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Buy Me! Support the 11NTC Scholarship Fund

Amy Sample Ward

And, as you may know, every year, NTEN tries to raise $10,000 to send staffers from small nonprofits to the conference who otherwise couldn’t afford to attend. Every dollar is matched by Convio, allowing NTEN to send up to 57 people this year! It went into my spam filter, FYI.). You must use our link to register: [link].

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Great reads from around the web on August 15th

Amy Sample Ward

Like ‘how many times can I invite my Facebook friends to a fundraising event before it’s considered spam?’ Wikipedia Rolling Out Article Rating System – What Do You Think? . – "Have you ever wanted to ask a fundraising expert a question you just can’t get your arms around?

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The 2011 NTC Scholarship Silent Auction is Now Open!

NTEN

While we've used the public humiliation of the NTEN staff as the theme in the past, this year we want to celebrate the collective awesome of the NTEN community. Want to bid on these, or any of the other items (like the NTEN staff hand delivering a 5 Guys meal to your NTC lunch table)? It went into my spam filter, FYI.)

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What's So Scary about Cloud Security?

Tech Soup

argues that cloud-based services are likely to be safer and more secure than most in-house nonprofit computer systems. "I’m as big an advocate of a good firewall and a reputable anti-virus/spam package on all your systems as the next person. NTEN has done some great research on cloud computing.

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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 it's something else, but regardless the cause, some ingenious script-kiddy has turned the tables and suddenly you're responsible for thousands upon thousands of spam messages. The names have been changed to protect the paranoid.

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Addressing Accessibility in Social Media

NTEN

If you have ever implemented a web submission form on your site, you quickly realized that without spam protection your environment was vulnerable to unwanted content. Many sites implement a CAPTCHA system to filter out spam robots, but quite a few systems use only visual-based tests, which aren’t accessible.

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Things We Like: Best of 2009

NTEN

Not only is it nifty piece, it attracted some of our best spam comments of the year: "Thanks for pants. Actually, some of the funniest protest signs of 2009 would make good spam comment fodder, if you happen to work for a fly-by-night SEO firm. Tags: NPTech NTEN Things We Like. Patience pants. Second place goes to the U.S.

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