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Lame spams of the day: another roundup

Robert Weiner

An almost identical spam with Invoice_P350.htm Comment: approved, A++. Text: The following email could not be delivered to you as it exceeded the maximum size limit: Subject: 2011 tax return. (Open with Internet Explorer or Mozilla Firefox). messages included attachments Invoices-14-2012.htm, htm, Invoices-13-2012.htm

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Great reads from around the web on March 30th

Amy Sample Ward

You can join the conversations in the comments, or click through to the original posts to find what others are saying. But if you subscribed us to your organization's bulk email list without our permission, then you are sending us spam." Here are some of the most interesting things I’ve found recently (as of March 30th).

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Scary Security Stories to Tell in the Dark

Tech Soup

TechSoup's own Kevin Lo noticed some strange activity on his email accounts when friends were replying to spam he was supposedly sending out. In 2011, the group LulzSec hacked into PBS's website and posted an image of the spooky Nyan Cat as retaliation against the network's broadcast of a WikiLeaks documentary.

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How Nonprofits Can Use Measurement To Adapt to the Facebook Algorithm Change

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Both Edgerank Checker and Post Rocket have good posts on the details, but in a nutshell, Facebook has altered the way it displays posts in the newsfeed to prioritize posts that have the greatest number of interactions – a cumulative figure determined by the number of clicks, likes, comments and shares a post receives. He studied more than 1.3

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ASU Lodestar Center Blog: Research Friday: Why Do People Stop Giving?

ASU Lodestar Center

Disclaimer Friday, April 1, 2011 Research Friday: Why Do People Stop Giving? We welcome your comments and feedback. The reality is, we're all bombarded with digital messages and shares and likes and spam. April 1, 2011 4:47 PM Stephanie La Loggiasaid. April 5, 2011 11:07 AM Mark Rubin said.

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Case Study: Facebook for Volunteer Recruitment at AVP

NTEN

[Editor's note: The following is an excerpt from an article that first appeared in the June 2011 issue of NTEN:Change. 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.

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What's So Scary about Cloud Security?

Tech Soup

"I’m as big an advocate of a good firewall and a reputable anti-virus/spam package on all your systems as the next person. nonprofits across eight states in 2011. Tell us in the comments! "But the more pertinent question is this: is the security of a cloud service weaker or stronger than you currently have?

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