I should have started the week by writing this, but I’ll do it quickly now anyway. My current todo list. List status: Pretty good. Mostly organized near the top. Less so further down. Fine for now. Objectives to call out for this week. Bugzilla and Github clean-out / triage Move my home office out to… Continue reading The week ahead: 26 Jan 2015
Weeknotes: 23 Jan 2015
I managed to complete roughly five of my eleven goals for the week. Made progress on (but have not cracked) daily task management for the newly evolving systems Caught up on some email from time off, but still a chunk left to work through Spent more time writing code than expected Illness this week slowed… Continue reading Weeknotes: 23 Jan 2015
The week ahead: 19 Jan 2015
If all goes to plan, I will: Write a daily working process Use a public todo list, and make it work Catch up on more email from time off Ship V1 of Webmaker Metrics retention dashboard Work out a plan for aligning metrics work with dev team heartbeats Don’t let the immediate todo list get… Continue reading The week ahead: 19 Jan 2015
From 2014 to 2015
I’ve had a couple of weeks off work and it’s been a good time to reflect on the year past, and the one ahead. And before I dive back into things on Friday morning, I wanted to get this post published. It’s a long one, and writing it was more for my benefit than yours… Continue reading From 2014 to 2015
Fundraising testing update
I wrote a post over on fundraising.mozilla.org about our latest round of optimization work for our End of Year Fundraising campaign. We’ve been sprinting on this during the Mozilla all-hands workweek in Portland, which has been a lot of fun working face-to-face with the awesome team making this happen. You can follow along with the… Continue reading Fundraising testing update
Will our latest donation form help us raise more money this year?
I posted to the fundraising.mozilla.org blog today: http://fundraising.mozilla.org/will-our-latest-donation-form-help-us-raise-more-money-this-year
#DALMOOC structure
I hesitantly post this, as I’m spending the evening looking at DALMOOC and hope to take part, but know I’m short on free time right now (what with a new baby and trying to buy a house) and starting the course late. This is either the first in a series of blog posts about this… Continue reading #DALMOOC structure
Learning about Learning Analytics @ #Mozfest
If I find a moment, I’ll write about many of the fun and inspiring things I saw at Mozfest this weekend, but this post is about a single session I had the pleasure of hosting alongside Andrew, Doug and Simon; Learning Analytics for Good in the Age of Big Data. We had an hour, no… Continue reading Learning about Learning Analytics @ #Mozfest
Mozilla Contributor Analysis Project (Joint MoCo & MoFo)
I’m back at the screen after a week of paternity leave, and I’ll be working part-time for next two weeks while we settle in to the new family routine at home. In the meantime, I wanted to mention a Mozilla contributor analysis project in case people would like to get involved. We have a wiki… Continue reading Mozilla Contributor Analysis Project (Joint MoCo & MoFo)
“Conclusions”
Removing the second sentence increases conversion rate (hypothesis = simplicity is good). The button text ‘Go!’ increased the conversion rate. Both variations on the headline increased conversion rate, but ‘Welcome to Webmaker’ performed the best. We should remove the bullet points on this landing page. The log-in option is useful on the page, even for… Continue reading “Conclusions”