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Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Free and open source tool #5: WordPress January 24, 2008 It seems like a good day to talk about WordPress. Here is yet another amazing free and open source tool getting a lot of good attention.
And, as you may know, every year, NTEN tries to raise $10,000 to send staffers from small nonprofits to the conference who otherwise couldn’t afford to attend. Every dollar is matched by Convio, allowing NTEN to send up to 57 people this year! It went into my spam filter, FYI.). You must use our link to register: [link].
Do you like sending deserving NPTechies to the greatest nonprofit technology conference on earth for free? While we've used the public humiliation of the NTEN staff as the theme in the past, this year we want to celebrate the collective awesome of the NTEN community. It went into my spam filter, FYI.) Be prepared!
Writing last month's post about how NTEN differentiates between types of open rate made me think about the ways we've worked to boost our numbers. While you should keep in mind that all of this is based on data specific to NTEN – your own results may vary – here are 14 ways we've worked to achieve that modest bump. so far this year.
They're coming right up -- and they're free for NTC registrants. I know that, given hundreds of NTC registrants, but only scores of webinar registrants, some folks may not have claimed their free webinars yet. Free as in Kittens: CiviCRM and Salesforce (02/22). Tags: 10NTC NPTech NTEN. That's right: webinars, plural.
That’s one of the most common questions we get at NTEN, and we’ve repeatedly heard from many of you in the NTEN community that you’d like to see a job board on NTEN.org. In just a few weeks, we’ll be unveiling NTEN’s Nonprofit Tech Job Board, a platform dedicated exclusively to paid nonprofit technology career opportunities.
Like ‘how many times can I invite my Facebook friends to a fundraising event before it’s considered spam?’ And it doesn't have to cost a ton: this video is made with basic tools that are free to use. ’ Well, now’s your chance! Have you made a video like this?
Scenario: Spam, spam, spam, spam, spam, bacon and spam. Wilson is offering a "Free Video on how to earn $251,283" from something called an "affiliate strategy" with, of course, links. Worse, there are a couple of thousand anti-spam-bots gunning for you now. Suddenly you're a spammer.
. NTEN offered a fantastic Webinar today featuring Randi Zuckerberg, Director of Marketing at Facebook and Adam (didn't get his last name) from the DC Office on the emerging best practices for nonprofits who want to set up Facebook Fan Pages. It's intended to prevent spam. Here's the description. Doesn't control the search.
Google AdWords has a great free tool for assessing the search frequency of your keywords. By scheduling updates, you keep your communication regular -- and you can repost, without spamming the airwaves. Tags: Newsletter NPTech NTEN Planning Social Media Communications. Clarify your key messages. Jargon anyone.? Automation.
Read the complete issue of NTEN's new quarterly journal for nonprofit leaders by subscribing to the journal for free! ] The recent change was engendered not by a desire to block volunteers or constituents from sharing information, but by a drastic increase in Spam. “Up Too much Spam or other weird things happening.
Up on the NTEN blog! It's the announcement of NTEN's next Product Spotlight Webinar, "Be an Email Superhero without Superhuman Effort"! > A demonstration of how to send beautiful email appeals that get delivered--without having to understand HTML or SPAM laws. Cost : FREE! Faster than a speeding FedEx truck!
Google AdWords has a great free tool for assessing the search frequency of your keywords. By scheduling updates, you keep your communication regular -- and you can repost, without spamming the airwaves. Tags: CRM E-mail Newsletter NPTech NTEN Planning Social Media Web Sites. Clarify your key messages. Jargon anyone.? Automation.
Yikes, the first ever tag spam I've seen in the NpTech Tag Stream! GoogleEarth launches Nonprofit Outreach Program via the NTEN blog and NetSquared community blog. Maybe it should be added to this list of free or cheap email list management tools. Net Tuesday Seattle has been in the local press too! NpTech Talk.
I moved on to cross-reference those recommendations against trusted online sources from NTEN and Idealware. Ideally this includes a strict anti-spam policy, automatic SPAM cleaners, ISP-specific controls and white-list approvals. Tags: E-mail NPTech NTEN Communications. That helped me cut the list to four firms.
We organize these free tech-for-good training and networking gatherings because we believe that it’s critical to build strong, self-sufficient communities of nonprofit tech practitioners. Vancouver, Canada: The Canadian Anti-Spam Act: What you need to know before July 1. Guatemala: EgarageTec-Day International Girls in ICT 2014.
I spend a lot of time listening on the social web using a radar that I've put together with a combination of free tools and the Stradivarius Violin of listening tools, Radian 6. His main point is that Twitter is not an advertising tool or spam tool. I like the way NTEN does it. Source: State of the Twittersphere Report.
Five Free Ways to Get Started. Facebook doesn't automatically spam your email contacts. Listening means finding the online social spaces where your audience is already communicating, monitoring the conversations that happen there, and gathering intelligence you can use to better understand your audience. Set up Google Alerts.
Doug mentioned attending the NTC/NTEN conference in New Orleans and had RSS and Tagging ringing in his ears. Free software, but expensive in terms of your time -Set out with minimal (achievable) goals and guidelines (policy) They differed in the audience building strategy and definition. He came back an evangelist for social media.
Remember the malware scare surrounding free downloads a decade ago? For many of these issues, good spam/virus filtering is essential. Tags: Infrastructure Newsletter NPTech NTEN Planning IT Staff. Maybe it is time to invest in another operating system and migration now save your hair and fingernails. They may be infected.
Myspace avoids spamming so the members usually blocks people from adding them directly unless you know them personally or their email. Several NTEN Affinity Groups have formed around social networking tools, including one called Social Networking Tools. So what I have been doing is sending out mails one by one!
For your reference, Hubspot lists 15 of the best e-newsletter templates free for download with a multi-story template named Pook by Litmus at the top of the list: Email fundraising appeals are different. In addition to requiring a double opt-in , add a captcha to your email sign up forms and stay away from free email sign up plugins and apps.
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.) Thanks to everyone who came.
There are quite a few options for doing this, some open source and free others not. spam filters: are you using spam-like words in any of your content? Two tools include: Vertical Response : 10,000 emails per month free for 501c3s. Idealware.org has reviews of many of these tools as well. Email is a critical channel.
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