Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 28, 2014

Here are the simple rules for nonprofit marketers as explained in this article in Social Media Today : Start with a hypothesis. You are most likely to be testing email , social media , mobile, web site , and landing pages (fundraising, etc). Words : Language is tricky. Shades of meaning hide around every corner.

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Whole Whale

AUGUST 16, 2022

Create Imagery for Social Media. If you’re struggling to come up with high-quality imagery for your social media posts, AI image generators can help. This is a great way to stand out on social media and get more people to engage with your posts. Creative Ideas for Social Impact Imagery. 13 per image.

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Get Fully Funded

OCTOBER 23, 2022

Giving Tuesday is a global day of giving powered by social media, peer pressure (the good kind!), A graphic: You need an image that you can use in social media and in email marketing to visually represent your Giving Tuesday campaign. Post this same message to your social media channels.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 3, 2021

Less than 10% of people on LinkedIn don’t have an education that surpasses high school, despite 87% of developers having taught themselves a new coding language, framework or tool without formal education. Some developers choose not to have a LinkedIn account because it feels like another social media channel to maintain.

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The Verge

JULY 31, 2021

Now, I’ve not only spoken with some of my celebrity favorites on social media, but I’ve even fought with a few. Parasocial relationships — a largely one-sided relationship between a fan and a public figure they feel close to due to social media — are everywhere online. The technology of fandom is changing, too.

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TechNode

JANUARY 14, 2025

Not US Social Media This phenomenon stems from the ongoing TikTok ban saga. While the bans outcome was widely expected, most experts speculated that American social media platforms such as Metas Instagram, X (formerly Twitter), or YouTube Shorts would benefit from TikToks potential downfall.

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The Verge

AUGUST 3, 2021

They are more confident in sharing what they want on social media.”. And of course there are memes and TikTok videos. Gen Z aren’t the only ones using social media to talk about cannabis. Buwanka said it was because he spoke in a local language, Sinhala. People feel that Facebook is safer than real life.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 8, 2007

I came across two more excellent resources on this evolving topic of social media metrics and wanted to quickly summarize before I add to the link list in the wiki. Nature of the language in comments: positive, negative, interconnective, expanded, clarified, reinterpreted. " My slides and resources are here.

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The Verge

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

A new transparency report released on Thursday offers greater detail on social media hate following policy changes earlier this year, although it leaves some big questions unanswered. Facebook launched a research competition in May for systems that can better detect “hateful memes.” Photo by Michele Doying / The Verge.

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Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

I work mainly with nonprofits and social enterprises that want to have a bigger impact, that wants to increase their audiences, and that want to interact with diverse communities. So people that speak multiple languages or that live in different countries that have different ways of communicating and of seeing the world. for a while.

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Mashable Tech

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

Like any good social media platform, it brought people together , including couples. "It Sara is also grateful to Kevin, both because he's been part of her support system during a turbulent time professionally, and because they share internet humor and language.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 13, 2005

I like how the jargon of the blogoshere is so poetic and filled with methaphoric language, but excuse me - what is a tag cloud? To see an example of one of these memes, view the front page of flicker.com. The subtle message is bigger is better and thus influences other people to use that tag.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 14, 2014

It’s the simplest tool I‘ve found to add a caption to an image to make an Internet meme. It’s a free download for most computer OS platforms like Mac, Linux, and Windows, and is available in several languages as well. It is available in the major European languages and also Japanese.

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Fast Company Tech

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

When Meta launched its AI Studio feature for over two billion Instagram users in July 2024, the company promised a tool that would give anyone the ability to create their own AI characters to make you laugh, generate memes, give travel advice, and so much more. The company claimed the feature, which was built with Metas Llama 3.1

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Connection Cafe

MARCH 28, 2018

From policy language to video how-to’s, your organization should prepare content before you need it. The key is to have the tools, information and relationships ready in advance, so that you don’t have to scramble to be relevant in the moment. For example: Build a library of content related to your issues.

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Get Fully Funded

JUNE 13, 2022

Memes about goals are EVERYWHERE. We will accomplish this through quarterly emails with specific Asks, two campaigns via social media, and two snail-mail appeals. [If Goals, goals, goals…. The word shows up everywhere! So why all of this hoopla about goals? This means finding 184 new donors. See how that works?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 14, 2022

But if you are using their language or really innovative elements, you should credit them. Audience size, breadth, and depth: If your organization has big lists, lots of traffic to your website or blog or social media pages, or big crowds at events, there are many ways to turn this into a donor benefit. Get creative.

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The Verge

JANUARY 7, 2021

Musk, who is now the world’s richest person after surpassing Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos in net worth , tweeted a meme last night criticizing Facebook for its role in helping members of the mob that stormed the US Capitol on Wednesday organize online. We are working with carriers to resolve this as quickly as possible. Hang in there. This is false.

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The Verge

JULY 30, 2021

The image descriptions used by screen readers have to be added by users, and like many accessibility features in social media, those fields are regularly neglected. The result, Danielle McCann, the social media coordinator for the National Federation of the Blind, tells me, can be pretty funny.

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The Verge

JUNE 17, 2020

All told, the report spans more than 2,500 pieces of content, posted across seven languages and more than 300 different forums, websites, and social networks. “By House Speaker Nancy Pelosi urged advertisers to use their “tremendous leverage” to push social media platforms to crack down on disinformation.

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Mashable Tech

MARCH 6, 2025

This zany 2021 release centers on a family who's battling back the robo-apocalypse with togetherness, internet savviness, and a wall-eyed pug named Monchi (voiced by social media icon Doug the Pug). The Mitchells' adventure into chaos begins when daughter Katie (Abbi Jacobson) is poised to go off to college.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

Tech’s censorship-prone gatekeepers — as well as the broader pattern of businesses sanitizing, and then monetizing, queer culture — leave many LGBTQIA+ folks reasonably wary of social media. One user told me, “There’s enough social media out there.

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Mashable Tech

FEBRUARY 16, 2025

Many activists view these changes as a stark, rightward shift, but for leftist meme creators on Instagram , it's just more of the same — a continued struggle to navigate an increasingly hostile digital landscape. Leftist meme creators aren’t logging off en masse, but, instead, are adapting and resisting.

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Engadget

MARCH 27, 2025

Sam Altman (@sama) March 26, 2025 People have been posting ChatGPT's output all over social media. Users have been creating Ghibli versions of everything from personal images to photos of political figures and memes. ." images in chatgpt are wayyyy more popular than we expected (and we had pretty high expectations).

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Mashable Tech

APRIL 21, 2025

Pope Francis said in an official video message translated from his native Spanish language. Ironically, many social media users underlined Pope Francis's point about technology immediately after his death, albeit unintentionally. How I would like for us to look less at screens and look each other in the eyes more!"

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Mashable Tech

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

Duolingo, the language-learning app, killed off its owl mascot named Duo on Tuesday in what is assuredly some kind of publicity stunt. Duolingo posted the news on social media. "It The internet, predictably, made jokes and memes about Duolingo killing off its mascot. In fact, here were are writing about it.

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Engadget

APRIL 15, 2025

4chan, the controversial forum known for birthing early meme culture and Gamergate, is down, following an apparent hack. It's unclear what this means for the future of 4chan, but some social media and Reddit users are speculating this could be the end of the internet's most infamous forum.

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Fast Company Tech

APRIL 10, 2025

It took Duolingo more than a decade to grow its owl mascot, Duo, from a cute cartoon character into a social media star with tens of millions of followers. The decision turned out to be the companys most successful social media play everand likely one of the widest-reaching social campaigns of all time, by any brand.

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

Misinformation shared on social media has a serious impact on our elections and undermines our democracy. Facebook launched automatic closed captions for Facebook Live and Workplace Live in six languages, to help people who are deaf or hard of hearing. Also, here’s a TikTok meme power ranking. Rebecca Jennings / Vox ).

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The Verge

JUNE 30, 2020

A social media advertising boycott that began with some outerwear brands picked up steam over the weekend, and has been joined by some of the giants of consumer brand advertising. Trump fans and conservative politicians are flocking to the social media app Parler. Microsoft did so quietly in May.)

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 4, 2025

on Mondaya new meme has begun taking hold on Bluesky: Trump Take Nest Egg. Over the past month, Trump take egg has become a Swiss Army Knife of a meme that has reverberated widely online and off. Its as if social media is putting all their Trump-related memes in one basket.

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