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Lame spams of the day: confirmation from [insert social network name]

Robert Weiner

In the past 2 days I've received spams in the form of confirmations from MySpace, Habbo, Tagged, and Foursquare. Sure you're ready to let go of your friends, music, and that profile design you spent so much time creating? They don't look related, but it's an odd coincidence. Sender: Myspace (noreply@message.sease.com).

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10 Reasons Your Email Appeal is Being Ignored

NetWits

Enter cheesy A-team music here.) That is called spam, and it’s frowned upon. The returns were less than mind-blowing. So, as we embark on our next online fundraising adventure, I thought it would be a good idea to hit up the NetWits gang. I asked them the following question: What are the top reasons that email appeals get ignored??

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Free and open source tool #5: WordPress

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

It basically eliminates comment spam, which, as you probably know, is the bane of bloggers everywhere. .&# Installation of WordPress is scarily easy. WordPress is expandable with tons of plugins. The best one, by the way, is Akismet , which is also made by Automattic.

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

Nonprofit Tech for Good

As far as ads and Spam, that just a part of MySpace and the price to pay for having a social networking site with very little rules or censorship. Music and arts organizations, probably. Sadly, at the same time, libraries and schools across America were blocking MySpace, but allowing Facebook. Same with labor organizations.

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Living Between the Tides

NetWits

The record album business was broken by the cassette tape, which was then undone by the CD, then digital music files changed everything, and something else is sure to come along. The direct mail world was broken the instant the first email was sent, but 80% of all email sent is spam. Kiva breaks it. Room to Read breaks it.

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Social Networks and Digital Sharecropping

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

A new social networking site, called “Quetchup&# spammed (without permission) the contacts of people who signed up for the site. It’s not really mine, and I don’t like that. Privacy Suck: Not so long ago, there was a little hiccup in Web 2.0 goodiness.

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I Like To Watch Feed

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

At first, I thought it was comment spam promoting a porno site but far from it. Today I discovered Cityzenjane's blog and her i_like_to_watch tag/delicious rss feed via a comment to one of my blog posts.

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