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What Do Successful Associations Have in Common? What We’re Learning from the Associations Thrive Podcast

The MatrixFiles

The podcast is available on Apple, Google, Spotify, Amazon Music and Stitcher (you have no reason not to listen!). Successful organizations took advantage of the pandemic to update their governance, update their strategic plans, think proactively about the future, and revamp their education programs.

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What Do Successful Associations Have in Common? What We’re Learning from the Associations Thrive Podcast

The MatrixFiles

The podcast is available on Apple, Google, Spotify, Amazon Music and Stitcher (you have no reason not to listen!). Successful organizations took advantage of the pandemic to update their governance, update their strategic plans, think proactively about the future, and revamp their education programs.

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Fascinating Meeting at the Copyright Office

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

We discussed Chafee, especially in the context of the Amazon text-to-speech brouhaha, and the proposed international treaty that was tabled at the WIPO SCCR meeting in Geneva last month. I actually think they’re getting less by stopping people from buying ebooks who are unlikely to buy audio books at higher prices. copyright law.

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Paul Rusesabagina & Bloggers for Darfur

Have Fun - Do Good

It isn't up yet at this writing, but you should be able to hear an audio recording of the session once it is posted, here. It was great to see young people idolizing a human rights hero. Then they gave him a sweatshirt, which cracked me up. The event was hosted by the World Affairs Council. darfur genocide rwanda bloggers

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[VIDEO] Using WhatsApp to Increase Engagement with Multicultural Communities

Bloomerang

And another great thing about WhatsApp that not other messaging apps have is that you can share audios. Audios, files. So this is me in the Amazon. So I was working in the Amazon for a really long time. I hadn’t lived in the Amazon before. We can’t go back. Don’t type yet in the chat.

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Benetech: the Equilibrium Change Machine

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Before Benetech was founded, blind people were read to either in person by a family member, volunteer, or paid reader, or via audio cassette tape. Our vision is that the same ebooks available through mass channels like the Amazon Kindle or the Apple iPad should be fully accessible. Now, almost fifteen years later (and post-Snowden!),

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Grave Work

Non Profit Quarterly

When transcoding audio of voices, the worker knows they are putting into writing the words of a speaker with an Irish accent. At first glance, it’s not entirely obvious what Amazon gets out of the platform. But there is no sense of what this recording actually is (e.g., data for a chatbot algorithm) or how it will be used (e.g.,

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