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Has Your Nonprofit Considered Race and Class in Your Social Media Strategy?

Nonprofit Tech for Good

The internet was once considered a great equaliser, a platform that could bring strangers together, even across racial boundaries. But internet users of the same race have recently begun clustering on certain social media websites. Watch Video. Via BBC News Magazine : .

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Recent Rash of LinkedIn Spam

Tech Soup

Like its more well-known counterpart Facebook, LinkedIn is a social networking site geared towards professional networking and workplace circles. Due to its increasing popularity, there are now more concerted efforts to use LinkedIn lookalike spam to fool users in clicking links within it. Photo: Nan Palmero , CC license.

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Social Networks and Digital Sharecropping

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Social Networks and Digital Sharecropping October 1, 2007 I was reading Deborah Finn’s curmugeonly post about Facebook. I have been having curmudgeonly thoughts about social networks in general.

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10 Blogging Best Practices for Nonprofits

Nonprofit Tech for Good

At the time, it was a completely new concept whereas today our daily internet experience is one based on social commentary and feedback. With social media, comments are increasingly rarely on blogs and there’s a good chance that the comments you do get are spam or argumentative for the sake of being argumentative.

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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)

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Scenario: Spam, spam, spam, spam, spam, bacon and spam. It seems your baby steps into the world of user-generated content and social networking have turned on you. Worse, there are a couple of thousand anti-spam-bots gunning for you now. Suddenly you're a spammer. My name is really mud.

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Your Online Account Has Been Compromised — Now What?

Tech Soup

Once I did and logged in to my email, friends were writing and replying to me about the spam I was sending. Disconnect the compromised device from the Internet. Depending on the people affected, you should broadcast a message on your social networks about the issue and that you have resolved it.

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Ten Things Nonprofits May Not Know About MySpace [But I Wish They Did]

Nonprofit Tech for Good

MySpace was and still is (for some) the easiest social networking site to grow a community quickly. As a regualr MySpace user, there is no denying that MySpace is more diverse than any other social networking site. MySpace is also the number one accessed social networking website on mobile devices today.

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