Global Giving

MARCH 7, 2019

What We Tested. With all the upsides, why did we even need to bother with a test like this? In addition, adding euros to the site also adds complexity to our technology and operations, which requires resources to maintain. Our test focused on GlobalGiving donors based in countries using the euro. Why It Matters.

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Whole Whale

MAY 12, 2020

put our servers to the test?) Searching on Podcasts.Apple.com and Podcasts.google.com and Spotify can help you create a contact list of potential list of podcasts (quick hack: most podcasts list the <itunes:owner> email in their feed). Make your full pod player embed available for partners to add to their sites.

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M+R

MAY 10, 2021

Video-first platforms like YouTube have provided auto-captioning for quite some time now, while Tiktok launched it in April of this year and Instagram is testing functionality in Stories. Many visually impaired people use a text reading software when scrolling through text-based social media feeds like Twitter. Color Choices.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 8, 2007

Just testing this new feature in typepad that lets you automatically cross publish to Facebook profile. What's nice about it is that it puts a link to your blog post in a mini feed. Right now I was using the blog friends feed. What are your tips for being efficient in posting content to your profiles on social networking sites?

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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 9, 2012

To follow more of the things I find online, you can follow @amysampleward on Twitter (which is just a blog and resource feed), or find me on Delicious (for all kinds of bookmarks). Every time I do testing, I see the same thing that they note here: my instincts are wrong. We over-think things and the best way to stop is by testing!

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sgEngage

MAY 31, 2023

Sprucing up the landing page : Because overloading the audience is an invitation to click away, they made the site less complicated, more attractive, and easier to navigate with only enough content to keep up interest in the registration process. Many sustaining supporters are riders who travel to event sites that are destination experiences.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 17, 2010

Though the new Pages aren’t yet live site-wide ( the Brooklyn Museum’s new Page is ), it was quite random that I stumbled upon an example of the new Facebook Pages back in August [Re: a fake Facebook Page merged with a Facebook Places Page called Hubstown ]. All of these changes have now been completed.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 1, 2020

Some social media sites such as Facebook shows you a list of people who have engaged in your campaign, and you can invite them to like your profile page to become followers. And one way to stretch their resources in this pandemic is to incorporate strategies that are proven and tested by behavioral science research.

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sgEngage

OCTOBER 11, 2023

Every social media site uses algorithms to determine what content is displayed on a user’s feed. If your donate button on your site is in the top right corner of every page, that’s a good start, but you can do more to promote giving on your entire website. Don’t forget about your website footer.

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 26, 2011

To follow more of the things I find online, you can follow @amysampleward on Twitter (which is just a blog and resource feed), or find me on Delicious (for all kinds of bookmarks). Progress requires testing, trialing and constant iteration – in short, many failures. Twitter beta-tested a spine."

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Care2

DECEMBER 12, 2011

Here’s a final checklist to run through before you launch your site to make sure everything is ready for the big-time. User friendly - Have a few staff members or volunteers who weren’t involved in the design process go through the site as a "normal" user. At a minimum, test the site on iphone, ipad, and Android phone.

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Nonprofits Source

APRIL 19, 2017

This means you can target Facebook ads to appear on the feeds of people who have donated to your nonprofit. To test the theory, I recently ran a remarketing campaign on Facebook promoting my article, “ How To Get More Online Donations With Content Marketing.” 522 clicks to my site at a cost of $0.29

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 5, 2006

Today I discovered Cityzenjane's blog and her i_like_to_watch tag/delicious rss feed via a comment to one of my blog posts. At first, I thought it was comment spam promoting a porno site but far from it. " Cityzenjane's goal for this feed is to provide you with content that will inspire you to make a great green future.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 5, 2012

Note from Beth: Your web site is your home base is the heart and soul of your content strategy. Letting them subscribe to your site content through RSS feeds or email can help them ensure they’re getting the most-update information from your organization with ease and convenience.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 13, 2011

To follow more of the things I find online, you can follow @amysampleward on Twitter (which is just a blog and resource feed), or find me on Delicious (for all kinds of bookmarks). Though the social networking behemoth continues creeping toward 700 million global users, six million Americans quit the site in the month of May.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 10, 2022

Using a graphic design tool such as Canva or Venngage , converting powerful stats, quotes, and CTAs into graphics is a time-tested, proven method to grab the attention of your followers, thus increasing your engagement on Twitter (and all social media). Create custom graphics for powerful quotes, statistics, and call-to-actions.

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Robert Weiner

JULY 20, 2013

Some newbie spammer posted a message on my site that shows the contents of their spam merge database. In my opinion|Personally|In my view}, if all {webmasters|site owners|website owners|web owners} and bloggers made good content as you did, the {internet|net|web} will be {much more|a lot more} useful than ever before.|

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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 16, 2011

To follow more of the things I find online, you can follow @amysampleward on Twitter (which is just a blog and resource feed), or find me on Delicious (for all kinds of bookmarks). Since then, the site has collected 57,384 comments, or “voices,&# from people around the world, via SMS, Twitter, and on the Demand Dignity website. "

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 12, 2010

It provides a complication of nonprofit tech and social change blog feeds. Content feeds on the application include: The Zoetica Link Feed. It was a low risk experiment on AppMakr to test drive the service before selecting a vendor and to learn what was involved. The Case Foundation Blog. Great NonProfits.

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ASU Lodestar Center

MAY 6, 2011

Take this quiz to test your knowledge. I scored an 8 with no help from the test maker, who was sitting right next to me refusing to give me any clues. In the spirit of learning, weve put together a fun quiz on Arizonas nonprofit sector. Well report the overall scores in a future blog post. Click here to take the 10-question quiz!

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Byte Technology

FEBRUARY 23, 2017

Welcome to A/B split testing, a relatively simple process where you can gauge what imagery works best for your users. The version that gets the more favorable reactions from users wins the prize and gets to stay prominently positioned on your site. Some great ones to explore are Nelio A/B and AB Press Optimizer.

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Amy Sample Ward

SEPTEMBER 23, 2010

To follow more of the things I find online, you can follow @amysampleward on Twitter (which is just a blog and resource feed), or find me on Delicious (for all kinds of bookmarks). You can join the conversations in the comments, or click through to the original posts to find what others are saying.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 1, 2014

A/B testing the layout of our fundraising forms. and testing testing testing. Online Testing. I also attended a session on online testing, which made me very excited. Through online testing, we can gain insights into our audience, and make our creative work better. Always test everything.

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NTEN

JULY 15, 2011

If you're considering revamping your website to include social elements like the Facebook Like button, streaming from YouTube, or adding information from a social site through its API, it can be overwhelming to know where to begin. Taking that thought a bit further, think about how using social media on your site will accomplish those goals.

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Connection Cafe

SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

Big buttons, white space, and colored text keep Feeding America ’s mobile donation form feeling fresh and clean. And that red DONATE button is the north star on every page of their mobile site: . 10/10 organizations in our little test made it clear why they exist on their websites. Sharing Our Whys.

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Care2

JANUARY 6, 2010

As Facebook expands past 300 global million users , the online giant is also adding new services to keep people on its site. Consider the following:: Icons - You'll need an image that is distinctive, matches the work you're doing at your nonprofit, and is something people would want to show up on their Facebook feed.

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Nonprofits Source

JUNE 22, 2017

These platforms make their revenues from advertising, giving them no incentive to show your post to thousands of feeds unless you pay for it. Try testing page titles & meta descriptions to optimize your clicks and increase search rankings. Is the layout of your site overwhelming? Clicks are important because they show value.

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Connection Cafe

NOVEMBER 28, 2011

As you may have heard, more and more folks are accessing nonprofit sites, taking action and even donating from mobile devices. To achieve this, we recommend focusing your mobile web presence on one key message that you want users to take away from your site. Build and test. Author: Lacey Kruger. Well, that's it!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 7, 2008

I had already been working for NWF on facebook and myspace but I wanted to test out more social bookmarking and networking sites. Slide 5: I decided on these two sites because they increased page views &quot;traffic&quot; I was hoping that I could offer the first handshake to a new audience. It is then voted up or down.

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Achieve

JULY 2, 2019

Doing one or two social media channels really well is usually more valuable than throwing content up on multiple sites with no real strategy or follow through. . If you landed on your organizations Instagram feed, would you be able to quickly tell what the mission is based on the videos/images posted in the grid? Test-and-learn.

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Judi Sohn

MARCH 12, 2011

Next year, we're hoping to be able to do a complete revamp of the site architecture without throwing out the work we've done so far. This gave us a chance to test out the brand messaging with others. I'm not even talking about referrers on other sites or how other organizations refer to you.

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Connection Cafe

JANUARY 18, 2011

Conduct a competitive analysis of some of your favorite sites. Make a list of recommendations for your own site based on your review of your peers. Try something new on your site and test it out. Run an A/B test on different donation forms or landing page layouts.

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Care2

JANUARY 6, 2009

frogloop Home frogloop Home Receive monthly updates Subscribe to our RSS feed Follow frogloop on Twitter Most Popular Posts Social Network ROI Calculator Social Networking for Nonprofits: ROI, Tracking Tools and More "While Theyre Hot!" Google Analytics has proven particularly helpful for content-based sites and commerce sites.

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Care2

JANUARY 6, 2009

Which KPI's your nonprofit organization ultimately uses will depend heavily on its goals and the goals of your website (your site does have a purpose, right?!?). Google Analytics has proven particularly helpful for content-based sites and commerce sites. For this reason, you must tailor your KPI's to your own site and strategy.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 26, 2009

Trial each heading style to select which visually looks the best: Write a test post. When you link to someone else’s post it’s good practice to mention their name, link their name to their blog, and then link to the post you’re referring to (it’s also a good way of getting people to visit your site). 5 Subscribe To Your Own Blog Feed!

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 10, 2014

Select an address online and launch your site in minutes with prebuilt templates and a website builder. Easily create a site. Award-winning Bitdefender comes praised by PC Mag , AV-Test, AV-Comparatives, and others. With search visibility listings included, visitors will flock to you. Skype Credits Help You Save on Calls.

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Care2

DECEMBER 4, 2007

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