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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.). households by 2022.

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Study the Data, But Eat the Cake—Put the Human Factor Forward

.orgSource

Cloud-based Solutions Amazon SageMaker offers a comprehensive suite of tools for building, training, and deploying machine learning models. Tiffany Kerns is the Executive Director of the Country Music Association Foundation and CMA’s Vice President of Industry Relations and Philanthropy. How the music business is evolving.

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eBooks #1: ePub is to eBooks as MP3 is to music?

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

For a while there, the two big players on the field were Amazon on one side, with it’s Kindle and proprietary format, which is an offshoot of MobiPocket format, and a reader that has a fairly limited range of formats it can read. Both Amazon and Barnes and Noble have DRM in their book formats. So what happens next?

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SOCAN Foundation and the Canadian Songwriters Hall of Fame invite applications for the Indigenous Song Camp

Charity Village

Applications are now open for the Indigenous Song Camp, a collaborative initiative made possible through the efforts of the SOCAN Foundation, the Canadian Songwriters Hall of Fame, Amazon Music, sākihiwē festival, and Kilometre Music Group.

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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!). 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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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!). 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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40+ Unforgettable Live Auction Items that Sell Well

Bloomerang

Musician’s clothing Costumes Musical instruments Include a certificate of authenticity with the item to reassure donors of its credibility. Consider auctioning off a streaming service package with one-year subscriptions to platforms like Netflix, Hulu, Max, Amazon Prime, and Disney+.

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