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. Keep up the good work!

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Judi Sohn

MARCH 3, 2012

I’ve been co-moderator of the group since 2009. We have the group set so topics are public, but only members can post and membership has to be approved to avoid spam. Nonprofit Salesforce Practitioners (NPSF) is a 6 year-old Google Group now with over 1700 members, averaging around 300 messages a month. Doesn’t matter.

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Care2

MAY 14, 2009

Open rates can be an unreliable metric due to spam filters, preview panes and image blocking -- all of which make it hard to know whether someone is actually opening (or reading) an email. May 14, 2009 | Eric Copyright © 2008, Care2.com However, as online programs have matured, the decline in the performance of email has slowed.

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Care2

MAY 14, 2009

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. However, as online programs have matured, the decline in the performance of email has slowed. Don’t be too alarmed though.

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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. Unless it provides concrete benefits than there’s no point.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 6, 2010

I wrote about her project The Born2Fly Project to stop child trafficking in January, 2009 on National Human Trafficking and Modern Slavery Awareness Day. I thought I’d tweeted about it so much that Twitter was going to suspend my account for spamming—yet many of my followers didn’t even know about it.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 27, 2009

If you're registered for the 2009 Nonprofit Technology Conference , congratulations on being one of over 1000 amazing people coming together for 3 days of awesomeness, April 26-28. (If Go to 'NTC 2009 Sessions' in the upper right and scan the sessions, and don't forget to RSVP by clicking on the button in the session description.

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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 14, 2009

spam filters: are you using spam-like words in any of your content? We provide a supportive network for the vibrant and thriving community of women in technology professions by giving women an open platform to share their talents, experiences, and insights. subject line: what are you saying before the email is even opened?

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Care2

MAY 15, 2009

spam filters: are you using spam-like words in any of your content? May 15, 2009 | Anne Dougherty Copyright © 2008, Care2.com 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? does it rely on graphics/images? All rights reserved.

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sgEngage

JULY 5, 2011

(This was originally written in June 2009. And it’s more than likely spam, too. I recently learned it is the most read article on the AFP Information Exchange. Reposting it in case you missed it.). Every day nonprofits send out millions of email messages. And every day there are some common sins committed with email.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 10, 2018

The Two Sides of the AI and Humanity Debate: I’ve been following Shel Israel for over ten years, since he interviewed for a chapter about nonprofits and Twitter in his 2009 book, Twitterville. In the last five years, he has been researching and writing about AI.

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Care2

JUNE 1, 2009

» Sunday May 31 2009 Is Direct Mail Dying or Dead? Sunday, May 31, 2009 at 02:22PM | by Mal Warwick My, my. 5) The furor about “junk mail” is mild compared to that about spam—as it should be, because online communications is prey to all sorts of fraud. My 2 cents.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 5, 2009

Toby Daniels and Scott Harrison raised important questions about whether the approach used for Twestival back in Feburary, 2009 described as part fundraiser, party publicity blitz is sustainable given the dramatic growth of Twitter and other social media outlets like Facebook.

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