Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 12, 2011

Seth said it like this in his post: “ …either be better at pump and dump than anyone else, get your numbers into the millions, outmass those that choose to use mass and always dance at the edge of spam (in which the number of those you offend or turn off forever keep increasing)… or Relentlessly focus.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 31, 2008

I'm not referring to comment spam , either. That's a different issue and you definitely need to use a spam filter. Doubting the Legitimacy of Blog Comments (about comment spam). TypePad AntiSpam: A Better Way to Handle Spam. Again, your blogging platform will have this feature. by Ken Fischer. Related articles by Zemanta.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 6, 2009

Ultimately, this is just a recommendation and I may completely ignore the results if they are stupid, so don't bother spamming. I'd like to see broad support (from real people, not spam accounts) along with some evidence that it's a good idea, and perhaps endorsements from knowledgeable people.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 1, 2009

Get More Twitter Tabs, Columns and Stats [100 FREE Invites] [link] #twtrcon @ davemcclure yo @ hootsuite not really that cool to be incentivizing followers to spam the #twtrcon hash tag with product spam. #twtrcon @ hootsuite HootSuite 2.0:

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 31, 2008

In the meantime, I have written on a blackboard 100 times: I will not spam for good. I'm not sure how long this will last - I read 24-72 hours. No good deed goes unpunished. I need to figure out a way answer email. Update: Digital Inspiration has some tips

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 5, 2012

A good CMS should also include a built-in Spam filter to keep obviously unrelated content from cluttering your comments sections. Make sure the CMS you choose lets you moderate comments, ban individuals from commenting, and fast-track certain commenters—staff, for example—by allowing them to publish without waiting for moderation.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 27, 2006

But, lately, there has been a lot of trackback and comment spam. At first, I thought it might have something to do with this , but it is just spam. I've always placed a high value on trackbacks and comments and the ability to get into a conversation - I get the best information and links from them.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 29, 2008

Concerns about spam, criticism, or email overload? And, I'm so honored to be featured in his about photo - that's from last year's LASA conference where I had a chance to do a video blog post with John about his thoughts on video blogging. John is at LASA right now. It made me wonder why? I just did a training on that very topic ).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 21, 2005

t Spam regulations ??? t Spam requires you to have a physical mailing address, opt out of every mail and be responsive, registered domain and bunch of other things, only allowed to email to people who have opted into your list. t spam work. Did it get passed into a spam folder. t check spam filters.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 17, 2010

Then she tweeted to me: "@askdebra I'm totally aware that I'm spamming, I've been so impacted by @invisiblepeople that I'll ask forgiveness of my followers tomorrow.". She responded to my later tweet to her pointing out that people could only tweet the hashtag once every hour or so: "@askdebra yep. I'd like as many replies as possible.".

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 3, 2007

We aren't talking about commercial use or spamming. Over the summer Ranger Rick's exposure was growing (slowly because I didn't want to spam people) and he had over 500 friends when his account was disabled. profiles that are welcomed by the public, useful and informative but. they are severely limiting their options. profile has.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 7, 2007

spamming??? re asked to enter your email address and password to see whether any of your friends are already on the service. Enter the password, however, and it will proceed to mail all your contacts without asking permission. This has led to many users issuing apologies to their friends for ???spamming??? them inadvertently.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 6, 2007

Check the spam score report. Ask your subscriber to add your From address to their address book at every opportunity. Additions: 7. Send a test message to a free e-mail account to see what it looks like. This guide to CSS Support is a must have. Have the "from" address be a person.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 12, 2006

Today, I received an email with a reference to hamburger meat and at first I thought it was more spam. Flickr photo by zen??? But soon realized it was from Hamburger Helper???s My Hometown Helper??? program announcing their "grant contest" for local non-profit groups raising funds to positively impact their community in some way.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 18, 2010

To control spam, Facebook makes it impossible to email more than 20 people at a time, so to email your friend list, you must break your list down into groups of 20. You might ask, how did a less than two year old nonprofit make the top 100 out of 500,000 nonprofits nationwide? Well…sheer hustle, an inspiring video , and a supportive network.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 9, 2007

Could this new system actually turn into a spam disaster for Facebook? m not quite sure how Facebook will manage this. Given that there has most likely been a rush to create Facebook Pages, policing the new pages will be extremely difficult. m sure that we???ll ll find out soon enough!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 16, 2012

The new algorithm also factors in negative feedback and penalizes posts that have been actively hidden by viewers or reported as spam. How big of a difference does this make?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 26, 2005

His definition of tag spam: A bookmark with 1,000 different tags. There 2-3 spam incidents a week. The type of spam that is happening now is posting and deleting to stay on the front page. The type of spam that is happening now is posting and deleting to stay on the front page. t spam happen a lot more?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 20, 2007

I have a really good spam filter ( Spam bayse ), I use rules/filters to direct project related email and listserv email to folders, and am fairly good at "zeroing" out my inbox. As someone who was trained as a musician, it is the way I used to practice etudes - start at adagio and gradually work up to allegro.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 11, 2011

The most common complaint from Facebook users is Newsfeed spam, and the most popular Pages post once a day or less. One of the most common questions I hear is “How often should we post content to Facebook?&# How should a nonprofit make that decision? Any guidelines? Aim to post about once a day, twice at most.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 18, 2010

This was going gangbusters for a few days and then Facebook identified GetHandOn.com as a spam site. For the first few days, you could tag 20 Facebook friends at a time by posting a Tag challenge to their Wall. Facebook shut down all of the site’s Facebook interactivity.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 24, 2006

Some of them are correspondence, some of them spam and many of them information ???alerts??? Making meaning is harder than ever before. Supersonic speeds? We open our e-mail and watch a stream of messages flow into our mailboxes. we have set in motion by subscribing to many of the services that may be tailored to our interests and needs.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 21, 2008

Help Gmail Cut Me Off for Spamming: I can't Email You A Thank You! New York Times Article - Too Busy Fundraising To Notice It Until Now. We did it!!! Unofficial First Place. Can you swear like a pirate and fundraise? F yes from Dave McClure. Getting to Lessons Learned. Can You Quantify Love?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 30, 2007

It is about ethics: What is the strict difference, in your opinion, between putting out feelers on various communities, and down-right spamming? On one of my posts trying to digest the research , someone asked a question about strategies for doing outreach on social networking sites. Anything answers to that one?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 13, 2009

It's intended to prevent spam. If you set up your Fan Page before the nonprofit category, don't worry. They are working on having the ability to change it, but not high priority. Doesn't control the search. Why can't you invite Fans to your page? Nonprofits are nicely behaved, but others are not so nicely behave.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 2, 2011

I am avoiding spamming all three networks with cut and paste streams. I’m not abandoning my other networks on Twitter , Facebook , or SlideShare , but looking at how to best build relationships and conversational bridges between communities and people I interact with on the different platforms.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 6, 2010

I thought I’d tweeted about it so much that Twitter was going to suspend my account for spamming—yet many of my followers didn’t even know about it. Late in the evening on 09/09/09, I DM’d a few people whom I assumed followed my every breath—and was shocked to find they didn’t even know about the Twitterthon.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 11, 2006

I didn't recognize the name, so I clicked through to read that readers profile - and it was a blogger who also writes a p*rn site (I'm not spelling out that word or I'll get a trackback spam attack by you know what type of sites). This particular reader also became an "admirer" or "fan" of my mybloglog community.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 23, 2007

It's the same reason they don't allow messaging to group members after your group surpasses 1,000 (except for the paid political campaigns) -- because their analysis is that this would be troublesome for users, i.e. lead to a lot of spamming by the big groups.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 5, 2006

Rik wrote a great post this called Global Poverty Death Counter: good cause, @!#(*@() implementation (Rik used another word in the headline, but I don't any trackback spam). I'm so grateful that other bloggers and colleagues like Rik Riel do such excellent coverage of what's happening in Second Life.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 15, 2008

At any rate, it is a good example of how NOT to spam the Flickr community. I wanted to use one of them for this blog post, but the licenses were set to "All Rights Reserved," I'm noticing that some nonprofits have specific reasons for doing so and others do not understand or know about the value of Creative Commons licensing.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 19, 2008

We moderate comments because of spam and word press has a good tool for spam, but you need to moderate. Generally I wrote an honest comment and respond to what the blogger wrote. I don't promote our organization, but I do leave an authentic comment. Do you moderate comments or not? It depends on whether the comment is relevant.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 23, 2008

His main point is that Twitter is not an advertising tool or spam tool. . - There is a strong correlation between the number of followers you have and the number of people you follow David Meerman Scott offers some thoughts about the implications of these numbers.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 29, 2007

Yikes, the first ever tag spam I've seen in the NpTech Tag Stream! Net Tuesday Seattle has been in the local press too! Netsquared Featured projects receive grant awards ! NpTech Talk. Congrats to Allison Fine for the Terry McAdam Book Award. It like it was also splog and closed down by wordpress.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 10, 2013

Hiding content is like deleting an email without reading it or hitting the spam button. Report spam: user thinks your page is spam. Fans are more likely to report a post as spam than to unlike the page. Facebook recently made a change to the EdgeRank Algorithm that increased the importance of Negative Feedback.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 5, 2006

At first, I thought it was comment spam promoting a porno site but far from it. Today I discovered Cityzenjane's blog and her i_like_to_watch tag/delicious rss feed via a comment to one of my blog posts.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 17, 2008

Talked about the problem of wiki spam and how easy it is to administrator. He told the story of the founding of wikipedia and the meaning of the Hawaiin word - quickly, quickly. He talked about the growth of wikipedia. He also mentioned a Romanian wiki called MediaPedia.Ro. Described the features and content.

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