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Final Fantasy XIV is resuming free trials on February 22nd after a two month hiatus

The Verge

Final Fantasy XIV is finally getting its free trial back on February 22nd, over two months after Square Enix stopped offering it to reduce player load after the incredibly popular Endwalker expansion. Square Enix’s enthusiastic social media hype for the free trial has even become a meme in its own right.

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10 Facebook Best Practices for Nonprofits

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Perhaps they can not get a Facebook ad budget approved or they are simply stuck in the outdated “social media is freememe. either way, Facebook organic reach is estimated to be an abysmal 2%. That’s equivalent to sending an email to your supporters and 98% of your emails going to spam folders.

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Jimmy Wales is selling his first Wikipedia edit as an NFT

The Verge

Wikipedia co-founder Jimmy Wales is selling a non-fungible token (or NFT) based on his first edit of the free encyclopedia. It’s free to join while encouraging members to pay for a subscription, akin to the patronage model of Wikipedia — a strategy aimed at removing the bad incentives that ad-supported services can create online.

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No one knows what anything is worth

TechCrunch

It’s broadly based on the daily column that appears on Extra Crunch , but free, and made for your weekend reading. Band 3 is the retail cohort, the /r/WallStreetBets, meme-stock, fintech Twitter rabble that are both incredibly fun to watch and also the sort of person you wouldn’t loan $500 to while in Las Vegas.

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Social Media Adoption: The Line Between Individual/Personal and Organizational

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

This is the Social = Me First meme , I have spoken on widely. See Free Ranger Rick). Technology providers also try to avoid getting seduced by the hype cycles. How short was the hype cycle of MySpace? Individuals, notably, adopt them for their own purposes. tool after Web 2.0 Of YouTube? Of Facebook? Of Second Life?

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

NTEN

Neff and Jordan Viator -- had the great opportunity to lead a session entitled " The Real Housewives of Social Media " Funny Photoshopped pictures were displayed of us, we sported aprons to hype the theme, and we shared information and case studies on various aspects of social media campaigning. Be proactive.

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

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Nonprofit Social Media ROI and Adoption Issues The meme of the last week continues with a look at specific metrics like engagement. Games for Change and Virtual Words Nick Booth points to Free Rice, an online edugaming for good. Help with world hunger by providing rice to hungry people for free. I wholeheartedly agree !

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