The NonProfit Times

MAY 23, 2024

Frustration with this lack of transparency led the Progressive Technology Project’s founders to launch their nonprofit consultancy more than two decades ago to assist other nonprofits in navigating what remains an often-nebulous technology landscape. Email deliverability continues to be top of mind for digital marketers for these reasons.

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Achieve

MARCH 4, 2022

Regulation #1: The CAN-SPAM Act The CAN-SPAM Act was passed into US law in 2003, and it protects consumers from receiving emails that they never agreed to receive. It’s primarily intended to prevent spam email ads from commercial entities, but nonprofits are not exempt.

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Bloomerang

MAY 26, 2021

It shows that this is a concerted effort on the part of the organization and not just a spam email or junk mail. Author information Jackie Smith Co-Founder at The Nonprofit Consulting Shop Jackie Smith is a leading new donor acquisition strategist with over 20 years of agency experience.

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Roundtree

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

Whether in workshops, group coaching, or one-to-one consulting with ministries MI helps ministries understand that biblical fundraising is an opportunity to minister to givers, inviting them to connect with the work God is doing and be transformed in the process. And we're promising not to spam you. Chattanooga, TN 37409. 919.601.1439.

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TechImpact

SEPTEMBER 9, 2013

Image courtesy of Rensec IT Consulting. “Originally the annual appeal was sent by direct mail, then we saw a shift to email, but even now email is becoming less effective–spam filters are picking up more and people are growing numb to solicitations.” direct mail and email).

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Byte Technology

AUGUST 30, 2016

Often, a received email isn’t one we can answer all by ourselves: it required consultation with others to give a thorough and effective response. This tends to put the sender at ease and, at the very least, let them know their email got through and didn’t somehow get automatically relegated to a spam folder.

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Care2

OCTOBER 1, 2014

Avoid the unsubscribes and worse, the dreaded MARK AS SPAM, by sending your emails to active supporters and those who would be interested in taking your action. Get the full scoop on effective online advocacy from this white paper by PowerThru Consulting and Care2. Segment your supporters and target your emails. Online Advocacy'

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Tech Soup

JUNE 13, 2017

This issue of email deliverability — the percentage of email that actually makes it into inboxes and not spam folders — is becoming a critical issue for nonprofits of all sizes. How Your Emails Become Spam. Email Deliverability Defined. Nonprofit staffers across the country are taking notice.

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NTEN

JULY 11, 2011

Web Consultant and Dan Mouyard, Sr. If you have ever implemented a web submission form on your site, you quickly realized that without spam protection your environment was vulnerable to unwanted content. So when fostering conversations, how can you allow all constituents to participate while safeguarding the site from spam?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 5, 2012

A good CMS should also include a built-in Spam filter to keep obviously unrelated content from cluttering your comments sections. To help, we’ve included a directory of consultants with experience installing and implementing the systems in this report, organized by geographical region.

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 19, 2011

For example, I’ve got two things in the auction: a 2-hour community building consultation session , and my very own gluten free and vegan carrot cake recipe ! It went into my spam filter, FYI.). Which means, many of us in the community offered up ourselves or our favorite things to help the cause!

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

NOVEMBER 15, 2005

But I'd consult an attorney for a definitive reading on this. Until 1/1/2004, the rules against spam were governed by a host of state regulations. The federal law is known as the CAN-SPAM Act. Here's an example of how the anti-Spam movement saw the act. Tags: nptech , email , spam I love people who think this way.

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Judi Sohn

MARCH 3, 2012

User, administrator, vendor, consultant. We have the group set so topics are public, but only members can post and membership has to be approved to avoid spam. I’ve been co-moderator of the group since 2009. Only requirement for membership is that you have a connection in some way to nonprofits using Salesforce.

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Judi Sohn

JANUARY 24, 2009

More troubling, the title of the blog was changed to a funky spam link. I opened a support ticket after the site was restored, and a few hours later got this response: I consulted with our admin staff about this issue. I couldn’t log in to wp-admin. When it’s my problem, I tend to be like a scene from Airplane.

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Care2

SEPTEMBER 14, 2007

Consultants and Vendors Thursday, November 16, 2006 at 05:26PM | by Justin Perkins Matt Howes Guest Blog By Matt Howes, Director of Technology, Media Matters for America Remember when the webmaster did everything from graphic design to information architecture and content writing? 60) Search « Would you like a share of $5 million?

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ASU Lodestar Center

OCTOBER 11, 2017

posted by John Couleur Special Projects Consultant, Sputnik Moment. I put the two together, hoping that I didn’t miss anyone because they weren’t in last year’s emailing, or that I don’t send two (or more) invites to my spam-sensitive donors. Touchpoints and follow-up are hard to remember. Targeting is difficult.

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John Kenyon

NOVEMBER 6, 2017

Criminals who make money from spam gladly pay for any valid email address, they don’t care where it’s from. A good audit will begin with staff working with a consultant to assess all of your current security practices and needs. Any data is valuable, any access is able to be exploited for some type of gain.

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AFP Blog

APRIL 9, 2012

The Dangers of an Inactive E-Mail List - Social Philanthropy - The Chronicle of Philanthropy- Connecting the nonprofit world with news, jobs, and ideas : The Dangers of an Inactive E-Mail List April 5, 2012, 9:20 am By Nicole Wallace Inactive e-mail lists have always posed a challenge to fundraisers, but as spam filters get more sophisticated, the (..)

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Blue Avocado

AUGUST 20, 2024

It might be best for the nonprofit to consult an expert before diving into these more complex donations. The savings in postage, office supplies, and time might lead to positive results for the charity — including donors not feeling like they are being harassed or spammed.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 10, 2012

Charlotta "Lottie" Beavers, ICT Consultant. I honestly can't imagine how I'd do my job without you. Simone Parrish, InnoNet. I loved the energy and camaraderie of the attendees. I felt like together, we can do ANYTHING! Alison Hankey, Jossey-Bass, Publishers.

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NonProfit Hub

SEPTEMBER 16, 2014

Andrew Garberson is a guest contributor for Nonprofit Hub and the Manager of Search at LunaMetrics , a Google Analytics certified partner and search marketing consultancy. Panda and Penguin targeted spam and low-quality websites. Be sure to find him on Twitter. _. In short, this is a good thing. Those are things we can all support.

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Care2

NOVEMBER 16, 2006

Consultants and Vendors Thursday, November 16, 2006 at 05:26PM | by Justin Perkins Matt Howes Guest Blog By Matt Howes, Director of Technology, Media Matters for America Remember when the webmaster did everything from graphic design to information architecture and content writing? 60) Search « Would you like a share of $5 million?

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Tech Soup

MARCH 10, 2016

Once breached, 87 percent of offices need to hire IT security consultants, lawyers, and risk management experts to get through the crisis. Dealing with ransomware, updating software, spam, and virus protection. Thirty-one percent of all cyberattacks are against offices with less than 250 employees, according to The U.S.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 29, 2008

One of my favorite nonprofit tech consultants and brilliant trainer and dear colleague, John Kenyon, has launched a blog ! Concerns about spam, criticism, or email overload? John is at LASA right now. He wrote a blog post about his session and I was going to comment, but looks like he turned comments off. It made me wonder why?

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ASU Lodestar Center

OCTOBER 24, 2017

posted by Chris Giarratana Digital Strategy Consultant. Some are tagged as relevant, and some are not-- these often land to the spam folder. Email marketing is an essential piece of any nonprofit communication strategy, especially if it's going to be used as a tool for donor engagement and fundraising campaigns.

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Everyaction

JULY 18, 2018

Tip: You may find that nonprofit consultants can offer fundraising avenues that your team may not have explored. For example, many consultants include fundraising appeals in emails to their mailing lists in support of their nonprofit clients. This is definitely an “ask” worth making! A final email appeal (a la “is this thing on?”)

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 12, 2006

Nancy Schwartz invited me to submit a piece for next week's Carnival of Nonprofit Consultants theme on "Using Social Networking Tools." Myspace avoids spamming so the members usually blocks people from adding them directly unless you know them personally or their email.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 24, 2008

It basically eliminates comment spam, which, as you probably know, is the bane of bloggers everywhere. .&# Installation of WordPress is scarily easy. WordPress is expandable with tons of plugins. The best one, by the way, is Akismet , which is also made by Automattic.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 18, 2010

Nonprofit consultant Hildy Gottlieb has been a vocal skeptic and is deeply philosophically opposed to online contests as a method of change in the social sector. To control spam, Facebook makes it impossible to email more than 20 people at a time, so to email your friend list, you must break your list down into groups of 20.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 11, 2011

The most common complaint from Facebook users is Newsfeed spam, and the most popular Pages post once a day or less. Alison Zarrella is a social media consultant who has worked with brands of all sizes, ranging from international companies to local businesses. How should a nonprofit make that decision? Any guidelines?

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 24, 2010

RoundTables are monthly hour-long chats, free for NTEN Members, moderated by an NTEN member from the field of Consulting, Communications, or IT -- depending on which RoundTable it is. This tag seemed to be the most popular, but also brought up the least amount of spam as tweets.) This turns out to be #PDX - the airport code.

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NonProfit Hub

NOVEMBER 3, 2015

Jack has been a major gifts fundraiser and senior organizational executive working with or consulting to nonprofit and advocacy organizations. __. You don’t need to spam recipients (you don’t want your emails to end up in the junk folder!),

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Twenti - Digital Marketing For Nonprofits

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

This allows you to include valuable hashtags without them distracting from your meaningful caption, ruining your aesthetic or spamming your followers. To discuss the options for your nonprofit, book a free consultation with us. Book A Free Consultation. You can also use hashtags to build your nonprofit’s and organise your posts.

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Gyrus

JULY 25, 2024

Solution: Utilize analytics, reports, and feedback tools to monitor LMS activity and consult with experts and users to evaluate compliance, effectiveness, and improvement opportunities. Train them to identify and report suspicious activities like phishing, spamming, or hacking attempts.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 2, 2011

I am avoiding spamming all three networks with cut and paste streams. Just for giggles, I started a thread on Google + to do an interview with nonprofits and social activists exploring Google + as part of some preparation for an interview with Alison Fine for the Social Good Podcast.

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Gyrus

JULY 25, 2024

Solution: Utilize analytics, reports, and feedback tools to monitor LMS activity and consult with experts and users to evaluate compliance, effectiveness, and improvement opportunities. Train them to identify and report suspicious activities like phishing, spamming, or hacking attempts.

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Gyrus

JULY 25, 2024

Solution: Utilize analytics, reports, and feedback tools to monitor LMS activity and consult with experts and users to evaluate compliance, effectiveness, and improvement opportunities. Train them to identify and report suspicious activities like phishing, spamming, or hacking attempts.

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