The Modern Nonprofit

JUNE 27, 2023

Promote the event as a way to support both local artists and your cause, and include a variety of artistic disciplines, such as painting, sculpture, photography, and pottery. Be mindful of costs associated with venue rental, marketing, and staffing for the event. Waiting Til “Peak Season” to Fundraise?

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Top Nonprofits

DECEMBER 28, 2021

The simplicity of the McDonald’s golden arches is a great example of what’s called the “highway test”. You also have colors, fonts, language and photography to help people understand what you do. If the logo is too complicated, it loses its memorability. You know you can pull over to get a quick bite to eat.

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DNL OmniMedia

MARCH 31, 2021

To brand your organization and ensure that branding is maintained across your marketing platforms, you’ll need to design a comprehensive brand narrative that will last the test of time and communicate that clearly across all who are in charge of conveying it. Consider how your brand will last the test of time.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 28, 2012

The photos, particularly since TNC’s audience are photography enthusiastic, can become a richer source for compelling photos than stock photos. This means the organization can be more efficient because it has opened up and allowed its network to create content about what they love: nature. 4) Rinse, Repeat, Leverage.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 14, 2011

Good relationships stand the test of time. I marked my 20th anniversary in Flickr and on YouTube with this video (darn the gown doesn’t fit!). Well, that was when we celebrated our 23rd Anniversary – and good thing we both have a sense of humor!

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Get Fully Funded

MAY 2, 2022

Do a test run with a few Board members to make sure you know how the tech works. Photography contest: Ask participants to share their best nature, pet, bird, flower, or food photo. Virtual Game Night: A lighthearted game night featuring bunco, bingo, trivia, or some other game might be just right for your audience.

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Tech Soup

MAY 23, 2014

Photography app roundups are a dime-a-dozen, but this Tech Radar post is written by an actual, professional photographer. Some of these apps I've never heard of and can't wait to test out this weekend, such as Snapseed. This post-production photo editing app lets you add tones and textures to your photos.

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Connection Cafe

APRIL 2, 2014

It defines the colors, graphics, fonts and photography that make the site beautiful. Some organizations come to us with a very clearly articulated brand that has accompanying logos, fonts, colors, photography, copywriting and more. Usability Tests. See the end of this post for a linked index of other posts in the series.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 12, 2017

Avoid using stock photography, since this turns off donors. Test a variety of images to figure out which one resonates best with your audience. Photos are a central element to create emotional impact in your email appeals, on website pages, on website pop-up lightboxes, in digital advertising, and even on donation pages.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 13, 2013

YMCA of Greater Seattle's Kirkland Teen program was one of our test sites. It serves an estimated 84,000 children and teens, so we hoped that this lab would be a serious test of a MultiPoint Server lab's resilience. Their youth users have a strong interest and talent in editing, graphic design, video, and photography.

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Connection Cafe

OCTOBER 23, 2013

Yet “road tests” of the user experience for events not using a mobile responsive registration form, showed that it was impossible to select a Registration Type for an event – a key first step in the registration process.

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Neon CRM

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

Share the story on all of your platforms at first, and then start testing. Whenever possible, gather or create other materials—like, photography, video, or designed graphics—to support the story. But it can get a second life with a short version condensed to fit into a series of photos or a 60-second Instagram Reel.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 22, 2012

Current and former interns have developed everything from games to personality tests to a whole-gallery installation of memory jars. Interns this year will be focusing on our winter Work in Progress show (Thomas Campbell, Ze Frank, Timber Framing) and spring Photography and Identity show.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 12, 2015

Dd is also testing low cost drones that locals can use and repair to perform aerial photography and surveying. Manage data: Dd tests hardware and storage devices in rugged conditions, and makes sure data is redundantly stored. This is best done in a participatory fashion, making sure that data is available offline.

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ASU Lodestar Center

MAY 24, 2016

Play, Test, and Iterate. While growing up in Cincinnati, Ohio he learned to his passion was within the arts and photography. Brian Burke, VP of Research at Gartner, defines 7 key considerations when designing the player experience for gamification: Business Outcomes and Success Metrics. Target Audience. Player Goals. Engagement Model.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 30, 2015

Instagram and Device Photography 101. Review, Reflect, and Replicate: Once you have piloted the champions program in one department, review what you’ve done, reflect on how to improve, and test in another area. How to Build Your Personal Brand. How to Build Your Network. The basics of LinkedIn,Twitter, Facebook. Resources.

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Get Fully Funded

MARCH 6, 2022

Don’t expect someone to be a whiz at photography, video editing, design software, analytics, email marketing, and event planning all at the same time. Or give candidates a writing test or ask them to call your office and leave a voicemail so you can hear how they show up on the phone. Is there a consensus? Do you need to know more?

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Connection Cafe

FEBRUARY 20, 2014

Wireframes are skeleton layouts of key pages or templates for a website and are used to position elements on the page without colors, styles or photography. Usability Tests. See the end of this post for a linked index of other posts in the series. Next month we’ll cover the specifics of the Visual Design phase. Introduction.

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Connection Cafe

FEBRUARY 25, 2014

Josh: Collecting good photography. It’s a feeling we hope to share through our Power of One campaign, every dollar given provides a malaria test and life-saving treatment for a child in Zambia. An unrelated challenge, but a perennial one nonetheless, is getting used to very rapid turnaround times for designs.

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Media Cause

MAY 23, 2022

Stock photography is limiting and photoshoots are expensive, but illustration gives you the freedom to create imagery of anything. It eliminates the boundary of realism, which is an inherent part of photography. . Through testing, we’ve found that illustration is the most reshared creative on some of our client’s social channels.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 22, 2009

Scientists state a problem, make a hypothesis, develop a test regimen to test the hypothesis, gather data, analyze the results, and make conclusions, which may include stating new problems or hypotheses. This table from the report shows how the different models correlate with participation in different steps of the process.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 29, 2005

I've been experimenting with cambodia4kids.org blog to test out the instructions/advice I'm reading on various npotech sites about blogs. A university-aged Khmer assistant with an interest in photography will also be recruited. Before I go on about this interesting artist/social activist project, I found it in the blogsphere.

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Get Fully Funded

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

Strong concepts stand the test of time, and SMART goal-setting is one of them! If there IS wifi, test it ahead of time to make sure it’s stable enough to run your technology, especially if you’re livestreaming the event to a virtual audience. Photography or video production. Second, make your goal SMART.

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The Modern Nonprofit

AUGUST 30, 2023

PHOTOGRAPHY: BFA.COM 2. Virtual Speaker Event Tips: Designate a technical person to test and supervise your tech before the event and make sure everything flows smoothly on the big day–managing screen sharing, sound, cueing speakers, managing waiting rooms, and whatever else your event may require on the day of!

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 30, 2021

Before your presentation, take the time to record some video tests on the platform you are using with a few parts of your presentation. Here are some great (cheap) resources for stock photography, illustration, and infographics: iStock. Experiment with your body language and speaking volume, and try these: A natural energy level.

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The Modern Nonprofit

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

PHOTOGRAPHY: BFA.COM. Virtual Speaker Event Tips: Designate a technical person to test and supervise your tech before the event and make sure everything flows smoothly on the big day–managing screen sharing, sound, cueing speakers, managing waiting rooms, and whatever else your event may require on the day of!

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 11, 2007

The NYT article is about a photography show by artist Thomas Struth at the Marian Goodman Gallery in Manhattan. It would be interesting to do this same test in a museum. Struth takes photographs of museum-goers as they gaze, pick their noses, chat on cell phones, and fidget in front of classically great works of art.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 30, 2021

Before your presentation, take the time to record some video tests on the platform you are using with a few parts of your presentation. Here are some great (cheap) resources for stock photography, illustration, and infographics: iStock. Experiment with your body language and speaking volume, and try these: A natural energy level.

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Bloomerang

JULY 20, 2023

Launch and promote fundraisers Before you launch your fundraisers, test your donation buttons by donating to the campaign yourself. Conduct A/B testing to test out different donation page design elements and determine which encourages the most donations.

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Get Fully Funded

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

Brush up on some photography best practices , such as following the rule of thirds and testing out unique perspectives. Stories that convey impact Your nonprofit’s blog is your chance to tell your organization’s story , which is really the story of the people, animals, or places you help.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 4, 2013

When the IDEO team was working on a new financial tool for a project in Mexico, they used Lean Startup’s focus on Customer Development to test it with real potential customers. During the 2012 Obama Campaign, the online team continually tested and refined their communications efforts. In the following test we had two photos.

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Get Fully Funded

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

Seriously, if you haven’t tested your own Donate Now button lately, do it! Consider hiring someone to help with high-value tasks, such as video production, photography, or graphic design. This helps tie things together in the donor’s mind. You may be surprised at what you find. Ask people to do things they already know how to do.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 16, 2008

They're now running a compelling experiment in crowd-sourced exhibition creation and curation via the photography exhibition Click. But we'll only get there if we join Brooklyn in the lab and start our own experiments to test the hypotheses, measure the results, and find out what clicks. What is Click? Museums Engaging in 2.0

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Get Fully Funded

JULY 14, 2022

Leverage A/B testing. If you happen to have a photography whiz on staff, ask them to take photos at events or during volunteer opportunities. Leverage A/B testing. A/B testing is a valuable website planning and development strategy that can help you optimize your visuals. Reflect diversity. Set quality standards.

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See3

APRIL 17, 2009

In fact, he wrote a book on the subject called David Pogue’s Digital Photography - The Missing Manual. ash can blow out the picture, giving your best friend a ghost face that looks like it was photographed during a nuclear test. Tags: photography. Here’s what Pogue has to say on this subject: Cameras love light.

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NTEN

MAY 4, 2011

Use A/B testing methods to test a single variant in your workflow. Test small, incremental changes instead of overhauling everything. His outside interests include writing, photography, biking and traveling. Take a ride on the bandwagon, but be ready to jump off. Be prepared to return to old methods if it's not working.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 21, 2014

You can check any particular site with the Heartbleed test to see if they're vulnerable. This new technology was tested and produced in the locations it serves, and addresses the needs of people in their current conditions. Wood Stove image courtesy of Charlotte Boulton Photography and Proyecto Mirador. Image credits.

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