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Ice Bucket Challenge: Can Other Nonprofits Reproduce It?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Let’s look at the possible factors that caused philanthropy to run wild and capture the attention of so many people, inspire them to participate, and donate to stop the disease. 2) Playing on Memes: The campaign took advantage of social media narcissism for a good cause. I chronicled some of these back in 2008.

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Best of Beth's Blog 2008: Finding The Top Ten Posts In Less Than Five MInutes!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

An Internet Lesson in Rural Cambodia. Microblogging Reports Worth Your Attention. Let the Change Blogging Meme Hit The Road. Thanks Teresa Crawford For Helping Us Swim Upstream. Don't Let $50,000 for the Sharing Foundation Slip Away! Why Is Pharoth Wearing A Foo Camp T-Shirt? Social Media ROI: Compare With Paper.

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5 Keys to Effective Knowledge Transfer for Nonprofits

Wild Apricot

Grab your audience with something that commands attention â?? Think back to your school days, and which teaching style was most likely to keep your attention long enough to learn something â?? Consider how you might use the interactive possibilities of the Internet and Web 2.0 Published Friday, June 06, 2008 8:13 PM by Rebecca.

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Has the Ice Bucket Challenge Spawned Charity Jacking?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Charity Jacking goes one step beyond “Social Media Meme Morphing.” ” A social media meme is an activity, concept, catchphrase or piece of media which spreads, often as mimicry, from person to person via the Internet. Phase 2: The Ice Bucket Challenge: From Fundraiser to Social Media Meme.

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The Real Housewives of Social Media: Cooking up Recipes for Nonprofit Success

NTEN

In 2008, I helped start the Frozen Pea Fund against breast cancer. Know when to respond and when not -- pay attention to people's tone and influence. Follow, participate, and create hashtags and memes. Remember that what gets put on the Internet, stays on the Internet! Build a monitoring system for your needs.