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Using Technology

The implications and unintended consequences of technology, its use, and how we integrate it into our daily lives—personally and professionally.

Tools to be more deliberate

After thinking yesterday about being more deliberate [https://needinputorg.wordpress.com/2018/06/14/deliberateness-is-the-antidote-to-our-technology-habits] in how I interact with the digital world, I find myself looking for ways to practice it. The instances that come to mind are centered around content: what content is delivered when and how. (Are

Deliberateness is the antidote to our technology habits

It was February 2004. The Student Union was quite empty, and one of us had discovered a site, thefacebook.com. It seemed like a nifty place, like MySpace or Friendster, but it was only for those universities that were invited — we were school 34, I think. Since then a lot

Gain sanity by managing your passwords

This post is for those of you not yet using a password manager. There are a few things you can do to help mitigate future issues, like two-step or two-factor authentication, but the smartest place to start seems to be managing our passwords.

3 quick hacks to be more data-driven

People in fundraising are always asking us if there is a quick fix — a silver bullet. I’m afraid to report: there isn’t, contrary to what some say. Fear not though, with the availability of data and power of experimentation, there are a few things you might try. January

A Custom Excel Function To Calculate RF(M) Scores For Fundraisers

To accompany a guest post with Gravyty, I want to share an Excel function we wrote to take your entire constituency and generate a Recency-Frequency score for each individual. This function is like other built-in functions you may have used in Excel, except that we’ve programmed it to do