NTEN

JANUARY 4, 2010

Not only is it nifty piece, it attracted some of our best spam comments of the year: "Thanks for pants. " [Linked to Eastern European web site.]. Actually, some of the funniest protest signs of 2009 would make good spam comment fodder, if you happen to work for a fly-by-night SEO firm. Patience pants.

PDF 52

PDF Spam Meme Chart 52

NTEN

JANUARY 20, 2011

Want to bid on these, or any of the other items (like the NTEN staff hand delivering a 5 Guys meal to your NTC lunch table)? Here's what you need to do: Create an account at our auction site. It went into my spam filter, FYI.) You must use our link to register: [link].

Mobile 56

Mobile Websites Twitter Spam 56

NTEN

SEPTEMBER 24, 2010

RoundTables are monthly hour-long chats, free for NTEN Members, moderated by an NTEN member from the field of Consulting, Communications, or IT -- depending on which RoundTable it is. This tag seemed to be the most popular, but also brought up the least amount of spam as tweets.) Thanks to everyone who came.

Social Media 56

Social Media Chad Communication Share 56

NTEN

JUNE 10, 2011

Discussion boards can be added to your website, leveraged in a Ning site, or you can use a google group or similar solution. A Drupal or Wordpress site could include these features by adding modules/plug-ins/widgets. If users have to create an account, that in itself is a barrier, but it will allow you to delete accounts that spam.

Knowledge 86

Knowledge Share Network Community 86

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 24, 2008

It basically eliminates comment spam, which, as you probably know, is the bane of bloggers everywhere. I will add a backlink and bookmark your site. .&# 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. Keep up the good work!

Open Source 100

Open Source WordPress Open Tools 100

NTEN

NOVEMBER 10, 2011

Again, there are many tactics you can experiment with – but here are a few places to start: Listen in: Visit the blogs, news sites, and other online hangouts where they’re congregating. Once you’ve figured out who you want to get on board, it’s time to reach out to them. How do you do that?

Audience 88

Audience Profile Group Spam 88

NTEN

MARCH 26, 2009

When you launch an integrated marketing plan, you're most likely producing content for a web site, a landing page, a blog, a newsletter, and perhaps a Facebook or MySpace page. What if they become viral or even SPAM? . Whatever you say on your web site must be reflected in your newsletter and your blog.

Content 44

Content Los Angeles Boston Newsletter 44

NTEN

OCTOBER 28, 2009

It watches for emerging trends on the site and when something is becoming a hot topic of conversation - Evri uses that as a trigger to prompt a query to other sources for information on the topic. They are like broad, topical, personalized blogsearch with good spam control. Twitter as Trigger. Real-Time Publishing.

Web 73

Web Examples Time Action 73

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 1, 2007

A new social networking site, called “Quetchup&# spammed (without permission) the contacts of people who signed up for the site. That’s because a lot of the social networking sites allow you to find other people on their site by giving them your gmail username and password, or your email contact list.

Social Network 100

Social Network Network Digital Social 100

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 29, 2007

Slide Share Show, " Putting the U in YouTube " although geared for higher education institutions provides some really good practical marketing tips for social networking sites that should be useful for nonprofits too. The Seattle's Net Tuesday Group has just launched a social networking site on ning. NetSquared. NpTech Talk.

Nptech 50

Nptech Summary Tag YouTube 50

Care2

MAY 14, 2009

M&R and NTEN just released an impressive benchmarks study that analyzed 32 nonprofits online advocacy and online fundraising programs in 2007 and 2008. Email: While more than 35 percent of American adults now have a profile on at least one social networking site – the best way to reach supporters is still email.

Benchmark 28

Benchmark Studies Case Study Rate 28

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 23, 2008

One topic that I regularly track are research reports, including demographic, technographics, and overall numbers for social media sites. His main point is that Twitter is not an advertising tool or spam tool. I like the way NTEN does it. I have a clipping file in a flickr set called Social Media Research Snippets.

Twitter 50

Twitter Practice Bookmarking Profile 50

Amy Sample Ward

MAY 14, 2009

spam filters: are you using spam-like words in any of your content? Reach a broader audience: More than 500M Google Earth users today; Drive people to your site; Gain members, volunteers, donors, media coverage. Laura: Joomla can work for both a simple site and a complex one. design: is it clean?

Tools 100

Tools Tech Map Case Study 100

NTEN

JANUARY 27, 2010

Social networking sites are the next and prime targets for cyber do-no-gooders. For many of these issues, good spam/virus filtering is essential. Tags: Infrastructure Newsletter NPTech NTEN Planning IT Staff. They may be infected. Remember the malware scare surrounding free downloads a decade ago? Well, it's back.

Professional 40

Professional China Script Search 40

NTEN

OCTOBER 29, 2008

Set up a few blog searches - you can search sites like Google Blogsearch , Technorati , Bloglines and BlogCatalog. Facebook doesn't automatically spam your email contacts. Google Alerts are email updates of the latest relevant Google results based on keywords you choose. You can set the frequency of the alerts. Don't worry.

Social Media 68

Social Media Audience Media Social 68

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 19, 2008

welcomed everyone "The people on the end of your web site will be informed than the CEO. Doug mentioned attending the NTC/NTEN conference in New Orleans and had RSS and Tagging ringing in his ears. We moderate comments because of spam and word press has a good tool for spam, but you need to moderate.

Australia 56

Australia Conference Guidelines Comment 56

Care2

MAY 14, 2009

Email: While more than 35 percent of American adults now have a profile on at least one social networking site – the best way to reach supporters is still email. The Nonprofit eBenchmarks study also analyzed specific list segments, such as donors vs. non-donors, geographically targeted audiences, surveys and tell-a-friend emails.

Benchmark 28

Benchmark Social Media Studies Advocacy 28

NTEN

SEPTEMBER 21, 2011

Writing last month's post about how NTEN differentiates between types of open rate made me think about the ways we've worked to boost our numbers. While you should keep in mind that all of this is based on data specific to NTEN – your own results may vary – here are 14 ways we've worked to achieve that modest bump. so far this year.

Rate 92

Rate Open Spam Test 92

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 12, 2006

Set a Time Frame, Track it and Talk about it: Make sure you activate the tracking system or install an external tracking system like site meter, bloglog, or Google Analytics. Myspace avoids spamming so the members usually blocks people from adding them directly unless you know them personally or their email.

Case Study 50

Case Study Social Network Philippines Advice 50

NTEN

OCTOBER 15, 2010

Even worse, if enough of them use the "Uninvite" (or "Spam") button, you might find yourself permanently uninvited from your entire email list. What pages of your site are getting visits? Tags: E-mail NPTech NTEN Communications. What content in your emails is being clicked on? .

Mail 61

Mail Campaign Management Yahoo 61

NTEN

JANUARY 27, 2010

Quality matters, of course, but the shear quantity and frequency of communications that most organizations seek to produce has increased dramatically -- whether its blogs, tweets, commenting, web site updates, collaborations, cross posting, press releases, or good old print brochures. Use an RSS reader to keep on top of news and trends.

Communication 90

Communication Organization Press Newsletter 90

NTEN

JANUARY 27, 2010

Quality matters, of course, but the shear quantity and frequency of communications that most organizations seek to produce has increased dramatically -- whether its blogs, tweets, commenting, web site updates, collaborations, cross posting, press releases, or good old print brochures. Use an RSS reader to keep on top of news and trends.

Communication 65

Communication Organization Press Newsletter 65

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 16, 2007

I've been trying to collect screen captures and stories about nonprofit web analytics for a screencast on Google Analytics for NTEN. We're trying to make some changes in our web site based on user behavior. Ah, my screencast script on google analytics completely ignores social media and only focuses on web sites. It's around.

Measure 50

Measure Social Media Tools Technorati 50

Care2

JUNE 1, 2009

5) The furor about “junk mail” is mild compared to that about spam—as it should be, because online communications is prey to all sorts of fraud. But I don’t labor under the illusion that my clients are going to raise money through these or other social networking sites. I love my 800 friends on Facebook.

Mail 47

Mail Social Media Online Advocacy 47

Care2

APRIL 16, 2008

While spam is worse than it’s ever been, email continues to be the key to successful online fundraising programs – that’s a bit of surprise. The emergence of social networking sites like Facebook and user-generated content sites like MapBuzz represents a major change that has yet to play itself out.

Social Media 28

Social Media Advocacy Interview Online 28

Care2

MARCH 4, 2008

While spam is worse than it’s ever been, email continues to be the key to successful online fundraising programs – that’s a bit of surprise. The emergence of social networking sites like Facebook and user-generated content sites like MapBuzz represents a major change that has yet to play itself out.

Social Media 28

Social Media Advocacy Interview Online 28

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 2, 2007

NpTech Themes Nptech Tag News: The NpTech Community site can be found at: [link]. A reminder from Democracy in Action about accidental email spamming. The offline wikipedia, Moulin. Unthinkingly experiments with visualizing NpTech Tag data with Many Eyes. Marnie Webb offers more post conference call reflections.

Nptech 50

Nptech Splashcast Summary Wikipedia 50