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Defunct Google Products

Robert Weiner

Google: It's great that they keep innovating, and of course not every idea will work out. But Google's record of killing off products makes me nervous about my reliance on them. Here are some defunct products I remember (and here are some I never tried. Still more.):

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Lame spam of the day: Raw spam merge text

Robert Weiner

It goes on and on, but you''ll get the idea pretty quickly. These are {really|actually|in fact|truly|genuinely} {great|enormous|impressive|wonderful|fantastic} ideas in {regarding|concerning|about|on the topic of} blogging. I have always disliked the idea because of the {expenses|costs}. I found it fascinating.

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Preventing Fraud on our Online Giving Pages

Robert Weiner

The card holder has no idea that their card number has been compromised and so has not reported it stolen. Another scam uses nonprofits’ websites to test stolen credit cards. Often card numbers are ‘stolen’ by a waiter or other service provider while the card is in his or her possession.

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Green IT for Dummies

Robert Weiner

They describe it as: Green IT for Dummies … is intended to give organizations simple and straight-forward ideas on how to reduce the environmental impact of IT systems and harness the power of IT to reduce the wider environmental impacts of climate change in society. Hewlett Packard has published a free guide to greening your IT.

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Everywun Wants Your Clicks

Robert Weiner

The article makes this sound like a new idea, but The Hunger Site (and their later projects for breast cancer, children’s health, literacy, rain forest protection, and animal rescue) has been doing this since 1999. The San Francisco Chronicle published an article about everywun.com , a new click-to-give site.

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Advice for Consultants - Part 1

Robert Weiner

Get used to the idea that some of your competitors are “part-timers&# who moonlight at consulting, but who have also have a day job that provides them with benefits and financial security. NPOs tend to see the fee you charge as an expense, rather than an investment, so you have to show the return-on-investment of your services.

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More lame spam as blog comments

Robert Weiner

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