Eric Jacobsen Blog

MARCH 1, 2021

The book is, The CEO Test , written by Adam Bryant and Kevin Sharer. You’ll learn what truly matters to be a successful leader and you’ll discover a clear roadmap for succeeding in these seven critical challenges – the CEO test : Can you develop a simple plan for your strategy? Top leadership jobs are endurance tests.

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Forum One

AUGUST 19, 2021

The most common approaches are through two research approaches: audience research and usability testing. When it comes to audience research and usability testing, the two approaches can sometimes get mixed up, because after all, aren’t our audiences using our digital platform or tool? Usability testing: Defining the experience.

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Blue Fox

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

We are partnering up with our friend Cathy Allen, The Board Doctor, to share a free Wellness Test for nonprofit board members. They are offering free tests: blood pressure, blood sugar and cholesterol, BMI calculation, etc. Results will be available next year, along with benchmarking for future takers of the Wellness Test.

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Charity Village

JULY 15, 2021

The post Leadership Legacy: It all starts with a rocking chair test appeared first on CharityVillage. Imagine you are sitting on your rocking chair, in your late seventies or eighties, reflecting on your past personal and professional life. Your memories are […].

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Charity Village

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

The post Red Cross rapid testing program creates “peace of mind” for homeless shelter appeared first on CharityVillage. The next day COVID-19 restrictions forced them to shut down, leaving two dozen people with nowhere to go. Anne Newman, executive director for the shelter, was not going to let that happen. […].

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

APRIL 4, 2021

One of my favorite books about leadership is The Leadership Test by Timothy R. You can read it in an hour and its message will guide you through your entire career. Here are some important points from the book that are particularly powerful: Leadership is the process of influencing volunteers to accomplish good things.

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The Science Behind Engaging your Supporters

SEPTEMBER 27, 2018

The most reliable way for nonprofits to increase digital engagement is to test different techniques and messages with your own audience to determine what they respond to best, and follow the results. If you’re ready to start improving your digital program through testing, here are five places to get started.

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NetWits

AUGUST 4, 2011

Are you testing your email messages (i.e. And while you may have a hunch about the best day or time to send email, testing validates (or disproves) your theory. However, I don’t see enough nonprofits taking advantage of email testing. And while it does require a few extra steps, email testing doesn’t have to be time-consuming.

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Byte Technology

FEBRUARY 21, 2017

One great way is to initiate A/B split testing. Lots of web design firms perform A/B split testing for their clientele (Byte Technology included!), The free plugin version is incredibly easy to set up and use—indeed lots of people already have it installed on their site—and it works a little differently than other testing platforms.

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Velir

APRIL 27, 2021

A/B testing is a great way to look at these activities and figure out how to optimize them to maximize member engagement. If you’re an association marketer, member engagement is a key measure of your success.

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NonProfit PRO

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

In November, a new online artificial intelligence (AI) program called ChatGPT was released in a free test mode. It can hold a conversation, answer questions and create eerily accurate written statements. It reminded me of an old saying, “If you don’t want to be replaced by a robot, stop behaving like one.”

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Byte Technology

DECEMBER 29, 2016

It’s vital, therefore, that any and every website owner and administrator do periodic tests on their site to gauge speed and performance and to ensure that it’s operating at its most efficient and desirable level. Leave it to Google to come up with the industry-leading site testing app. Here are five worth investigating.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 19, 2023

How does someone test an idea for a nonprofit without committing the time, effort, and money to apply for 501(c)(3) status, find a board, and secure long-term funding? We’re currently searching for organizations with fiscal sponsors looking to Beta test our software, if that interests you please get in touch with us !

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

FEBRUARY 7, 2019

One of my favorite books about leadership is The Leadership Test by Timothy R. You can read it in an hour and its message will guide you through your entire career. Here are some important points from the book that are particularly powerful: Leadership is the process of influencing volunteers to accomplish good things.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

AUGUST 27, 2014

One of my favorite books about leadership is The Leadership Test by Timothy R. Eric Jacobson on Leadership and Management Leadership Books The Leadership Test Timothy R. You can read it in an hour and its message will guide you through your entire career. The spectrum of influence ranges from manipulation to persuasion to coercion.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 29, 2017

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 11, 2013

Testing is cheaper than getting it wrong! Be sure to always be testing to get the absolute best response from your online community. A critical component in this is a kick-ass testing strategy–a simple, quick, and free mechanism of obtaining qualitative feedback on what's working. Lawrence Grodeska. Nonprofit Community Manager.

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NetWits

FEBRUARY 17, 2011

Everytime you reskin your website, or send out an email blast, you need to make sure that you take the time to test how content appears to your supporters. This may sound like a really basic step, but it’s amazing how many testing and double checking procedures fly out the door in the midst of a last minute frenzy. Your Website.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

Like everything else, though, pop-up technology has evolved considerably, allowing you to segment, test, and optimize. Test out the options. Just as we test landing pages and emails, test the layout of your pop-ups too. Test different CTAs, different value propositions, timing, etc. Use p op-ups only on desktop.

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Charity Village

MAY 19, 2021

The Honourable Patty Hajdu, Minister of Health and the Honourable Mary Ng, Minister of Small Business, Export Promotion and International Trade, are encouraging businesses and organizations to apply for free rapid tests for workplace screening projects. Across […].

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Nimble AMS

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

With Nimble AMS, each customer has access to a full Salesforce Sandbox to test and train your staff—at no additional cost. Your sandbox is updated before each release with a preview version and all local Apex tests are run for all customers. Version certification. Tens of thousands of automated regression tests.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 13, 2013

A bad test accomplishes nothing. At least if we don't test at all we know that we don't know anything, but a pseudo-fact can hurt us badly down the line. Matt Burghdoff. Email Marketing and Online Fundraising Strategist. Donordigital. This, sadly, is when we start leaning on "good enough" or "the best we can do."

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 28, 2014

Use human centered design principles, not your arrogance of thinking you know what works for your audience without testing. Good testing begins with a hypothesis and collecting data to understand if you are right or wrong. His creativity: I have a theory and I’m going to test it. Don’t let your vision become delusional.

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 16, 2013

This is the time when nonprofit organizations seem most open to testing because even small improvements can have a significant impact during a time of year when organizations raise up to 50% of their revenue. But successful testing programs don’t hinge on a few weeks of one-offs.' This is my favorite time of year.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 26, 2012

Founded in 1946, the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) is the driving force that helps build a world where the rights of every child are realized.

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NonProfit PRO

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

Digital advertising and testing, often thought to be reserved for high-resourced organizations, can be done on an attainable scale for smaller grassroots organizations. They can benefit the most from outreach via programmatic advertising.

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NTEN

DECEMBER 11, 2013

Testing is cheaper than getting it wrong! Be sure to always be testing to get the absolute best response from your online community. A critical component in this is a kick-ass testing strategy–a simple, quick, and free mechanism of obtaining qualitative feedback on what''s working. Lawrence Grodeska. Nonprofit Community Manager.

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NTEN

JULY 10, 2013

A/B testing can help you find out what type of content is most effective on your site! a/b testing nten Web Sites websites' What if you could double the number of volunteer sign-ups with only a little bit of time and no budget?

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NonProfit PRO

JULY 29, 2022

The COVID-19 pandemic tested the core principles of the corporate, institutional and individual philanthropic sectors, as nonprofits around the world had to adjust to a rapidly-shifting economic environment. Adversity, however, created new opportunities.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JANUARY 26, 2015

One of my favorite books about leadership is The Leadership Test by Timothy R. Eric Jacobson on Leadership and Management Leadership The Leadership Test Timothy R. You can read it in an hour and its message will guide you through your entire career. The spectrum of influence ranges from manipulation to persuasion to coercion.

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Wild Apricot

APRIL 20, 2016

Take our test to see how much Wild Apricot knowledge you've picked up! Wild Apricot is jam-packed (apricot jam that is) with tonnes of resources to help you succeed with your organization.

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Neon CRM

MAY 17, 2023

Test, Test, Test Try sending emails at a different time of day than you usually do. Compare engagement metrics and test until you see improvements. Use A/B testing (also known as “split testing”) to test various send times. Use A/B testing (also known as “split testing”) to test various send times.

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NonProfit PRO

MAY 3, 2022

Here are a number of common sense and tested suggestions that may reduce at least some of the complications that can affect achieving nonprofit board success. While nonprofit board management is complicated, some of the complications can be addressed through basic common sense.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 25, 2014

Sometimes the answer isn't just one metric, but in a combination of metrics that you can find by testing your messages. In order to make sure that you get your message out effectively, you need to regularly check the data that shows what works, what messages did well, and where you can improve.

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M+R

MAY 31, 2023

Public Media Development and Marketing Conference (PMDMC) July 11-14, Atlanta Partner Sarah DiJulio and Vice President Rachael Wolber are headed to Hot-lanta where Rachael will be presenting “ Testing! Membership conversion testing in the digital space ” with Jill Shepherd from Propublica. Register here. That’s it!

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JUNE 9, 2015

One of my favorite books about leadership is The Leadership Test by Timothy R. You can read it in an hour and its message will guide you through your entire career. Here are some important points from the book that are particularly powerful: Leadership is the process of influencing volunteers to accomplish good things.

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Whole Whale

JUNE 1, 2023

Put another way, the level of safeguards and testing should proportionally increase with the risk of harm to people. On the surface this may seem safe until it is tested with slight edge cases like the Washington Post did: Snapchat tried to make a safe AI. We think rule 1 should be doing no harm, so 0% is the threshold on this test.

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