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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. Perhaps that innocuous "Share this Page" widget on your web site — through no fault of your own — has been turned to the dark side. Worse, there are a couple of thousand anti-spam-bots gunning for you now. Suddenly you're a spammer.

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Online Community Meetup: The Five Steps to Growing an Engaged Online Community

Tech Soup

Maintain Members’ Trust : The first method by which Care2 works to maintain their members’ trust is to protect their community from spam and trolls to maintain a safe online community.

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Looking at Wave

Judi Sohn

When has making something slick and widget-y first ever brought mass appeal to a new concept? Gmail focused on simplicity first (great spam filtering, super fast search, conversation grouping) and then along came Labs years later to make it all interesting and wiz-bang. I don’t want the Internet to just throw data at me.

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NpTechTag Summary: NpTech Blog Buzz, NGOS at Demo 07, and Moulin

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

An Introduction to Activism on the Internet recently turned up in the tag stream, and while almost two years old, a solid primer. A reminder from Democracy in Action about accidental email spamming. Wikis, Widgets and Social Networking Do you think there are too many freaking widgets ?

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