share their own case studies and experiential learning with others. Connecting Learners to the Content and Each Other. So, they started a fun meme.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 2, 2015

If you manage your nonprofit's presence on Facebook, you're probably very familiar with the difficulties of getting fans, likes, and comments on the content you share. You can also post memes that relate to your cause. Post Timely, Thematic Content. What Nonprofits Can Learn from Gentle Carousel.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 3, 2009

I first became aware of it from a nonprofit blog meme from 2005 started by Ed Batista. What are the benefits/drawbacks of open content for nonprofits? It made me think of the phrase "Opening the Kimono" which is a vivid metaphor for organization transparency, sharing internal processes with the outside world.

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Connection Cafe

OCTOBER 3, 2013

Whether it’s creating a meme or a hashtag-centered campaign, engagement thrives on fun. Tailor content specifically for each social media channel as each one has its own tone, terminology, etc. Whatever you do, don’t go dark or you’ll lose momentum or even worse, inadvertently cause your community to revolt against you.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 8, 2017

Here are six things you can do today to keep your personal and work-related data more secure  —  and to ward off those cat meme bandits. If may feel tempting to work on your bus ride to the office in the morning or at a coffee shop, but remember that by doing so, the contents of your screen become inherently public.

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Get Fully Funded

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

An editorial calendar is basically just a content map or a guide that helps you map out your nonprofit’s content (including social media) for the year. Whether your content is original (you’ve created it yourself) or shared from someone else, the goal is always to get your followers to interact and have a conversation with you.

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Connection Cafe

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

Facebook’s newsfeed now acts as a major gatekeeper for news and information, leaving both news organizations and advocacy groups to guess what content will be algorithmically rewarded with a wide reach. The organizations that succeed in today’s digital environment aren’t the ones with the most social media content or the funniest memes.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 16, 2007

content creation??? ???It's It's an emerging rule of thumb that suggests that if you get a group of 100 people online then one will create content, 10 will "interact" with it (commenting or offering improvements) and the other 89 will just view it. Recent research in this area distinguishes between ???comments??? comments???

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 31, 2008

Last year, I couldn't decide and ended up writing the look back as a lessons learned, a personal New Year's resolution post, and a round up of what nonprofit folks had on their minds as they entered 2008: Four Lessons Learned: Social Media and Nonprofits Meme: I listed four lessons learned and tagged four other people.

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