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Free Webinar August 25: Three Ways to Know if You're Ready for Planned Giving
On August 25, 2010 from 1:00 p.m. to 2:30 p.m. Eastern time, our donor partner Mission Research (which donates its fundraising and donor management software GiftWorks to eligible nonprofits and libraries through TechSoup) will host a free webinar on planned giving with Scott Lyons.
From GiftWorks:
A/B Testing Is O/K
Which is better, "Join us" or "Sign up for updates"? "Gift" or "Donation"? Large photo and short fundraising blurb, or vice versa? We've talked a few times on this blog about the importance of testing how constituents respond to your website, but we've never really talked about how to run a test. If you think that testing a new web design or call to action requires an experienced web programmer, then you might be pleasantly surprised. A/B testing is a term for testing two different versions of any piece of collateral: a website, an email newsletter, direct mail, an advertisement — anything ...
How to Get Longer Life Out of Your Laptop Battery
By following these tips, you should get more hours out of each charge of your laptop battery and save electricity to boot:
- Close unused applications or software programs. The information to run the programs is stored in memory, which requires energy to keep active. If you're not using it, close it!
- Turn down the brightness of your monitor. (This may also help preserve your eyesight!)
- Set your power settings to sleep your monitor and hard drives at a more aggressive interval.
