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Lame spam of the day: U.N. natural disaster victim payment

Robert Weiner

This spam is both lame (no graphic, no attempt to make the senders address look legit, mangled English) and odious -- preying on disaster victims (one can hope they're just preying on greedy idiots who will pretend to be disaster victims). Sender: Ban ki Moon (Info@cast.net). Subject: United Nations Headquarters.

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Nonprofit Technology News for May 2014

Tech Soup

It’s called the TechBridge Nonprofit Exchange and it is designed to address the problem of grantmakers’ reluctance to fund infrastructure improvements for charities. Disaster Relief in Eastern Europe. Pathways to Education is dealing with the large and troubling Canadian high school drop out problem.

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The TechSoup Content Survey Results are In!

Tech Soup

As one respondent said, " Mostly I've used Tech Soup when I have an actual need that you can address -- there is so little time for 'general info' browsing." As one respondent said, "The problem, always, is time. And respondents were more interested in online events for social media than for other topics.

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Facebook Fan Pages or Social Ads

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

News Feed with info about a brand. d gotten back in touch with me not to catch up on old times but to attempt to siphon money out of me I very nearly slugged him Allfacebook blog says: There appears to be one problem with this new service though: how do you know that it is an official page for that company or product? d by a guy I???d

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How To Make A Back Channel Light Up Like Clark Griswald's House

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Here's some reflections on the Webinar: Overcoming the Strawberry Jam Problem With Social Design. One participant described this as the "strawberry jam" problem that if the training is trying to cover too much content and too many different levels, than it gets spread too thin. here's info about using it as backchannel).

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22 Email Ledes That Always Work!!

M+R

Here comes Wally Wood, and he sees himself and his colleagues trying to find new ways to solve the same problems over and over again. Report back from colleagues Your organization is full of people with inside info — field staff, development officers, policy experts. Pass along an update from one of them.

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SXSW: Social Media Nonprofit ROI Poetry Slam - Slides, Links, and Poems (long)

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

That Twitter was the answer to all their programs' problems evermore. . `At Wendy Harman, Red Cross Wendy will share a story about how they used metrics to refine their social media strategy for their Online Disaster News Room Presentation Key Points. increase transparency about disaster response. set audience. affected people.

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