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Separating Personal and Professional Lives on Social Media

Robert Weiner

Andrew Heller discussed the risks of oversharing in his NTEN blog post Social Media and Privacy: Best Practices for Managing Your Personal and Professional Identities. His basic advice: "Be Prepared. Be mindful of your online presence. Think thrice before acting." " Tags: Social Media.

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New book: “Advancement Services: Enhancing Fundraising Success”

Robert Weiner

The book was a labor of love for over 2 years by 25 of advancement services professionals, led and edited by the esteemed John Taylor. CASE has just published the third edition of its guide to Advancement Services. The title of this edition is " Advancement Services: Enhancing Fundraising Success." I'm honored to have written two chapters.

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Going from Accidental Techie to Technology Leader

Robert Weiner

But many accidental techies don't want to become intentional/professional/full-time techies. On one hand, those who decide that technology will be their vocations need to push for roles and titles that reflect what they really do. They're ready to graduate from their apprenticeships. part of what they do.

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Lame spams of the day: More fake LinkedIn invitations

Robert Weiner

> > I'd like to add you to my professional network on LinkedIn. > Finally, the text of the facmessages look like a forwarded email: On August 5, Samuel Padilla wrote: > To: robert@rlweiner.com. > > > Samuel Padilla. The senders were all LinkedIn Invitations (invitations@linkedin.com).

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Lame spam of the day: FDIC: About your business account

Robert Weiner

I hope no one (except maybe a trained professional) tries to find out. I got three flavors of this one today. The FDIC wrote about it , but doesn't say what happens if you click the link. Version 1: Sender: ::Federal Insurance Company:: (acclimatizingn271@fdic.gov). Subject: FDIC: About your business account.

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NY Times says text donations system is flawed

Robert Weiner

One of the presentations at last month’s Association of Advancement Services Professionals conference dealt with mobile giving. I’m still skeptical about its suitability for most nonprofits, and the NY Times said the same yesterday.

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Lame spam of the day: Acquire new EIN

Robert Weiner

Office of Professional Responsibility. Please use the following. link for instructions: [link]. the URL shows exactly as above -- they didn't even fake an IRS hyperlink). Yours sincerely, Kenneth Weber. Internal Revenue Service.

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