Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 20, 2013

No longer interesting and definitely not retweet worthy. I have tested it. They want to know there’s a human being behind your avatar. Automated tweets announcing new photos posted on Facebook. Who hasn’t seen this tweet many, many times on Twitter? Tweets with too many hashtags. Poorly formatted tweets. It’s true.

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Connection Cafe

OCTOBER 21, 2013

Note: This is the third in a series of posts about usability testing your website from guest author Brandon Granger, Senior Interaction Designer for Blackbaud. In part one , we discussed why you should test your website and part two outlined designing your test. I’ve seen similar results in my testing.

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Media Cause

OCTOBER 25, 2023

You’ll want to make sure that you add the custom definitions in the admin section of GA4. All changes generally take 24 hours to go into effect entirely, and it’s important to run tests to ensure the data you want to come through is being passed.

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Qgiv

JULY 10, 2023

Because it recognizes the root causes of social ills, by definition it describes a long-game issue that extends beyond solving challenges for an individual. According to a guideline published by M+R, a useful quick test for your own messaging is to simply answer the question: If the subject of this story were to read it, how would they feel?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 22, 2021

You might be surprised how small steps can lead to such significant results, but you’ll definitely feel inspired with clear action items to take starting as soon as today. Once you create your initial campaigns, there’s so much more you can do to think through and test the donor experience from start to finish.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Is Giving Tuesday an Opportunity for Creativity and Testing? Most definitely. So if you’ve been wondering whether or not you should run a new fundraising campaign or test a new tactic, Giving Tuesday can be a great momentum to run your pilot project. Start small, get creative, keep it simple — but most importantly, get involved!

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

MAY 10, 2021

Two of the most powerful takeaways from the article for me are Collin’s definition of a great company : “To be great, a company has to make a distinctive impact. I define that by a test: If your company disappeared, would it leave a gaping hole that could not easily be filled by another enterprise on the planet?

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Whole Whale

JANUARY 18, 2021

Test test test! Here are some of the things we do during the test period: In house testing – grab a bunch of people from your company to browse through the website and find bugs. If you’re not using Google Tag Manager, definitely consider using because it helps keep all your tags in one place.

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3rd Sector Labs

AUGUST 15, 2014

Definitely. Test targeted messaging prior to launching full campaigns. A 2014 digital marketing study by Adobe concluded that 54 percent of unsuccessful marketers say that “testing is not a priority.” Chris stressed the importance of testing fundraising messages in order to target specific groups of prospective donors.

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Get Fully Funded

OCTOBER 31, 2022

Test it on various browsers and on a mobile device, just to make sure. Make sure that it is by testing it yourself, asking someone else to test it, testing it in various browsers, and testing it on a mobile device. Make sure your donation process is easy and that it works.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 18, 2012

Google+ is definitely growing on me. Finally, I will be enabling Google+ Hangouts on Air thus the Hangout will be recorded and automatically uploaded to the Nonprofit Organizations YouTube Channel in order to do a complete test of the Google+ Hangout tool set.

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Robert Weiner

MARCH 17, 2013

My response: These reports are definitely useful — if a vendor is rated well they’re worth considering (assuming the rating criteria are appropriate for your needs) and if they’re rated badly they’re probably not. Nonprofits need to know what they need and then test systems against those specific needs.

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Network for Good

MAY 7, 2021

When we think about experimentation, consider something like what in marketing is known as ‘A/B testing’: Let’s say you’re sending out our newsletter and you split your group of 1,000 people in half; 500 get one version of the newsletter and 500 get another. Tip #1: Experiment. Then, track those different groups.

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Robert Weiner

MAY 15, 2017

He said: It’s definitely not impossible to migrate recurring donations, but it requires willingness on behalf of both processors in order to exchange the vaulted payment information. They asked for advice on how to handle their existing recurring donations, and whether it’s possible to migrate those transactions to the new processor.

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Classy

JULY 30, 2021

While time and deliverability are crucial aspects of an email, you have no definite time to send that will guarantee a successful email campaign. That is where testing comes into play. Test different days and time slots to see what works well for you. Pick the Right Time to Send.

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NonProfit Hub

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

Test ideas you have found throughout the industry in your own organization to see how they work for you. By involving a small portion of your demographic with the test, it’s possible to see the potential results on a larger scale before delving into a full-fledged marketing campaign.

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Get Fully Funded

SEPTEMBER 17, 2023

If you don’t know, I suggest you go test your own “Donate” button right now to find out. The point is that if you don’t pay attention to the experience you’re giving donors, they definitely won’t give for 10 years! Is there a screen that pops up and says, “Thank you”? Do they get a follow-up email (either automated or manually sent)?

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Byte Technology

AUGUST 15, 2017

If “backup, backup, backup” is the first mantra WordPress users constantly hear, then “update, update, update” is definitely a close second. When a site first gets up and running, it’s common to test it often to make sure it’s performing at its best. all of which can affect performance.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

DECEMBER 23, 2017

Here are the top 10 most clicked articles from the 408 links featured in this year’s 51 newsletters – 10 articles your peers digged so much you should definitely check them out as well. Rik Higham argues that we should ditch MVPs and focus on testing assumptions. Long live Riskiest Assumption Tests. The MVP is dead.

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Media Cause

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

While my Mom was never diagnosed with dyslexia, she definitely has some tendencies. dyslexia was becoming a thing that people were getting tested for. Since my teachers weren’t aware of my neurodiversity, I didn’t have the right tools to do my work well. I was always doing things in my own way to get the work done.

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Qgiv

DECEMBER 27, 2021

You could also try running an A/B test. A/B testing is a process you can use to definitively determine whether your donors prefer single- or multistep forms! How to set up an A/B test. You’re ready to A/B test your forms. . How to run an A/B test. Here’s how to do it. .

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Donation Comparison Newsletter Test 59

Forj

JULY 8, 2021

Perhaps it was a multiple-choice final exam or an essay-style test printed in double-spaced Times New Roman. For example, learners in a communication course might take a grammar test at the end of the course to measure how well they retained information about various grammatical rules and standards. This tests knowledge acquisition.

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Byte Technology

MAY 16, 2017

When you have something in place that allows users to communicate with you directly (unlike social media portals), you build an invaluable connection and establish a definite sense of trust, which encourages more sales, more hits, more click-throughs and pass-ons, etc.

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Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

You say : “That may be your opinion, but it’s not based on data and testing.”. They say : “I don’t need data and testing; I’ve been doing this for years, and people tell me they love our photos.”. They say : “I suppose we could test one appeal photo against another.”. Actually, what if we tried a test of two different letters?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 17, 2019

Ideally, it’s good to test tools around scheduling, campaign management, image and video editing to find what works best for your organization. It might take some time to plan and schedule your content for the next week or month, but it’s definitely worth it. 6) Plan your campaigns. 9) Start scheduling your content.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 20, 2012

Pinterest definitely requires more subtly and creativity to build and maintain a following. Step Three :: Review Pin and Test Link. My first impression is that 20% or so instinctively get it. Their content is good. They aren’t cluttering Pinterest with boring photos and seemingly endless marketing pitches. Step Two :: Pin It!

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sgEngage

MAY 25, 2023

She encourages us, as sector professionals, to rethink our outdated problem-solving habits and stop making assumptions without acknowledgment and testing. How does this make any sense, and why don’t we acknowledge that we, too, are testing hypotheses, and we need the skills, resources, and flexibility to test them?

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Bloomerang

MAY 19, 2023

The others are definitely a litmus test of where you are as an organization.) However, this should give you an idea of the type of information your organization should be thinking about as you consider grants as vehicles to fund the creation of new programs and projects for the future.

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3rd Sector Labs

AUGUST 22, 2014

Definitions: What defines a “complete” record? Does your definition of “record completeness” reflect the level of donor segmentation that you need in order to carry out targeted messaging? how often do you test data recovery? Responsibility: Who is responsible for maintaining data quality? lapsed donors?

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EveryAction

JUNE 22, 2016

There’s some great systems to test your email like Litmus and Email on Acid where you can test your email blasts and they tell you if you pass various rule sets. BS: It might, it definitely doesn’t help. BS: It really varies based on the email spam system and can even vary between the same system and what it learns from usage.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 1, 2011

There are definitely tools that I spend less time with, but that’s because I may not have found our audiences very active on them or I may just be spending time on other sites. They were supportive and encouraged me to test and experiment. We are definitely working more in that direction. Book Tour?. ?Book Book Tour Sponsors.

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Whole Whale

DECEMBER 11, 2022

For purposes of “reasonable” cybersecurity measures, the FTC provides this language: “Employing reasonable safeguards to protect the confidentiality, integrity or availability of data given the type, amount and sensitivity of that data in relation to the size, sophistication and capability of the organization.”

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Byte Technology

FEBRUARY 16, 2016

Essentially, digital disruption occurs when new technologies cause business- and industry-shaking changes at a pace and magnitude that upset the established way of doing things such interacting with each other, altering time-tested business models and, in general, just aggravating the way we think (and have always thought). Think ahead.

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Greater Giving

JUNE 17, 2021

To test the hypothesis that virtual events produced a better cost-to-revenue ratio, we asked fundraisers in the State of Nonprofit Fundraising report how their event costs changed between their live events and virtual events, in relationship to their fundraising goals. Many Smaller Events = Bigger Reach, Stable Revenue.

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sgEngage

DECEMBER 27, 2021

However, there is overlap in these definitions as successful peer-to-peer fundraising is driven by social actions which are often performed on social media platforms. . There are already a plethora of peer-to-peer platforms to choose from with varying features and integrations.

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Qgiv

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

The Nonprofit Innovation and Optimization Summit (NIO) If you love data or get excited about A/B tests, this is a great choice. This is definitely a conference for the data-focused fundraiser. You’ll see lots of examples from other nonprofits and results from fundraising optimization experiments.

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Media Cause

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

As we look to hire BIPOC designers and amplify their voices, we also have to examine our industry definition of what “good” design is and start building a completely new system—by everyone, for everyone. . As designers, we claim that through testing, surveys, and extensive secondary research we’re able to understand the user better.

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