Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 10, 2007

There was a lot of spam too. "Spamtrap" is an interactive installation piece the prints, shreds and blacklists spam email. It interacts with spammers by monitoring several email addresses I have created specifically to lure in spam. The paper is recycled after the spam email has been shredded.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 10, 2011

My guess is that they don’t want to follow a lot of Twitterers because they don’t want to clutter their “Home” feed, and I understand that, but nonprofits can easily manage the chaos of following hundreds or thousands Twitterers by simply organizing them into Twitter Lists.

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The Verge

AUGUST 30, 2020

Cloudflare’s services are meant to prevent websites from suffering outages due to peak traffic loads as well as DDoS or spam comment attacks. DownDetector showed Sunday’s outage was affecting the US and parts of western Europe, and sites including Discord , Hulu, Feedly, Xbox Live, and dozens of others appeared to be affected.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 10, 2013

Hiding content is like deleting an email without reading it or hitting the spam button. In Facebook’s reconfigured algorithm, content that has negative feedback from some users can cause it to be minimized or pulled from all news feeds. Report spam: user thinks your page is spam. Unlike Page: “unfan” the page. ?

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The Next Web

NOVEMBER 13, 2013

Frequent algorithm changes in Google’s Organic search results (and indeed, the actual layout of the search results pages themselves) enforce a world where useful, engaging and purposeful content is quite welcome, and search engine spam is not.

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TechImpact

MAY 1, 2014

Whether it be through social feeds or blogs, the goal is always the same. Without doing so, your audiences will categorize your blog or website as just another site spamming their social media feeds sharking for clicks. Image courtesy of Engage Designs. Connect with as many people as possible. Fill a niche. And get noticed.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 5, 2006

Today I discovered Cityzenjane's blog and her i_like_to_watch tag/delicious rss feed via a comment to one of my blog posts. At first, I thought it was comment spam promoting a porno site but far from it. " Cityzenjane's goal for this feed is to provide you with content that will inspire you to make a great green future.

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 30, 2011

To follow more of the things I find online, you can follow @amysampleward on Twitter (which is just a blog and resource feed), or find me on Delicious (for all kinds of bookmarks). But if you subscribed us to your organization's bulk email list without our permission, then you are sending us spam." " Lights.

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The Next Web

JANUARY 20, 2014

This creates a saturation in people’s feeds and makes it hard to be seen. However, on Twitter you have to specifically add an image – and it really stands out in your follower’s feeds. Too much of the same might come across like a spam, so strategise wisely. Our favorite is Twitpic. Ankur Nagpal – “ Virtual Scarcity ”.

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The Verge

JUNE 29, 2021

They’ll be watching for the types of links people post while keeping a particular eye on misinformation and spam. Shah says there’s “no plan” to bring them to the feed or any other part of the app. That is the sort of future system we would like to get to,” he says. Links will be limited to stories for now, however.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 5, 2012

What you usually see there (and what most people ignore) are tweets that have been automatically posted in the LinkedIn news feed from your personal profile. Automated tweets just clutter the feed, and many people find them annoying. Resist the urge and do not automate! Make an effort to post authentic updates at least once a week.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 5, 2021

Known for having higher engagement than other social media, Instagram is evolving and it is becoming increasingly more difficult for nonprofits to get exposure in the Instagram Feed. In most cases, your avatar should not include text as it would be too small to read in the Instagram feed on a smartphone. Not anymore.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 18, 2013

Recently both LinkedIn and Facebook dropped their integration with Twitter indicative of a trend – a maturing of the Social Web, if you will – where automated tweets or updates are generally frowned upon as they tend to be formatted poorly, lack authenticity, and clutter News Feeds on LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter, etc.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 25, 2023

While both recommendation systems are designed to present videos that people will value and enjoy, the Shorts feed prioritizes a more diverse feed because people are flipping through hundreds of videos versus maybe 10 or 20 in long-form. But on Shorts, people are swiping through content not knowing what comes next.

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Amy Sample Ward

JULY 1, 2012

To follow more of the things I find online, you can follow @amysampleward on Twitter (which is just a blog and resource feed), or find me on Delicious (for all kinds of bookmarks). You can join the conversations in the comments, or click through to the original posts to find what others are saying.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 18, 2013

Recently both LinkedIn and Facebook dropped their integration with Twitter indicative of a trend – a maturing of the Social Web, if you will – where automated tweets or updates are generally frowned upon as they tend to be formatted poorly, lack authenticity, and clutter News Feeds on LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter, etc.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 18, 2023

Blocking has become an increasingly essential feature for many users, as they’ve seen an uptick in spam replies on their timeline. Many public figures have also relied on the feature as a method of removing harassment from their feed. When — and whether — the feature is made obsolete remains to be seen.

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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. Letting them subscribe to your site content through RSS feeds or email can help them ensure they’re getting the most-update information from your organization with ease and convenience.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 9, 2021

Over the decade that followed, most groups became overrun with spam and tech glitches, and as a result, LinkedIn Groups almost became obsolete. For now, LinkedIn Pages outperform Facebook and Twitter in organic reach and engagement.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 10, 2022

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. Tweets overloaded with hashtags look messy, are hard to read, and make your nonprofit look desperate to gain followers. Like mentions and replies.

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Amy Sample Ward

AUGUST 15, 2011

To follow more of the things I find online, you can follow @amysampleward on Twitter (which is just a blog and resource feed), or find me on Delicious (for all kinds of bookmarks). Like ‘how many times can I invite my Facebook friends to a fundraising event before it’s considered spam?’ Doing Good.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 12, 2011

Seth said it like this in his post: “ …either be better at pump and dump than anyone else, get your numbers into the millions, outmass those that choose to use mass and always dance at the edge of spam (in which the number of those you offend or turn off forever keep increasing)… or Relentlessly focus.

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The Verge

JUNE 24, 2021

The only problem is that something makes it feel one step away from the bad old days of the early 2010s , when Google forced Google Plus sorting and feeds onto everyone. Events spam and “Email from Google Plus” were just some of the lowlights.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 30, 2012

The new algorithm also factors in negative feedback and penalizes posts that have been actively hidden by viewers or reported as spam. Report spam: user thinks your page is spam. Fans are more likely to report a post as spam than to unlike the page. Hide: hides a single specific post from the user’s newsfeed. ?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 3, 2007

where a group doesn't have the same beneficial news-feed options that a. We aren't talking about commercial use or spamming. I wished all of his friends a happy birthday so that they could laugh at Ranger Rick in their news feed (not to mention get him more exposure). they are severely limiting their options. profile has.

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Bloomerang

MARCH 13, 2023

85% of all emails are spam. There were no additional solicitations, just feeding back and nurturing messages. The average nonprofit email open rate is 23%. So more than three-quarters of the folks on your list will never see your beautifully crafted, compelling message. You’re not their priority. Need proof? The result? More is more.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 28, 2015

The groups had become a burden to manage and now with only one group remaining, I can commit myself to being a better group manager ( translation: deleting spam and spammers faster). Even though I followed 8,600+ nonprofits on Pinterest, my Pinterest Feed had become so overrun with suggested pins a.k.a.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 20, 2007

" Of course, I showed people my bloglines and 233 feeds, but I also told them that I didn't start off with that many and I also give myself permission not to read everything all the time. I started off with 5 blog feeds and as I discovered other blogs or resources, I added them gradually. For example, a few in google groups.

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NonProfit Hub

JULY 23, 2016

It’s hard to believe, but it’s been close to 10 years since Facebook first introduced the News Feed. And since then, Facebook has implemented over 30 major algorithm changes to determine what is prioritized on your Facebook News Feed.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 18, 2024

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. Too often nonprofits follow a small number of accounts on X to control the chaos in their “Home” feed, but that’s the purpose of lists.

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The Verge

JUNE 15, 2021

And Shafi is right to identify groups as a critical area in social networking, as people are increasingly moving away from communicating primarily in public feeds to private chats. The startup has already had to battle spam, and it's just now starting to ramp up hiring for its trust and safety team.

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The Verge

DECEMBER 8, 2021

DeepMind, which regularly feeds its work into Google products, has probed the capabilities of this LLMs by building a language model with 280 billion parameters named Gopher. This is not an area that has plateaued,” DeepMind research scientist Jack Rae told reporters in a briefing call. This is not an area that has plateaued.”.

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Forum One

MARCH 12, 2024

We’ve already seen high-profile malicious uses of deep fakes and Generative AI also makes it easier for users or bots to create spam messages and misinformation at scale. There are complex copyright and fair use issues, and new PR and crisis communications challenges.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 13, 2009

Worst thing you can do with a page is dump an RSS feed into the Page - won't be as successful. It's intended to prevent spam. Wall Tab - accuracy updates of information. Write Something" lets you post rich content". More interactive content is better - the Wall is a history of interactive. This is very powerful viral marketing.

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The Verge

DECEMBER 28, 2020

I get alerted when important work emails come in, but my phone screen isn’t constantly filled with alerts about all the spam I’m getting. It also supports adding in RSS feeds directly, so you can listen to subscriber-only shows you might pay for. Pocket Casts. Pocket Casts.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 5, 2012

What you usually see there (and what most people ignore) are tweets that have been automatically posted in the LinkedIn news feed from your personal profile. Automated tweets just clutter the feed, and many people find them annoying. Resist the urge and do not automate! Make an effort to post authentic updates at least once a week.

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The Verge

OCTOBER 14, 2021

Block Party automates the time-consuming process of moderating your Twitter feed, filtering out content from people you don’t want to see for later review and, starting today, blocking accounts that retweet or like a bad tweet of your choice with blocklists.

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