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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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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. 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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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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Women Who Tech Telesummit: Tools Galore Panel

Amy Sample Ward

spam filters: are you using spam-like words in any of your content? Social Networks & Twitter from Natalie Foster: Two Principles: 1. The trust that comes with using social networks (engaging people you know, who engage the people they know, and so on) is what creates the power of using social networking tools.

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Living Between the Tides

NetWits

The newspaper classified ads were broken forever by the Internet, thanks to a one-two punch from the likes of Monster and Craigslist. The direct mail world was broken the instant the first email was sent, but 80% of all email sent is spam. Tags: Social Networking fundraising trends. Kiva breaks it.

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Day 1: Connecting Up Conference: Brisbane, Australia

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Conference Tag: CU08 ConnectingUp Conference Warning: I am live blogging these notes as the conference unfolds. This year's program is heavily weighted to the "social web" and nonprofits. Doug mentioned attending the NTC/NTEN conference in New Orleans and had RSS and Tagging ringing in his ears. Mike Seyfang responded.

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Live Blogging ONG Web 2.0 Conference in Romania sponsored by the Soros Foundation in Bucharest

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Social Media, NGOs, and Romania View SlideShare presentation or Upload your own. tags: ngo socialmedia ) Next, Iulian Comanescu - Training coordinator for the program is explaining the program. He selected some definitions from the Internet. Social Networks: Facebook, Myspace, and many more. What is Web 2.0

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