What’s notable about the new webmaker events platform
Many of you probably saw this yesterday as part of the launch of the Mozilla Webmaker initiative, but we’ve gone live with a new distributed events platform to support webmaker events at...
View ArticleA Cat Signal in the San Francisco sky?
Last night, if you were near the Embarcadero area of San Francisco, you might have seen an interesting sight: Marking the launch of the Internet Defense League, (and not coincidentally going up the...
View Article“The world I want to live in”
Over the past few weeks,we’ve made our first attempts to directly fundraise based on our Webmaker initiative. We led off, two weeks ago, with a monthly donation appeal focused on the core Webmaker...
View ArticleNew fundraising campaign: help with QA?
Later this week, we’re rolling out a fun new fundraising campaign that I wanted to surface before it launches. If you happen to be on the mailing lists for any of the US election campaigns this might...
View ArticleMozFest Contest Update and First Winner!
There are just a few days left in our contest to win a trip to the Mozilla Festival in London – enter by midnight on Saturday, October 20th, if you haven’t already! – and the first winner has already...
View Article2012 End-of-Year (EOY) Fundraising Update
This year’s EOY campaign has been going on for a few weeks now, so I wanted to update folks on where we are and what’s happening — as you’ll be seeing more of it in the final two weeks of the year....
View Article2013 Mozilla Email Program Evolution
Since mid-2011, our then non-existent email program has grown by leaps and bounds. We’ve gone from 26,000 subscribers to 580,000 subscribers, with continued growth of 5,000-10,000 subscribers per week....
View Article2012 EOY Fundraising: Success!
Reporting back on our just-completed 2012 End-of-Year (EOY) fundraising campaign: The results were very good! As compared to last year’s campaign, we did better this year in every way, and finished the...
View ArticleEmail and donations training
Earlier this week I gave a training to our new development ($$, not engineering) team here at Mozilla on online campaigns (with emphasis on emails and donations). I got a few requests for the deck, so...
View ArticleWhy open rates are not what you test
Something that I like to talk about when the topic of email testing comes up is the idea that open rates — while the email statistic people are often the most familiar with — are pretty much never the...
View ArticleOnce a Mozillian …
It is with a bit of sadness and a lot of excitement that today is my last day working for Mozilla — I start on Monday at Greenpeace’s Digital Mobilisation Lab, with a specific focus on climate...
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