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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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5 Steps to Finding the Ideal Email Service Provider

NTEN

I moved on to cross-reference those recommendations against trusted online sources from NTEN and Idealware. Ideally this includes a strict anti-spam policy, automatic SPAM cleaners, ISP-specific controls and white-list approvals. Step 5: Test, test, test your finalists to make your selection.

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So you want a Facebook Fan Page for Your Nonprofit? Here's the Scoop!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

. 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. Jeremiah Owyang - Testing Facebook Pages.

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10 Email Marketing Best Practices for Nonprofits

Nonprofit Tech for Good

To find the best time for your organization, experiment, test, and don’t be afraid to go against conventional wisdom. Use A/B testing to experiment with subject lines and limit characters to 50 or less. Nonprofit Tech for Good recommends ILLUSIO and NTEN. Also, get cybersecurity training for your nonprofit staff.

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Highlights from the 2009 eNonprofit Benchmarks Study - Online Fundraising, Advocacy, and Social Media - frogloop

Care2

Open rates can be an unreliable metric due to spam filters, preview panes and image blocking -- all of which make it hard to know whether someone is actually opening (or reading) an email. Segment, test and repeat. However, as online programs have matured, the decline in the performance of email has slowed.

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Fourteen Ways to Improve Your Open Rate

NTEN

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. Test, test, tes t.

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How-to: Manage Your E-mail Campaigns (and Be a Good Guest)

NTEN

Even worse, if enough of them use the "Uninvite" (or "Spam") button, you might find yourself permanently uninvited from your entire email list. As with any translation, there's room for error, which is why render testing is vital and potentially time-consuming. Tags: E-mail NPTech NTEN Communications.

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