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SendBlaster 2.0.116: List-Unsubscribe header, Sharing Buttons and New Report Tools

Published on August 30, 2010 in General, News and Sendblaster. 0 Comments Tags: , , , , , .

Good news for everyone! We’ve just published a new release of SendBlaster (v. 2.0.116). All SendBlaster 2 users can download it and install it free of charge.
What’s new? We have included some general enhancements and introduced some cool new features that we are sure you’ll love.
In particular:

Facebook & Twitter Sharing buttons
SendBlaster 2.0.116 makes it easy to add buttons to share email content on Facebook and Twitter.
By clicking on sharing buttons, recipients are redirected to their social network profiles. They can preview the article, choose to publish it and share it with their friends with one single click.

Support for List-unsubscribe header
SendBlaster 2.0.116 supports the List-unsubscribe header. Including a list-unsubscribe header brings some benefits in terms of email deliverability: spam complaints, (generated when readers hit the spam button) are expected to be reduced since that the process to unsubscribe is made simpler and immediate. When it’s activated, recipients will see an Unsubscribe button, or link, that they can click if they would like to automatically stop receiving future mailings.

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How To Integrate Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn Into Your Email Campaigns

Published on May 25, 2010 in Tips & tricks. 0 Comments Tags: , , .

Social networking websites have revolutionized the way people interact online. Consumers are spending increasing amounts of time on these sites, want to share more and more information, opinions, valuable content.  According to some reports the rise of social media may represent a threat for email marketing.  Actually, they should be considered a great opportunity to enhance its effectiveness.
How to fill this gap?  The first (and simplest) step to take is creating links between social media and email to provide more ways for people to share.

By following these instructions you can integrate the three most popular social networks (Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin) into your email campaigns and start giving people multiple ways to interact.

FACEBOOK
Facebook can be easily integrated to your emails by adding the following “share” url:
http://www.facebook.com/share.php?u=url
Make sure to replace “url” with the web link you want to share.
e.g. http://www.facebook.com/share.php?u=http://blog.sendblaster.com
By clicking on this link, your subscribers will see a preview of your article on Facebook and will be able to choose whether to post it to their wall or send it as a direct message.
When posting to their personal profiles, your article will automatically show up in the wall of their friends, which can leave a comment or visit the link.
With a single line of html code you can gain more visibility to your content and reach a larger audience.

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Fake Facebook e-mail contains Trojan

Published on October 28, 2009 in News. 0 Comments Tags: , .

There’s a new virus spreading via email which targets Facebook users. According to mxlab, the email includes downloadable files which include the Trojan virus: Bredolab. Anybody who receives a “Facebook Password Reset Confirmation” email should delete it right away.

According to mxlab, the message is as follows:

facebook_spam_malware

“This virus is being distributed through email, not on Facebook. The email is disguised as a Facebook password reset e-mail with an attachment that purportedly contains the new password, but is actually the virus. We’re educating users on how to detect this through the Facebook Security Page.”

Bredolab is a trojan horse that downloads and executes files from the Internet, such as rogue anti-spyware. To bypass firewalls, it injects its own code into legitimate processes svchost.exe and explorer.exe. Bredolab contains anti-sandbox code (the trojan might quit itself when an external program investigates its actions).

Facebook also said that users should be “suspicious of unexpected emails claiming to be from Facebook” and that it never sends users a new password as an attachment in emails.