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Lame spams of the day: Fake Amazon and PayPal receipts

Robert Weiner

These aren't as lame-looking as most of the spam I write about: they use the right logos, fonts, and typefaces. The giveaways are: 1) Hover over the links and see where they point before clicking (that's the best way to prevent phishing attacks and malware infections from spam). 3) I got a dozen of the Amazon spams. Learn More.

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Lame spam of the day: Amazon cancelation

Robert Weiner

Previous incarnations of this spam have led to a Canadian online pharmacy, and the hyperlinks in this one lead to a site in Canada. For your reference, here's a summary of your order: You just canceled order 147-911-9683 placed on May 2, 2012. Sender: order-update@amazon.com. Subject: Amazon.com - Your Cancellation (147-911-9683).

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Lame spams of the day: so many ebills

Robert Weiner

Select the icon to see your bill summary. Sign on to Citibank Online using this link. Use the Payments Menu to find the bill pointed in this message. Select View Bill to overview your bill details. Please don't reply to this message. If you have any questions about your bill, please contact Verizon Wireless directly.

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“Social Media for Nonprofit Organizations” LinkedIn Group Reaches 40,000 Members

Nonprofit Tech for Good

The Social Media for Nonprofit Organizations LinkedIn Group reached 40,000 members today – a benchmark that took three years, 323 days, and countless clicks of “Flag as Promotion” and “Block & Delete” to keep the group as spam free as possible and on its trajectory of growth.

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11 LinkedIn Group Management Best Practices for Nonprofits

Nonprofit Tech for Good

By default, logging in regularly to approve new members also makes you a better group manager, because while you are logged in, you should also be participating in discussions and managing spam. Requiring approval to join forces you to be engaged in your group on a regular basis and take responsibility for monitoring spam.

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10 Twitter Best Practices for Nonprofits

Nonprofit Tech for Good

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. For example, the @MarshallProj has Summary with Large Image Cards enabled for their website content: 5) Curate good content through retweets.

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10 Blogging Best Practices for Nonprofits

Nonprofit Tech for Good

With social media, comments are increasingly rarely on blogs and there’s a good chance that the comments you do get are spam or argumentative for the sake of being argumentative. Also interesting about today’s nonprofit blogging is that many nonprofits have turned off commenting. Embed calls-to-action within your blog content.

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