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What Your Nonprofit Needs to Know About Amazon Alexa

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Amazon Alexa is the digital assistant software that empowers Amazon’s smart speaker series, the Amazon Echo. As Microsoft’s Windows 10 is the software (operating system) that empowers the PC , Amazon Alexa is the software (operating system) that empowers Amazon Echo smart speakers.

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How to Make Your AMS a Revenue Generator, not a Cost Center

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Is your product or service optimized for search, meaning can I find your product through Google or your site search? Are you tracking abandons in Google Analytics? Can you make e-commerce on your website more like Amazon with its recommendations and use of purchasing?

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22 Must-Circle Nonprofits on Google+

Nonprofit Tech for Good

As a follow-up to Google+ Best Practices for Nonprofits and 22 Must-Circle Nonprofit Bloggers and Resources on Google+ , below are 22 nonprofits that are regularly using Google+ effectively to engage and inspire the Google+ community. Google+ is definitely a work in progress. Amazon CARES. United Nations.

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Top 20 Best WordPress Plugins for Nonprofit Websites

Nonprofit Tech for Good

All-In-One SEO Pack – optimize your pages and posts for Google search by creating custom titles and descriptions; have control of how shared pages appear on social media; create sitemaps with ease. Google XML Sitemaps – automatically generates a sitemap and lets Google know when your website pages and posts have been updated.

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The Struggle for Book Access: Amazon (Blog Post #2)

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But, we just saw Amazon fold when the Authors Guild pushed them to turn off the voice of these books: Amazon to flip on Kindle. We have an action by Amazon that sets back years of work to make ebooks accessible. Print-disabled people of the world shouldn't be surprised that Amazon isn't going out of its way to help them.

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

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The podcast is available on Apple, Google, Spotify, Amazon Music and Stitcher (you have no reason not to listen!). This year, we thought, “Why not showcase what associations and nonprofits are doing, regardless of whether or not they’re clients, and why not do it through a podcast for greater reach?”.

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Bookshare Celebrates Its 10th Anniversary at Google

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The event was hosted by Google on its campus in Mountain View, California, which is home to some of the most cutting edge technologists in the world. Raman of Google Research, a long-time Bookshare member and advisor, was on hand to help us celebrate last night. I can feel it all over, it’s a hit!” said Stevie. Thanks Stevie!

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