Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 26, 2014

One has to step back and marvel at the most successful networked fundraising campaigns in the history of social or crowd fundraising. The question on my mind is: Is the success of the Ice Bucket Challenge a happy accident for ALS fundraising and the people who suffer from the disease or is the first example of the power of crowd charity?

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Tech Soup

APRIL 6, 2015

When a question about the color of a dress went viral, several nonprofits joined the conversation to help their messages spread along the viral wave. The Dress became one of the most quickly viral memes that the Internet has ever seen. Meme Me Up, Scotty. As communications tactics go, memes are cheap and easy to make.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 14, 2022

Does anyone carve, knit, sew or create t-shirts… or fun food? History: Simply being around a long time has some cachet and may mean you have access to historical wisdom, knowledge, and records. You can even have fun engaging your supporters and board members when coming up with these designs. It is seen as wasteful overhead.

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M+R

AUGUST 11, 2021

Disaster Girl Meme ” (sold for $500k). NFTs might put the “fun” in Nonfungible, but they come with plenty of significant challenges as well. As fundraisers, it’s worth thinking about what assets your organization might be able to auction off, but there are still lots of questions. Fun fundraising with gamers.

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Whole Whale

DECEMBER 9, 2023

For presentations, have speakers add a slide to their deck asking users to tweet questions, photos, and videos from the presentation. Quiz time Ask quiz-style questions, and have users comment their guess in the comments. Tap into the meme stream Not just visual memes, either! Follow up the next day with the answer.

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Steve Bridger

JUNE 25, 2008

Monday, October 27, 2008 at 11:27 am | Permalink gicela wrote: David Katz’s photographs will certainly make the history books. Monday, January 5, 2009 at 4:45 pm | Permalink Stuart G Hall wrote: Like the 5 a day meme, thanks. I think the answer is no, but I still want to ask that as a question.) Que en Paz descanse.

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