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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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Highlights from the Salesforce.org Nonprofit Summit

Saleforce Nonprofit

They started by using technology to connect data across their 4,900 Club locations so that national leaders could gain a real-time view into members’ needs and preferences. . On day one, we also hosted a group of 14 nonprofit executives at the Soho House in New York City.

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Mobile for Good: Fire Phone, Locking Down Data, and Services for the Homeless

Tech Soup

For this month's column, I'm going to dissect the latest entry into the smartphone field: the Amazon Fire Phone. Amazon Fire Phone and the Internet of Things. The long-awaited "Amazon phone" is finally here and it's goal is to make shopping that much easier. It runs on Amazon's own Fire OS 3.5,

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3 Ways to Stand Out This #GivingTuesday

Connection Cafe

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. Because of its success, World Vision will be doing the event again in 2018.

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Jocelyn Harmon: People, Words, Technology & Truth: How I Have Fun, Do Good

Have Fun - Do Good

Jocelyn has a bachelor's degree in literature from New York University and a master’s degree in sociology from University of Washington. Another big treat is for me is Amazon Overnight Delivery. You can read her writing in Fundraising Success magazine and her personal blog, Marketing for Nonprofits.

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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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The Path to Survival: Relocalization, Water Conservation and Heirloom Preservation

Have Fun - Do Good

Magazine , and was inducted into the National Women's Hall of Fame earlier this month. As she wrote in her article, Ricekeepers , for Orion Magazine : "An estimated 90 percent of the world’s biodiversity lies within the territories of indigenous peoples, whether the Amazon, the Indian subcontinent, or the North Woods. Fight for water.