Robert Weiner
FEBRUARY 25, 2009
Every day it seems like there’s a new article on how nonprofits and businesses can use Twitter for engagement, activism, marketing, and fundraising. Today’s entry comes from the Chronicle of Philanthropy, which published When Characters Count: Advice for Charities on Making the Most of Twitter. Tags: TechSoup.
Robert Weiner
JULY 23, 2009
The front-page headlines read " Hacker steals Twitter's confidential documents ," but the real story isn't about Twitter — it's that the stolen documents were stored online, "in the cloud." Tags: TechSoup. This could happen to any nonprofit or company storing data this way.
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Robert Weiner
DECEMBER 21, 2009
Without thinking too much about it, I clicked on the URL and was taken to a fake Twitter homepage asking me to log in. Roboform knew this wasn't a real Twitter page, and so wouldn't log me in. Tags: Security Spam. Here's the deal: I got a message from a friend with a link. That made me realize that I was being scammed.
Robert Weiner
NOVEMBER 17, 2009
Tags: Fundraising Online Fundraising Social Media. It's not an explicit fundraising appeal, but they might start using fundraising badges for class campaigns in the future. Peer-to-peer class campaigns (at least for recent classes) seem like a natural for social media, and I expect we'll start seeing them.
Robert Weiner
MAY 16, 2010
I'll use Leah Garchik's Twitter feed of public eavesdropping as an example. On her Twitter page [link] there's a link in the lower right corner saying "RSS feed of leahgarchik's tweets" Clicking on that link takes me to [link]. Tags: Email Web. Once that's set up, click the My Feeds link in the upper-right corner.
Robert Weiner
JULY 29, 2009
The recent theft of confidential documents from Twitter's Google Docs account points out the dangers of insecure passwords. Tags: TechSoup. NTEN's blog discusses the details of the break-in and lessons we should learn from it. The chief lesson: good passwords are key to good security. . Photo: Paul Linton.
Robert Weiner
SEPTEMBER 21, 2009
Follow the action on Twitter #tsdigs. Follow it on Twitter at #tsdigs. Tags: TechSoup. Enter the Challenge by creating a story, and be in the running to win fabulous prizes including: a flip video camera, adobe software, mp3 players and more! Engage with the experts in the TechSoup Forums. More info: The event webpage is [link].
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