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10 Best Practices for Email Security

Tech Soup

Stop Spam & Phishing Emails. Spam is not only a nuisance; it can also pose security risks. For instance, by converting a Word file to PDF, any potentially harmful scripts can be removed. Even if the email is from a known sender but somehow looks out of the ordinary, teach your employees to be cautious. spanhidden.

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Need a copy editor? Look in the mirror

M+R

I often tell folks that making a practice of self-editing is a great way to level up : finish your draft (email appeal, social media post, video script, or whatever else), walk away from it for a minute, and then go back and make changes as an editor would. The greatest enemy of a direct response email is the spam filter.

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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. In 1998, I was teaching web strategy workshops in which I described a number of strategies for failure on the web. They are both spam magnets and I have enough trouble dealing with email spam as it is.

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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). Even more don't come at all -- they come from feed readers (as you would know). But the stats. are very different. I still don't think navigation matters much though.

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