Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 2, 2007

NpTech Themes Nptech Tag News: The NpTech Community site can be found at: [link]. Unthinkingly experiments with visualizing NpTech Tag data with Many Eyes. DEMO 07 NpTech Bytes: DEMO 07 is a conference focused on cutting edge and emerging technology, mostly for the business sector. The offline wikipedia, Moulin.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 29, 2007

NpTech Talk. Yikes, the first ever tag spam I've seen in the NpTech Tag Stream! Then, I remembered the phrase flowed through the NPtech tag stream about six months as a reference to interface design.) Some really cool events flowing through the NpTech Tag Stream! Net Tuesday Seattle has been in the local press too!

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

JUNE 14, 2007

I wrote about this a while back but I still frequently hear our clients worrying that every email they send out might be violating the CAN-SPAM act. But what the law terms "transactional" or "relational" emails are exempt from the CAN-SPAM law's requirements. And make sure you meet the CAN-SPAM guidelines when they apply.

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

NOVEMBER 15, 2005

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. The Act met with general disapproval from the grass-roots movement trying to ban unsolicted marketing emails, who called it the You-CAN-SPAM act. Tags: nptech , email , spam

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NTEN

OCTOBER 8, 2014

Job postings in the NTEN Discuss group and other myNTEN discussion groups have increased in the last couple of years and we''ve heard about it: many group members have flagged these posts as spam, asked staff to delete them, and often requested discussions stay on topic. careers community jobs nptech nten staffing Staffing Program'

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NTEN

OCTOBER 25, 2013

When everyone''s favorite spam twitter account revealed itself to be an art project, there was a little but of uproar. Which brings up an interesting question: Can spam be art? nptech nten' A monthly roundup of our favorite nonprofit tech resources and other goodies.

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NetWits

MAY 5, 2011

Send too frequently and you risk fatiguing your subscribers, making them reach for the ‘report as spam’ or ‘unsubscribe’ button. The frequency of your email blasts has a huge impact on the success of your email program.

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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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NTEN

JUNE 10, 2011

Marnie Webb introduced the nptech tag to help aggregate nonprofit technology content. Nptech resources can be found on delicious , flickr , slideshare , and Twitter. Peter Campbell leveraged RSS to pull the tagged items into nptech. org / blog /2007/03/20/ nptech - tagging - community. Further reading: http :// www.

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NTEN

JANUARY 15, 2010

(Note: This is a weekly round-up of NTEN members doing and sharing their nptech awesome. Tag your own news with "nten member" or "nptech" to help us find your awesome online, or contact Annaliese with your updates.) . Robert Weiner has been documenting this type of SPAM and sharing with the community since 2008.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 11, 2010

If you didn't, first check your spam filter (and then add us to your approved contacts list). Tags: 10NTC NPTech NTEN. If you're already registered for the 10NTC, you should have received an e-mail from me today with the super secret code. If it's not there, just shoot us an e-mail. The excitement begins. Are you registered yet?

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 21, 2011

Avoid the spam filter. Even if you run a double opt-in for your list, your messages can get trapped by the increasingly sophisticated spam filters in place just about everywhere. It pays to know why your messages may be sent into the dank, squishy depths of the spam folder. Develop a good email template.

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 2, 2014

Job postings on the NTEN Discuss list or Community of Practice groups have increased in the last couple of years and we''ve heard about it: many participants flag these posts as off topic or even spam, sending them to staff with requests to help moderate and keep discussions on topic. We don''t want to discourage hiring from this community!

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NTEN

JANUARY 4, 2010

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. Tags: NPTech NTEN Things We Like. Patience pants.

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Amy Sample Ward

AUGUST 15, 2011

Like ‘how many times can I invite my Facebook friends to a fundraising event before it’s considered spam?’ . – "Have you ever wanted to ask a fundraising expert a question you just can’t get your arms around? ’ Well, now’s your chance!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 26, 2005

He was pleased again to hear about the nptech, too. His definition of tag spam: A bookmark with 1,000 different tags. There 2-3 spam incidents a week. The type of spam that is happening now is posting and deleting to stay on the front page. t spam happen a lot more? Technorati Tags: nptech , net2 berkman

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NTEN

JANUARY 29, 2009

The SpamTrap , "an interactive installation piece that prints, shreds and blacklists spam email". Tags: NPTech NTEN Newsletter Things We Like. That's gotta feel good. The Capitol News Connection has one that lets you " Ask Your Lawmaker ". And our new Sprout-built fundraising widget could help as many as 57 people attend the 2009 NTC.

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NetWits

DECEMBER 2, 2010

It will also help to prevent people from marking you as Spam. Segmenting your lists will lead to more targeted messaging and is proven to boost response rates and help to reduce unsubscribes. The worst thing you can do: not segment your audience.

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NTEN

JANUARY 27, 2010

By scheduling updates, you keep your communication regular -- and you can repost, without spamming the airwaves. Tags: Newsletter NPTech NTEN Planning Social Media Communications. A regular Twitter stream is more effective than 3 posts a week, all at the same time. Use a tool like Hootsuite to schedule your tweets.

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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). Nonprofit Tech for Good’s LinkedIn Company Page requires a minimal time investment and grows in value each year, so it made the cut for 2016.

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Connection Cafe

JUNE 7, 2013

The main push back was that including symbols like stars or hearts in the subject line increases the likelihood that a message would land in the recipient’s spam folder and goes against “best practices.”. Overuse of a technique like this is when you start getting in trouble with spam filters.

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NTEN

JANUARY 18, 2011

It went into my spam filter, FYI.) Heres what you need to do: Create an account at our auction site. You must use our link to register: [link]. The system will send you a confirmation email you must respond to before you can log in for the first time. You should also choose to "Follow" any items on which you bid.

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Care2

MAY 14, 2009

spam filters: are you using spam-like words in any of your content? Things to consider and target include: sender line: who is your email "from". subject line: what are you saying before the email is even opened? opening: do you make your email seem personal, use your database to insert members' names. design: is it clean?

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

APRIL 30, 2006

Simply put, the Internet has no inherent security architecture -- nothing to stop viruses or spam or anything else. Tags: nptech , security , identity Protections like firewalls and antispam software are add-ons, security patches in a digital arms race. Closely related to security is Identity Management.

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

APRIL 22, 2009

email SPAM is a major contributor to IT energy consumption, utilizing 33bn kilowatt-hours of energy every year, enough to power more than 2.4m Tags: nptech green. But this article in the BBC took me by surprise. home, and in the process contributing 17 million tons of carbon dioxide to our greenhouse gas burden.

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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. One of the places I look first for NPTech news is the Nonprofit Tech For Good website. Email GreenTech cloud Microsoft open data nptech nonprofit technology Mobile tssocialmedia tsmobiletechnology tsgreentechnology'

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Tech Soup

APRIL 7, 2014

That’s what happens when you gather the #nptech tribe together! Vancouver, Canada: The Canadian Anti-Spam Act: What you need to know before July 1. So join your local NetSquared group and start participating in the fun. And if you don’t have a local group we’ll help you start your own. Upcoming Events.

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NTEN

JANUARY 27, 2010

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. A regular Twitter stream is more effective than 3 posts a week, all at the same time. Use a tool like Hootsuite to schedule your tweets.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 10, 2011

It should go without saying that we’re not advocating spamming blog comments with embedded links to your website – not only will that guarantee your comments get deleted, but you can also get yourself blacklisted.). So long as you consistently connect your profile to your organization’s website, you’ll begin driving traffic to it. (It

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NTEN

MARCH 26, 2009

What if they become viral or even SPAM? . Tags: NPTech michael weiss marketing NTEN Newsletter integrated communications. " But does that ring true in the new age of online marketing? What if the comments are negative or disparaging? What if they're offensive? What if they're completely off topic?

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NTEN

JANUARY 20, 2011

It went into my spam filter, FYI.) Here's what you need to do: Create an account at our auction site. You must use our link to register: [link]. The system will send you a confirmation email you must respond to before you can log in for the first time. You should also choose to "Follow" any items on which you bid.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 10, 2012

I honestly can't imagine how I'd do my job without you. Simone Parrish, InnoNet.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 27, 2009

If for some reason, like your spam folder, you haven't gotten it, please send a friendly note to support@ntconnect.org and they'll be happy to get your login info to you). Tags: NPTech NTEN acteva 09NTC. At this point you should have received your login to NTConnect. (If I hope that helps you navigate a little better.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 7, 2011

If the numbers are out of proportion, potential followers might think you're a spam account. Follower ratio - Try to keep it balanced. Consider keeping the number of followers within 20% of the number you follow. What other tips do you suggest for optimizing your twitter page?

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 3, 2010

Ideally this includes a strict anti-spam policy, automatic SPAM cleaners, ISP-specific controls and white-list approvals. Tags: E-mail NPTech NTEN Communications. Knowledge of the email delivery world: None of these factors matter a bit if the ESP doesn’t do whatever it can to ensure the highest probability of email receipt.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 23, 2008

His main point is that Twitter is not an advertising tool or spam tool. I found it because I have an RSS feed for a twitter search on the nptech tag. That nonprofits and companies should not set up a Twitter account to "prattle on about their products and services." Nonprofit Best Practices on Twitter.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 29, 2008

Facebook doesn't automatically spam your email contacts. Sign up for Facebook and search for your organization's name there, too. You can also find people you know on Facebook simply by importing your email list from Outlook. Don't worry.

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