Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 28, 2010

Due to its increasing popularity, there are now more concerted efforts to use LinkedIn lookalike spam to fool users in clicking links within it. If your spam filter didn't flag these emails as spam, it's best to verify the sender and recipients of these emails before clicking. Photo: Nan Palmero , CC license. Tools Web 2.0

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Care2

NOVEMBER 3, 2017

Because organizations can have the best email marketing strategy, endless budget, and the most engaged subscribers of all time and they still won't reach their goals if their emails are marked as spam. It sounds easy: just make sure you aren't spamming people, right?

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Achieve

MARCH 4, 2022

Regulation #1: The CAN-SPAM Act The CAN-SPAM Act was passed into US law in 2003, and it protects consumers from receiving emails that they never agreed to receive. It’s primarily intended to prevent spam email ads from commercial entities, but nonprofits are not exempt.

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Connection Cafe

MARCH 11, 2021

How can you guarantee that the emails you send to your subscribers land in their inboxes and not in the spam folder? By implementing the best email authentication protocols, Internet Service Providers (ISPs) help protect your users from spammers. With Domain Keys Identified Mail (DKIM), two keys are created – public and private.

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NetWits

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

Direct mail and email are different genres. Repeatedly sending email to deactivated or nonexistent email accounts will get you marked as Spam, and your emails will eventually stop being delivered. This way, you won’t appear to be Spam, and nor will your constituents forget about you. Your email is written like a letter.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 12, 2011

Once you’ve set up your new Google account, sign up to receive Google Alerts via e-mail on a daily basis at google.com/alerts. For organizational reasons, you could opt to use the Gmail e-mail account that you created for your nonprofit when setting up your Google account for all social media and mobile technology accounts.

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NetWits

SEPTEMBER 18, 2012

e-mail address protection. prevention of comment spam. For example, have you suffered fighting against spam, bots, or hacker attacks? These images are automatically generated by the program on the screen for the purpose of blocking malicious programs because computer programs cannot interpret or translate images.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 4, 2012

Spam is an annoyance, but it’s also the most common way viruses and spyware are spread, so just protecting your email might not be enough. We’re often asked about spam, virus, and spyware protection, especially by small- and mid-sized organizations. Which Anti-Malware Programs Are Right for Me?

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Tech Soup

JULY 27, 2015

Eligible organizations can now request Comodo Internet Security Pro 8, Comodo Antispam Gateway, and Comodo Endpoint Security Manager. If you need protection from viruses and malware and your computers aren't networked, you can use Comodo Internet Security Pro. What's Available?

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Get Fully Funded

OCTOBER 21, 2021

In general, offline fundraising activities refer to phone calls, mailing solicitations, events, and other similar donation generating practices. Online fundraising applies if you receive “substantial” donations through the internet from residents of a state on a “repeated or ongoing basis.”

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 12, 2015

The Bitdefender donation program at TechSoup offers antivirus, Internet security, and cloud-based management programs for both Mac and Windows computers. Mailshell and Red Earth: Spam Be Gone. Read more about how you can reduce the spam that comes into your inbox. Bye Forever, Spam. Bitdefender: Defend All Your Devices.

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NetWits

DECEMBER 2, 2010

It will also help to prevent people from marking you as Spam. Lastly, when in doubt, segment your e-mail list like you would for direct mail. E-mail will allow you to try similar segments as you might use for a direct mail program, and allows you to test new segments at a low cost. First, Create a Plan.

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Judi Sohn

JUNE 1, 2009

It took a while, but I finally have a template that seems to be working well for us: I’ve tested the template in Outlook (2003 and 2007), Gmail, AOL, Yahoo and Apple Mail and it looks just like the screen shot above, or close enough. For starters, it only works in Internet Explorer.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 6, 2011

Google Mail, offered as part of Google Apps, was the clear contender — it was free (at the time it was free for organizations up to 50 staff, now it's limited to 10)* and already well established. By far, the most popular part of Google Apps at OCASI is Google Mail, which staff use to send, receive and manage their email.

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NTEN

JANUARY 24, 2011

Scenario: Spam, spam, spam, spam, spam, bacon and spam. Perhaps it's something else, but regardless the cause, some ingenious script-kiddy has turned the tables and suddenly you're responsible for thousands upon thousands of spam messages. The names have been changed to protect the paranoid.

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Tech Soup

MAY 28, 2013

Outlook.com now has 400 million active accounts, more than a quarter of which are getting their mail, contacts, and calendars on mobile devices via Exchange ActiveSync. Users of other services like Gmail or Yahoo Mail can set up a new @outlook.com address and have their other accounts forwarded. PC Browsers That Work with Outlook.com.

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NonProfit Hub

NOVEMBER 3, 2015

Not everyone responds in the same way to direct mail, and some people detest social media. If you’ve been mailing out materials and sending emails since August, a phone call can be a refreshing way to talk to a prospect who has been thinking of donating to your organization. Direct Mail. Communicate in Different Ways.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 25, 2012

Anti-Spam Desktop will continue to run after one year, but spam updates will no longer be provided. Symantec Norton Desktop Products for Windows ( Norton AntiVirus and Norton Internet Security ). Symantec Norton Desktop Products for Mac ( Norton AntiVirus and Norton Internet Security ). SlideRocket. Symantec Norton 360.

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Connection Cafe

NOVEMBER 9, 2011

For years, the bane of every email marketer's existence has been staying off of the dreaded spam filter and staying in good graces with readers. Call it bacn , bacon , or graymail , it's that "other" kind of email - not personal, not spam - that's making it harder and harder to get noticed in an overflowing inbox. Mobile Matters.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 27, 2023

Internet Archive Wayback Machine :: archive.org/web The Internet Archive Wayback Machine is an online library of almost 500 billion screenshots of websites since 1996. mail-tester:: mail-tester.com This free tool reveals if your email domain is on a blacklist, flagged for spam, and properly set up for SPF, DKIM, and DMARC protocols.

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See3

DECEMBER 12, 2007

Here’s today’s headline for you: NEARLY 95% OF EMAIL IS JUNK Nearly 95 percent of the e-mail sent in 2007 has been “spam,&# junk advertising loathed by its recipients, according to a report released Wednesday by a US Web security firm. Link to the original story.

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M+R

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Now here’s the bad news: if you don’t get on board with the new requirements, you’re likely to see your emails going to spam. Here’s how: Open either https: //mail.google.com/mail/ or [link]. Open that email, click the three horizontal dots on the top next to the spam button, and select “View raw message.” Sigh of relief!)

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 21, 2005

" Brian Reich of Mindshare Interactive Campaigns gave an excellent presentation on Internet/Online Strategies. Provided some stats on Internet ads, ???even t Spam regulations ??? d love to had you stay on the mailing list, click here to get on the list and then if they don???t t spam work. Download brian.wmv.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 20, 2007

I've been doing Internet skills training workshops since 1995 and way back when I used to do one called "Digital Literacy" which was all about how to use email, listservs, and Internet search functions. If you unsubscribe from that subscription, the email address becomes invalid and mail sent to it will bounce.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 2, 2009

Also, those nonprofits that excel today on Facebook and Twitter, like The Humane Society of the United States, National Wildlife Federation and PETA, they all started their social media campaigns on MySpace at a time when only those with a.edu e-mail address could join Facebook. MySpace is not just a community of poor people!

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 23, 2011

Norton Internet Security 2012 takes your security one step further. FileMaker Pro 11 helps manage your organization’s contacts, events, grants, mailing lists, billing, donor, and volunteer information. Helps block threats from installing themselves, and includes built-in recovery tools for badly infected computers.

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NetWits

MAY 23, 2008

The newspaper classified ads were broken forever by the Internet, thanks to a one-two punch from the likes of Monster and Craigslist. The direct mail world was broken the instant the first email was sent, but 80% of all email sent is spam. And the nonprofit fundraising world is being broken a little bit at a time too.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 6, 2012

Content management programs like Windows SharePoint Server 2010 for Internet Sites (admin fee: $708) are used for deploying and managing a public-facing website. offers built-in word processing, mail merge features, and safeguards to prevent duplicate records. Designed with the needs of smaller organizations in mind, Sage ACT!

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 3, 2010

Reliability: Multiple, high-speed connections to the Internets, nearly 100% up time. Ideally this includes a strict anti-spam policy, automatic SPAM cleaners, ISP-specific controls and white-list approvals. Tags: E-mail NPTech NTEN Communications. She is the publisher of the Getting Attention e-update and blog.

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NTEN

JANUARY 27, 2010

A network cloud is just a collection of servers living out on the Internet providing various services -- much like how websites are served from a web server, but in a much larger, scalable fashion. For many of these issues, good spam/virus filtering is essential. I also use [link] as an incoming mail filter proxy.

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Care2

SEPTEMBER 14, 2007

57) Mobile (15) Nonprofit Benchmark Studies (15) Nonprofit Events (36) nptech (8) Online Advertising (5) Online Advocacy (47) Online Fundraising (97) Online Marketing (59) Online Organizing (32) SEO (3) Social Networking (109) Technology (31) Trends (51) Video (27) Volunteering (2) Web 2.0 (60)

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Care2

MAY 15, 2009

spam filters: are you using spam-like words in any of your content? There are many people on Facebook; but far more people have the internet and are not on Facebook than those who are. 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?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 20, 2005

I think of the origin of Nonprofit Online News as one of those sweet Internet accidents, something that always reminds me that networks are infrastructures of natural abundance. During 1995 and 1996 I found myself in the position of being the person best informed about the Internet in my professional nonprofit circles.

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Care2

JUNE 1, 2009

60) Search « Social Media Webinar on June 10th | Main | Is Direct Mail Really Headed for the Exit? 60) Search « Social Media Webinar on June 10th | Main | Is Direct Mail Really Headed for the Exit? » Sunday May 31 2009 Is Direct Mail Dying or Dead? Sunday, May 31, 2009 at 02:22PM | by Mal Warwick My, my.

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Care2

NOVEMBER 16, 2006

57) Mobile (15) Nonprofit Benchmark Studies (15) Nonprofit Events (36) nptech (8) Online Advertising (5) Online Advocacy (47) Online Fundraising (97) Online Marketing (59) Online Organizing (32) SEO (3) Social Networking (109) Technology (31) Trends (51) Video (27) Volunteering (2) Web 2.0 (60)

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 5, 2021

Today, the overuse of hashtags is considered hashtag spamming. You will not receive the donor’s mailing address, but if the donor opts-in, you will receive their email address. The concept was that if you used 10, 20, or even 30 hashtags, your nonprofit would be more likely to reach potential new followers. Not anymore.

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

NOVEMBER 15, 2005

Until 1/1/2004, the rules against spam were governed by a host of state regulations. The federal law is known as the CAN-SPAM Act. The Act met with general disapproval from the grass-roots movement trying to ban unsolicted marketing emails, who called it the You-CAN-SPAM act. Tags: nptech , email , spam Misconception 1.

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