Eric Jacobsen Blog

JUNE 21, 2023

Zappos did not have the shoes, but the Zappos customer service agent searched online and found the shoes on Amazon while on the phone and told the customer to go to Amazon. Did the Zappos agent have the authority to give Amazon business? Note: this was before Amazon purchased Zappos (July 2009, in case you’re wondering).

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 22, 2021

Customizing default social media language to display when campaigns are shared. We’ve seen this with face-recognition authorized payment through Apple Pay and one-click purchases on Amazon. Reviewing their activity wall of donations to personally thank donors. Finding new opportunities to build donor relationships.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 19, 2017

In 2017, early adopter nonprofits began launching Amazon Skills. Today, 10 languages make up 82% of web content. The Internet of Things. By the year 2020, over 50 billion things – cars, appliances, roads – will be connected to the Internet of Things. 2018 is a crucial year for smart speaker technology and innovation.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

AUGUST 31, 2022

Donors are consumers, and digital marketplaces like Amazon shape their expectations. Myth 5: Donors judge us based on experiences with other nonprofits The last few years forced us to spend more time shopping on Amazon and other online marketplaces. As fundraising professionals, we are on the frontlines of the digital revolution.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 20, 2018

How Cancer Research UK is Exploring AI and Voice Tech: This cancer charity in the UK has been testing chatbots, voice enabled devices, and natural language processing – looking at how those could be useful and where the impact lies.They piloted a chatbot on our fundraising pages to help answer the most common questions people had.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

They use machine learning combined with Natural Language Processing (NLP). The donations are $25 and Amazon will match pledges to the first $200,000. Amazon has incorporated charitable donations into Alexa for over a year now to a range of charities. ” Think Alexa, Facebook Messenger Bots and other Chat Bots, etc.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 6, 2012

We hear about the iCloud, Google Apps, Amazon, and other solutions that draw on the language of the “cloud” to describe what they do. There is a fair amount of discussion about the “cloud” when it comes to nonprofits and their technological next steps. You may also hear this referred to as “Online”, “Hosted”, or “Web Based” software.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 12, 2006

Last night, I dropped into the lecture/presentation by Jeff Barr, Amazon Technology Evangelist, in the open-air auditorium on Information Island. While the presenter encouraged us to "think outloud" by typing comments in the chat as a substitute for body language, there wasn't a lot of interaction.

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John Kenyon

MAY 1, 2019

If you have in-house expertise, and are doing this as a one-off project, for example, the person making the templates would have to learn the specific templating language used by the static site generator. There are static site generators in every programming language. These templates give the website its look and feel.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

AUGUST 30, 2009

These are all folks who believe in technology and have a certain level of common language and understanding (even though the range of people is pretty amazing). This actually works out fine, but don't expect to be doing PowerPoint out there! Many cool people attend, and the quality of the conversations is terrific.

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Allegiance Group

AUGUST 22, 2022

The Microsoft.NET language (they remove “Core” from the name starting with version 5) is rebuilt from the ground up and can run on multiple platforms including Linux. Containers can also be deployed to different (or multiple) cloud providers such as Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud, and Microsoft Azure.

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fusionSpan

MARCH 30, 2022

Tableau also supports a variety of data connections, including Presto, MemSQL, Google Analytics, Google Sheets, Cloudera, Hadoop, Amazon Athena, Salesforce, SQL Server, Dropbox, and a number of others. Tableau will give you the most relevant replies if you just enter a question about your data in natural language.

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Classy

JUNE 2, 2021

Customizing default social media language to display when campaigns are shared. We’ve seen this with face-recognition authorized payment through Apple Pay and one-click purchases on Amazon. Reviewing their activity wall of donations to personally thank donors. Finding new opportunities to build donor relationships.

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Global Giving

DECEMBER 19, 2018

Similarly, companies like Amazon are making it easy for anyone to create powerful natural language processing or computer vision models without needing to build their own complex deep learning infrastructure. …which will make communication even more important.

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AccelEvents

JULY 28, 2021

You can monitor body language and real-time reactions and make adjustments if necessary. Gift cards for Amazon or a food delivery service are great prize options. 5. That lack of enthusiasm can destroy what would have otherwise been an exciting, informative, and useful experience. Choose Incentives.

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Qgiv

JANUARY 4, 2022

Rather than asking people to donate material items directly to your organization, you can create a public wish list on an e-commerce site like Amazon where your donors can buy items you need directly online. E-commerce has forever changed the way people shop, and your organization can use that to your advantage with wish list drives.

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CauseVox

MAY 11, 2023

Functionality : It’s a natural language processing (NLP) platform that comes with an easy-to-use interface and drag-and-drop functionality. Amazon Rekognition Amazon Rekognition is a cloud-based image recognition service that uses deep learning technology to analyze and identify objects, scenes, and faces in images and videos.

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AccelEvents

JULY 9, 2020

You can monitor body language and real-time reactions and make adjustments if necessary. Gift cards for Amazon or a food delivery service are great prize options. That lack of enthusiasm can destroy what would have otherwise been an exciting, informative, and useful experience. Choose Incentives.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 1, 2013

Develop shared language. Definitely a keeper for the Cute Dog Theory Wiki ) You can order your copy of Social Change Any Time Every Where on Amazon! The book offers some recipes for culture change. Hold weekly interdepartmental meetings. Encourage brainstorming. Give staff space and time for creativity and to think.

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Media Cause

MARCH 15, 2021

After reading it, my husband and I started composting, we started a garden from seeds, we ditched paper towels, we stopped using Amazon, and we switched from almond to soy milk because of water needed to grow almonds (they call them “thirsty little nuts” in the book). – Sarah Ackerman, Director of Copy + Content .

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Classy

JUNE 2, 2021

Customizing default social media language to display when campaigns are shared. We’ve seen this with face-recognition authorized payment through Apple Pay and one-click purchases on Amazon. Reviewing their activity wall of donations to personally thank donors. Finding new opportunities to build donor relationships.

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AccelEvents

JULY 9, 2020

You can monitor body language and real-time reactions and make adjustments if necessary. Gift cards for Amazon or a food delivery service are great prize options. That lack of enthusiasm can destroy what would have otherwise been an exciting, informative, and useful experience. Choose Incentives.

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Get Fully Funded

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

Something in the photos and the language on the page pulled me in and made me care. It’s also not the time to invite people to purchase event tickets or buy something from your Amazon wish list. This is NOT the time to say “We’re a 501c3 nonprofit…” or regurgitate your mission statement or share a lot of jargon.

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Get Fully Funded

MAY 16, 2022

As with all Asks, center your language around the things you’ll be able to do with the donor’s money – like the lives they’ll be able to change. You might also want to grab her book “The Sleeping Giant” on Amazon. But now you’re probably thinking, “How do I convince people to give over and over and over again?” Very good question.

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NonProfit Hub

MAY 30, 2014

Understanding the new up-and-coming generation is a little like learning a new language—and I’m not just talking about deciphering their slang. And we need to do so in their language. If they see a cool gadget they need, they head to Amazon and get free two-day shipping. Millennials can’t even relate. Or stream it.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 19, 2017

Review your thank-you emails quarterly to make sure the language is personal and fresh, and never miss the opportunity to suggest another follow-up action. Offer additional digital payment methods such as PayPal, Amazon Checkout, Apple Pay, and Android Pay to meet interest and demand. Invest in Social Media.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 9, 2014

Data centers from big companies like Microsoft, Apple, Amazon, Google, and so on have redundant backup systems for emergencies, they have teams of people around the world ensuring updates and patches are done, and they're working hard to fight back against any vulnerabilities that hackers may try to exploit.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 5, 2019

For example, Facebook has been using AI with facial recognition to recommend who should be tagged on your photos or when you purchase something on Amazon, it is using machine learning algorithms to recommend other products. AI makes your daily experience smarter, by embedding predictive analysis into everyday apps.

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NTEN

MAY 29, 2009

If you want to learn how to do it yourself, CNET has a new " Experts Guide to YouTube " Amazon Payments will process your donations for free through September 30th. We renew our call for an app to pipe foreign language blogs through an automagic translation service. People are writing about us in Spanish.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 7, 2010

Good examples I found were Borders , Marshalls , and Amazon. They are a great way to put custom content on Facebook, but take some programming, using Facebook’s programming language called FBML. Implementation is the Hardest Part. I also came across an excellent whitepaper from Buddy Media about ways to engage fans on Facebook.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 14, 2009

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. We need domestic copyright exemptions so that local communities can scan the books they need in their languages. The Chafee Amendment The U.S.

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Get Fully Funded

AUGUST 1, 2022

If you write too formally, write in 3 rd person, or write about how great your nonprofit is using ego-centric language, it doesn’t feel connecting at all. Use hero language like “we couldn’t have done it without you” to engage the donor. Lots of numbers make most people glaze over and that won’t increase reader engagement.

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NTEN

JULY 15, 2009

In fact, when it comes to the cloud, Gartner only uses the provider/consumer language, not vendor/user. These include infrastructure (think virtual servers from Amazon ), application infrastructure (think Force from Salesforce), and information (case managment types of services). . (That's us!)

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Get Fully Funded

DECEMBER 7, 2021

Amazon Smile is also super-simple but unless you have lots of people making big purchases, the money you receive through Amazon Smile will likely be super small. When you send a thank-you note for a gift received through a DAF, you do not include tax language, as the donor has already received the tax benefit from the bank.

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Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

So people that speak multiple languages or that live in different countries that have different ways of communicating and of seeing the world. So WhatsApp is available in multiple languages. So you can download the app in any language almost. The second step is talk to people in their language. for a while.

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John Kenyon

JUNE 25, 2019

Before we had CMS software tools like Dreamweaver, Drupal and WordPress, creating a website page meant learning to use the coding language HTML (HyperText Markup Language). CMS software helps manage a website’s content, look, and feel through a graphic interface, rather than having to use a programming language like HTML.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 5, 2014

Amazon Fire Phone Teardown. Our friends at iFixit recently did one of their teardowns of the Amazon Fire Phone. Back to the Amazon Fire Phone, iFixit gave it a sad 3 out 10 for Repairability (10 being the easiest to fix). They showcase beautiful photos from around the world centered around a common theme, holiday, or event.

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