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Virtual Meeting Check-Ins & Icebreakers During A Pandemic

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

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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Participatory Campaigns: The Hold A Sign Meme

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

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. And, there was a protest against Target using that technique (holding signs) although it was not on flickr: [link].

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The Flickr Hold A Sign Meme: Protesting Wendy's Frosty Attitude Towards Animals

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

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.

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Memejacking: Does Your Nonprofit Dare?

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The Dress became one of the most quickly viral memes that the Internet has ever seen. Meme Me Up, Scotty. It's a valid technique to make your messages much more relevant, useful, and timely — qualities that can increase the number of people who read and share what you have to say. Memes travel within all age groups.

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7 Practical Tips for Engagement with a Higher Purpose On Social

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

You might also consider setting up a Facebook Group just for alumni and encourage them to share this information. Asking for feedback about how to improve the school experience is also a good technique, as used in the example above is from URJ Camp Kalsman. Make up your own nostalgia meme. Don’t like Throw Back Thursday?

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Integrated Social Media for Sustainable Agriculture

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

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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The Heart and Soul of Lean Impact: A/B Testing Experiments and Validated Learning

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Certainly, nonprofit marketers could use it in the marketing channels and customer relationship blocks to set up a hypothesis and do experiments – and use what they learn to get better results. A/B testing is one technique and you don’t have to be a math genius to apply it. Words : Language is tricky. Cultural nuances abound.

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