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Subscribers stop opening your emails for several reasons: your emails are going to their spam folders, their email address is no longer in use, or they are simply ignoring your emails because they are no longer interested. Nonprofit Tech for Good recommends ILLUSIO and NTEN. Also, get cybersecurity training for your nonprofit staff.
(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.
This post originally appeared in NTEN's July Connect newsletter. In fact, according to the annual Benchmarks report from NTEN and M+R , email fundraising revenue alone increased by a whopping 25% last year, outpacing the overall growth of other online revenue sources. Email service providers like Google and Yahoo!,
Over the years, we’ve had lots of requests for a job board for the NTEN community. We aim to please and we’re thrilled to announce a beta version of NTEN’s brand new job board. NTEN’s Nonprofit Tech Job Board is a platform dedicated exclusively to paid nonprofit technology career opportunities. Got questions? Suggestions?
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].
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.
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. Want to bid on these, or any of the other items (like the NTEN staff hand delivering a 5 Guys meal to your NTC lunch table)? It went into my spam filter, FYI.)
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.
2021 was an eventful year at NTEN as we continued to promote, work towards, and model equitable practices internally and externally. This year, implementing the new concurrent and holistic committee application process resulted in a more accessible and streamlined experience with more community members on NTEN committees than ever before.
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!
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.
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.
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. Many sites implement a CAPTCHA system to filter out spam robots, but quite a few systems use only visual-based tests, which aren’t accessible.
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.
If users have to create an account, that in itself is a barrier, but it will allow you to delete accounts that spam. If you open up filesharing, you could expose your members to viruses, unhelpful or inappropriate content, or spam. If you open up comments to all users, you are going to get spammers. Further reading: http :// www.
. 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.
In the vein of empowerment, the Nonprofit Technology Enterprise Network (NTEN) has a number of initiatives to get staff on board with social media: An internal live-Tweeting tutorial open to all staff, during which they can also ask any general Twitter questions. A detailed social media policy updated on a regular basis.
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?
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.
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.
We're less than 2 months away from the 2012 Nonprofit Technology Conference, NTEN's signature three-day gathering that brings together nonprofit professionals – like you! from around the world to collaborate, innovate, and maximize effectiveness. Nearly 1,700 nonprofit professionals will gather in San Francisco at the beginning of April.
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.
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.
Want to bid on these, or any of the other items (like the NTEN staff hand delivering a 5 Guys meal to your NTC lunch table)? 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].
To get a 15% discount, you just need to be an NTEN Member. Avoid spam filters. To give a lift to nptechies in the Boston area, Idealware and Third Sector New England will. Boston Email Fundraising Bootcamp on October 7th. For the discount code, drop me a line: brett@nten.org. > > You should register for this event here.
Even worse, if enough of them use the "Uninvite" (or "Spam") button, you might find yourself permanently uninvited from your entire email list. Tags: E-mail NPTech NTEN Communications.
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.
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.
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. Faster than a speeding FedEx truck! Able to leap.
They are like broad, topical, personalized blogsearch with good spam control. Tags: Data marshall kirkpatrick Newsletter NPTech NTEN Social Media Communications. YourVersion and LazyFeed are two real-time discovery services that unearth blog posts, web pages and other resources about topics of interest to users.
Sure, Twitter is banal and trivial, full of self-promotion and outright spam. I like the guideline that Wendy Harman, Social Media Strategist for the Red Cross said last February in an NTEN Webinar, " I won't tweet anything that would embarrass my mother." So is the Internet.
spam filters: are you using spam-like words in any of your content? 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.
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
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.
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.
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. Net Tuesday Seattle has been in the local press too! Netsquared Featured projects receive grant awards ! NpTech Talk. It like it was also splog and closed down by wordpress.
His main point is that Twitter is not an advertising tool or spam tool. I like the way NTEN does it. There is also a generic organization one - but a lot of NTEN conversations happen through Holly and other staff. That's how some companies have been successful on Twitter- like Frank at Comcast or Lionel at Dell.
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?
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?
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.
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.
Doug mentioned attending the NTC/NTEN conference in New Orleans and had RSS and Tagging ringing in his ears. We moderate comments because of spam and word press has a good tool for spam, but you need to moderate. This year's program is heavily weighted to the "social web" and nonprofits.
I've been trying to collect screen captures and stories about nonprofit web analytics for a screencast on Google Analytics for NTEN. I did not include spam comments or my own). I'm going to have track down that salary study NTEN did a while back and compute the value based on that. via Kevin Gamble (see larger here ).
M&R and NTEN just released an impressive benchmarks study that analyzed 32 nonprofits online advocacy and online fundraising programs in 2007 and 2008. Open rates can be an unreliable metric due to spam filters, preview panes, image blocking which have little to do with whether someone is actually opening (or reading) an email.
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