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Lame spams of the day: assorted LinkedIn ploys

Robert Weiner

Lots of spam is coming from fake LinkedIn accounts these days. Š 2010, LinkedIn Corporation. Another lame LinkedIn series had subjects like "Yetta is now part of your network. Most of it is more scary than lame -- it uses the right logo, colors, and fonts. Subject: LinkedIn Invitation from your official. Keep connecting."

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11 TwtPoll Results Nonprofits Can Use to Plan 2010 Communications Strategies

Nonprofit Tech for Good

The TwtPoll results are often surprising and can be very useful for nonprofits as they forge ahead with their 2010 communications strategies. 5% A social networking site (like Facebook). Which social networking sites does your organization have an “official&# presence/profile on? Warning: Poll has been spammed: [link] ].

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Social Networks and Digital Sharecropping

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Social Networks and Digital Sharecropping October 1, 2007 I was reading Deborah Finn’s curmugeonly post about Facebook. I have been having curmudgeonly thoughts about social networks in general.

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Will Facebook Authenticate “Nonprofit Organizations” or Shut It Down?

Nonprofit Tech for Good

This is the risk of building communities on social networking sites over which we have no control over. I am definitely not spamming my fans with useless content, and use the site to promote and help nonprofits and social causes. As soon as Facebook launched Community Pages , I knew this day coming. It has taken 2.5

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NTEN Member Buzz Round-Up: First in 2010!

NTEN

Robert Weiner has been documenting this type of SPAM and sharing with the community since 2008. That's the warning coming through the NTEN Discuss list this week when someone asked the list for advice about their domain, which someone from China emailed them they should "protect" by registering other like-domains through them.

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Free and open source tool #5: WordPress

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

It basically eliminates comment spam, which, as you probably know, is the bane of bloggers everywhere. .&# Installation of WordPress is scarily easy. WordPress is expandable with tons of plugins. The best one, by the way, is Akismet , which is also made by Automattic.

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See What’s Out There » Blog Archive » Why you need social media marketing.

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Because we believe that increasingly we will be seeing engagement move to these social networking models and away from email. “The spam war is a continuous battle between spammers and security vendors,&# said Barracuda chief executive Dean Drako. Because email… what’s the technical term?… … sucks.