Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 6, 2011

Warren noted that in their tests people became blind to the red button which I’d like to call the social procrastination button. According to Wikipedia,Gmail has 193mm users, so even if Google plus integration starts, they’re still behind Facebooks 600m+. I, for one, would love the option to hide it.

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Connection Cafe

JULY 6, 2010

First, go to one of my favorite sites - Wikipedia. Wikipedia will sense that you are using a mobile device and will automatically display the version of the site that is optimized for mobile. Then, click on the link that says "View this page on regular Wikipedia." After viewing a couple of sites, you'll be convinced.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 17, 2007

Just today I was beta testing a new site for a colleague and he me wanted to fill out a survey and make screen captures of screens that weren???t I just whipped out Jing and recorded my testing, verbalizing my thoughts or doing an adhoc think out loud process ??? Update: Jon wrote a response here.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 17, 2008

A quick trip to the dictionary and Wikipedia: Authenticity refers to the truthfulness of origins, attributions, commitments, sincerity, devotion, and intentions. is being constantly tested. So, I thought I would round up some of the thinking on these two terms of the nonprofit space. Tranparency means open, frank or candid.

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Forum One

MARCH 25, 2009

I first spoke with Rajan about GEO about year ago, and, honestly, wondered how he would pull off his big vision for a wikipedia-like mass editable online database of energy sources and energy flows. and will be expanded to include energy transmission infrastructure. Distributed power generation installations (solar, geothermal, wind).

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Forum One

MARCH 25, 2009

I first spoke with Rajan about GEO about year ago, and, honestly, wondered how he would pull off his big vision for a wikipedia-like mass editable online database of energy sources and energy flows. and will be expanded to include energy transmission infrastructure. Distributed power generation installations (solar, geothermal, wind).

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Connection Cafe

JANUARY 26, 2010

At the risk of being hunted down by some friends in marketing, I tested Convio.com to see how well our homepage faired. of sites currently tested), and sites such as code.google.com , Wikipedia and Mozilla.org are in the high 80’s/low 90’s. Fortunately, we came out above average with a score of 66.4. (To

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Nonprofits Source

JUNE 22, 2017

Try testing page titles & meta descriptions to optimize your clicks and increase search rankings. The phrase is so popular that it even has it’s own Wikipedia page. Once in the search analytics dashboard check the Clicks and CTR metrics and then filter by Pages. Clicks are important because they show value.

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 4, 2011

I know what you’re thinking: I have no idea what a QR code is and that link to the Wikipedia article isn’t going to cut it. HINT: remember to test the code and link to sites that look good on smartphones. So, allow me to take a moment to explain what I’m talking about.

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NTEN

AUGUST 31, 2010

This resulted in us creating a “sneaker-net” approach to providing basic asynchronous ICT services to rural villages: a complete offline Wikipedia that fit on a CD-ROM, and severely restricted bandwidth throttling to allow community radios to access the Internet (via prepaid RBGAN) for $2-3 a day. .

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

SEPTEMBER 14, 2006

Then we held a testing session where he and I verified that our enhancements and fixes really worked. Tagged: npTech , IT , Ciborra additional reading: wikipedia aricle on Cibbora. Finally, he installed them on his production server. review of his book "The Labyrinths of Information"

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 9, 2009

Once you have an idea for the what, subject it to the so what test. There are many other readers - here's a comparison of features from Wikipedia. Once people understand the value of the listening, you need to figure out what you will listen to. Listening should be linked to real life decisions or your social media strategy objectives.

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Whole Whale

JULY 10, 2021

Check to make sure you are updated in places that matter: Guidestar , CharityNavigator , GreatNonprofits , Wikipedia , and GlassDoor.com. TEST YOUR DONATE PAGE. We’ve seen increases of 20% and higher for every page we have A/B Tested for our Whole Whale clients. Timebox it. Prepare for landing (page).

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Get Fully Funded

OCTOBER 23, 2022

Finally, test everything before you launch your campaign to make sure it’s working correctly! Go ahead and write the thank-you email that automatically goes out when people give. Both the thank-you page, and the automatic email need to reference the Giving Tuesday campaign so that everything is tied together.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 2, 2009

His specialty: user testing. Paul is spending his six-month fellowship testing software – for a company that allows him to do cutting edge work and cut his teeth even deeper on the engineering side. For the past five years he worked customizing and integrating a single set of software systems that Benetech could use globally.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 22, 2012

The Facebook Community Pages that were created by automating content from Wikipedia have been mostly removed from Facebook Search. That said, for those of you that have bought the book [Thank you!], here are 22 of must-read updates to Social Media for Social Good: A How-To Guide for Nonprofits : 1. Chapter 3 :: Facebook Community Pages?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 27, 2007

If you're curious about Occam's Razor, here's a more detailed description or see the simplicity page in wikipedia. Test three times and if doesn't lead to action, you are wasting your time! The screencast will include a companion wiki with resources to aid further explanation. All the metrics you collect, ask the So What?

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NTEN

MAY 4, 2011

Wikipedia has a great primer on cognitive bias for amateur organizational psychologists. Use A/B testing methods to test a single variant in your workflow. Test small, incremental changes instead of overhauling everything. As you read it, perhaps you'll begin to spot the biases your team might suffer from.

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Connection Cafe

JULY 10, 2014

Most of our user research techniques are likely the same as what’s in any designer’s toolkit: surveys, interviews, analytics review, usability tests, etc. For this reason, we try to incorporate some user research into every nonprofit design project we do. ” “The film had over 97 million views on YouTube, over 21.9

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 9, 2009

In 2008, I worked with one museum director for whom the word "wiki" is synonymous with "Wikipedia." The characteristics I imagine are based on my definition of a wiki as a website that anyone can edit. But that is not everyone's definition. Assign a metaphorical verb to the object (i.e.

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