I've been using Tungle for years to share my calendar with colleagues and clients. It allowed them to view my availability online and propose meetings as if we were all on the same calendaring system. Unfortunately, RIM bought Tungle in 2011 and it started to decline. Appointments … [Read more...]
Archives for September 2012
Blackbaud kills Common Ground: So What?
According to the Foundation Center’s analysis of data from the National Center for Charitable Statistics, there are approximately 1.5 million nonprofits in the U.S. According to the Q&A that Idealware conducted with Blackbaud, approximately 400 nonprofits are using the version of Common Ground … [Read more...]
Lame spams of the day: Amazon HDTV shipments
I got 3 versions of this today. The most amusing part is that the shipping address is a mail merge field with my email address inserted. I'm sure that will produce some funny results for people with more creative email addresses. I don't see any posts about what the links do and … [Read more...]
Lame spams of the day: Fake Facebook notifications
Lots of spammers try to use fake Facebook notifications to trap the unwary. Here's a sample of what's landed in my spam folder. All but the last one used graphics that made them look like the came from Facebook. Senders: Facebook [update+fqqrnmjhudim@atse.org.au] Facebook … [Read more...]
Lame spams of the day: FedEx invoices
I got a dozen of these yesterday. Most of them showed the sender as "Milton Ballard" so hopefully they won't fool anyone. But the last one came from BillingOnline@fedex.com so it was slightly more convincing. The subject lines included: Please pay your outstanding Fedex … [Read more...]