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Ten Useful Examples of the Real-Time Web in Action

NTEN

Seattle startup Evri uses data from Twitter in a very interesting way. They are like broad, topical, personalized blogsearch with good spam control. Pushing Financial Data. Real-time infrastructure company Kaazing uses HTML5 Websockets to push bits of financial data to web interfaces for banks. Twitter as Trigger.

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Social Networks and Digital Sharecropping

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

It’s only by aggregating those contributions on a massive scale – on a web scale – that the business becomes lucrative. 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.

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Fourteen Ways to Improve Your Open Rate

NTEN

We're on pace to deliver more than 1,000,000 messages in 2011, so our data is beginning to amount to something meaningful. 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. Collect and use your data.

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Measuring the Value of Your Blog: Reflections Over the Last Year

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The dramatic rise a year ago was I consolidated several RSS feeds so Feedburner was reporting aggregate statistics. Anyway, since I didn't want to spend all day on this and since I couldn't really slice and dice the data easily, so I only compared two months - May, 2007 and May, 2008. (I I did not include spam comments or my own).

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Is Direct Mail Dying or Dead? Hogwash! - Online Fundraising, Advocacy, and Social Media - frogloop

Care2

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. But the channel isnt setup to respond to individual behavior, rather its setup to look at aggregate. My 2 cents. I get a lot of this mail because I take action alot online.

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Year-End Appeal Guide

The Modern Nonprofit

There are many reasons for this, not least of which is it prevents your entire organization’s domain from being spam-blocked! Analyze your data against previous years to uncover what strategies worked, and make notes looking ahead for next year. Your format and layout matters. Did you meet your goal, and why?

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2021 Year-End Appeal Guide

The Modern Nonprofit

There are many reasons for this, not least of which is it prevents your entire organization’s domain from being spam-blocked! Analyze your data against previous years to uncover what strategies worked, and make notes looking ahead for next year. Your format and layout matters. Did you meet your goal, and why? celebrate.

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