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Ice Bucket Challenge: Can Other Nonprofits Reproduce It?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

In deck above, you will see a graph that shows that the Ice Bucket Challenge had more search volume than other news such as Ferguson and Iraq during the last few weeks. This shows the importance of timing and playing off current events. 2) Playing on Memes: The campaign took advantage of social media narcissism for a good cause.

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The most popular posts on Facebook are plagiarized

The Verge

1 post in the report, a meme from the motivational speaker and author Gaur Gopal Das. The meme had been posted to Twitter two weeks earlier by the Ghanaian rapper M.anifest. (It His tweet is the earliest instance of the meme I could find using Google’s reverse-image search, though.). Take the No. But it wasn’t original to Das.

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The Lincoln Project is stealing memes — and the online left isn’t happy

The Verge

FuckJerry-style aggregation meets campaigning The anti-Trump Lincoln Project has a reputation for goofy memes attacking the Trump administration online, so when they posted a whimsical fancam in support of the United States Postal Service on Twitter over the weekend, it seemed par for the course. It’s a large part of the reason Sen.

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