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A Social Media Measurement Nonprofit Guinea Pig: Thanks Tim! Please add your thoughts!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

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? And, it will make your brain hurt!

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Testing Your Donation Form Part 3: Wrangling Guinea Pigs

Connection Cafe

Blessed with a plethora of participants and time? If you have a quick test, you can hit up fellow parents during practice time with laptop in hand. Now that last sentence may have made you stomach turn over or caused you to run screaming from the room, but I promise designers like us do it all the time. Do your kids play sports?

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What You Need to Know About the Largest Vaccine Operation in History

Saleforce Nonprofit

Doses are sent directly by plane from the manufacturer or from our supply division to the country where they’ll be used, and they’re refrigerated the entire time. Twenty-six percent of Australians are hesitant to be vaccinated against COVID-19, and that number is over 50% in our neighboring country of Papua New Guinea.

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Top 2021 Fundraising Strategies: Mastering Online Appeals and Messaging

Bloomerang

If you’re doing this on your own, it’s a good idea to ask a few friends or volunteers who know nothing about your organization to serve as user guinea pigs. . You’ll likely need to allocate more time and budget to this area, but it’ll be worth the investment. . When is the first time donors are asked to make another gift? .

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Social Networking Strategies: The Limits of Cutting and Pasting

Amy Sample Ward

If they’re not, it’s OK to wait—especially if time and energy are scarce. 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. Pay attention to your community. The Price of Early Adoption.

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Win a Trip to Report for the NYT with Nicholas Kristof

Have Fun - Do Good

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." Possible destinations this year are Guinea-Bissau, Guinea, Liberia and/or Ghana.

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Crisis Lessons Learned When My Apartment Building Was on Fire

Care2

You need a backup plan in place for those times when your work is interrupted. There’s never a convenient time for all four of your after school teachers to get sick at the same time, but you’ll have many fewer angry and frustrated parents on your hands if your program has substitute educators on call.

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