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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 7, 2013

The audience had very good English skills so no translation was needed. During the presentation, we had participants jot down questions on index cards and those were used by the facilitators to lead the discussion. This method was used because the facilitator needed to speak into the mic so I could hear the questions.

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NetWits

MARCH 27, 2013

Sometimes I get so excited about new technology trends on the web, whether through new ways of interacting with a site or a new visual style, that when a question is asked that seems to belong in another age of design I get totally thrown off guard for a moment. Two-finger scrolling on laptop track-pads has become a standard feature.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 13, 2017

My instructional needs were simple: Question/Answer back channel where participants in the room or faraway could post questions. I tested a few different options and here’s what I learned so far. The questions appear in a cue and participants can vote them up or down. Flash polls.

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Tech Soup

MAY 10, 2016

Back in 2006, we started the RCI program to supply charities and libraries with good, low-cost warrantied computers that would stand the test of time. Even after all these years, whenever we talk about refurbished equipment, a few questions pop up over and over again. New Apple laptops have fail rates from 7 to 9 percent each year.

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Qgiv

JANUARY 19, 2022

Qgiv also offers web-based bidding for people who are participating from their laptops and mobile bidding for those who prefer to place bids from an app on their smartphones. When it comes to an online auction , your participants will probably have many questions. Test your website. How does virtual bidding work?

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Get Fully Funded

JULY 4, 2022

It’s time to ask some hard questions. In fact, do you openly invite their questions? Just from reading those questions, you probably already know what you need to fix. The wonderful thing about email marketing is you can do A/B testing. …or the fundraising letter you hoped would generate $7,000 barely nets $3,000…. …or

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 19, 2012

The physical space is an open lab space, with lots of white boards, fast wifi, turkish coffee, and lots of geeks sitting on bean bag chairs or at tables with laptops on their laps coding and hacking on their projects. Mohammad L. Azzam with Bill Gates.

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 26, 2013

According to email testing and tracking service Litmus, approximately four percent of all email opens can be attributed to Gmail webmail users, as of June 2013. Start with the simplest of tests (e.g. subject lines) before building your knowledge-base utilizing testing frameworks. If you’re not learning, you’re not growing.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 15, 2011

Over the past month, I have been thinking about a couple of different ideas and how to incorporate them into training design to facilitate learning. My questions are: 1. I like to use a wireless mic and roam the audience and ask questions that help create a bridge between the presenters and the audience.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 25, 2014

As smartphones mature, we’re doing more on them and less on our laptops. If you have a morbid curiosity on how addicted you actually are, you can take the Center For Internet Addiction Test , a 20-question online diagnostic tool that will give you the bad news. Mobile Addiction. The downside? There is the addiction factor.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2012

It is a great opportunity to ponder the question: How to design and deliver learning experiences for nonprofits that connect, inspire, and engage? What are the best practices? They gave the students tests based on content and scored them. The questions were keyed to when the content was explained.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 18, 2013

In most of our test installations, setup took less than an hour. Ask questions in Microsoft's Windows MultiPoint Server forum. See How to Reuse Old Laptops with Windows MultiPoint Server. Each user station's monitor will display a "Create MultiPoint Server Station" screen. That's all there is to it!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 24, 2009

Raymond raised some good reflective questions about backchannels that are still very relevant four years later as back channels goe more mainstream and search for best practices on how to incorporate them into our conferencing experience. How can we use them as a test of how things are going at the conference? One of the reflections.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 22, 2009

The plenary sessions were a gift and were focused on answering the question how we can inspire with these tools. Craig Newmark answered the question "How do we encourage more to give something back to their communities or volunteer using the new web tools?" I attended Craigslist Nonprofit Bootcamp on Saturday.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 8, 2007

This one-week test will hopefully be followed by many more progressively ambitious projects to develop new tools for museums, scientists, artists, experience designers, visitors, and all kinds of folks to work together to create high-quality exhi bitions. In the spirit of that question, Museum 2.0

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

What looks good on a mobile device often looks even better on desktop and laptop computers, and all email marketing services offer responsive email templates. To find the best time for your organization, experiment, test, and don’t be afraid to go against conventional wisdom.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 21, 2009

Learning is using experiments with metrics and the right questions at the right point to understand what works, what doesn’t. Test and tweak. Here's a conversion test: Does an acceptable, standard metric exist for the measure? Or it might compare the cost of one approach to another or the cost of not investing. Harvest insights.

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Neon CRM

MAY 18, 2023

When choosing how to make your fundraising ask, one of the first questions you should answer is which channels you’re going to use. Schedule a Neon CRM Demo Email Fundraising Strategies A woman’s hands type on an Apple laptop. The best way to test your subject lines’ efficacy is by running split testing (or A/B testing).

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Non Profit Quarterly

JULY 27, 2021

We have a lot of content, and we know that you’ll have questions. And we’re not using the chat feature with you; we’re using the Q&A box to be in dialogue with you, so please feel welcome to use that at any time as questions arise. And as I said, there’ll be formal breaks in the content where we review some of those questions.

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Bloomerang

JULY 17, 2021

And so at any point, if you have a question, a comment, you want to just co-sign, give me a plus one, please keep your chat up so that we can keep talking and I’ll be looking at it while I’m going through my slides. So I have a question for y’all. And then laptop because, you know, work, right?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 30, 2021

Ask yourself some very simple questions: Are my key points really what my attendees want to know? That’s because the cameras on our laptops and desktops are not nearly as sophisticated as the broadcast equipment we are used to seeing on TV, nor is the lighting in your home or office. Walk in their shoes!

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 26, 2007

If they pass the internal test, we keep, use, and treasure them. for anyone with out-of-control web bookmarks suggestions for blogs, podcasts, and other content of specific interest to the intended iGo power adaptors for anyone working off the grid or powering laptops in the car What’s your favorite tech tool gift? The singing clock?

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Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 12, 2021

We’ve got an expert on here over the next hour or so, and we’ll try to answer as many questions as we can before the 2:00 Eastern hour here. You can also send in your questions on Twitter. We want to hear your questions and we want to see your comments. So I want to ask you a question. So don’t be shy.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 30, 2021

Ask yourself some very simple questions: Are my key points really what my attendees want to know? That’s because the cameras on our laptops and desktops are not nearly as sophisticated as the broadcast equipment we are used to seeing on TV, nor is the lighting in your home or office. Walk in their shoes!

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Forj

AUGUST 12, 2021

10+ ready-to-use content modules and question types. With dominKnow, your team will be able to: Create responsive eLearning for laptops, tablets, and mobile phones alike. With dominKnow, you can access a 14-day free trial to test the solution before investing. You can also test the solution with a free trial prior to investing.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 19, 2013

Here is some fine print on using this highly-discounted RRP offer: Servers do not require a prior Windows licenses to be eligible for this product, but client devices (like old laptops) must be refurbished devices with a prior Windows COA. Using Old Laptops As Client Devices With Windows MultiPoint Server.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

Note from Beth: Lately, a question on my mind is whether or not the concept of Networked Nonprofits is a global one as I’ve had the opportunity to share some of the ideas beyond the US borders in Kenya and UK. I think Pratham Books , an NGO in India, is a networked nonprofit.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 28, 2011

The ideas, questions, requests, and needs that you hear regardless of how direct they seem, should provide you with the inspiration and impetus for either new programs, services or offerings or ways to change those that you already have in place. But in a community-driven model, you can’t just listen for the sake of learning.

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Achieve

JULY 23, 2020

Keep in mind that your supporters may tune into your virtual stewardship event from their laptop, their phones, or larger screens. Be sure that when you reach out to your supporters, the first question you ask is, “how are you handling everything?” Your organization’s. budget and resources. to get the event started. Phone calls.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 13, 2020

Use the last slide to encourage questions, cement a final message, give people contact information for email and social media, or as a final call to action. Be sure to test for legibility on screens of different sizes — laptops, desktops, and tablets — to make sure your content can easily and quickly be read in all situations.

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