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New on SSIR: Are we addicted to Slacktivism?

Amy Sample Ward

According to ABC news : According to the trend-tracking website Know Your Meme , the cartoon fad started with Facebook users in Greece and Cyprus in mid-November. But, what still really stands out for me, is the addition of the cause-advocacy appeal once the meme hit the English translation.

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Upworthy Type Headlines: To Like or Dislike?

Care2

And what does this trend mean for nonprofits? Remember, you are not a viral news sharing startup. 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.

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Memejacking: Does Your Nonprofit Dare?

Tech Soup

The Dress became one of the most quickly viral memes that the Internet has ever seen. Meme Me Up, Scotty. Newsjacking is the practice of "hijacking" or leveraging a current news story to help your messages get the attention of a wider audience. As communications tactics go, memes are cheap and easy to make.

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10 New Year’s Resolutions for Nonprofit Social Media Managers

Nonprofit Tech for Good

In the next few weeks I’ll be making recommendations of which tools and trends in technology nonprofits should prioritize in 2013, but for this year’s post on New Year’s resolutions I wanted to get back to basics. Despite popular memes that social media is “Free!”

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7 Practical Tips for Engagement with a Higher Purpose On Social

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

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. Let’s look at some practical examples for engaging and connecting with your Alumni Network on social media channels.

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Tips to Beat Declining Facebook Reach

Tech Soup

As a result, more and more content is being produced; Facebook says on average, 1,500 stories can appear in someone's news feed when they log on. Facebook has admitted to this trend, and it has also been supported by data. We decided to intersperse tech-related memes, comics, and other jokes within our educational content.

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Social Media Police: The Nonprofit Edition

Connection Cafe

s Fashion Police, nonprofit social media authors Amy Sample Ward, Allyson Kapin, and Melanie Mathos shared the latest trends, campaigns and faux pas in the nonprofit social media world during bbcon 2013, Blackbaud’s Conference for Nonprofits in National Harbor, Md. Channeling Joan Rivers and E!’s Have fun doing it. Measure, measure, measure.