NTEN

OCTOBER 28, 2009

They are like broad, topical, personalized blogsearch with good spam control. uses AJAX and XMPP to let users perform the communication functions of social networking (messaging, person to person sharing) through an "apps in the browser OS" metaphor. These services are fun and useful.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 3, 2010

Some organizations slave over creating just the right email but their ESPs let them down in getting the right email to the right person in the right format. I moved on to cross-reference those recommendations against trusted online sources from NTEN and Idealware. Tags: E-mail NPTech NTEN Communications. That’s a real waste.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 27, 2009

If for some reason, like your spam folder, you haven't gotten it, please send a friendly note to support@ntconnect.org and they'll be happy to get your login info to you). NTC Sessions: You can create your own personal NTC Agenda! Tags: NPTech NTEN acteva 09NTC. At this point you should have received your login to NTConnect.

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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 14, 2009

opening: do you make your email seem personal, use your database to insert members’ names. spam filters: are you using spam-like words in any of your content? A blog tends to be specifically personal posts, in date order. Things to consider and target include: sender line: who is your email “from&#.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 23, 2008

His main point is that Twitter is not an advertising tool or spam tool. Personality Must Be Included , Forget The Boring Institutional Biolerplate. On Twitter, your organization should have a personality. I like the way NTEN does it. It's like starting a blog without first following and commenting on others blog.

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NTEN

MARCH 26, 2009

What if they become viral or even SPAM? . This requires that you actually put someone IN control -- not merely a person to create and edit content, but one who can and will manage it, watch it, and cultivate it. Tags: NPTech michael weiss marketing NTEN Newsletter integrated communications. What if they're offensive?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 13, 2009

. NTEN offered a fantastic Webinar today featuring Randi Zuckerberg, Director of Marketing at Facebook and Adam (didn't get his last name) from the DC Office on the emerging best practices for nonprofits who want to set up Facebook Fan Pages. It's intended to prevent spam. Here's the description. Standard best practice.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 1, 2007

At least the content-focused social networks, like del.icio.us, or flickr, or my personal favorite, our own Social Source Commons , there is some there there. A new social networking site, called “Quetchup&# spammed (without permission) the contacts of people who signed up for the site. And, yet another login and password.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

Personalize your email campaigns and write short subject lines to maximize open rates. To be above average, your nonprofit needs to master personalization, well-written subject lines, and of course, consistently publish and curate interesting news updates, inspirational stories, and visual content.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 19, 2008

Doug mentioned attending the NTC/NTEN conference in New Orleans and had RSS and Tagging ringing in his ears. Bill Strathmann Opened with his personal story about he got started with Networked For Good. He talked about his first personal fundraising campaign - for cancer research in his mother's memory.

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 21, 2011

Writing last month's post about how NTEN differentiates between types of open rate made me think about the ways we've worked to boost our numbers. While you should keep in mind that all of this is based on data specific to NTEN – your own results may vary – here are 14 ways we've worked to achieve that modest bump. so far this year.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 12, 2006

And, there is so much to experiment that one person or organization can't do it alone. Myspace avoids spamming so the members usually blocks people from adding them directly unless you know them personally or their email. So what I have been doing is sending out mails one by one! members ten at a time.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 15, 2010

Even worse, if enough of them use the "Uninvite" (or "Spam") button, you might find yourself permanently uninvited from your entire email list. To a recipient, a negative experience applies to the whole of your organization, not one person or department. . Tags: E-mail NPTech NTEN Communications.

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NTEN

JANUARY 27, 2010

If all of your web updates have to go through a single person, that's a pretty tight bottleneck on your capacity. By scheduling updates, you keep your communication regular -- and you can repost, without spamming the airwaves. Tags: Newsletter NPTech NTEN Planning Social Media Communications. Stop entering data.

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NTEN

JANUARY 27, 2010

If all of your web updates have to go through a single person, that's a pretty tight bottleneck on your capacity. By scheduling updates, you keep your communication regular -- and you can repost, without spamming the airwaves. Tags: CRM E-mail Newsletter NPTech NTEN Planning Social Media Web Sites. Stop entering data.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 16, 2007

I've been trying to collect screen captures and stories about nonprofit web analytics for a screencast on Google Analytics for NTEN. I did not include spam comments or my own). Kaushik's advice is: For your blog, personal or professional I recommend a goal setting exercise. via Kevin Gamble (see larger here ).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 19, 2009

Sure, Twitter is banal and trivial, full of self-promotion and outright spam. I like the guideline that Wendy Harman, Social Media Strategist for the Red Cross said last February in an NTEN Webinar, " I won't tweet anything that would embarrass my mother." So is the Internet. Like Rheingold, I avoid over tweeting about myself.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 10, 2008

The NTEN project WeAreMedia project is an excellent personal learning laboratory for reflection and insights about this topic. I'm noticing a lot of "edited by guest" changes coming through - so as long we don't get spam or mischief I think this good to encourage participation. Photo by Robert Francis.

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Care2

JUNE 1, 2009

For whatever reason—because they lack the money, because they’re distracted by personal matters, or simply because they don’t relate strongly to nonprofit organizations—young people rarely give money, and when they do, it’s usually not very much. Think about it. Whats the saying: Time waits for no man.

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Care2

APRIL 16, 2008

While spam is worse than it’s ever been, email continues to be the key to successful online fundraising programs – that’s a bit of surprise. It often took me a couple of tries to recruit the right person. Or, I would hire a great person into the wrong job and have to sort it out later.

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Care2

MARCH 4, 2008

While spam is worse than it’s ever been, email continues to be the key to successful online fundraising programs – that’s a bit of surprise. It often took me a couple of tries to recruit the right person. Or, I would hire a great person into the wrong job and have to sort it out later.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 2, 2007

Vendor and Tool Talk: Personal Democracy Forum tells all on CRM Vendors according to the nonprofittechhelp blog. A reminder from Democracy in Action about accidental email spamming. Definitely a must-read, particularly the post by Steve Bridger on the power of storytelling. Check it out. Other blog coverage here.

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