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How to rent or buy an email list and why YOU should avoid it like the plague

Whole Whale

CAN-SPAM fines Let’s start with the scary legal argument: it is technically illegal to send unsolicited, ‘cold emails’ to people that haven’t opted-in to hear from your organization. Learn more about the CAN-SPAM fines which can be up to $16,000 per violation. Offer a Amazon gift cards as a signup promotion.

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Scary Security Stories to Tell in the Dark

Tech Soup

Honan learned the dangers of not backing up your online accounts the hard way, but he also exposed some vital security flaws in Apple and Amazon's services. TechSoup's own Kevin Lo noticed some strange activity on his email accounts when friends were replying to spam he was supposedly sending out. Paranormal Email Activity.

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Mobile for Good: Fire Phone, Locking Down Data, and Services for the Homeless

Tech Soup

For this month's column, I'm going to dissect the latest entry into the smartphone field: the Amazon Fire Phone. Amazon Fire Phone and the Internet of Things. The long-awaited "Amazon phone" is finally here and it's goal is to make shopping that much easier. It runs on Amazon's own Fire OS 3.5,

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10 Instagram Best Practices for Nonprofits

Nonprofit Tech for Good

To get access to Insights, to post ads, set up a Shop, and use Instagram Charitable Giving Tools, your nonprofit must have an Instagram Business Account. Today, the overuse of hashtags is considered hashtag spamming. Access and study Insights. Not anymore. Kudos to Conservation International ! Create and manage ads.

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The Wildness in the Corner: A Discussion with Jason Nelson

Museum 2.0

It’s this idea of taking your fiction or poetry and dispersing it out on the web in places where people can enter things—like into an Amazon book review. I thought it was spam. And I usually love art that's annoying—but it wasn’t accessible enough. You just need one access point. I was glad it was over.