Byte Technology

JULY 11, 2017

One of the main problems with having a comments section on your WordPress site is that, as older posts mellow on your page, they sometimes start to attract a rash of spam comments. So if you’re a blogger who posts particularly long articles consider splitting them up into multiple pages to make the navigation process much easier.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JULY 30, 2006

Here are some of the tips they gave for other disaster relief bloggers: Tips from Grace 1. Have monitors for your wikis to clean out spam. It would be a great way to mobilize the power of women bloggers. They also set up a wiki. Your blog needs to be a place to “help the helper.”

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NetWits

AUGUST 15, 2011

Spam email from a stranger. New post by your favorite blogger, delivered via RSS. Three or four recommendations from trusted colleagues, each with the same link. A trending topic on Twitter. The latest on Reddit. Phone call from your mom. File on the intranet you’re supposed to read before the end of the week.

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Judi Sohn

JANUARY 24, 2009

More troubling, the title of the blog was changed to a funky spam link. We figure the spam title was because the default WordPress install that replaced my database was an older version which immediately fell victim to known security exploits. I couldn’t log in to wp-admin. All panic and I can’t think logically.

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NonProfit Hub

DECEMBER 11, 2015

She is a writer and blogger with a passion for self-improvement and helping others. Email Spam Test. Are you worried your emails are getting thrown into spam folders? This free service allows you to run your email through a filter to see if there are any words that might trigger a spam flag.

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Judi Sohn

JUNE 1, 2009

Contrary to what the bloggers want you to believe, email is not dead. Go back to nested tables (but not too many…you have to keep the code light and not get bounced as spam if there’s not enough content vs. code) and only use inline CSS styles. By a very wide margin. There are HTML editors of all different shapes and sizes.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 6, 2010

When it was time for 09/09/09, I didn’t have to scramble to find RTers or bloggers; they were there. I thought I’d tweeted about it so much that Twitter was going to suspend my account for spamming—yet many of my followers didn’t even know about it. We sent it to bloggers, media, and anyone who’d open the file. What didn’t?

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

APRIL 22, 2010

Nathaniel Whittemore (the Change.org social entrepreneurship blogger) pitches June Cohen of the TED conference to pull together TEDxVolcano impromptu conference for the next day: Sunday! I wasn't going to spam every person I know in the UK about my arrival. It was too slow.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 21, 2008

Cambodian Bloggers Want To Support Our Cause. Thanks to the Bloggers. Blogger's Campaign Update. Blogger's Campaign Update. Roger Carr and Bob Uva Join the Blogger's Campaign. America's Giving Campaign: Bloggers Roundup - Thank You. Help Gmail Cut Me Off for Spamming: I can't Email You A Thank You!

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Connection Cafe

JUNE 22, 2011

Author: Guest Blogger. ” Avoid spam traps. That’s just one thing that will get your email caught by spam filters and prevent it from reaching your subscribers. Instead, make sure you click the “Spam Checker” before you send your newsletter out. Who is this newsletter from?

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Connection Cafe

NOVEMBER 4, 2019

Whether they’re bloggers, budding Instagram stars, or running Facebook groups for active alumni, influencers help you reach your prospective students and position your institution as a top choice online. Don’t be shy but don’t come off like spam or an eager salesperson. Approach Your Influencers.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 12, 2006

Today, I received an email with a reference to hamburger meat and at first I thought it was more spam. It's interesting that they are targeting bloggers as part of their publicity strategy. Flickr photo by zen??? But soon realized it was from Hamburger Helper???s My Hometown Helper???

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 24, 2008

It basically eliminates comment spam, which, as you probably know, is the bane of bloggers everywhere. WordPress is expandable with tons of plugins. The best one, by the way, is Akismet , which is also made by Automattic. Because WordPress is so easy to use, people have twisted and turned it to make regular websites.

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Get Fully Funded

MAY 9, 2011

A blank email subject line can look like spam. For your blog, you use a Blogger blog. Your email needs to have your website domain address. Otherwise, you look a little “fly-by-night.”. You don’t use a subject line when you send email. Always put something, even if it’s just a word or two. You have no email signature.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 2, 2009

For the last two years we’ve been bombarded with articles from bloggers and the mainstream media that MySpace is dead. Many bloggers were surprised by that data and have no clue as to why. It’s a community so diverse that it’s impossible to label, to put nicely in a box. MySpacers are incredibly loyal.

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Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 10, 2009

Provide a link to a page with bios for bloggers. If your blogging platform doesn't allow you to do that, have bloggers include a one-line bio at the end of their posts. Link to other bloggers Use Google Blog Search , Alltop and Technorati to find blogs that write about similar topics to yours. Don't be afraid of white space.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 29, 2008

Facebook doesn't automatically spam your email contacts. Maybe a few bloggers are regularly discussing your industry and you're ready to start engaging with them by commenting, setting up your own blog, or even inviting those bloggers to blog for your organization. Don't worry. What if it's too noisy out there? Congratulations.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 2, 2011

Meanwhile, Care2’s blogging network is comprised of 80 bloggers writing compellingly about a multitude of causes that matter to its membership. The Care2 News Network allows users to submit news stories and vote for content that should be featured more prominently.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 29, 2007

Yikes, the first ever tag spam I've seen in the NpTech Tag Stream! Here's another low cost email list tool, an email newsletter application just for bloggers called Zookoda. Through TechSoup's Netsquared project, blogger Beth Kanter, was commissioned to write a weekly summary. Net Tuesday Seattle has been in the local press too!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 11, 2006

I didn't recognize the name, so I clicked through to read that readers profile - and it was a blogger who also writes a p*rn site (I'm not spelling out that word or I'll get a trackback spam attack by you know what type of sites). This particular reader also became an "admirer" or "fan" of my mybloglog community.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 17, 2008

He covered the following platforms: Blogs: It is more than a web site, built by one person or a small community or group of bloggers. Talked about the problem of wiki spam and how easy it is to administrator. The participants will build personal blogs which are public or not depending on whether the blogger wants it public.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 5, 2006

I'm so grateful that other bloggers and colleagues like Rik Riel do such excellent coverage of what's happening in Second Life. Rik wrote a great post this called Global Poverty Death Counter: good cause, @!#(*@() implementation (Rik used another word in the headline, but I don't any trackback spam).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 19, 2008

Generally I wrote an honest comment and respond to what the blogger wrote. We moderate comments because of spam and word press has a good tool for spam, but you need to moderate. Priscilla has a set of simple guidelines for the bloggers. You can leave your email address and url. Do you moderate comments or not?

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See3

JANUARY 30, 2008

I was turned on to this blog by a friend and then given it to review as part of the Nonprofit Blog Exchange , which introduces nonprofit bloggers (like me) to other nonprofit bloggers through our work. Ariel Beery’s ideas are included on a blog I have been reading called The New Jew: Blogging Jewish Philanthropy.

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Connection Cafe

OCTOBER 14, 2011

Author: Guest Blogger. This is a really great aspect to mobile communications because it keeps response rates high and as consumers it keeps spam out of our text message inbox. The following blog post is by Michael Sabat. Michael is the VP of Account Management and Business Development at Mobile Commons. Build a mobile list now.

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Connection Cafe

JULY 29, 2009

You see all of these other orgs using Twitter, Facebook, Digg, MySpace, YouTube, LinkedIn, Blogger and the list goes on… How do you make sure you are using the latest and greatest in new media that will effectively contribute to your movement? I’d accepted the friend request and then started getting spammed.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 5, 2006

At first, I thought it was comment spam promoting a porno site but far from it. I understand that to have a well read blog most bloggers are working very hard to specialize and target a subject area and become an expert. My blog is partially a place for me to make sense of the rush of information coming at me.

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ASU Lodestar Center

APRIL 1, 2011

The reality is, we're all bombarded with digital messages and shares and likes and spam. What Next — Charles Best is "Character Approved" Twitter Updates Powered by Blogger. I worked with a nonprofit several years ago, and we had the most success with donors when we actually talked to them.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 20, 2005

And then, in April 1997, I became a blogger. This is really rewarding for me personally, because among this wave of bloggers are people like yourself who take a systems perspective to nonprofit technology. They are both spam magnets and I have enough trouble dealing with email spam as it is.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 12, 2006

Myspace avoids spamming so the members usually blocks people from adding them directly unless you know them personally or their email. In addition, several UK bloggers are focusing on nonprofits and social networking tools are also must reads - Steve Bridger , David Wilcox , and Nick Booth.

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Judi Sohn

MAY 29, 2009

Bloggers are focusing on it as some sort of email replacement, but I shudder to think of that happening. Gmail focused on simplicity first (great spam filtering, super fast search, conversation grouping) and then along came Labs years later to make it all interesting and wiz-bang. It looks neat and very interesting.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 18, 2008

YouTube has tons of trolls and comment spam. I'm reaching out to bloggers. From video to audio to photos. YouTube has like 7 hours of video uploaded every 3 minutes. A firehose of information. We want to be the gardenhose of information. We want a friendly enviroment where people can share and learn. How did the project unfold?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 4, 2008

" That's a hard question for me to answer because as Kaushik notes and all of us bloggers know all too well -- many analytics programs do not track RSS feeds. Or study bloggers SEO resources in more depth. I did not include spam comments or my own). And how has the audience grown overtime? Last year, I had a ratio of 1.4

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 16, 2007

" That's a hard question for me to answer because as Kaushik notes and all of us bloggers know all too well -- analytics programs do not track RSS feeds. I did not include spam comments or my own). I try to link to and encourage as many nonprofit bloggers as possible and help them increase their technorati rating.

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Nonprofits Source

JULY 5, 2018

This is also known as the skyscraper technique, coined by Brian Dean of Backlinko , a well-known blogger and subject matter expert when it comes to ranking on Google. Introductions to other bloggers. Typically this means I agree not to sell their email and not to spam their inbox. That’s the transactional approach.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 17, 2008

One of the questions: How to address concerns about privacy, security, and avoiding spam overload that comes with social media and social network sites? Well known blogger and social media guru, Robert Scoble adds all friends. It is a good idea to set a friend policy. But there are different approaches.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 2, 2007

Marshall Kirkpatrick, longtime Netsquared blogger, is now working with Splashcast also at DEMO 07 this week. Check out this splashcast channel with a nonprofit theme created by Netsquared Blogger, Britt Bravo. A reminder from Democracy in Action about accidental email spamming. A new blog platform for fair-minded bloggers.

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