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Emailing Like a Pro: Navigating Gmail and Yahoo’s New Sender Requirements

The Modern Nonprofit

Keeping our valuable supporters in the loop, and ensuring our messages land right in their inboxes, not the dreaded spam folder. As of February 2024, they’re dialing up their fight against spam with a fresh set of sender requirements. Let’s Keep Those Spam Rates below 0.3% So pull up a chair, and let’s dive in.

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Communication Breakdown: The Dangers of Getting Blacklisted

Byte Technology

Essentially, blacklisting is an anti-spam measure designed to help email and Internet service providers curb unsolicited junk mail and other communications from suspect websites. However, problems occur when the anti-spam measures put in place are overly aggressive and actually block legitimate messages and contacts.

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The New Rules For Email Deliverability

Care2

Because organizations can have the best email marketing strategy, endless budget, and the most engaged subscribers of all time and they still won't reach their goals if their emails are marked as spam. It sounds easy: just make sure you aren't spamming people, right?

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6 Tips for Building Your Nonprofit’s Social Media Following

Roundtree

Of course, I’ve got to give some props to my mom—there’s truly very little privacy on the Internet. This may sound obvious, but unfortunately many organizations make this marketing mistake. And we're promising not to spam you. Only post things you’d be comfortable with anyone seeing.”. Tip #2: Go where your audience already is.

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Mobile for Good: Fire Phone, Locking Down Data, and Services for the Homeless

Tech Soup

Amazon Fire Phone and the Internet of Things. So let's say you're watching a movie and the camera pans to a can of Spam on a kitchen counter. Sounds a bit creepy, right? The Fire Phone is a perfect representation of "The Internet of Things," a concept my colleague Jim Lynch has written about.

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12NTC: Engaging Youth Using Social Media

Tech Soup

It's a burial ground for spam." If it sounds scary, Google it first. If a young person posts something that sounds problematic or worrisome, plop it into Google. A majority of youth with email accounts do not regularly check them, and some don't use email at all. It might just be a song lyric.

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Should Nonprofits Focus on Email or Facebook?

Connection Cafe

Almost everyone in this country who uses the internet at all has an email account, whether they access it by phone, tablet or laptop. . Spam filters serve as email’s natural predator, but even something as common as low open rates can get an organization’s messages sent to the “other” folder in the inbox.