Have Fun - Do Good

SEPTEMBER 10, 2008

I created a Changeblogger Facebook group (thanks to a suggestion by Tim Zimmermann of Change/Wire ), and recently established the Changeblogger Network on Ning. and set up the Changeblogger Wiki , Changeblogger Twitter feed, and the first Washington D.C. Changeblogger meetup. changeblogger blog activism nonprofit

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 15, 2007

This technique is the " hold a sign meme " where you ask your community to send photos to flickr of you (or your animal) holding a protest sign. I love the Flickr Hold A Sign Meme - but so far haven't found a great application in Facebook that allows for easy cross posting. The flickr pool of photos is here. Has anyone?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 24, 2020

I am not suggesting that you make every meeting into a group therapy session. Group check-ins or icebreakers allow us to become more connected as humans as well as name, claim and move on from distractions and focus on the meeting at hand. What is the most humorous COVID meme you saw in the last week that made you laugh?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 7, 2007

She posted a pointer on the NTEN Nonprofit Flickr Affinity Group list today. Britt Bravo who is also the Flickr Affinity Group wrote about Oxfam America Campaign here. This is a fun meme for user=generated content -- Take a photo of yourself with sign or message related to our campaign or cause.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 15, 2007

So, let's unleash the NpTech Mashup Meme. A question was asked recently on the NTEN Consultants affinity group. I've had this post about a mashup between Idealware , TechSoup , and Social Source Commons in draft and was going over to Deborah Finn's Blog to grab the URL for her excellent post last week about Social Source Commons.

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Greater Giving

MAY 12, 2021

Now that you’ve divided your donors up into these generalized groups based on where they are in their donor journey, your team can utilize tactics that will most effectively bring them into your nonprofit’s fundraising culture. Ask—then ask again.

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Care2

OCTOBER 17, 2012

“I went to a number of women 's groups and said, "Can you help us find folks," and they brought us whole binders full of women ,” said Romney. Within seconds the hashtag #Bindersfullofwomen and meme was brought to Internet life. ” A Facebook page was also started that instantly attracted about 146 "Likers" a minute.

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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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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. On the social networking end, I would swim through the various frappr groups that are nonprofit technology related.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 28, 2015

What a passionate, amazing group of people who are running these small and mid-sized nonprofits, many in remote and rural wilderness locations in the US. I learned of two terrific examples of small nonprofit leveraging social media and user created content for their campaigns. The Hold A Sign Meme.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 15, 2013

Working with this group of people, I am constantly reminded of and made grateful for the incredible generosity of this community. When NTEN decided to step up our sustainability efforts earlier this year, we knew that we really wanted input from our members. We formed a Sustainability Committee comprised of member volunteers.

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M+R

MAY 10, 2021

When she’s not helping build content strategy for world-changing clients, you can find her in the garden—scrolling memes and growing veggies. What to do right now: Social Media Groups . Reach out at rjones@mrss.com. . Abby is a Social Media Account Executive here at M+R. You can reach her at areutzel@mrss.com. . Related Links.

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Whole Whale

MARCH 10, 2021

This example shows how a nonprofit can be a fun partner to meme NFT and benefit from the sale. Some of the proceeds (not disclosed) are going to support wildlife groups like the Sheldrick Wildlife Trust. . One interesting use of NFTs is to incentivize community building and participation. Where to start with NFT Fundraising.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 7, 2014

Increase in engagement of key groups. Participation among key groups – like staff. Facebook Groups are great for this! Let your champions and supporters roll with adapting and remixing your content or jumping onto fun memes. Number of donors. Number of new donors. Number of volunteers (if you are including an activity).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 21, 2014

I’m working with a network of community foundations, grantees of the Knight Foundation, that are hosting giving days as the facilitator. The peer learning exchange is experimenting with best practices for Giving Days. The group is using and adding their knowledge to The Giving Day Playbook.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 8, 2014

You might also consider setting up a Facebook Group just for alumni and encourage them to share this information. With old class photos, you can leverage memes like “ Throw Back Thursday , like in this example from Reshet Ramah , a network of alumni from across the globe. Make up your own nostalgia meme.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 17, 2008

are trusted far more than any other group of people. " A pithy quote from Jeff Jarvis in the side bar answers, " Starters and spreaders of memes are the most influential people. " It also identifies some other types of meme behavior including meme adapter, meme contributor, and meme reader.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 7, 2007

The 8 Random Facts About Me meme is circulating in the nptech blogspace here , here , and here (I got tagged twice already, so ignored it.) I hate memes as much as Alan does. but it could serve as a nice virtual icebreaker before you meet with a group face-to-face. I like to listen to my favorite khmer group, Dengue Fever.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 2, 2015

You can also post memes that relate to your cause. Holidays, pop culture events, memes (there's a blog post coming early next week about this), or even just plain old Friday are good excuses to post humorous or engaging posts. Lil Bub (she does lots of fundraising for animal rescue groups!). Post Timely, Thematic Content.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 25, 2012

In the many years that I’ve been designing and delivering capacity building and training, I’ve learned being a guide on the side and helping to surface the knowledge and experience in the group produces far richer learning experiences. So, they started a fun meme.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 28, 2014

Use Scientific Methods: These include having a significant sample size, randomly selected groups and some split testing. Verbal fads and memes come andgo in the blink of an eye. In the example above, you would test posting the same link with the embedded link tool and without it. Words : Language is tricky. Cultural nuances abound.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 16, 2013

I also included link to the fundraiser. If people in your network see that others are donating, it creates “social proofing” and other donations follow. 85% of donations came from group of strong ties. The most effective solicitation was social proofing or one-on-one personal asks. Offer Many Ways for People to Participate.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 16, 2007

Respondents were asked if they contributed to each group of tool or simply viewed the material offered. The fact that this question was only asked after groups of services and not after individual services produced what seem to be unreliable results. Ha, I found something on page 8 and illustrated by the above chart.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 30, 2007

Now the online channel has breathed new life into this surging wave and brought with it Facebook events, Myspace groups, Razoo causes, BBC News feeds updated real-time, Twitter posts about Wear A Red Shirt This Friday For Burma and countless IMs??? from friends telling friends telling friends.

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Connection Cafe

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

Between the hashtags, the Facebook groups, the online petitions, the blog posts, and the constant emails, there’s just an overwhelming amount of advocacy communication online today. 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

JANUARY 27, 2008

A group of caring, generous, passionate people who wanted to make a difference, reach out with a helping hand, change the world and make it a better place. He also does an " Tag-A-Thon " which is a meme spreader for a cause. Did one man do this all by himself? ABSOLUTELY NOT. It was made possible by Dr.Mani's network.

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Qgiv

MARCH 31, 2021

The group participating in the mission trip, such as the Youth Group or Adult Ministry, are the participants raising funds for the mission trip. For instance, ask your youth group to participate in a fun TikTok dance challenge or talent show. For instance, you might group youth group participants to fundraise against parents.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 8, 2007

The Flickr for Nonprofits Affinity group will meet in Washington, DC on April 4 at 1:00 PM ( check agenda ) to share experiences, tips, and ideas about how Flickr can be used to support nonprofits and their programs. It's great that NTEN let's anyone who is passionate about a topic set up an affinity group. Community-Powered Campaigns.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 14, 2022

Membership cards: Some people like being card-carrying members of a group. These can be formatted as zoom backgrounds, sharable tiles/images/memes online, a Facebook cover image, or something small they can place in their electronic signature. Observe your community research as it happens (polling, focus groups, town halls).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 13, 2005

To see an example of one of these memes, view the front page of flicker.com. In fact, there is a flickr group for extispicious. A tag cloud is a weighted diagram of words used for tags by a particular tagging community where the larger the font indicates more frequent or popular usage. I couldn't resist. Ah oh, I'm in trouble.

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Get Fully Funded

AUGUST 10, 2021

A highly-successful auction takes up to a year to plan, even with a core group of committed volunteers. A meme got my attention recently on Facebook. Maybe your child’s school has an incredibly successful annual auction. You could host an action, but auctions are a lot of work and can be expensive to pull off.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 29, 2008

" He uses the ten things in ten minutes meme and writes the Ten Web 2.0 A loosely coupled group of nonprofit techies and social change activists decided to use the tag "NpTech" to identify web resources that would create an ongoing stream of information to promote and educate those working in nonprofit technology.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 5, 2019

Some supporters may jump at the chance to be a social media ambassador for an organization they care about, but do you really want messages about your initiatives intermingling with political rants or drinking memes? Your ideal social media ambassador is someone with a passion for your cause who naturally emanates your brand.

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Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 28, 2006

Nancy White tagged me to participate in an interesting meme. Here are five resources I would recommend to someone who wanted to become a Manager Volunteers for a nonprofit: Cypbervpm list serv An international discussion group for volunteer managers. Jayne Cravens * Coyote Communications and Jayne's Blog.

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Wild Apricot

JUNE 27, 2008

This blog is for volunteers, webmasters and administrators of associations, clubs, charities, communities and other groups. The messenger is the person, group, or organization that delivers the information to the audience. We discuss issues and trends in modern web technologies that help your organization achieve more with less.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2007

Nonprofit Social Media ROI and Adoption Issues The meme of the last week continues with a look at specific metrics like engagement. Think watchdog groups, corporate score cards, and corruption indexes. The NTC is the nonprofit technology's field largest gathering. Here's your chance to vote on sessions and suggest speakers.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 28, 2014

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. Before taking the plunge, he setup a group fundraising page at FirstGiving.

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