TechImpact

JULY 18, 2014

Whether it be through well written content, deeply researched infographics presented in a visually stimulating way, a video, social media, or even a meme. There is a seemingly infinite number of ways for you to engage viewers online.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 6, 2013

This “ Keep Calm and Shine On ” t-shirt is a riff on the popular “ Keep Calm and Carry On ” meme used by Autism Speaks to help promote the annual World Autism Awareness Day. Even though you interact with these memes, we’ll help you be more sophisticated by not showing them to you.’

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Amy Sample Ward

DECEMBER 7, 2010

My latest contribution to the Stanford Social Innovation Review is now up – it’s reposted below, but you can find the original post and conversation on SSIR. According to ABC news : According to the trend-tracking website Know Your Meme , the cartoon fad started with Facebook users in Greece and Cyprus in mid-November.

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The Verge

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

So to lighten the mood and get the students interested, she and her co-instructor Reece Lyerly start every class with a meme of some sort. Errichetti later made another chart, with nine Fauci images, after some people on social media requested a more nuanced Fauci meter.

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Wild Apricot

MARCH 19, 2009

When the venerable Fieldstone Alliance surprised its readers this week with 25 Random Things that Make the Nonprofit Sector Great , picking up on a popular fad that’s been making the rounds of Facebook, it was a strong hint to take a closer look at that odd phenomenon of online culture, the meme. What’s a meme? read more ).

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Amy Sample Ward

JULY 31, 2012

My latest contribution to the Stanford Social Innovation Review opinion blog is up! That song, “Call Me Maybe” by Carly Rae Jepsen, quickly also became the soundtrack to an Internet meme —that is, an idea that spreads online (“ I Can Has Cheezburger? Why meme at all? ” is one of the more famous).

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Care2

JANUARY 29, 2013

Amy Sample Ward and I talk about this in our book Social Change Anytime Everywhere , which is coming out next month. Memes are a great way to talk about your issue and use humor to get your message shared. 42% of meme's are pictures. 41% of memes are video and 29% orginated on YouTube. 42% of meme's are pictures.

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Futurism

MARCH 27, 2025

Right after OpenAI debuted its new GPT-4o image generation capabilities , tech bros flooded the internet with AI-made cartoons and memes imitating the style of the iconic Japanese animation house Studio Ghibli. The wave of ersatz Ghibli art was inescapable in AI spheres. One particularly viral example depicted JFK's assassination.

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M+R

MAY 10, 2021

But inclusion on social media isn’t just about what you post—it’s about how you post as well. . Let’s talk about a few steps that you can take NOW to make your social media content more accessible for everyone. . Many visually impaired people use a text reading software when scrolling through text-based social media feeds like Twitter.

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NetWits

DECEMBER 6, 2010

Whether it started on accident, was part of a specific campaign, or originated in Greece , this meme seemed to really have legs! In the last 24 hours, I have seen countless blog posts, discussions, and news articles all mocking this current meme for doing nothing to actually prevent child abuse. Does busy mean the same thing as impact?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 27, 2012

But, this wasn’t a just a tourist trip, I was on a mission to see technology social change projects in action and better understand how technology can impact social on the ground in rural areas with limited connectivity and resources. But it doesn’t mean that you can’t be strategic.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 12, 2012

on the Social Web must come to an end – that until we start paying for premium services ( and staff time ), nonprofits will continue to be at the mercy of for-profit revenue models and non-existent customer service, but that’s another blog post. Personally, I am not surprised or annoyed much by the changes.

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Get Fully Funded

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

If you want people from your social media to support your nonprofit’s activities, you need a nonprofit social media plan. You already know this: In the nonprofit realm, social media is life. Contrary to popular belief, successful social media accounts are not run off-the-cuff! She wants me to PLAN?

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The Verge

MARCH 11, 2021

You’ve probably already seen a Wombo video floating around your social media. In the short term, at least, deepfakes are going to be obviously fabricated and instant meme-bait. I’ve been following the AI space, following the meme space, following the deepfake space, and just saw the opportunity to do something cool.”

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The Verge

MAY 6, 2021

Now, 140 million views and 11 years later, David After Dentist is becoming the latest mid-2000s meme to go up for auction as an NFT. “It NFTs are like the wild west right now, it’s like back when we went viral and social media was in its infancy.” It’s officially open for 24 hours but could be extended for late bids.).

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 3, 2020

Related Webinar: Social Media Best Practices for Nonprofits. billion monthly active users , Facebook is the largest social network in the world. Without a doubt, your nonprofit’s donors and supporters use Facebook on a regular basis and thus Facebook should be your first priority in your social media strategy.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 28, 2010

Chad graciously agreed to write up a guest post — and start a meme asking nonprofit and social media folks to add their favorite social media tactic in the comments below or using the hashtag #50smt and aggregated here. 50 (More) Social Media Tactics for Nonprofits by Chad Norman.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 26, 2014

One has to step back and marvel at the most successful networked fundraising campaigns in the history of social or crowd fundraising. 2) Playing on Memes: The campaign took advantage of social media narcissism for a good cause. The numbers speak for themselves. Ice Bucket Challenge in winter time would not have worked. (6)

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NTEN

MARCH 15, 2013

Social Media is an important tool for engaging with your community -- but what are the risks and rewards of working with volunteers to implement your social media strategies? It’s not a fancy new tool or a fun new hashtag sweeping the meme-sphere. The best kept secret of the social media world is: A volunteer.

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The Verge

FEBRUARY 28, 2021

A cybersecurity firm found that bots were promoting GameStop stock on social media before and after the stock’s frenzied rise last month, Reuters reported. Massachusetts-based PiiQ Media says social media bots promoted Dogecoin, GameStop, and other “meme” stocks in posts on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and YouTube.

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The Sponsorship Collective

MARCH 27, 2023

Social media is powerful stuff. It’s created celebrities, introduced memes, and dropped that next viral piece of content right into your lap. Moreso, social media is an excellent tool for finding sponsors. How can you use it to beef up the sponsor list for your next event?

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 6, 2023

The AI industry is progressing at a terrifying pace, but no amount of training will ever prepare an AI model to stop people from making it generate images of pregnant Sonic the Hedgehog. In the rush to launch the hottest AI tools, companies continue to forget that people will always use new tech for chaos. […]

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 25, 2009

Mashable , a popular social media and technology blog and geek favorite, has caught the generosity meme with its Summer of Social Good , an initiative that raises money for the Humane Society of the United States , World Wildlife Fund , Oxfam , and LIVESTRONG. Approximately $30K has been raised to date. (I

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 25, 2012

The main part of the call featured case studies by peer grantees who shared their strategies for social media integration, measurable objectives, measurement, and social media techniques, particularly use of Twitter. Next up was Hanna Welch, Social Media Producer, from grist.org. So, they started a fun meme.

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The Verge

JUNE 27, 2020

An inside joke about a TikTok meme among a group of friends on Twitter grew into a minor social media mystery before morphing into a fundraiser for anti-racism causes. On TikTok, the meme is usually used to express cringe or embarrassment. Yes, that might be the most 2020 sentence I’ve written to date.

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Candid

JUNE 7, 2023

But other suggestions, like using pop culture slang and memes to catch Gen Z’s shorter attention span, feel a little off. As I dug into the advice, I couldn’t help but reflect on the way I engage with nonprofit social media: Is the use of humor and short-form video crucial for brands to grab my attention?

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

TIP 10: Consider creating activities that engage people’s passions : Cool memes or videos they’ll want to share with their networks; surveys; online quizzes; petitions and advocacy initiatives; conference calls; networking events, volunteer activities and more. Begin thinking of donors as beneficiaries too.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 16, 2013

If you have been following me on Twitter, Facebook, this blog or other social media channels, you know that my father passed away several weeks ago. This post summarizes the results and a few insights about social media fundraising and network strategies as a way to share back what I learned and to help bring some closure.

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The Verge

JULY 30, 2021

The ridiculous sounds of social sites Using a screen reader to navigate Instagram, as some people with low vision do, is a strange patchwork of sounds. 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.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 8, 2014

I am leading a #Nettalks Webinar on “ Leveraging Social Media to Engagement and Inspire Alumni Networks ” at 2 PM EST today. On Monday, I shared a post about some network and strategy concepts. Let’s look at some practical examples for engaging and connecting with your Alumni Network on social media channels.

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Care2

SEPTEMBER 17, 2014

We know that social media is discussed at every tech conference, in every workshop, and within nonprofit organizations, but no matter how much we talk about it, the trends are always shifting, changing, and growing. Here are a few key points from the infographic that you should note: Infographics and Internet memes are still performing well.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 26, 2008

Alex Steed is a self-described millennial activist and he has just announced his Millennials Changing America: The Next Generation of Organizing where he will visit over 30 cities across the United States to meet, interview and report how young people are using the Internet to leverage their social and political power. s Alex Steed.

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

When I wrote in March about non-fungible tokens , or NFTs, I tried to dazzle you by rattling off some of the more impressive sales numbers from the time: $600,000 for the Nyan Cat meme, $5.8 Later he created Peach , a pop-up social network that remained beloved by its users far after its brief moment in the spotlight faded.

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Care2

OCTOBER 19, 2012

Earlier this week on Frogloop, we discussed how social media channels like Facebook and Twitter were flooded with people discussing (ok there was a lot of bickering too) the Presidential debates. It's where the hashtag and meme Binders Full of Women erupted.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 6, 2006

He started the meme about asking for NGO related resources by pushing it out to Nancy White , Hell's Dire Agent , Jennine , Taran , and Declan. Note to self: This is all needs an inspiration map to show the relationships and how the content of the meme has morphed.and some reflection on memes.)

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The Verge

JUNE 13, 2021

When the Xbox Series X was first announced in 2019, people instantly memed on its boxy shape and compared it to a refrigerator — a meme that Microsoft eventually leaned into itself on social media. And the upcoming Xbox Mini Fridge actually isn’t the first refrigerator shaped like an Xbox Series X.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 4, 2013

No doubt you’ve taken a “ selfie ,” a self-portrait taken with your mobile phone camera and shared on Facebook or other social media channels. Recent research suggests that taking and posting too many selfies on your Facebook profile (or other social channels) can be damaging to your relationships.

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