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In conversation: using data and education to advance racial equity at MEASURE

Candid

On March 13, 2022, Meme Styles, president and founder of MEASURE , joined Candid CEO Ann Mei on the stage at SXSW for their talk: Using Data to Advance Racial Equity ( available to watch now on YouTube ). Candid's team reached out to Meme recently to learn more about the work MEASURE is doing in Austin, TX.

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Tips for telling your story online

Candid

So many things are competing for your supporters’ (and potential supporters’) attention, from the latest meme to their endless email queue—how can you capture their interest amidst all that noise? Next it's really understanding how to properly develop your story so it has the problem, the solution, the impact and the ask, right?

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Slacktivism: Can Cartoons Raise Awareness or Just Make Us Feel Good?

NetWits

Whether it started on accident, was part of a specific campaign, or originated in Greece , this meme seemed to really have legs! In the last 24 hours, I have seen countless blog posts, discussions, and news articles all mocking this current meme for doing nothing to actually prevent child abuse. Not donations, but impressions.

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Geek Heresy

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Toyama offers up strong criticisms as well as constructive advice about how to best apply technology to social problems. He broadens this to tackling what he labels “the packaged intervention,” the neatly wrapped solution that will solve a social problem.

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Book Review: The Imagination Gap

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

While the decline of failure as a meme may be linked to a downturn in the economy or an increase in political rancor, Brian says that the reason is that we’ve gotten lazy and stopped using our imagination. Brian talks about how popularity of “failing” has faded from our conversations over the past few years.

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Social Media: Distributed Influence Quantifying the Impact of Social Media - A New White Paper from Edelman

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Dave Webb said "I have always had a problem forcing something that is organic by nature into a mechanical straightjacket. " A pithy quote from Jeff Jarvis in the side bar answers, " Starters and spreaders of memes are the most influential people. Maybe the phrase "meme lurker" is better?

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Tips to Beat Declining Facebook Reach

Tech Soup

We decided to intersperse tech-related memes, comics, and other jokes within our educational content. Highly relatable first-world problem + pop culture reference; for example, complaining about cold weather by making a reference to the planet Hoth from Star Wars. Humor/funny memes. Feel free to comment below!