While rare, there may be times you want to pause your reuse activities.

The Covid-19 pandemic is an example of when this may be needed. Pausing the Warp It portal will stop all staff notifications and ensure no third parties turn up on your premises expecting to collect items.   

Here is a guide on how to use the Warp it portal pause feature.

What happens when a department in the organisation only wants to reuse their assets within that department You set up a private network within your Warp It portal.

There a various reasons for this. It could be due to the nature of the item. It could, for example, be a speciality asset such as lab equipment or high-value assets that the department would like to keep in-house.

Or it might be that space managers only want to redistribute specific items.

Whatever the reasons, the ability to have a private network within the system would be highly beneficial.

Here is a guide on how to set up a private network on Warp It. 

Many Warp It members donate items to external organisations, such as charities, schools, and community groups.

Who doesn't love a good story?  We’ve talked about this here. But did you know you can boost the effectiveness of your stories when they’re told in the format of a case study?

A case study is a special type of narrative that features a real-world problem, solution, and benefits – while including factual evidence and facts.

Because they’re authentic and unique, case studies are a super-powerful way to help tell your story, educate and engage, build momentum without the ‘hard sell’, and garner untold trust.

Your case study should:

Make your customer the hero. Use your brand and project as the supporting character. The whole point is to illustrate how your project looks in action, and how it gets results.

Make your hero relatable. Interview real, live people and share the story in their words.

Show don’t tell. Rather than saying your project is amazing, prove it using data and anecdotes.

Let your hero tell it in their own words. This makes for a better story and a stronger recommendation.

Use strong visuals. Even the best-written content is more engaging with pictures and this makes case studies far more powerful than using data alone.

The following tools and tips will help you to write killer case studies that have maximum impact for your project.

Human-to-human connections are everything.

When Ellie (age 8.5) saw the heartbreaking bushfire images coming from Australia she wanted to do something. So she did.

This feature allows the allocation of uploaded assets directly to an internal member, or an external partner,  saving a great deal of communications time in the process.