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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)

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Scenario: Spam, spam, spam, spam, spam, bacon and spam. It seems your baby steps into the world of user-generated content and social networking have turned on you. Worse, there are a couple of thousand anti-spam-bots gunning for you now. Suddenly you're a spammer. My name is really mud.

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Who's Knocking at My Firewall Door? Simple Security for the Nonprofit IT Professional

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Ro)bots (or spiders) are scripts or applications that search out information on the web. Social networking sites are the next and prime targets for cyber do-no-gooders. For many of these issues, good spam/virus filtering is essential. Careful about buying cheap software from unknown sources. They may be infected.

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A Conversation with Michael Gilbert on Nonprofit Blogging

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Nonprofit Online News is tied with Scripting News (Dave Winer's blog) as the oldest weblog still being published, period. They are both spam magnets and I have enough trouble dealing with email spam as it is. I would be interested in social networking tools in support of communities of practice and in peer to peer approaches.

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Measuring Your Blog's Outcomes and Use of Other Social Media Tools

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Ah, my screencast script on google analytics completely ignores social media and only focuses on web sites. I did not include spam comments or my own). Kaushik recommends: For your blog set a goal for this most social of social mediums. I still don't think navigation matters much though. A time consuming pain.

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