Candid

JUNE 7, 2023

As a member of Generation Z (Gen Z), or today’s 11- to 26-year-olds, I have been curious about the advice given to nonprofits on capturing younger audiences’ attention. But other suggestions, like using pop culture slang and memes to catch Gen Z’s shorter attention span, feel a little off.

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 9, 2024

It’s important to remember that these spikes in political fundraising don’t necessarily impact charitable giving. While the race will dominate the national media’s attention, it won’t impact a penny you raise through the end of 2024. You may not have an opportunity to lean into current events with humor, or cat memes.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 24, 2014

The statistic of 28% are repeat donors or 72% are new donors – points to the need for nonprofits to not only use social channels and crowd funding platforms to attract new donors, but more attention needs to be give to engagement and retention. Demonstrate impact. Some key themes: the need to focus on measurement for impact.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 18, 2025

offers a web app that enterprises use to monitor how their brand name is portrayed in social media posts, videos, links, and memes. released its Compass platform, which lets individual users reality check or get greater context around suspicious claims made in social media posts, videos, links, or memes. In 2024 Blackbird.AI

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The Verge

JULY 17, 2020

Major sports outlets seemed to only pay attention if something was going wrong. Without mainstream attention, NWSL fans and supporters have turned to social media platforms like Tumblr and Twitter to build their own coverage and push for the type of recognition and attention they know the league needs. USL memes 3.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 17, 2023

Check out what caught our attention below. Spot bitcoin exchange traded funds, or ETFs, have been a hot topic in the crypto community for many years, but have recently gotten more attention due to Jacobi Asset Management listing Europe’s first bitcoin spot ETF almost two years after its initial approval. PT, subscribe here.

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Get Fully Funded

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

Talk about the impact of your work. In creating a social media plan, every single post you make on any social media platform should serve one of the following purposes: Informational articles showing the impact of your work and why there is a need. Memes, stories, photos – anything that causes a laugh or a smile.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 17, 2008

A new whitepaper by Jonny Bentwood, a PR consultant for Edelman, Distributed Influence: Quantifying the Impact of Social Media. 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.

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Allegiance Group

MARCH 17, 2025

Add in news sites, cat videos, promo emails, memes, and podcasts, and you quickly understand why organizations struggle to attract attention. Imagine the impact your nonprofit could have if audiences better recalled its stories and messages or made better use of your organizations tools and services. Thats a big jump.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 20, 2021

You’ve heard of SPACs, meme stocks and buy now, pay later, but have you heard of the LTSE, First Women’s Bank and Upsolve? Through the pandemic, a trove of attention has been paid to new market structures and activity that are deemed short term, risky or speculative. More posts by this contributor.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 11, 2018

The expert predictions about the impact of the internet over the next 10 years came in response to questions asked by Pew Research Center and Elon University’s Imagining the Internet Center in an online canvassing conducted between Dec. The following positive and negative themes about the impact of digital life surfaced: Positives.

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Candid

MARCH 22, 2022

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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TechCrunch

AUGUST 24, 2023

Follow me on Twitter @Jacqmelinek for breaking crypto news, memes and more. We discussed how the current macroenvironment is impacting Bitcoin-focused businesses and where Erik sees the most opportunities for startups today. Here are some articles on TechCrunch that caught our attention this week. PT, subscribe here.

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The Verge

JULY 2, 2020

Behind the memes, though, has always been the more unsettling truth that Nextdoor allows racism to thrive on its platform by taking a hands-off approach to moderation. Groups who have called on Nextdoor to take responsibility for the actions of its moderators welcomed the changes, but expressed caution about the impact they might have.

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The Verge

MARCH 8, 2022

When Stan Smeets posted a video titled “I made a synthesizer that plays plant-based music using microscopes and sensors” to a synthesizer Reddit group, the users thought it was funny that he had stumbled into a meme. How cool is it that people are paying attention to mushrooms and plants? Hell yeah.”. I’m all about it.”.

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TechNode

JANUARY 14, 2025

While TikTok users flocking to Xiaohongshu might seem like a coincidence, it could also be a sign that the apps community atmosphere and culture have already captured the attention of users beyond China. Why not Douyin? However, it’s possible that generation forms a more cyber libertarian worldview.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

The world has been rocked by a pandemic, impacting people’s behaviors and priorities, along with how we work with greater agility. At the same time, marketers realize that the people we are trying to reach are stretched thin, and they are competing for attention from other nonprofits and consumer media on the web.

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Towards Data Science

JUNE 2, 2023

In this case, he focused his attention on quick, tangible wins like partnering with marketing to improve campaign performance. Data teams need to have a data quality monitoring system in place; a means for understanding how an incident will impact what and who within the organization; and a process for informing those stakeholders.

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TechNode

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

As a highly skilled marketer and visionary genius of the future, his tweets cover innovative technology and various humorous memes. Aside from the impact brought by streaming platforms, AI, especially AIGC, significantly affected the rights of most screenwriters. They are a bit eccentric but incredibly interesting.

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CauseVox

JUNE 5, 2023

From the Ice Bucket Challenge that took the internet by storm to Growing a Mo for men’s health, when something catches on, it can lead to a chain of impact worldwide. Identify Target Donor Audience & Platforms To create impactful social media content, it’s crucial to have a deep understanding of your target donor audience.

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Neon CRM

MARCH 5, 2025

Theyre sending their friends memes on social media, sending emails they hope will find you well, and yestheyre interacting with their favorite nonprofits, too. Video Storytelling Emotionally compelling videos showcasing your organizations impact can help humanize your cause by showing the real people behind your organizations efforts.

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Wild Apricot

JUNE 27, 2008

How research or any type of findings are packaged and presented can impact how readily the knowledge is put into practice.". 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?? membership.

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NTEN

MAY 27, 2010

Think of the impact the folks at Movember are having, only online.) Know when to respond and when not -- pay attention to people's tone and influence. Follow, participate, and create hashtags and memes. Each Friday in December, we asked people to donate the cost of a package of frozen peas to help fight breast cancer.

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The Verge

MARCH 16, 2022

As her TikTok following was ballooning, Korban set up a fundraising campaign called “ Help Ukrainians in Need Impacted by War ” with a $1 million goal. In fact, the tones range wildly, from purely informative to entirely meme-like. “I don’t fear criticism — it comes with the territory.”. And it did.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 22, 2010

They work like memes, the speed people react and join in. The power of the Obama campaign was translating online activity to real world impact. Our attention span is ever shorter, time is relative. With the diaspora, you just need to get enough people to pay attention that they can spur the media. It’s about scale.

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The Verge

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

Fortnite , Destiny , Genshin Impact , and League of Legends may be massive ongoing hits, but they also leave little room for other similar games. But it’s also clear that other AR games aren’t able to capture the same level of attention. It’s unlikely that we’ll see it create a deluge of memes and local news reports.

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Mashable Tech

MARCH 13, 2025

He preluded that with the launch of a new $TRUMP meme coin, likely making millions in the process. It took a few years for people to start paying attention: In May 2010, programmer Laszlo Hanyecz famously spent 10,000 BTC on two pizzas; had he kept the bitcoins, they would be worth billions now. How are meme coins impacting Bitcoin?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 28, 2014

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 1: Personal Challenges with Cold Water to Raise Money.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 18, 2012

So here’s how you can add some visual cartoon-flavored impact to your story, blog post or report, even if you’ve never so much as doodled Snoopy on a high school notebook. That can save you a lot of wasted effort, and you’ll avoid wasting your audience’s time and attention. Most of us actually can.

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The Verge

DECEMBER 31, 2021

In part because it feels like doomscrolling — a constant in our lives thanks to COVID — but also because it felt so tied to the passive nature of people seeing some meme on a social feed and just believing it without any validation. I particularly love his attention to hands, which plays on the “idle hands” cliche.

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The AI Alignment Forum

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

4] Everyday example: I sometimes feel an urge to pull out my phone and check if anyone liked my dank memes on social media. what feels plausible , then theyre transient, because now the concepts pull up new different salient associations with new different concepts, which then impacts motivation in a new different way.

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Fast Company Tech

APRIL 10, 2025

The internet spun Duos passive-aggressive personality into a meme (including one much-circulated image of him holding a gun). Image: courtesy Duolingo] Move fast and break Duo In early January, the Duolingo product team began exploring ideas for an app icon change, looking for something next-level that would grab users attention.

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

I started writing this newsletter in 2017 after coming to the belated realization that social networks really did have an outsized impact on modern life, and deserved to be taken as seriously. That may have been one reason why she struggled to get her colleagues’ attention, I’m told. Also, here’s a TikTok meme power ranking.

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