Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 13, 2016

Toyama offers up strong criticisms as well as constructive advice about how to best apply technology to social problems. He uses this to analyze why many technology interventions are successful in the pilot phase and fail when they go to scale. At the same time, there are some flaws in his arguments that are worth pointing out.

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sgEngage

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

This post features advice from IT and grants management experts on how to streamline your tech solutions, create clear processes, and drive more external and internal impact. We modernized in order to work in a hybrid fashion, and that meant understanding the requirements of the new technology, testing it, and getting it up and running.

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Connection Cafe

JULY 23, 2014

Test the strategies you put in place to make sure they are working. I like to think of this as the honeymoon phase. It is important that you maintain your relationship by continuing to track and test engagement factors and check in every once in a while to make sure you are communicating in a meaningful way.

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Connection Cafe

JULY 23, 2014

Test the strategies you put in place to make sure they are working. I like to think of this as the honeymoon phase. It is important that you maintain your relationship by continuing to track and test engagement factors and check in every once in a while to make sure you are communicating in a meaningful way.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 23, 2011

Overall, when we went into the first phase of the campaign, we had two goals: to secure at least three Blue Key Champions , and to get 6,000 keys ordered between May 9 and June 20 (World Refugee Day). Any advice about setting up systems to track Twitter. Click Image to see larger version. What tool did you use?

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CauseVox

JUNE 22, 2021

Why you should attend: You’ll get hands-on advice about how to get the grant and how to use it most effectively for big results. Essential Digital Fundraising Principles Learned From A/B Testing by Jeff Giddens, President @ NextAfter. Plus you’ll see some real life examples that help you see it in practice. But it doesn’t have to be.

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Connection Cafe

NOVEMBER 12, 2018

Identify any phase 2 or 3 items. We identified any items that could be included in phase 2 or phase 3, which would happen after we went live. We communicated to all departments what would be ready for go live and what would be pushed to phase 2 or 3; and provided new deadlines for phase 2 and phase 3.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 5, 2013

While the book is geared for start ups, the advice is certainly applicable to nonprofits. Quite the opposite: failure that comes from planned, methodical testing is simply how you learn. Thus, performance management was a way to drive activities, not results. If you measure better, you’re more likely to succeed.

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Classy

JULY 14, 2021

JP’s top advice for a successful virtual event production? Some of the tasks you’ll want to cover during this portion of pre-production include: Proper testing of the virtual platform you will be using to make sure your team is comfortable with it, and that you avoid day-of surprises by discovering bugs or workarounds in advance.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 11, 2009

Social media requires a little bit of micro planning - those small tests and this could be a tension point for social media strategy mixing with communications. Right now the cards have questions and this group was asking for experiential advice on the cards.

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Neon CRM

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

In this article, we’ll cover how to create a donor data migration strategy with deep dives into data mapping, data cleaning, and testing. Set a timeline and milestones: Develop a realistic timeline that breaks down the migration process into manageable phases. Now for the goods news: We’re to help! Sound exciting?

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Whole Whale

JUNE 1, 2023

Put another way, the level of safeguards and testing should proportionally increase with the risk of harm to people. On the surface this may seem safe until it is tested with slight edge cases like the Washington Post did: Snapchat tried to make a safe AI. We think rule 1 should be doing no harm, so 0% is the threshold on this test.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 22, 2007

I made a few tests to see how it might work I also got some advice from Jon Udell. While I was in the final phase of editing, I realized that I really needed a quote from a particular person. So, I've been asking myself is there a way to make this process more efficient ? I filled in with voiceovers when needed.

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 31, 2011

They are helping us build the next phase of development and we hope that our relationship will extend above and beyond that relationship and into entertaining and valuable content development. We’ve really only just begun the extended roll-out phase and already we have thousands of new dollars circulating through the community.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JULY 31, 2009

If someone's listening and thinking, "I'll do air testing in Montana!" What advice do you have for journalists right now? I'm curious what advice you have for panicked journalists who are worried about, "What's it all going to mean and what am I going to do? People do that now, right? Are you expanding beyond the Bay Area?

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Tech Soup

MARCH 28, 2014

Advice from Alan Royal about what you can expect to get out of a training event is ringing in my ears as I sit down to write about my four days at the Nonprofit Technology Conference, in Washington DC , March 13-15, 2014.As It’s this advice I’m thinking about now. Just what did I learn from #14ntc? Everywhere.

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Have Fun - Do Good

NOVEMBER 17, 2010

What advice do you have for people to navigate those growing pains? World Pulse is really at a point where we've demonstrated proof of concept, and we've tested all of our media channels over the years. There are a lot of things that are different from the start up phase. Or, you have to grow to a demand. How can they do that?

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Bloomerang

JANUARY 14, 2022

But I think it’s important for you guys to recognize some of these trends that we all see and just know that you are so not alone in doing these things or hearing this advice because you guys, the amount of time I wasted over 13 years waiting for a warm introduction or sending the wrong cold email. I talk about this a lot.

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Bloomerang

JANUARY 30, 2022

But I think it’s important for you guys to recognize some of these trends that we all see and just know that you are so not alone in doing these things or hearing this advice because you guys, the amount of time I wasted over 13 years waiting for a warm introduction or sending the wrong cold email. I talk about this a lot.

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Bloomerang

JULY 17, 2021

frantic as something you forgot to do the day before, even though you were test rooted to your desk for at least 12 hours? The number of people who have come to me for spot coaching, so, you know, Steven, I’ve done some one-off, two-off sessions where folks who needed advice or they needed to make a career move.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 20, 2014

My favorite piece of advice is: “Occupy Yourself” What if there were an Occupy-style movement directed at you? The greatest test for the conductors of new power will be their willingness to engage with the challenges of the least powerful. They suggest that old power is consumption, enabled by control and ownership.

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