{"id":641,"date":"2010-09-23T22:15:20","date_gmt":"2010-09-24T04:15:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mooreds.com\/wordpress\/?p=641"},"modified":"2010-09-23T22:15:20","modified_gmt":"2010-09-24T04:15:20","slug":"update-on-gwo-for-a-non-profit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mooreds.com\/wordpress\/archives\/641","title":{"rendered":"Update on GWO for a non profit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, after a week or two of data collection, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mooreds.com\/wordpress\/archives\/618\">GWO experiment I had set up<\/a> for the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wild.org\/\">WILD Foundation<\/a> caused an issue&#8211;apparently it was preventing a javascript shadowbox from working.  I didn&#8217;t want to get into troubleshooting a javascript component that I had never used on pages I had never seen, so I recommended turning off the experiment to see if that solved the issue.<\/p>\n<p>It did.  I knew there was a way to include the GWO javascript just where it was used, on the home page, but I got busy, and by the time I was able to do this, they were hip deep in a website rework.  I&#8217;ve been involved in website redesigns with too many cooks in the kitchen, so I just asked them to let me know when the dust has settled so I can restart the experiment.<\/p>\n<p>Lessons learned:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>sometimes volunteer projects take a long time to get to results, and almost definitely will take longer than you plan<\/li>\n<li>other opportunities can spring out of volunteering&#8211;I showed Emily some space available via another non profit I&#8217;m involved in, and she&#8217;s looking at possibilities for a fundraiser there.\u00a0 This never would have happened if I hadn&#8217;t volunteered previously<\/li>\n<li>the process opened up some ideas for the non profit around changing the home page to highlight things they wanted to focus&#8211;sometimes, any perspective from outside an organization is useful<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul><\/ul>\n<p>I&#8217;ll let you know when I get a chance to re-enable GWO on the WILD site, but I thought I&#8217;d give an update.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, after a week or two of data collection, the GWO experiment I had set up for the WILD Foundation caused an issue&#8211;apparently it was preventing a javascript shadowbox from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-641","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-new-tech-meetup","category-useful-tools"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mooreds.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/641","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mooreds.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mooreds.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mooreds.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mooreds.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=641"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.mooreds.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/641\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":643,"href":"https:\/\/www.mooreds.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/641\/revisions\/643"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mooreds.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=641"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mooreds.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=641"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mooreds.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=641"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}