Byte Technology

APRIL 13, 2017

And that slowness can mean a lot to a popular blogger trying to retain a loyal readership or, more critically, to someone running an e-commerce site where dollar and cents are vital to staying in business. Remember this always: when a visitor first lands on your site their initial impression is everything.

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Byte Technology

MAY 2, 2017

No matter whether you’re a WordPress newbie or a seasoned pro who has been building and managing sites on the platform for years, it’s absolutely inevitable that, at some point, you’ll hit a snag and need some help. This is convenient sure, except that it makes your site look sloppy and amateurish.

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TechImpact

OCTOBER 31, 2013

In fact, 80% of Millennials say they are more interested in sites that are mobile-friendly. 70% don’t like getting spammed by nonprofits. The post 7 Strong Stats About The Next Generation Of Donors appeared first on Tech Impact Blog - Leaders in Non-Profit Technology. 42% have donated to a nonprofit.

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Byte Technology

DECEMBER 22, 2016

And while WordPress has some terrific plugins available that can help you create and manage a comment section on your site, too often unforeseen problems and lapses exist that stymie the commenting process. Regardless of why a site doesn’t foster an active comment board, there are some quick and easy ways to change the issue.

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Byte Technology

AUGUST 15, 2017

After all, WordPress sites are made up of many different component parts, including the core program, hosting, software, plugins and even themes. Throw in all your unique content and imagery and it’s obvious that, if even one of the parts should fail or become corrupt, there could be devastating effects throughout your site.

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Byte Technology

AUGUST 12, 2015

As long as there have been websites, there have been tools in place to keep those sites safe from spam and hacker abuse. Historically robots aren’t able to solve the distorted text, but new artificial intelligence programs are changing that, allowing non-humans to gain access to sites with a scary 99.8%

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Judi Sohn

NOVEMBER 22, 2013

Truth be told, I typically delete such useless drivel right away as blog spam. This is a technology company in 2013 serving the enterprise with expertise in every tired technology, and they are clueless about what it means to be a customer company. The link in question was on a comment at the bottom of a 5 year old blog post.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

DECEMBER 27, 2010

First, spam was going to kill email. It certainly is true that most email sent these days is spam, but that hasn’t managed to kill it. It’s quite a powerful tool, and has everything you’d want in a private social media site – friending, profiles, groups, collaboration tools, etc.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 4, 2011

Unlike the Q&A site Quora, Facebook Questions allows brands to ask and answer questions. Of course, don’t start spamming Questions, but this is an excellent way to increase your nonprofit’s exposure inside the Facebook community: Related Links: Webinar :: How Nonprofits Can Successfully Use Facebook and Facebook Apps.

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Byte Technology

JULY 11, 2017

In Part 1 of this column we learned that, thanks to the vast and incredibly helpful community of WordPress users, there are countless hacks, tricks and tips to make designing, building, editing and administering a WordPress site a lot easier and, often, a lot more fun. Then visit “Comments, Comments Like Dislike” and configure the settings.

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The Science Behind Engaging your Supporters

OCTOBER 24, 2018

As the End-of-Year fundraising season approaches and strategic planning for 2019 looms, technological advances, donor demographic shifts and nonprofit workloads all pose challenges for nonprofit fundraising professionals. Rising email spam rates Many nonprofits depend on email as the backbone of their digital fundraising programs.

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NTEN

JANUARY 24, 2011

Gavin Claubaugh, Vice President and Chief Information Officer, Charles Stewart Mott Foundation Effective IT management is more about wetware than it is about hardware and software: it's all about managing the intersection of technology and these rather strange things called people. Scenario: Spam, spam, spam, spam, spam, bacon and spam.

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NTEN

JULY 11, 2011

These needs may relate to accessibility and the user-friendliness of your site for those with auditory, visual, cognitive or mobility impairments. When developing social sites, personal user accounts and profiles form the backbone of such destinations. To create these accounts, sites frequently make use of registration forms.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 12, 2011

The need to have a Google account will come up many times in your social media and mobile technology campaigns. For example, the Latin America Work Group’s website is www.lawg.org , but when the organization was setting up its profiles on Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube, “lawg” was not available on all three sites. Of course not!

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TechImpact

MAY 1, 2014

Without doing so, your audiences will categorize your blog or website as just another site spamming their social media feeds sharking for clicks. The post How A Nonprofit’s Content Marketing Engages Audiences appeared first on Tech Impact Blog - Leaders in Non-Profit Technology. Establishing a connection.

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Byte Technology

FEBRUARY 7, 2017

For anyone who designs, owns, manages or administers a WordPress site, the importance of the “community” that surrounds the wildly popular content management system cannot be understated. Attending a WordCamp can be incredibly helpful for those who are very serious about building and growing their WordPress site. Go to camp.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 9, 2021

Compared to other social networks, LinkedIn Ads are expensive and the site spends your money fast. In fact, according to the Global NGO Technology Report , 27% of nonprofits worldwide have an official policy to allow staff to work on their LinkedIn Profiles during work hours. 4) Experiment with LinkedIn Ads (maybe).

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 30, 2011

Including: "More than one-half of US Millennials (51%) say they influence the technologies their parents adopt and 41% say they influence the products they buy." But if you subscribed us to your organization's bulk email list without our permission, then you are sending us spam." " Lights.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 30, 2009

Below are the 11 TwtPoll results that I think are the most telling: 1) Is your nonprofit planning on utilizing mobile technology in 2010 (live Tweeting, group texting, iPhone Apps, launching a mobile site)? [ [link] ]. 5% A social networking site (like Facebook). Warning: Poll has been spammed: [link] ]. 25% Facebook.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 8, 2014

NTEN’s Nonprofit Tech Job Board is a platform dedicated exclusively to paid nonprofit technology career opportunities. We’ve been very conscious to keep the price affordable and below the cost of most job posting sites. We aim to please and we’re thrilled to announce a beta version of NTEN’s brand new job board.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 10, 2022

Use hashtags strategically to mention important causes, campaigns, and events, but hashtag spamming to try to increase your reach doesn’t work and has a negative effect on engagement. Tweets overloaded with hashtags look messy, are hard to read, and make your nonprofit look desperate to gain followers.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 12, 2015

Box's Chief Trust Officer Justin Somaini wrote about why Box — along with other technology companies — is making cybersecurity a priority for 2015. Comodo: Strengthen Your Site's Security. Mailshell and Red Earth: Spam Be Gone. Read more about how you can reduce the spam that comes into your inbox.

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 19, 2011

Well, the Nonprofit Technology Conference is an amazing experience every year: people from all kinds of organizations, all kinds of backgrounds, and with all kinds of passion, joining together to talk about how we can use technology to make even more social impact – it’s just my kind of community!

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 2, 2014

In just a few weeks, we’ll be unveiling NTEN’s Nonprofit Tech Job Board, a platform dedicated exclusively to paid nonprofit technology career opportunities. We’ve been very conscious to keep the price affordable and below the cost of most job posting sites. We can’t wait to unveil the new job site later this month!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 5, 2012

Note from Beth: Your web site is your home base is the heart and soul of your content strategy. A good CMS should also include a built-in Spam filter to keep obviously unrelated content from cluttering your comments sections. She’s a frequent speaker and writer on nonprofit technology topics.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 8, 2014

A Better Technology Investment. Anti-spam and malware protection, community and phone support, and Office web applications. While he didn't cite any specific issues, my own experience in using SharePoint is that it takes some time to familiarize yourself with the interface and functionality of the site. Sound like you, too?

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 16, 2014

This second part of the series will explore how several TechSoupers are using two-factor authentication on the websites they use often or with online banking and e-commerce sites. (If its] online banking site. It provides maximum security and unique passwords for each site, generated by the LastPass password manager.

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NTEN

JUNE 10, 2011

The nonprofit technology community is a robust knowledge sharing network widely dispersed across many blogs, tweets, discussion boards, Facebook walls, etc. Marnie Webb introduced the nptech tag to help aggregate nonprofit technology content. Same answer as for all of your nonprofit technology questions: be strategic.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 24, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Free and open source tool #5: WordPress January 24, 2008 It seems like a good day to talk about WordPress. I will add a backlink and bookmark your site. Installation of WordPress is scarily easy.

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Care2

NOVEMBER 7, 2011

If people went to a site and entered their birthday, we could show them on a graph what the world population was when they were born and where they fit in. ” We felt so confident that I even spammed my entire personal address book with it (sorry, mom). 111% open rate, 80% participation on the site, 1/3 forwarded it.

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NTEN

JANUARY 18, 2011

Do you like sending deserving NPTechies to the greatest nonprofit technology conference on earth for free? Heres what you need to do: Create an account at our auction site. It went into my spam filter, FYI.) Do you like cool things? Then the 2011 NTC Scholarship Silent Auction is for you!

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Tech Soup

JUNE 2, 2011

Care2 provides visitors to their site green-living advice and the opportunity to act on behalf of the causes they care most about. Technology and social networking means, according to Paynter, “Community has never before been more important for organization success. Care2 started with e-cards that gave back and webmail in 1998.

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AccelEvents

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

Social media sites like Instagram, Facebook, LinkedIn, and Twitter are getting far more use now that many of us are stuck at home. You’ll need to synchronize your marketing efforts across the audience, capabilities, and technology of both brands. . You do not want to spam the recipient, leading them to ignore you or unsubscribe.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 1, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Social Networks and Digital Sharecropping October 1, 2007 I was reading Deborah Finn’s curmugeonly post about Facebook. I have been having curmudgeonly thoughts about social networks in general.

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NTEN

JANUARY 20, 2011

Here's what you need to do: Create an account at our auction site. It went into my spam filter, FYI.) The USB Modem U300 is a dual-mode wireless USB modem combining 3G and 4G technology, utilizing Sprint’s WiMAX network. You must use our link to register: [link].

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 2, 2009

MySpace was and still is (for some) the easiest social networking site to grow a community quickly. As a regualr MySpace user, there is no denying that MySpace is more diverse than any other social networking site. His name is associated with arrogance and greed, particularly in the technology sector. took over MySpace.

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Tech Soup

JULY 21, 2016

A Better Technology Investment. Anti-spam and malware protection, web and voice conferencing, document sharing, community and phone support, Office web applications, and more. How this works: According to Linda, your data is not mined and Microsoft doesn't view your data. Sound like you, too? What exactly? Office 365 Nonprofit.

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