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

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

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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How To Create Your Future

Eric Jacobsen Blog

We don’t have that much money. For creativity’s sake, how would you re-imagine Amazon, Facebook, Uber, Walmart, Tesla, or Google if you took away their top product or feature? We’re too small. We can’t do that. We tried that before, I can’t make a decision that senior. That’s owned by another department. We’re just starting out.

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Create The Future And The Innovation Handbook

Eric Jacobsen Blog

We don’t have that much money. For creativity’s sake, how would you re-imagine Amazon, Facebook, Uber, Walmart, Tesla, or Google if you took away their top product or feature? We’re too small. We can’t do that. We tried that before, I can’t make a decision that senior. That’s owned by another department. We’re just starting out.

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40+ Unforgettable Live Auction Items that Sell Well

Bloomerang

Consider auctioning off a streaming service package with one-year subscriptions to platforms like Netflix, Hulu, Max, Amazon Prime, and Disney+. Many attendees are also excited at the prospect of accessing valuable deals on trips they may not otherwise spend money on but choose to bid on because they know it’s for a good cause.

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3 Ways to Stand Out This #GivingTuesday

Connection Cafe

Donors are looking for the best way to maximize their dollars, and a match provides a way for their money to go further. In 2017, World Vision took a page from the fundraising playbook of for-profit companies like Apple and Amazon by launching the first-of-its-kind pop-up shop … for charity.

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NRDC Research Study: Is Your Server Room Being Overlooked?

Tech Soup

Headquartered in New York City, NRDC is an environmental nonprofit membership organization with 1.3 You may have heard about the Googles and Amazons of the world striving to make their enormous datacenters more energy efficient. This is a guest blog post by Drew Bennett of Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC).

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Cause Camp 2017 Speaker Lineup Announcement

NonProfit Hub

This ongoing study has been cited in hundreds of publications, including Forbes, TIME, Fast Company, The Chronicle of Philanthropy, Wall Street Journal and The New York Times. He helped Dian Nelson launch the division and brought DCE into digital publishing through deals with Amazon, Apple, Barnes & Noble, etc. Tyler Riewer.

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