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December: an overcrowded month for Online Fundraising?

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For us at Diabetes Hands Foundation, it definitely seems so. This past holiday season:

  • We raised less money than we did in our September campaign.
  • We didn’t reach our goal of $15,000 (we did in September!)

My question to all of you out there doing fundraising online is:

Do you think that “competing” for donor gifts in December, when every nonprofit is recommended to do it, may have led to the end-of-year becoming an overcrowded time for successful fundraising?

Please share your experience…

Wells Fargo ATMs: an example of usability

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It’s not only that they speak many languages. Or that you can make envelope-free deposits in them now. The single most impressive feature I’ve found on Wells Fargo ATMs recently was that they are sensitive to  your most recent (or common) transactions.

Say you normally go to the ATM to withdraw $80 for weekly meals or to deposit a check. Now, on the screen where you are prompted for your PIN, instead of only letting you enter the 4-digit number (as shown above), you are presented with that VERY option directly, so you can skip the selection process altogether which typically followed once you hit the green OK button.

Not only that, it remembers preferences such as whether you wanted or not a receipt, or whether you wanted the scanned version of any deposited checks or not… THIS is an amazing example of usability! Plus it shaves about 20-30 seconds of time at the ATM for each customer that uses this convenient feature.

Update (Jan. 31, 2011): thanks to Wells Fargo for sending a screenshot showing the above capabilities. I am even more impressed with you guys having spotted the blog post AND taken action about it!

Best Coffee Shops in Berkeley

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Cafe Trieste
Topping the list is the Cafe Trieste on San Pablo. The baristas there get it perfect every single time. I have tried the drinks at another Cafe Trieste (at the Civic Center, in San Francisco), but it’s not the same… The photo above is from the best place for cappuccino in Berkeley.

Guerrilla Cafe
This is my new favorite place for coffee and hanging out for a while. The music and the ambiance is great. But the coffee is AMAZING! Highly recommendable if you are looking for a great cappuccino in the gourmet ghetto.

Cafe Cacao (Jan 2011: currently closed for remodeling)
I used to have a coffee (and lunch) more often here before. Now, our office is no longer close to it, I only swing by occasionally. But the cappuccino rocks! If you are around Heinz and 7th st. around lunch or for coffee, stop by Cafe Cacao.

Peet’s Coffee & Tea
Pretty much any Peet’s will serve a great cappuccino, but my favorite happens to be at the first Peet’s, on the intersection of Vine and Walnut. First opened in 1966, the coffee there is as good as it was the first day… I assume -I wasn’t there then! :P