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

NetWits

In an effort to raise awareness for child abuse, thousands of Facebook users changed their profile photos to one of their favorite childhood cartoon characters (full disclosure: mine was Underdog.) If it’s not fun, rewarding, or cool, viral campaigns rarely take off. Did you notice something toony about Facebook last weekend?

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Have Fun, Do Good Video: Beyonce's Let's Move! Flash Workout for Kids

Have Fun - Do Good

How Beyonce Reboot(ied) The First Lady's Childhood Obesity Campaign on Obama Foodorama Beyonce, Michelle Obama urge kids to dance on Politico Click NABEF to Support 'Let's Move!' At 1:42 PM ET today, hundreds of middle school students will do the Let's Move! Flash Workout together.

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Minnesota Open Idea: Crowdsourcing Contest For Social Change Done Right

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

It combines expert judging with popular vote, online strategy with good old fashion off line organizing, links objectives to a theory of change, and incorporates a fun and engaging way for people to learn about and take action on a timely community problem. Why did you pick the childhood obesity issue for the challenge?

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Member Management Magic: Wild Apricot Launches Version 3

Wild Apricot

Who says membership management can’t be fun? As a company, Wild Apricot believes in making the web as easy and fun as possible — so when it came time to launch Version 3.0, And I just kept thinking back to my childhood,” recalls Jay Moonah, VP of.( This is version 3.0 of the software, and our tagline is Member Management Magic.

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How Metafy founder Josh Fabian caught the attention of 776 by building in public

TechCrunch

” As Fabian explained at TechCrunch Disrupt, Metafy has a pretty fun founding story. Once a competitive Yu-Gi-Oh player in his childhood, Fabian was working as a lead designer at Groupon when he became obsessed with mobile gaming.

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ChatGPT & Google Gemini Identify Four Essentials for Successful Nonprofit Giving Campaigns

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Success Factors: Public Engagement: The challenge was simple, fun, and encouraged user-generated content, leading to massive social media engagement and celebrity participation. The Hero Campaigns Here are the campaigns, plus highlights and impact for each. Online Donations – St.

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Popchew cooks up creator partnership approach to digitally native, local food brands

TechCrunch

The idea for the company stemmed from Parikh’s childhood growing up working at his uncle’s restaurant and Sopchak’s background in the hospitality industry. They felt food was fun, but that the $40 billion food delivery market could be opened up to help creators expand their personal brand, connect with fans and create a new revenue stream.

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