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You're an Accidental Spammer: What Do You Do When You've Been Hacked? (Digital Dispatches from the desk of Gavin Clabaugh)

NTEN

Scenario: Spam, spam, spam, spam, spam, bacon and spam. Wilson is offering a "Free Video on how to earn $251,283" from something called an "affiliate strategy" with, of course, links. Worse, there are a couple of thousand anti-spam-bots gunning for you now. Suddenly you're a spammer.

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Nonprofit Email Basics: Master Effective Fundraising Communications

sgEngage

To make sure yours don’t get lumped in with the spam, here’s how to use your email communication to forge (or maintain) relationships with your constituents. Automate your thank-you sequences so that, if someone gives you two gifts in one month, they don’t receive the same generic script each time. Thank you’s. Peer to peer.

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Nonprofit Email Basics: Master Effective Fundraising Communications

sgEngage

To make sure yours don’t get lumped in with the spam, here’s how to use your email communication to forge (or maintain) relationships with your constituents. Automate your thank-you sequences so that, if someone gives you two gifts in one month, they don’t receive the same generic script each time. Thank you’s. Peer to peer.

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Data hoarding: Does the term apply to your donor data?

3rd Sector Labs

Have you been blocked for sending out spam because too many of your emails go to bad addresses? So we studied the problem, then created custom scripts to clean and de-dupe based on reasonable best practices. Many service providers will perform an assessment for free – we do! The cost of using bad data.

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Who's Knocking at My Firewall Door? Simple Security for the Nonprofit IT Professional

NTEN

Ro)bots (or spiders) are scripts or applications that search out information on the web. Remember the malware scare surrounding free downloads a decade ago? For many of these issues, good spam/virus filtering is essential. Maybe it is time to invest in another operating system and migration now save your hair and fingernails.

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Adobe Story Free

Tech Soup

If you're thinking about trying out TechSoup's 2013 Digital Storytelling Challenge by making a 90 second video about your charitable work, uploading it to YouTube, and sending the link to us, you might find Adobe Story Free useful. Once inside the Adobe Story Free online application I found it easy to use. Adobe Story Free FAQ.

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SEO For Nonprofits: A Beginners Guide To Digital Marketing Success

Nonprofits Source

In the past, people would try to game the algorithms by spamming anchor text links to artificially increase their rankings. LSIGraph is a free tool that provides a list of related keyword suggestions based on your keyword: This suggestion tool does have the downside of not providing information like keyword difficulty. Autoptimize.