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Lame spams of the day: confirmation from [insert social network name]

Robert Weiner

In the past 2 days I've received spams in the form of confirmations from MySpace, Habbo, Tagged, and Foursquare. That way, you can still enjoy using Myspace Music and Video and if you ever want to come back, it's here waiting for you! Sender: Tagged (Tagged@taggedmail.com). Is it a trend or just me?

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Video Fridays #23 Calling All Videos!

NCE Social Media

YouTube Direct is a a free tool of YouTube that allows you to ask your constituencies to upload videos on your own website. Similar to what many news websites offer, you can ask your webpage viewers to upload their videos. This video from YouTube explains YouTube Direct in a little more detail.

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Video Fridays #24 – Catching Up

NCE Social Media

A few advantages of using a bulk email marketing software tool versus your MS Outlook account includes more formatting options, better list management, and less occurrence of your email landing in a spam folder, thus placing your domain on a blacklist. Here’s a video on how to integrate MailChimp into your social media tools.

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10 Twitter Best Practices for Nonprofits

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Use hashtags strategically to mention important causes, campaigns, and events, but hashtag spamming to try to increase your reach doesn’t work and has a negative effect on engagement. Don’t be a photo tag spammer either! Upload powerful photos and videos. 3) Tweet content that inspires engagement.

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10 LinkedIn Best Practices for Nonprofits

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Tagging corporate sponsors and partners. Since the LinkedIn community is a social network built for business and nonprofit professionals, it is absolutely a best practice to tag and thank your corporate sponsors and partners. For example, this post by the Houston Food Bank tags and shows appreciation for their sponsor , CVS Health.

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Joshua Schachter: Future of Tagging

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Future of Tagging ??? I arrived early so I could get a good seat, which paid off because I was close enough to Schachter that I video taped his elevator speech and got a business card , too! You might tag it with ???read_later,??? so those tags work well for you, but not necessarily the social system. read_later,???

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The Networked Nonprofit Update

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

He raises a good point and even makes up a new word: spamanthropism (spam + philanthropism). It describes social media for social good that is so obnoxious that it feels like spam. Tags: Promotions. In my own fundraising, I am always very conscious of asking too much and annoying people. And that’s just October!

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