Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 2, 2009

When I first started myspace.com/nonprofitorganizations almost 4 years ago I had no idea that it would evolve to become as large as it has, or that the brand/community/concept would spread to Facebook , then YouTube , and now Twitter. I was able then to tap into that community when I expanded into Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube.

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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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The Next Web

FEBRUARY 20, 2014

Borrow their Twitter followers. Twitter is a famous example. Just click on the “followers” list of your competitor’s company and you have a list of Twitter handles worth getting to know. I’m not suggesting you should contact them to spam them or tell them your service is better. You just need to know where to look.

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Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 26, 2009

What Twitter isn’t… Twitter isn’t a message board, or a social network of people you already know… So, is it a community? What Twitter gives us: freedom. safe from spam attacks. removing spam and offensive content. it used to mean ‘message boards’ and not much more. moderation.

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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). " The Internet has become a spontaneous, grassroots fundraising tool – Small Act – "Philanthropy has turned on its ear.

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NTEN

JANUARY 24, 2011

Scenario: Spam, spam, spam, spam, spam, bacon and spam. Perhaps it's something else, but regardless the cause, some ingenious script-kiddy has turned the tables and suddenly you're responsible for thousands upon thousands of spam messages. The names have been changed to protect the paranoid.

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Judi Sohn

MAY 29, 2009

Kind of like if Ning , Google Talk , Gmail , Twitter and Facebook got smooshed together into a single open source environment. Gmail focused on simplicity first (great spam filtering, super fast search, conversation grouping) and then along came Labs years later to make it all interesting and wiz-bang. Is that too much to ask, Google?

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Judi Sohn

JUNE 1, 2009

Way more folks subscribe to C3’s content via email as compared to Facebook, Twitter and RSS feeds combined. For starters, it only works in Internet Explorer. Tags: Internet & Technology Nonprofit. One of the things I have to do for my job at C3 on a regular basis is produce our monthly e-newsletter.

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The Next Web

DECEMBER 3, 2013

If you look at Facebook and Twitter today, they are very different than they were years back. All the correct time and day research in the world won’t help you if an individual hasn’t opted-in or filtered your sender address as “spam.”. million millennials are mobile Internet users and over half (49 million) of the 86.2

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 15, 2009

Many took issue with the logic and metrics he used to make his case: Take a look at the top 100 twitter users in terms of followers. Is a celebrity-marketing expert right when he chides the nonprofit world for being “paralyzed by fear” when it comes to the use of social-media tools such as Twitter and Facebook? Twitter & Digg?

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The Next Web

FEBRUARY 4, 2014

Just in case you fear for those out-of-place commas, here are some tools to get your emails from Spam to Starred. The green circle also acts as a guiding friend on connected Facebook and Twitter posts. Everyone could use a little grammar refresher to combat the ever-changing language of the Internet. Unbelievable unsend.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 19, 2021

WordPress, the open source software behind the company, is now estimated to power roughly 42% of all websites on the internet. Automattic focused on media at a time when that industry was being demolished by the internet. ” The good side of spam. billion valuation. CNET turned out to be the perfect employer.

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The Verge

JUNE 10, 2021

So we’ve combed through the preview pages, Twitter, and a good chunk of the internet to see what interesting features got left out of the presentation. Filtering for spam texts. It’s likely rolling out there because of rampant spamming of SMS in the country — India got the feature last year. iOS and iPadOS 15.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 26, 2023

Shelley McKinley Contributor Share on Twitter Shelley McKinley is chief legal officer at GitHub, home to more than 100 million software developers. Nicknamed the “26 words that created the internet” by Jeff Kosseff, Section 230 established a liability shield for platforms that host third-party content.

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The Next Web

DECEMBER 18, 2013

Internet lurkers don’t reply. When you spend enough time on the Internet, you can spot a spam comment from a mile away. Choose your personal Twitter account first, Linkedin second, Facebook third. Tweetdeck / Twitter (keyword search in the “discover” option – look for article links). Pros: it works. grow authority.

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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 14, 2009

I had the great honor of moderating the panel Tools Galore in Online Communications: From Google Earth to Wiki’s and Twitter this panel will give you the nuts and bolts of the latest tools organizations can utilize to ramp up their next online campaign. spam filters: are you using spam-like words in any of your content?

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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. I doubt you’ll look back. { Keep up the good work!

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

Many then took to Twitter. The conversations on Twitter then exploded. After being denied access to a well-attended Twitter Space discussing the situation, Awodele deleted her Twitter account, and her students, in spite of non-disparagement agreements, started to speak. MyTechFrenemy. Mandy withdrew. .”

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Byte Technology

FEBRUARY 7, 2017

There are a ton of them, but some of the real stand-outs are: “WordPress, SEO and Internet Questions;” WordPress Help for Beginners;” and “All About WordPress.” If you’re one of the one billion Facebook users you’re already in a great position to hop into a WordPress group.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 25, 2013

Gather 'round for I have scoured the depths of the Internet to bring you the most terrifying security stories. His Twitter account was used as a platform to broadcast hatespeech to his thousands of followers. But as you probably know, things posted on the Internet can come back to haunt you. Security breaches!

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The Verge

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

The group assembled over the past week, mostly, it seems, because it seemed like a bunch of randos on the internet buying an important historical document would be a funny thing to do. In the group’s Discord, people spammed guesses about which of the two representatives was on their side.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 10, 2012

It's a burial ground for spam." He also began using Facebook (and later Twitter) as a way to listen to and better understand his students' concerns and interests. For example, when Shin's organization started using Twitter, it wasn't successful at all. The program was a success. And that's okay.

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The Verge

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

At least one staff member of The Verge found a necessary consent form hiding in her spam folder. An NYC site called TurboVax pulls “the latest appointments from 43 city and state-run vaccine sites in the NYC area” and puts them on Twitter. Watch for news of upcoming vaccination sites. Keep an eye on the news.

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NTEN

JANUARY 27, 2010

and hootsuite.com allow you to post to Twitter, Facebook and more at the same time. A regular Twitter stream is more effective than 3 posts a week, all at the same time. By scheduling updates, you keep your communication regular -- and you can repost, without spamming the airwaves. Cross post. Tools like ping.fm

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Get Fully Funded

MAY 9, 2011

A blank email subject line can look like spam. On Twitter, you’re an egghead. When you create a Twitter account, it gives you an egg graphic until you upload a photo. Your Facebook or Twitter status hasn’t been updated in weeks. Your email needs to have your website domain address. You have no email signature.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 1, 2007

A new social networking site, called “Quetchup&# spammed (without permission) the contacts of people who signed up for the site. It’s not really mine, and I don’t like that. Privacy Suck: Not so long ago, there was a little hiccup in Web 2.0 goodiness. your bot got here before I did! Do it, just pull the plug and do it.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 19, 2008

He mentioned that I would be talking about Twitter and quipped."If "If you see me twittering, take me to the back and shoot me." " I did manage to get Internet access on my nokia N95 and couldn't resist Twittering his quip. He urged everyone to pay attention to this closely. Mike Seyfang responded.

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The Verge

JANUARY 13, 2021

Would give a really nice crowd feel to a chat spamming PogChamp and allow the meaning to be tied to all of us instead. Jones started receiving comments on Twitter from people saying that he didn’t look like PogChamp, that Twitch should bring back the old emote instead, and then “a crap ton of people, you know, saying racist things.”

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Tech Soup

MAY 28, 2013

Outlook.com connects up with Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, and soon Skype to "bring your connected world to email," as they say. It also has better spam filtering — it keeps spam to less than 3 percent of your inbox. Windows XP or higher: Windows Internet Explorer 8. PC Browsers That Work with Outlook.com.

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NTEN

JANUARY 27, 2010

and hootsuite.com allow you to post to Twitter, Facebook and more at the same time. A regular Twitter stream is more effective than 3 posts a week, all at the same time. By scheduling updates, you keep your communication regular -- and you can repost, without spamming the airwaves. Cross post. Tools like ping.fm

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 5, 2013

These services, by-the-way, are different from spam filtering services like Postini , GFI.com, or Spamcop. Green Wi-Fi.org along with Illinois Institute of Technology and Inveneo are developing solar-powered Internet connectivity to the schools in Lascahobas, Haiti. They are cloud-based services so are priced per user per month.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 23, 2014

Amazon Fire Phone and the Internet of Things. So let's say you're watching a movie and the camera pans to a can of Spam on a kitchen counter. The Fire Phone is a perfect representation of "The Internet of Things," a concept my colleague Jim Lynch has written about. Sounds a bit creepy, right? Or helpful?

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Tech Soup

JUNE 2, 2011

Maintain Members’ Trust : The first method by which Care2 works to maintain their members’ trust is to protect their community from spam and trolls to maintain a safe online community.

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AFP Blog

MARCH 26, 2009

Five Things We’re Forgetting When We Take Our Fundraising Online | Network for Good Learning Center - Learn how to raise money online for your nonprofit: "Remember the days before the Internet? We're not sure if that world is more or less scary than the one we're working in now: Twitter, CAN-SPAM, Web design. No websites.

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Care2

MAY 15, 2009

frogloop Home frogloop Home Receive monthly updates Subscribe to our RSS feed Follow frogloop on Twitter Most Popular Posts Social Network ROI Calculator Social Networking for Nonprofits: ROI, Tracking Tools and More "While Theyre Hot!" spam filters: are you using spam-like words in any of your content?

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NTEN

JANUARY 27, 2010

A network cloud is just a collection of servers living out on the Internet providing various services -- much like how websites are served from a web server, but in a much larger, scalable fashion. For many of these issues, good spam/virus filtering is essential. What's floating in the clouds? You might consider moving to OpenID.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 14, 2007

They've played with Twitter. Spam, obscenity--they just aren't an issue at all. We get so much spam on MySpace, whereas on Flickr and Facebook and the blog we never get spam. But other things--the twitter thing, the video contest was my idea. You have to have a really good computer and internet connection.

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