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Discord has turned into a virtual trade floor with memes, stonks, and chaos

The Verge

Dozens of people join the server every second, and one channel has a stream of memes that looks like pure chaos. Amateur traders are flocking to the Discord server to discuss stock movements, share memes, and participate in what feels like an online game. audio meme. Welcome to the world of r/WallStreetBets.

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Reddit’s GameStop traders turn their attention to AMC stock

The Verge

It’s part of a chaotic, meme-fueled effort to create an organized short squeeze, and force traditional hedge funds into losing millions of dollars on their bets against struggling companies. The AMC memes appear to be working, though. AMC appears to be next on the list. AMC stock up more than 400 percent in pre-market trading.

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Perhaps they can not get a Facebook ad budget approved or they are simply stuck in the outdated “social media is free” meme.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

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10 Threads & X Best Practices for Nonprofits

Nonprofit Tech for Good

They with experiment text-only posts and embrace emojis, memes, and humor. Use hashtags strategically to mention important causes, campaigns, and events, but hashtag spamming to try to increase your reach doesn’t work and has a negative effect on engagement. The Grand Canyon Conservancy is a good example to follow on Threads.

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Things We Like: Best of 2009

NTEN

Not only is it nifty piece, it attracted some of our best spam comments of the year: "Thanks for pants. Actually, some of the funniest protest signs of 2009 would make good spam comment fodder, if you happen to work for a fly-by-night SEO firm. Patience pants. Have you thought of making a whole patience outfit?" Hand drawn!)

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Local history buffs are turning to Facebook to share memories of bygone eras

Fast Company Tech

And while some history pages are run by professional historians or museum workers like Marks, many others are run by amateurs who essentially volunteer their time to moderate posts, removing spam and other unwanted content like political arguments from groups that in some cases have hundreds of thousands of members.

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10 Elements of an Effective Nonprofit or Do-Good Blog

Have Fun - Do Good

Moderate your comments if you are concerned about inappropriate remarks, or spam. Hold and participate in online contests, challenges, blog carnivals and memes. You'll build community and provide a useful information filtering service for your readers. Facilitate commenting Allow commenting.