Amy Sample Ward

AUGUST 15, 2011

Like ‘how many times can I invite my Facebook friends to a fundraising event before it’s considered spam?’ . – "Have you ever wanted to ask a fundraising expert a question you just can’t get your arms around?

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Web Wikipedia Bookmarking Facebook 108

NTEN

JANUARY 24, 2011

Scenario: Spam, spam, spam, spam, spam, bacon and spam. The following is real — or should I say, sotto voce, the following events occur in real time. Worse, there are a couple of thousand anti-spam-bots gunning for you now. If you think otherwise, Pollyanna is going to bite you in the butt.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 16, 2012

"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. "But let’s face it, most of the time what we’re protecting against here is the casual opportunist hacker who is targeting literally millions of potential victims.

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NTEN

JANUARY 4, 2010

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. You don't need to be a Bonnie Tyler fan to appreciate the best flowchart of all time.

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NTEN

JANUARY 20, 2011

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)? The system will send you a confirmation email you must respond to before you can log in for the first time. It went into my spam filter, FYI.) You must use our link to register: [link].

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 30, 2009

It's definitely time to start thinking about your end-of-year e-mail. To get a 15% discount, you just need to be an NTEN Member. Avoid spam filters. They also found that the. month of December accounted for 21% of the transaction volume in 2008 -- but. 48% of the dollars raised. Boston Email Fundraising Bootcamp on October 7th.

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NTEN

JUNE 10, 2011

A robust knowledge sharing network might involve people sharing resources, best practices, worst practices, just-in-time information, quick tips, and deep thinking, all focused on a specific topic. It may still require somebody’s time to encourage participation and perhaps do a little re-formatting and re-organizing. Some are huge.

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NTEN

JANUARY 29, 2009

Idealware's timely article, " Selecting Software on a Shoestring ". The SpamTrap , "an interactive installation piece that prints, shreds and blacklists spam email". Tags: NPTech NTEN Newsletter Things We Like. (There's even a bacon bra on Flickr, but you'll have to search for that yourself. It's a little disturbing.).

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Germany Widget Flickr Spam 44

NTEN

JUNE 16, 2011

Read the complete issue of NTEN's new quarterly journal for nonprofit leaders by subscribing to the journal for free! ] The recent change was engendered not by a desire to block volunteers or constituents from sharing information, but by a drastic increase in Spam. “Up Too much Spam or other weird things happening.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 3, 2010

And, despite the constant focus on social media, research shows time and time again that email remains a potent communications tool for those audiences who use it (e.g. Despite the fact that we had invested a lot of time and sweat in learning the tool and making it work for us, we felt that we couldn’t rely on it.

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Service email Test Spam 59

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 1, 2007

My curmugeonly thoughts fall into three basic categories of sucks: time suck, content suck, privacy suck. Time suck: Social networks are a time suck. As I said in a post a while back, I know that Facebook is getting far more from my time spent on Facebook than I do. And, yet another login and password. goodiness.

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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). Within the groups, you can create meetups to make the most of your networking time in San Francisco! Tags: NPTech NTEN acteva 09NTC.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 7, 2011

If the numbers are out of proportion, potential followers might think you're a spam account. Previously he's spent some time on the other side of the table, having served as the treasurer of his local food cooperative. Follower ratio - Try to keep it balanced. What other tips do you suggest for optimizing your twitter page?

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 10, 2011

Once you’ve figured out who you want to get on board, it’s time to reach out to them. It should go without saying that we’re not advocating spamming blog comments with embedded links to your website – not only will that guarantee your comments get deleted, but you can also get yourself blacklisted.). Attracting and Serving New Groups.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 23, 2008

I spend a lot of time listening on the social web using a radar that I've put together with a combination of free tools and the Stradivarius Violin of listening tools, Radian 6. His main point is that Twitter is not an advertising tool or spam tool. I like the way NTEN does it. Source: State of the Twittersphere Report.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

Tens of thousands of nonprofits worldwide come online for the first time every year and a large number of them are launching email campaigns using BCC simply because they are unaware of the alternatives or do not want to spend financial resources on an email marketing service. When to send your email campaigns?

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email Practice Marketing Newsletter 363

Amy Sample Ward

MAY 14, 2009

spam filters: are you using spam-like words in any of your content? Representatives from Energy Action Coalition were present at the hearing and were using Twitter to send updates from the White House in real time to those on the outside following along. subject line: what are you saying before the email is even opened?

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Tools Tech Map Case Study 100

NTEN

JANUARY 27, 2010

Maybe it is time to invest in another operating system and migration now save your hair and fingernails. I have 3 or more people (and discussion boards) I can contact at any time of the day (really!) For many of these issues, good spam/virus filtering is essential. Malvertising and toxic web search results will be on the rise.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 29, 2008

Facebook doesn't automatically spam your email contacts. New keywords include timely industry issues. Keep listening, though, because over time, more and more people from every age group are becoming active participants in online social spaces. Provide timely information? Don't worry. OK, we've set all these up, now what?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 19, 2008

It is a challenging and exciting at the same time." Doug mentioned attending the NTC/NTEN conference in New Orleans and had RSS and Tagging ringing in his ears. Need time and patience. We moderate comments because of spam and word press has a good tool for spam, but you need to moderate.

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Australia Conference Guidelines Comment 56

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

I realize that finding the time to experiment for many of us can be difficult, especially if those experiments do not lead to direct outcomes. It takes some action learning, small focused experiments where you track, evaluate, and learn from before investing more time and effort. Make it fun. There's lots of examples in this blog.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 23, 2013

It's time to make social media something the whole organization can get involved in and excited about. This is helpful as a number of different staff are involved in live-tweeting NTEN webinars. NTEN also includes best practices and examples of how to respond to different scenarios such as complaints, controversies, and spam.

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Social Media Social Media Empowerment 63

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. 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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NTEN

JANUARY 27, 2010

At a time when you probably can't hire additional staff, that means making the staff you have as efficient and effective as possible. If you have already done the strategy work, now is a good time to make sure you have shared it with everyone (not just the communications department). How do you do that? Define Your Audience.

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Communication Organization Press Newsletter 90

NTEN

JANUARY 27, 2010

At a time when you probably can't hire additional staff, that means making the staff you have as efficient and effective as possible. If you have already done the strategy work, now is a good time to make sure you have shared it with everyone (not just the communications department). How do you do that? Define Your Audience.

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Communication Organization Press Newsletter 65

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. that spending a lot of time on top-down navigation is mostly a waste of time. that spending a lot of time on top-down navigation is mostly a waste of time. A time consuming pain.

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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. The difference between seeing Twitter as a waste of time or as a powerful new community amplifier depends entirely on how you look at it - on knowing how to look at it. So is the Internet.

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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. Some reasons why may be: Not enough time. Not sure how to use the wiki software and may feel too difficult or time consuming to figure out. Photo by Robert Francis. Why don't they contribute?

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Care2

JUNE 1, 2009

4) Response rates to new-donor acquisition efforts by mail have been in gradual decline for some time. However, direct mail is still the fundraising mainstay for many thousands of American nonprofits—and I can assure you it will continue to be for a long time to come. I tweet from time to time. Think about it.

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Mail Social Media Online Advocacy 47

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. During your time working in the nonprofit industry, what was one of your greatest accomplishments? How much time do we have?

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Social Media Advocacy Interview Online 28

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. During your time working in the nonprofit industry, what was one of your greatest accomplishments? How much time do we have?

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Social Media Advocacy Interview Online 28

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 2, 2007

Maybe it is time to re-read the nonprofit version of Flipping the Funnel ? Personal Fundraising and Open Source Deductions Article in the Seattle Times about personal fundraising, Hoping To Help Darfur $1 at a Time that focuses on Darfurwall.org that has successfully raiased $30,000 in very small donations - $1 per person.

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