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Lame spam of the day: Meeting invitation from George Adoo

Robert Weiner

This spam arrived in the form of a meeting invitation. My Outlook spam filter (SpamBayes) doesn''t seem to look at meeting invitations, and it also slipped past the SpamAssassin filter on my mail server. Scam Spam' I''m not sure if this one is lame (the subject, text, and double salutation are certainly lame) or clever.

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10 Ways To Segment Donors To Improve Nonprofit Fundraising Effectiveness

TechImpact

This means that email campaigns lacked creativity, personalization, and users felt like they were receiving a spammed message, not a message that was sent specifically for them. How often does a consumer like to be contacted? These are all examples of ways you can contact your donors. Communication frequency. Direct mail.

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10 Best Practices for Email Security

Tech Soup

Stop Spam & Phishing Emails. Spam is not only a nuisance; it can also pose security risks. This can result in unintended exposure of valuable client contacts, damage to reputation, and privacy breach claims. Unfortunately, nonprofits face the same threats to their email security that other businesses and organizations face.

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Five Online Fundraising Best Practices for Small NGOs in Developing Countries

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Web-based email communication services such as iContact , Constant Contact , or MailChimp make it very simple to launch an e-newsletter and fees start at $15US monthly for email lists of 500 subscribers or less. 2) Launch an e-newsletter. Many NGOs do send e-newsletters, but via BCC.

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What You Can Do About Ransomware

Tech Soup

Microsoft customers who believe they are affected can contact Microsoft Customer Service and Support. Mailshell Anti-Spam Desktop. The alternative of rebuilding infected machines is not great either, but it does discourage cyberblackmailers from coming back. Back Up Your Critical Data and Documents. Comodo Antispam Gateway.

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Top Do’s and Don’ts in Using Online Donation Forms

Connection Cafe

Plan this on the long term and bear in mind the opportunities you will have to harvest such contact information. Look at the donation as an initial contact with a future supporter of your cause. 2. Stop spamming. Don’t make the name and email fields required, maybe you will have donors who wish to remain anonymous.

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Social Networks and Digital Sharecropping

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

A new social networking site, called “Quetchup&# spammed (without permission) the contacts of people who signed up for the site. That’s because a lot of the social networking sites allow you to find other people on their site by giving them your gmail username and password, or your email contact list.