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Participatory Campaigns: The Hold A Sign Meme

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

And, there was a protest against Target using that technique (holding signs) although it was not on flickr: [link]. This is a fun meme for user=generated content -- Take a photo of yourself with sign or message related to our campaign or cause. This has also been done by NTEN and Netsquared.

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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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Virtual Meeting Check-Ins & Icebreakers During A Pandemic

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

In light of the pandemic, I’ve been using different questions that allow people to reflect how things have changed and focus on coping techniques. What is the most humorous COVID meme you saw in the last week that made you laugh? Here’s a write of this technique. Some of these were inspired by this tweet.

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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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CharityBlog, A French N-TEN (Oui ou Non?), and NGO Meme

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I tagged John Howes of CharityBlog for Nancy White's NGO meme. While some of the techniques and strategies described in articles by colleagues in here in the US may translate to other cultures, the payment system evaluation reports don't necessarily do. This leads me to why I tried to tag beyond my borders with the ngo meme.

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7 Practical Tips for Engagement with a Higher Purpose On Social

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

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. 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.

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Can This Direct Mail Dinosaur become a LOLSaur?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I thought about this somewhat silly meme today when I was reading " Five Top Tips for Online Fundraising from a Direct Mail Dinosaur " 1. The article ends with a call to action "We must employ direct marketing techniques, both in the "new" and ???old??? Photo by Denn. Segment your file 2.

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