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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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82 Fundraising and Social Media Stats for Nonprofits

Nonprofit Tech for Good

The top countries where individuals give the most often (not necessarily the most money) are (1) Myanmar, (2) The United States, (3) New Zealand, (4) Australia, and ; (5) Ireland ( Charities Aid Foundation World Giving Index ). million) due to spam filters ( EveryAction ). million) due to spam filters ( EveryAction ).

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10 LinkedIn Best Practices for Nonprofits

Nonprofit Tech for Good

In the last few years, Microsoft has rebuilt LinkedIn working out many of the kinks and bugs that made it frustrating to use, and has launched a suite of new tools and functionality for LinkedIn Pages , Profiles , and Groups. Since then it has grown from 106 million active monthly users to 310 million active monthly users.

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Five Online Fundraising Best Practices for Small NGOs in Developing Countries

Nonprofit Tech for Good

my recommendations are highly affected by my location, my work experience, and limited to those tools and resources that I am well familiar with, but I hope your NGO finds the information useful. It’s important to be aware that e-newsletters that are sent BCC often trigger spam controls and are blocked by email servers.

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6 Ways to Keep Your Organization Secure

Tech Soup

The right combination of security tools can help your organization stay locked down without getting in the way of your other tasks. We thought we'd kick things off by introducing some of the security tools in our catalog and sharing some helpful resources from our donor partners. Mailshell and Red Earth: Spam Be Gone.

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Social Media: Before You Get Started, Get Organized!

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Though most nonprofits in the United States, Canada and the U.K. It will help you centralize all your efforts and reduce the amount of spam and notification e-mails sent to your work e-mail account. In fact, more than half of all Twitterers use a third-party dashboard tool to manage their Twitter campaigns.

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Ten Things Nonprofits May Not Know About MySpace [But I Wish They Did]

Nonprofit Tech for Good

MySpace was designed to be a marketing tool. Also, those nonprofits that excel today on Facebook and Twitter, like The Humane Society of the United States, National Wildlife Federation and PETA, they all started their social media campaigns on MySpace at a time when only those with a.edu e-mail address could join Facebook.

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