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.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

While Amazon may be its test guinea pig, Better is aiming to make Equity Unlocker available nationwide for employees of public and private companies. (On the same day of the updated SPAC filing, the WSJ reported that the SEC is examining whether Better.com violated federal securities laws, per a disclosure from the company.) Sign up here.

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 25, 2020

We’re basically guinea pigs.’ We’re basically guinea pigs — building cool stuff to see what works.”. Illustration by Claudia Chinyere Akole. Facebook’s Connect conference is one of the biggest days of the year for virtual reality. But in 2020, developer Guy Godin was nervous. They want to own it all,” says Shankar.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 8, 2021

.” The Ivorian startup acts as an online and point-of-sale payment solution for merchants to process payment from more than 130 different payment operators — mobile-money, bank cards, wallets — in nine French-speaking African countries: Ivory Coast, Senegal, Cameroon, Mali, Burkina Faso, Togo, Congo, Guinea and Benin.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 28, 2022

Perhaps Airbnb will be the guinea pig for this particular type of “fully remote workplace” and all the other companies will be watching and waiting for the company to stub its toe on some huge new tax burden or productivity issue.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Zeraki is also looking to enter 10 new markets over the next three years, after scaling in Kenya, Uganda and Guinea, where it currently operates. “We’re Zeraki data analytics system helps schools to better manage students’ data. Image Credits: Zeraki.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 20, 2023

Image Credits: Chargel Chargel transporters, operating out of Senegal, make deliveries to neighboring countries Mali, Guinea and Mauritania. Chargel plans to expand to an additional country within Francophone Africa.

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

Earlier internet shutdowns and slowdowns were carried out in Guinea in 2007 and in Iran in 2009, but Egypt’s was the first to affect internet connections across an entire country where more than a quarter of citizens had access. As a result, an estimated 93 percent of Egyptian networks were blocked for five days.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 18, 2021

What, are you the guinea pig? The answer is: yes, we’re all guinea pigs. If you think about it, it’s actually kind of barbaric how we’re living now,” he said. “You go to the pharmacist and they list the possible side effects, but you don’t know for sure. But this is a first step away from that.”

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Have Fun - Do Good

JANUARY 18, 2009

Possible destinations this year are Guinea-Bissau, Guinea, Liberia and/or Ghana. The winner will go on an international reporting trip with him to focus attention on the problems of global poverty, and its solutions. Past winners traveled to Cameroon, the Central African Republic, Rwanda, and Congo.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 14, 2022

Get the popcorn ready : Peacock is making the “Real Housewives” franchise its guinea pig as it tests out some new interactive features that will give viewers extended clips and interviews, Lauren reports. Real estate valuation technology company Clear Capital is also reducing its staff by 27% , reports Andrew.

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TechCrunch

JULY 2, 2022

As with any startup, you don’t want to be the guinea pig — but, for big enough creators, a monthly payment could be worth the peace of mind it brings. But before launch, Notch helped some creators with account retrieval, which is why there are testimonials on the company’s website.

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Tech Soup

JULY 17, 2013

The platform has been rolled out to 54 African countries and will support the gathering, access, management and analysis of quality data from African countries.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 20, 2021

It currently covers some 20 countries for receiving money, some of the very poorest and/or least developed places in the world including Bangladesh, Cameroon, DRC, Ethiopia, Kenya, Madagascar, Morocco, Nepal, Nigeria, Pakistan, Republic of the Congo, Sri Lanka, Vietnam, Côte d’Ivoire, Ghana, Guinea, Mali, Senegal and Zambia.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

“There will be two big initial movements at the same time, building facilities and continuing our work with existing farmers in countries where they grow vanilla, like Uganda and Papua New Guinea,” he added. Hacking lettuce for taste and profit.

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Bloomerang

JULY 26, 2021

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. . Is it optimized for mobile devices? . Commit to refreshing your website donation landing page(s). .

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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. The up-country travel was organized by Karen Crabbs of Toguna Tours , a former New Yorker who has been based in Bamako for years.

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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. At Mobile Commons, we keep track of every single action a user takes – from sending a text message to making a phone call to clicking on a link. It's simple to cross-reference and correlate data to see what works.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 26, 2021

Sugar came into the human diet roughly 10,000 years ago as sugarcane, which is native to New Guinea and parts of Taiwan and China. Now, the company has a new name, Supplant, and $24 million in venture capital financing to start commercializing its low-cost sugar substitute made from the waste materials of other plants.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

JUNE 27, 2021

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. Vaccine hesitancy continues to be one of the most difficult hurdles for the vaccine rollout, both in Australia and abroad.

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Care2

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.) ” Your community might be inconvenienced, stressed, worried, and freaked out about the organization’s future during a crisis. (If The Hidden Impact of Crisis.

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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). Avinash Kaushik , Analytics Evangelist, Google, really helped me understand the true meaning of Web Analytics 2.0

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Forum One

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. Don't forget clear instructions about audio, whether using teleconference or VOIP. The presenter(s) should practice beforehand ?

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The Verge

OCTOBER 15, 2021

Some of these coin-earning tasks are essentially asking you, the user, to allow yourself to become a data guinea pig, but I’m not sure the minimal reward will be worthwhile. It’s not clear whether each app will disclose how and where it will be using the information it collects about you.

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Tech Soup

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). The country spans eight time zones. Indonesia has the world’s second highest level of biodiversity (after Brazil).

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The Verge

MAY 24, 2021

Unbeknownst to McDaniel, he was a sort of guinea pig, one of the first individuals to be put on Chicago’s “heat list.”. If individuals are arrested under suspicion of potentially committing a crime, there is no “innocent until proven guilty”; there’s a supposition of guilt.

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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.

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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. Let that run for a few weeks before actually pushing the program out publicly. Find a few good friends, donors, or volunteers of your organization and let them know what you’re trying.

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NonProfit Hub

JULY 18, 2016

For an animal rescue, how many dogs/cats/guinea pigs do you want to save? Start by clearly defining your organization’s impact goal. What’s BIG difference does your nonprofit exist to make? What specifically do you want to accomplish before the end of this year? For Habitat for Humanity, how many families will become homeowners?

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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. The same is true for the political and educational challenges threatening science education worldwide.

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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. This is the Africa desk of IRIN, the news site of the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs.

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 20, 2021

And I’d love to try them out with you all as my guinea pigs to see what their tool is like and if I like it so I can tell others about them. They’re based in Buffalo, New York, and they allow nonprofits to create stories, a testimonial about why they love your organization right on their phone. . I have a link here.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 7, 2021

Ejara has more than 8,000 users from Cameroon, Ivory Coast, Burkina Faso, Mali, Guinea and Senegal, as well as French-speaking Africans in the diaspora (Europe, Asia and the U.S.), Yet, the company plans to also diversify into providing other assets, including fractional shares, stocks and commodities. .

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TechCrunch

APRIL 12, 2021

Other countries with a presence include the Democratic Republic of Congo, Ghana, Gambia, Guinea, Tanzania and Senegal. One way it wants to carry this out will be to take its pan-African expansion seriously even though a large part of its 450 clients are based in Nigeria.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 13, 2021

First, the service will be available in seven African countries, starting with Ivory Coast where it’s already live, Senegal in January, Cameroon in February, Burkina Faso in March, Tunisia in April, Guinea and Democratic Republic of Congo after that.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 21, 2022

Since the start of this year, Jambo has already signed up over 12,000 students across 15 countries (Morocco, Nigeria, Ethiopia, Equatorial Guinea, Uganda, Kenya, Congo, Uganda, Rwanda, DR Congo, Tanzania, Zambia, Namibia, Madagascar and South Africa) to take a curated web3 curriculum, both online and offline.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

Last October, it had 8,000 users from Cameroon, its first market and others including Ivory Coast, Burkina Faso, Mali, Guinea, and Senegal. As a result, users on the platform have grown in multiples over the last 14 months. Now, it counts over 70,000 users across nine Francophone African countries. .

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