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Addressing Accessibility in Social Media

NTEN

If you have ever implemented a web submission form on your site, you quickly realized that without spam protection your environment was vulnerable to unwanted content. Many sites implement a CAPTCHA system to filter out spam robots, but quite a few systems use only visual-based tests, which aren’t accessible.

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Strengthen Your Community with a Knowledge Sharing Network

NTEN

If users have to create an account, that in itself is a barrier, but it will allow you to delete accounts that spam. If you open up filesharing, you could expose your members to viruses, unhelpful or inappropriate content, or spam. We open every file submitted before publishing it to the website. Further reading: http :// www.

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State of the Twittersphere: What It Means For Nonprofit Best Practices on Twitter

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I have a clipping file in a flickr set called Social Media Research Snippets. His main point is that Twitter is not an advertising tool or spam tool. I like the way NTEN does it. There is also a generic organization one - but a lot of NTEN conversations happen through Holly and other staff.

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Women Who Tech Telesummit: Tools Galore Panel

Amy Sample Ward

spam filters: are you using spam-like words in any of your content? Did you know you can embed an audio file in Google Earth?) 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? design: is it clean?

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25 Ways to Increase Your Organization's Communication Capacity

NTEN

By scheduling updates, you keep your communication regular -- and you can repost, without spamming the airwaves. Have a centralized file system to store media. Tags: Newsletter NPTech NTEN Planning Social Media Communications. A regular Twitter stream is more effective than 3 posts a week, all at the same time.

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25 Ways to Increase Your Organization's Communication Capacity

NTEN

By scheduling updates, you keep your communication regular -- and you can repost, without spamming the airwaves. Have a centralized file system to store media. Tags: CRM E-mail Newsletter NPTech NTEN Planning Social Media Web Sites. A regular Twitter stream is more effective than 3 posts a week, all at the same time.