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Ice Bucket Challenge: Can Other Nonprofits Reproduce It?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

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? 2) Playing on Memes: The campaign took advantage of social media narcissism for a good cause.

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Upworthy Type Headlines: To Like or Dislike?

Care2

Should your organization adopt a similar model and share popular memes and videos with your audience on Facebook to generate more engagement? However, memes and videos should not be your only source of content. It changes viral headlines like ""Will Blow Your Mind" to "Might Perhaps Mildly Entertain You For a Moment".

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10 New Year’s Resolutions for Nonprofit Social Media Managers

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Even if it is only a small raise, this is the year that all nonprofit social media managers (female and male) should ask for a raise. Despite popular memes that social media is “Free!” My mind wanders after a couple of paragraphs even when reading New York Times Bestsellers.

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Back on the Needles

Judi Sohn

I don’t mind changing colors, but not in the middle of the row. Now, there’s podcasts, blogs and knitting social networks. Related posts: Five Things Tagged by Anne, it’s my turn at the meme. Eric says I’m a better person to live with when I’m knitting. Less time at a keyboard is a good thing, too.

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Ask Britt: How Do You Increase Blog Traffic?

Have Fun - Do Good

Participate in memes , blog carnivals and challenges. Participate in social networks like Facebook and MySpace, as well as niche social networks related to the theme of your blog. Try writing shorter posts (200-300 words). That's about how many words the average person can read in a minute. Use bold subtitles.

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How To Think Like A Nonprofit Social Marketing Genius: What's Your Brilliant Thought?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

His tweets reveal him as a renaissance thinker, not just a narrow-minded tech geek. . Social Media and social networks allow for the quantum effects, paired elements at a distance. Once you have content created through these methods, it can be easily shared using the buzz tools above through social networks.

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Notes, Reflections, and People I Met at Podcamp Boston

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

It meant that I missed what Joe Casco had to say about Social Networking Fatique - I hope he blogs it). David Tames and I did a session called crash course on social media tools for filmmakers. Keywords in your profiles in your social networking site, like flickr. I love her writing about social media trends.

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