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. Brandon has crafted user experiences and conducted user research in the nonprofit space for 12+ years. In part one , we discussed why you should test your website and part two outlined designing your test. Today, we’ll unpack how and where to find the right people for testing your website and donation form.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 26, 2007

Tim Davies from the UK volunteered to be the guinea pig and test the thinking process (a logic model of sorts) for his newly launched web project that incorporates social media strategies. Any other guinea pigs out there that want to try this model | View | Upload your own. I'm doing a workshop on Social Media Metrics, Measurement, and ROI at PodCamp Boston tomorrow. This is work in progress.

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Nonprofit Marketing Insights by GlobalOwls

AUGUST 17, 2020

You certainly don’t want to risk releasing an app that hasn’t yet been thoroughly tested, therefore allowing customers to become the guinea pigs. The 3 Best App Testing Strategies for Busy Developers. Testing your app before launching is crucial.

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EveryAction

AUGUST 14, 2017

Take for instance its work in helping reduce the incidence of Guinea worm disease from an estimated 3.5 August 19 is World Humanitarian Day, an annual reminder that humanitarian crises around the world are far from over. Founded by the United Nations , WHD advocates for the "safety and security of humanitarian aid workers, and for the survival, well-being and dignity of people affected by crises.".

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Connection Cafe

APRIL 4, 2019

Ask if they will be guinea pigs for the program and be honest about your purpose. The concept of recurring giving is pretty awesome. It enables people to make a meaningful increase in their impact on an organization that they care about without feeling a big impact in their checkbooks. For donors who care about a cause, nothing could be much better than that!

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Have Fun - Do Good

JANUARY 18, 2009

Possible destinations this year are Guinea-Bissau, Guinea, Liberia and/or Ghana. In today's Sunday New York Times article , Win a Trip You Won't Forget , two-time Pulitzer Prize winning journalist Nicholas Kristof , writes, "[I]f you want to save the world, you first must understand it." It's this belief that prompted Kristof to create his Win-a-Trip contest for graduate and undergraduate students at American universities.

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Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 23, 2011

Organizations that joined Facebook early on endured the “price of early adoption”—they were the guinea pigs for a platform that was still figuring out just what to do with this form of user. My latest contribution to the Stanford Social Innovation Review is up on the opinion blog – you can read the post and join the conversation on the SSIR blog or read the full post below.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 17, 2019

Djupdraet (@mdjupdraet) December 9, 2019 Instead museums found themselves at the mercy of the next big thing and the whims of tech firms: Being big tech guinea pigs: We end up with unsustainable shiny tech and then just feel used. Ask and you shall receive. Be careful what you wish for. These two adages were both in my mind last week when I asked people for the worst museum trends. I wasn't surprised that the worst trends had much more pick up than best.

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Tech Soup Blog

JULY 17, 2013

The powerful ‘Open Data for Africa’ platform is now available across the continent The African Development Bank (AfDB) has just completed the last phase of its Open Data for Africa platform after deployments in Benin, Comoros, Côte d’Ivoire, Djibouti, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, The Gambia, Guinea-Bissau, Liberia, Kenya, São Tomé and Príncipe, Sierra Leone, Swaziland, and Togo.

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NonProfit Hub

JULY 18, 2016

For an animal rescue, how many dogs/cats/guinea pigs do you want to save? Wouldn’t you love a crystal ball that you could gaze into and see just what the future holds? You’d know how to make the best choices. Which paths to take. What to say “no” to. What if that crystal ball could tell you how much money you’ll raise by the end of the year? That would take all the guess work out. Maybe even lower your stress level a bit.

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

DECEMBER 6, 2006

Rebecca's husband is from nearby Guinea, so we're counting on getting a good introduction to West African culture - especially music. I've been absent from these pages a long time. There's so much going on my blogging has just gone by the wayside. Let's get back on track. What have I been up to? Well, for one thing, planning a trip over the holidays to Morocco and Mali. I've never been to the African continent before, so you can imagine how excited I am.

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Idealware

JUNE 18, 2015

At Idealware, we sometimes are the guinea pigs in our own experiments. The Idealware “Best of the Web” is a monthly roundup of the top nonprofit resources from the Idealware blog, our Facebook page, and our Twitter feed to help you make the right technology decisions. Please forward it along to anyone you think might benefit from it. How to Build Your Email List ( Fast Company ). The reports of email’s demise have been greatly exaggerated.

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NTEN

APRIL 22, 2015

And guinea pigs. Leana Mayzlina is NTEN's newest team member. As the Digital Inclusion Campaign Manager, Leana will be organizing and supporting a network of individuals and organizations across the US and beyond, focused on developing or expanding digital inclusion programs. Learn about Leana's inspiration for working in digital inclusion and more! Describe yourself in three words. Compassionate, persistent, and an idealist. How did you first become involved with the NTEN Community?

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Frogloop

JUNE 22, 2012

If they are one of my neighbors, they’ll be standing outside trying to console a very stressed, worried, and freaked out guinea pig.) When the fire alarm went off in my building this week, I couldn’t help thinking that the experience was a lesson in how organizations can effectively handle crisis. Well, first I thought “Let’s get out of here!” ” but once safely outside, I considered the learning opportunity.

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Mobile Commons

MAY 7, 2011

What’s hard is finding a customer who wants to be a guinea pig as we explore new avenues of outreach. Mobile marketing is still unexplored territory. It’s only in the last few years that cell phones have become widely-adopted enough to create a truly pervasive mobile campaign. Because mobile messaging is so new, there aren’t many rigorous best practices or established guidelines.

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Network-Centric Advocacy

OCTOBER 16, 2007

My friends in Papua New Guinea are experts in relationships and grasp the ways that we are all connected in much more profound ways than we do. This became clear to me when I saw a small boy in a Papua New Guinea village wearing a torn and tattered University of Nebraska sweatshirt, the only item of clothing he owned. My friends in Papua New Guinea are experts in relationships and grasp the ways that we are all connected in much more profound ways than we do.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 25, 2007

Laura Quinn for serving as my guinea pig for recording and incorporating brief interviews into screen cast (as well as her for terrific introductory article that helped me get started). High bandwidth version available here. I'm pleased to announce that I have completed the screencast, sponsored by NTEN , on Google Analytics! I created a companion wiki where you find lots of links to additional resources to help you learn more.

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Influence

MAY 7, 2009

Have a guinea pig user log in as a participant so you know what they are seeing and can work out any glitches. A lot of organizations we work with are increasingly using web conferencing to have more productive meetings with staff in the field, share knowledge across projects and programs, and conduct training. While the technology is getting better and better ( here's a good list of options ), putting on a good web conference still requires some preparation and practice.

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NTEN

MAY 5, 2011

What's hard is finding a customer who wants to be a guinea pig as we explore new avenues of outreach. By Jed Alpert, CEO, Mobile Commons Mobile marketing is still unexplored territory. It's only in the last few years that cell phones have become widely-adopted enough to create a truly pervasive mobile campaign. Because mobile messaging is so new, there aren't many rigorous best practices or established guidelines.

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Beaconfire Wire

OCTOBER 20, 2007

This should hopefully have the combined effect of making application development easier and letting developers’ friends off the hook for guinea pig duty. the developer’s friends from becoming guinea pigs for new application development, as this blogger argues. Skip to content Clients Services Portfolio About Us Contact Blog Home > Blog Recent Posts 07/16/2010: The Wisdom of the Old Spice Man 07/12/2010: Is your online campaign going to succeed?

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Idealware

JULY 23, 2015

He put his lock in the window of his locksmith shop and offered 200 Guineas to anyone who could pick it—that's the equivalent of more than $30,000 today. Many career thieves tried and failed to collect the 200 Guinea prize. For most of human history, locks were like speed bumps to would-be thieves. A good lock might take a few extra minutes to pick, but anyone who wanted in could get in.

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Tech Soup Blog

MAY 31, 2013

Its eight major islands (in terms of landmass) are Sumatra, Java, Kalimantan (Borneo), Sulawesi (Celebes), and Irian Jaya (the western half of Papua New Guinea). We proudly welcome NGO partners Vietnet-ICT and the Lin Centre in Vietnam, as well as ASEAN Foundation , Kopernik Marketplace , and YCAB Foundation in Indonesia to the TechSoup Global family.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 20, 2008

They are places outside our daily lives--the Arctic, Papau New Guinea--and are easy, in some ways, to ignore or forget. What is the Science Center World Congress ? It's a question whose answer eluded me from the day I registered eight months ago through the first few days of the conference this week.

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Confessions of a Non-Profit Executive Director

MARCH 13, 2007

I will not allow my org to be a guinea pig.

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Beaconfire Wire

DECEMBER 10, 2007

MIT has found a way to mitigate this last problem, and they’re using their own video lectures as a guinea pig. Skip to content Clients Services Portfolio About Us Contact Blog Home > Blog Recent Posts 07/16/2010: The Wisdom of the Old Spice Man 07/12/2010: Is your online campaign going to succeed?

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

MARCH 2, 2007

I've found it the most frequent source of news on the current crisis in Guinea Those of you who have been following me for a while have noticed that I've become interested in West Africa. Here are a few blogs I've been reading since my return.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 19, 2006

The newest Big Vision podcast is up , and it is an interview with Ilyse Hogue, the Global Finance Campaign Director for the Rainforest Action Network and one of the founders of SmartMeme , a non-profit collective of long term organizers, strategists, trainers and communications professionals.

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