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10 Blogging Best Practices for Nonprofits

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Blogging of the past was usually editorial content, such as an opinion piece or report back by an executive director. With social media, comments are increasingly rarely on blogs and there’s a good chance that the comments you do get are spam or argumentative for the sake of being argumentative.

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How Nonprofits Can Improve Their Email Deliverability

Tech Soup

This issue of email deliverability — the percentage of email that actually makes it into inboxes and not spam folders — is becoming a critical issue for nonprofits of all sizes. How Your Emails Become Spam. Email Deliverability Defined. Nonprofit staffers across the country are taking notice. Check out Informz.

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Need a copy editor? Look in the mirror

M+R

To be clear, this was not because I was a shy and introverted child who was generally happiest sitting in a quiet room with a chess set, some books about dragons, and no friends. The greatest enemy of a direct response email is the spam filter. Or, not only that. Q: What if I cut out all the plain text?

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Tips to Increase Email Open Rates

Connection Cafe

That could be your organization’s name, an acronym, a well known member of your staff like the Executive Director, or maybe the name of an initiative or event. ” Avoid spam traps. That’s just one thing that will get your email caught by spam filters and prevent it from reaching your subscribers.

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Free and open source tool #5: WordPress

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

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.

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Groundswell Book Club Part 1: Listening

Museum 2.0

This week, we're covering the first objective in Charlene Li and Josh Bernoff's book Groundswell : listening (chapter 5). Many museums are protective about how frequently they send messages to members and other lists, fearing that they will be ignored or perceived as spam. What does it mean to listen to the groundswell?

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Lessons Learned From A Twitterthon

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Those funds allowed us to pay for the pre-prep for the wordless book that’s the centerpiece of The Born2Fly Project—illustrations, design work, professional scanning, and a lot more. 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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