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More lame spam as blog comments

Robert Weiner

At their best, these are way more entertaining than email spam -- lots of creative English, garbled syntax, and mixed metaphors ("gladsome to mature this website," "earmarks of the army has recruited on boob tube," "Lossing albatross is benificial," "your current article causes me completely happy"). Thanks For Share Robert L. Great write-up!

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Spamming for Good is the Wrong Description of What Dr. Mani, Roger Carr, Jen Lemens, and Other Good Personal Fundraisers Really Do!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Relationship : It's spring fundraising season and I'm getting spammed. are sending me broadcast emails and generic private messages on Facebook asking me to donate. Dr.Mani - Spamming for Good??? Are you spamming for good or are you using the three R's effectively? What no coffee? Roger Carr didn't do that.

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How to Maintain Digital Safety at an Online Event

AccelEvents

For example, if someone is speaking out of a line or continually spamming the chat, your chat moderator can post a message in the chat to remind everyone that spamming is not allowed. Identifiable information such as emblems can be disruptive during a live event broadcast. How you do this will depend on the level of disruption.

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How to Maintain Digital Safety at an Online Event

AccelEvents

For example, if someone is speaking out of a line or continually spamming the chat, your chat moderator can post a message in the chat to remind everyone that spamming is not allowed. Identifiable information such as emblems can be disruptive during a live event broadcast. How you do this will depend on the level of disruption.

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Scary Security Stories to Tell in the Dark

Tech Soup

His Twitter account was used as a platform to broadcast hatespeech to his thousands of followers. TechSoup's own Kevin Lo noticed some strange activity on his email accounts when friends were replying to spam he was supposedly sending out. Wired journalist Mat Honan had almost his entire online existence destroyed by hackers.

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Your Online Account Has Been Compromised — Now What?

Tech Soup

Once I did and logged in to my email, friends were writing and replying to me about the spam I was sending. Depending on the people affected, you should broadcast a message on your social networks about the issue and that you have resolved it. I did not email everyone on my list since that can be perceived as even more spam.

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10 Popular #Hashtags for Nonprofits

Nonprofit Tech for Good

There is such a thing as hashtag spamming. yourcity] : If your organizing an event, make sure to tag on your city hashtag to broadcast the event to folks in your area. If you use hashtags too often, then you dilute their usefulnesses by fragmenting the conversation. In the case of hashtags, I am a firm believer in less is more.

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