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What Your Nonprofit Needs to Know About Amazon Alexa

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Smart speakers are voice-activated digital assistants that enable users to use their voice to command a wide variety of activities, such as play music, listen to news, make calls, watch video clips, shop online, and control smart home devices (thermostats, home alarm systems, lights, smart TVs, etc.). Voice-commerce is on the rise.

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Technological Protection Measures and the Blind

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

This is especially acute for accessibility for the blind and disabled, where the TPMs cannot technically distinguish between accessing the content for the making of an illegal copy, or accessing the content to speak it aloud with a synthetic voice or to create a Braille version. In some markets, printed books are receding into the past.

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Announcing The Art of Relevance Audiobook! Get Your for Free Today.

Museum 2.0

So I am thrilled to announce that The Art of Relevance audiobook is now available for YOU to listen to on Audible , Amazon , and iTunes. The great Jon Moscone lent his voice to his preface, too. I narrated it, with the help of engineer Jason Hatfield and the folks at Indigital Studios in Santa Cruz, CA.

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Internet Strategy on the Cheap: Tools and Resources

Have Fun - Do Good

Podcasting Hardware Olympus Digital Recorders $125-$200 on Amazon Samson Zoom H4 Handy Digital Recorder. Built-in mike MicroTrack 2 by M-Audio. About $270 on Amazon. Electro-Voice Microphone 635A. 120 on Amazon Headphones. About $100 on Amazon. About $270 on Amazon.com. Need headphones to monitor sound.

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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. Send a Million Voices for Darfur e-card to Bush. It was great to see young people idolizing a human rights hero. Then they gave him a sweatshirt, which cracked me up. Join the Bloggers for Darfur Yahoo Group.

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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. They can send you a voice note. We can’t go back.

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09NTC Nonprofit Radio: How to Make Podcasts That Promote Your Brand and Engage Supporters

Amy Sample Ward

general awareness at around 40%, though… people don’t necessarily know they are consuming a podcast, audio embedded in rss etc. You’ll take a while before you find your legs - get started hearing your voice and get feedback before you launch into the field. Amazone Web Services - for very cheap. Production.

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