NTEN

JULY 11, 2011

In an ever-changing world of social media and web collaboration, tools for user interaction and engagement are becoming increasingly prevalent. If you have ever implemented a web submission form on your site, you quickly realized that without spam protection your environment was vulnerable to unwanted content. By Stuart Holland, Sr.

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NTEN

JUNE 16, 2011

Read the complete issue of NTEN's new quarterly journal for nonprofit leaders by subscribing to the journal for free! ] The recent change was engendered not by a desire to block volunteers or constituents from sharing information, but by a drastic increase in Spam. “Up Too much Spam or other weird things happening.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 7, 2014

Need evidence: this photo of Net2 organizers Mel Findlater, Stephen Blyth, Jeremy Foreman, Birgit Pauli-Haack, Roshani Kothari, and NTEN’s Megan Keane was taken in Washington, DC during 14NTC. Baltimore, MD: April Tech & Social Change Meetup. Vancouver, Canada: The Canadian Anti-Spam Act: What you need to know before July 1.

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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. .&# 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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 13, 2009

. NTEN offered a fantastic Webinar today featuring Randi Zuckerberg, Director of Marketing at Facebook and Adam (didn't get his last name) from the DC Office on the emerging best practices for nonprofits who want to set up Facebook Fan Pages. Keep your page name short and accurate, can't change after you create it.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 3, 2010

But when the ESP lost our email lists (which we backed up weekly, thank goodness), we knew we had to change. I moved on to cross-reference those recommendations against trusted online sources from NTEN and Idealware. Flexibility: As detailed as your needs may be now, there will be changes you want to make in the future.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 28, 2009

They are like broad, topical, personalized blogsearch with good spam control. If all webpages were PubSubHubbub enabled, for example, they could simply tell a Hub about any changes they had published and Google could find out via that Hub. There would be no reason for Google to poll websites for changes over and over again.

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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 14, 2009

Women Who Tech brings together talented and renowned women breaking new ground in technology who use their tech savvy skills to transform the world and inspire change. spam filters: are you using spam-like words in any of your content? If you start with a theory of change, you can then design tactics around it.

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Care2

MAY 14, 2009

M&R and NTEN just released an impressive benchmarks study that analyzed 32 nonprofits online advocacy and online fundraising programs in 2007 and 2008. Open rates can be an unreliable metric due to spam filters, preview panes, image blocking which have little to do with whether someone is actually opening (or reading) an email.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 1, 2007

A new social networking site, called “Quetchup&# spammed (without permission) the contacts of people who signed up for the site. It’s not really mine, and I don’t like that. Privacy Suck: Not so long ago, there was a little hiccup in Web 2.0 goodiness.

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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! GoogleEarth launches Nonprofit Outreach Program via the NTEN blog and NetSquared community blog. Net Tuesday Seattle has been in the local press too! Netsquared Featured projects receive grant awards ! NpTech Talk. It like it was also splog and closed down by wordpress.

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NTEN

JANUARY 27, 2010

Security is always changing and evolving. For many of these issues, good spam/virus filtering is essential. After logging in for the first time, they are instructed to change their temporary password. Tags: Infrastructure Newsletter NPTech NTEN Planning IT Staff. Wolfe , Marin Institute.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 19, 2008

Doug mentioned attending the NTC/NTEN conference in New Orleans and had RSS and Tagging ringing in his ears. What if you committed to leave this conference with a tangible commitment to changing one thing about the way your organization's operates. This year's program is heavily weighted to the "social web" and nonprofits.

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Care2

MAY 14, 2009

Open rates can be an unreliable metric due to spam filters, preview panes and image blocking -- all of which make it hard to know whether someone is actually opening (or reading) an email. For fundraising messages, open rates were down from 2007 to 2008, but click-through and response rates did not change.

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 21, 2011

Writing last month's post about how NTEN differentiates between types of open rate made me think about the ways we've worked to boost our numbers. While you should keep in mind that all of this is based on data specific to NTEN – your own results may vary – here are 14 ways we've worked to achieve that modest bump. so far this year.

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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. Read Allison Fine's Momentum: Igniting Social Change in the Connected Age (I reviewed here ). Too other must-read blogs are Getting Attention by Nancy Schwartz and Spare Change by Nedra Weinrich.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 16, 2007

I've been trying to collect screen captures and stories about nonprofit web analytics for a screencast on Google Analytics for NTEN. We're trying to make some changes in our web site based on user behavior. I did not include spam comments or my own). via Kevin Gamble (see larger here ). He did and gave me permission to blog!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 10, 2008

The NTEN project WeAreMedia project is an excellent personal learning laboratory for reflection and insights about this topic. I'm noticing a lot of "edited by guest" changes coming through - so as long we don't get spam or mischief I think this good to encourage participation. Photo by Robert Francis. breadth.???

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Care2

JUNE 1, 2009

5) The furor about “junk mail” is mild compared to that about spam—as it should be, because online communications is prey to all sorts of fraud. The point is that the world is changing - there are new channels - and that we need to look at how to best strategically incorporate them. The speed of change for one.

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Care2

APRIL 16, 2008

While spam is worse than it’s ever been, email continues to be the key to successful online fundraising programs – that’s a bit of surprise. And what are the major changes you have witnessed in those years? I would like to acknowledge NTEN’s leadership in this area. Also, any regrets -- major or minor?

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Care2

MARCH 4, 2008

While spam is worse than it’s ever been, email continues to be the key to successful online fundraising programs – that’s a bit of surprise. And what are the major changes you have witnessed in those years? I would like to acknowledge NTEN’s leadership in this area. Also, any regrets -- major or minor?

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