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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Get Fully Funded

OCTOBER 23, 2022

Giving Tuesday is a global day of giving powered by social media, peer pressure (the good kind!), A Few Frequently Asked Questions About Giving Tuesday. and the good feeling you get when you contribute to an organization you love. The day has grown into the world’s biggest giving movement and gets bigger every year.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 22, 2010

Tonight, I attended a live panel discussion on the question of whether Technology is Really Good for Human Rights, or not. Annabelle Sreberny, Professor of Global Media and Communication, School of Oriental and African Studies (with special interest in Iran, bloggers & social media). Kevin Anderson, blogs editor of the Guardian.

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Steve Bridger

JUNE 25, 2008

But the bottom-line: Cracks are showing everywhere in our increasingly unsustainable economic and environmental global order. Monday, October 27, 2008 at 11:27 am | Permalink gicela wrote: David Katz’s photographs will certainly make the history books. I think the answer is no, but I still want to ask that as a question.)

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