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Ice Bucket Challenge: Can Other Nonprofits Reproduce It?

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2) Playing on Memes: The campaign took advantage of social media narcissism for a good cause. It goes beyond what is known as “ newsjacking ,” to analyze public reaction and also have the agility to strike while the iron is hot. (2) John Haydon: 3 Big Fundraising Lessons from Ice Bucket Challenge.

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Accessibility on Social Media

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These captions shouldn’t be used to just provide a summary of what is being said; they should detail everything. . When she’s not helping build content strategy for world-changing clients, you can find her in the garden—scrolling memes and growing veggies. Audio Descriptions . Reach out at rjones@mrss.com. .

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NpTech Tag Summary: 10 Web 2.0 Things You Can Do In Ten Minutes!

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The NpTech Tag Summary went on hiatus to give some space to. The summaries will be briefer, focused on a social media theme or a social media question related to practice. " He uses the ten things in ten minutes meme and writes the Ten Web 2.0 Photo by SpacePotato. rethink, reinvent. So, I'm remixed this memo into Ten Web2.0

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Book Review: The Imagination Gap

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What I like is that each chapter includes a good summary of the content, plus an imagination challenge where we can work our imagination muscles. The book also describes the barriers and challenges to using our imagination and provides some steps that we can take to close the imagination gap.

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NpTech Tag Summary: Chimp Personality, Convio Open API, and More

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Nonprofit Social Media ROI and Adoption Issues The meme of the last week continues with a look at specific metrics like engagement. Through TechSoup's Netsquared project, blogger Beth Kanter, was commissioned to write a weekly summary. The NTC is the nonprofit technology's field largest gathering. And if you???re

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

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The white includes a summary of discussion from a roundtable of social media experts discussing the attributes and dimensions of influence and how it differs from other attributes, for example attention. " A pithy quote from Jeff Jarvis in the side bar answers, " Starters and spreaders of memes are the most influential people.

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7 Practical Tips for Engagement with a Higher Purpose On Social

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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. Here’s a brief summary of the tip with a link to the full post with more tips. Don’t like Throw Back Thursday?

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