AFP Blog

APRIL 9, 2012

Is Your Nonprofit Guilty of #Hashtag Spamming? Blog :: A Social Media Guide for Nonprofits : Is Your Nonprofit Guilty of #Hashtag Spamming? Finding your Twitter voice is a skill and it takes a concerted effort to first track what tweets your followers react to (or not) and then adjust your content and tweets accordingly.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 30, 2009

1% Yes… they donate on our website after reading something on Facebook, Twitter, etc. 7) Is your nonprofit monitoring your Website stats to see how much traffic is coming from Facebook, Twitter, MySpace, LinkedIn Groups, etc.? [ [link] ]. Warning: Poll has been spammed: [link] ]. 25% Twitter. 10% Other. 9% Flickr.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 17, 2010

There is also the Nonprofit Organizations MySpace , the Nonprofit Organizations Twitter profile , the Nonprofit Organizations YouTube Channel , and the Social Media for Nonprofit Organizations LinkedIn Group. I am definitely not spamming my fans with useless content, and use the site to promote and help nonprofits and social causes.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 30, 2010

He raises a good point and even makes up a new word: spamanthropism (spam + philanthropism). It describes social media for social good that is so obnoxious that it feels like spam. Tags: Promotions. In my own fundraising, I am always very conscious of asking too much and annoying people. And that’s just October!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 23, 2008

It is based on real data pulled from a huge number of Twitter profiles of people who have used Twitter Grader. Twitter grader is a measure of authority and reach of a Twitter user. It is sort of like Technorati for Twitter. 35% of Twitter users have 10 or fewer followers. - It doesn't work. Here's how.

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NTEN

JANUARY 24, 2011

Scenario: Spam, spam, spam, spam, spam, bacon and spam. Perhaps it's something else, but regardless the cause, some ingenious script-kiddy has turned the tables and suddenly you're responsible for thousands upon thousands of spam messages. The names have been changed to protect the paranoid.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 18, 2010

With a “launch and learn” mandate from our CEO, we began an experiment in social gaming for social good 16 days ago which is an online game of Tag. Our hope is that Tag will pull natural volunteer leaders together and seed an online community. About 23% of those tagged are joining the game. Is that good? The burden is on us.

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Judi Sohn

MARCH 3, 2012

We have the group set so topics are public, but only members can post and membership has to be approved to avoid spam. I sent out pleas for help on Twitter and Google+. Tagged: customerservice , Google , rant. About a year ago I stopped getting moderator email…to a @gmail.com address, no less. I looked in every setting.

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NTEN

JUNE 10, 2011

Maybe you’ve also taken the next step of strengthening your stakeholder community by engaging in back and forth dialog online – whether in existing social spaces like blogs, Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube, or in a custom built online community. Marnie Webb introduced the nptech tag to help aggregate nonprofit technology content.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 30, 2008

Note: this is a geeky post that assumes familiarity with Twitter. If you are new to Twitter, please check out this post for more context. Dear Museums on Twitter, Thanks for experimenting in a new and largely uncharted online environment. Don't use Twitter to spam me about visiting. But not enough of you.

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 24, 2010

During the call we discussed how to manage a Facebook page & Twitter account. Then we switched topics to Twitter. Here's a brief rundown: The first topic raised (as it frequently is) was hash tags: How do I find the hashtag for my area? You can search with a twitter handle or hashtag. For my field? Try TweetReach.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 17, 2010

Mark Horvath, known as " HardlyNormal " on Twitter and who is a tireless advocate for the cause of homelessness, was the winner of the SXSW Pepsi Refresh Challenge. The rules were simple, the winner who got the most retweets of a unique tag won. Tags: sxsw. Mark uses social media to tell the story of homeless people in America.

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Judi Sohn

JUNE 1, 2009

Way more folks subscribe to C3’s content via email as compared to Facebook, Twitter and RSS feeds combined. Go back to nested tables (but not too many…you have to keep the code light and not get bounced as spam if there’s not enough content vs. code) and only use inline CSS styles. By a very wide margin.

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Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 30, 2010

Complaining about the errors on Twitter along with @Kanter, @pgjones00 was Mark Mann: It is in beta, let’s not forget! Tags: community networking jumo nonprofits social media social network. So, patience and persistence are the keys to success. How does your purpose for engagement influence your choice of platform?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 2, 2009

When I first started myspace.com/nonprofitorganizations almost 4 years ago I had no idea that it would evolve to become as large as it has, or that the brand/community/concept would spread to Facebook , then YouTube , and now Twitter. I was able then to tap into that community when I expanded into Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube.

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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 14, 2009

I had the great honor of moderating the panel Tools Galore in Online Communications: From Google Earth to Wiki’s and Twitter this panel will give you the nuts and bolts of the latest tools organizations can utilize to ramp up their next online campaign. spam filters: are you using spam-like words in any of your content?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 6, 2010

Ironically, it is also the same day as my birthday). She did her first Twitter fundraiser in September on 9-9-09. We didn’t come close to raising that amount, but learned a lot about using social media tools like Twitter to promote and raise money for a cause. We used those insights to design our Twitterthon on 10/10/10.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 28, 2009

The Real-Time Web: it's more than just immediate delivery of Twitter messages to an always-on mobile device, disrupting the concentration that civilization is based on and bringing a rush to crazed social media addicts obsessed with the hottest new buzzwords. Twitter as Trigger. You can pre-order the report here.].

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 19, 2008

Conference Tag: CU08 ConnectingUp Conference Warning: I am live blogging these notes as the conference unfolds. Doug mentioned attending the NTC/NTEN conference in New Orleans and had RSS and Tagging ringing in his ears. He mentioned that I would be talking about Twitter and quipped."If More Flickr Photos here.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 14, 2007

They've played with Twitter. The real show in the museum was a series of canvasses showing tags--graffiti--and the curator and education department installed a wall in the middle of the gallery so that visitors could tag (we provided colored pencils, and people brought their own markers and stickers). Is there such a place?

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NTEN

JANUARY 27, 2010

For many of these issues, good spam/virus filtering is essential. Tags: Infrastructure Newsletter NPTech NTEN Planning IT Staff. I have 3 or more people (and discussion boards) I can contact at any time of the day (really!) when trouble arises to get an instant answer. Plus, there is always the trusty search engine.

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Get Fully Funded

APRIL 18, 2022

Foundation spam-a-thon. For politicians and journalists, you want to be on Twitter. While many celebrities give big to their favorite organizations and causes, it’s not a great use of your time to spam them with requests for support. If your organization is looking to target older women, Facebook is your best opportunity.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 19, 2009

The Twitter Book - A Sneak Preview View more presentations from oreillymedia. Howard Rheingold has an interesting post titled "Twitter Literacy ( I refuse to Make Up a Twittery Name for It ). Rheingold points to some research data from Nielsen that more than 60% of new Twitter users fail to return the following month.

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Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 26, 2009

Use the tag #MPS09 to follow conversations and highlights from others at the event. What Twitter isn’t… Twitter isn’t a message board, or a social network of people you already know… So, is it a community? What Twitter gives us: freedom. safe from spam attacks. safe from offensive material.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 15, 2009

Many took issue with the logic and metrics he used to make his case: Take a look at the top 100 twitter users in terms of followers. Is a celebrity-marketing expert right when he chides the nonprofit world for being “paralyzed by fear” when it comes to the use of social-media tools such as Twitter and Facebook? Twitter & Digg?

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Judi Sohn

MAY 29, 2009

Kind of like if Ning , Google Talk , Gmail , Twitter and Facebook got smooshed together into a single open source environment. Gmail focused on simplicity first (great spam filtering, super fast search, conversation grouping) and then along came Labs years later to make it all interesting and wiz-bang. Is that too much to ask, Google?

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Connection Cafe

JULY 27, 2009

Before I continue, let me admit that I am still a loyal Twitter user , advocate, and believer in its ability to help people and organizations share and connect. My first tweet was October 14, 2006 , so I also have some stake in saying that I am not a fickle Twit who just gave Twitter a try and am now moving on or giving up.

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NTEN

JANUARY 27, 2010

and hootsuite.com allow you to post to Twitter, Facebook and more at the same time. A regular Twitter stream is more effective than 3 posts a week, all at the same time. By scheduling updates, you keep your communication regular -- and you can repost, without spamming the airwaves. Cross post. Tools like ping.fm

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NTEN

JANUARY 27, 2010

and hootsuite.com allow you to post to Twitter, Facebook and more at the same time. A regular Twitter stream is more effective than 3 posts a week, all at the same time. By scheduling updates, you keep your communication regular -- and you can repost, without spamming the airwaves. Cross post. Tools like ping.fm

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 24, 2008

Jonathon Coleman's Twitter Avatar. This means that we see a lot of value in commenting, linking, tagging, and the like; sometimes more so than just an empty visit to our site. This helps us be good community members and avoid issues of spamming. Who is that doggy in your twitter avatar? Tell me a little bit about you I???

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 28, 2021

And suppression and tagging is what allows me to be taken off that merry-go-round. . Test the what does it say when they share on Twitter. No spam here. I want to make sure that you’ve got your suppression. If I make my first gift to you for GivingTuesday, I shouldn’t get three more asks that same day.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 16, 2007

" And I'd add blogs, twitter, flickr, tagging, and all the other social media tools and strategies to the list too. I did not include spam comments or my own). A time consuming pain. particularly because I'm 100% in love with this metric to measure conversation.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 21, 2010

On Twitter, you can “Block&# them from following you. On your Blog, require comments to be reviewed before posting, then don’t post and report the person’s comment as Spam. Tags: Blogging Facebook MySpace Social Media Twitter YouTube. Then delete their comments. They are gone. Stay strong.

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