Tech Soup

JUNE 23, 2014

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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 7, 2010

And if you are going to buy a copy, please wait until the party and purchase your copy on Amazon. During the next two weeks leading up to the virtual launch , I will be blogging daily brief posts about some of the ideas and concepts in the Networked Nonprofit.

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Have Fun - Do Good

NOVEMBER 1, 2011

Press the photo firmly to the front of your card. Full disclosure: The cards and pens I've linked to are attached to my Amazon Associate account, which means that if you buy anything after clicking on the link, I get a percentage of the sale. Write and address your note in sparkly pen, add a stamp, and drop it in the mail box.

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Have Fun - Do Good

AUGUST 31, 2012

Substitute 1/2 package (15 ounces, or 420 g) soft, firm, or extra-firm tofu, pressed and then cut into cubes. Full disclosure: The link to The Vegan Slow Cooker is linked to my Amazon Associates Account. Don’t like chickpeas? It will mimic a popular dish called saag paneer.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MAY 2, 2012

Bookshare also works with large trade publishers such as HarperCollins, Random House, Scholastic, international publishers like the IMF, World Bank and Brookings, twenty-two university presses, and more than one hundred and fifty other publishers.

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NonProfit Hub

SEPTEMBER 9, 2014

According to Twitter, after pressing a ‘buy’ button, a customer will be given more product details and prompted to enter payment and shipping information. That information will then be sent to the merchant to fulfill your order.

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Judi Sohn

AUGUST 1, 2011

If that’s not enough, I can also shop the Amazon app store since my phone is supported and grab their daily free app. Hold down an app icon to move it around, press & hold for copy/paste, moving around the Phone app…all similar enough to the iPhone that I’ve learned by trusting muscle memory. Much, much better.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JULY 3, 2013

Today Bookshare adds around 3,000 books per month to the collection, with our publisher and electronic distribution partners supplying most of these books, at the same time as they go to electronic retailers like Amazon. Image by the National Braille Press, a DIAGRAM subcontract.

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Have Fun - Do Good

AUGUST 14, 2012

To tempt you to cook with us (we've still got 17 days left in August), I asked the folks at Da Capo Press if they had a recipe from the book I could share with you. is attached to my Amazon Associates Account. by Dreena Burton. So far, most of the things I've made from it have been super yummy. Copyright © 2012.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 7, 2017

A good way to start in e-commerce and get a feel for what sells and what doesn't is to begin with online marketplaces such as Amazon or eBay. Take advantage of regional press, national publications, and local sites to draw attention to your charity e-commerce campaign. Knowing how to write a solid press release is a must.

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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. The Chafee Amendment The U.S. copyright exemption for serving the print disabled is commonly called the Chafee Amendment: Section 121 of copyright law.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 14, 2014

based projects, pledges are processed by Amazon Payments. On the other hand, because Kickstarter is so popular, you might be able to garner a lot of press or attention for your campaign. If a project succeeds, Kickstarter will charge a 5% fee to the funds collected. If you don't meet your goal, there are no fees.

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sgEngage

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

Most organizations fall into one of three cloud mindsets,” said Kelley Hecht, team lead for nonprofit industry advisors at Amazon Web Services (AWS), which commissioned an innovation study about the state of nonprofit cloud technology adoption. Take adoption of cloud technology as a good example. What is the experience of my staff?

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 3, 2013

based projects, pledges are processed by Amazon Payments. On the other hand, because Kickstarter is so popular, you might be able to garner a lot of press or attention for your campaign. If a project succeeds, Kickstarter will charge a 5% fee to the funds collected. If you don't meet your goal, there are no fees.

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Tech Soup

MAY 23, 2014

Find the European Court of Justice press release here. This decision is largely because of a clash of titans between huge economic entities like big ISPs one side, like Comcast and AT&T, and content providers like Amazon and Netflix on the other side. Here in the U.S., I particularly like The Guardian’s coverage of this.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 11, 2007

Amazon Conservation Team. She also points to a recent article in the Australian press about nonprofits in Melbourne raising money in my space called It's MySpace, my charity, your money. I liked the audio welcome message at this site. Here's a list culled from the portal. happy browsing. Americans for the Arts. Breast Cancer Action.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 30, 2018

Amazon has made it easier for consumers to give presents to children in need by simply saying, “ Alexa, donate to Toys for Tots. Alexa will then recommend a gift from Toys for Tots’ curated list and after the order is confirmed, Amazon will match each donation toy for toy.

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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). Image 1: Virgin Mobile USA Press Center. You can read the whole teardown and explanation here.

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Care2

APRIL 14, 2009

Look at other platforms to create appropriate engagement such as YouTube with a Video Response, on Facebook with a Note about the situation in an organization’s Fan Page or contact bloggers to attend a press conference and hear the facts from you. Monitor the Results. Then Turn the Frown Upside Down.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 5, 2014

Also covered: News Articles and Press Releases, Blogs, Images and Infographics, Videos, Online Petitions, Online Contests, Online Stores, Ebooks and Digital Reports, Event Invitations, Webinars, and Smartphone and Tablet Apps. . Be sure to “Look Inside” on Amazon. Add the icons and URLs of your social networks. ?

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Givinga

JANUARY 8, 2019

Corporate responsibility is no longer just a nice-to-have program that looks good in press releases. Amazon, for example, is leveraging new markets like Singapore² and products that are ‘Fulfilled by Amazon’, to keep growing. That’s changing, and will continue to shift in 2019.

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Givinga

JANUARY 8, 2019

Corporate responsibility is no longer just a nice-to-have program that looks good in press releases. Amazon, for example, is leveraging new markets like Singapore² and products that are ‘Fulfilled by Amazon’, to keep growing. That’s changing, and will continue to shift in 2019.

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Judi Sohn

JANUARY 10, 2009

Then it was sites like Amazon and eBay. Online tech press consider it old news and they’re on to the next new shiny. After a few years, I could say I was going “online&# and even my grandmother knew what I meant. Now, it’s happening with social networking. Nevermind that the blogs have been talking about it for ages.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 21, 2008

Amazon doesn't let you write reviews for the fun of it. What are the pressing questions, needs, and conversation points that your visitors want to share with each other? They do it because it creates a credible, self-reinforcing engine of information about their products.

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 28, 2009

Amazone Web Services - for very cheap. press release. OurMedia & Internet Archive - a bit more technical, archived forever, nonprofit organization, RSS and community building tools. upload to Internet Archive and use OurMedia to generate RSS feed, etc. Industry standard is not limiting bandwidth/downloads but only limit upload.

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Connection Cafe

OCTOBER 22, 2013

We like Amazon gift cards. What path would someone take to find a recent press release about the organization? Those that meet your criteria are then asked for their contact information and you can follow-up with them for the card sort. Research Questions. where X, Y, and Z represent important tasks or information.

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Bloomerang

APRIL 16, 2021

” You can find it on Amazon, but I’m going to sort of give you a cheat sheet today and share some of the principles in it with you so you don’t have to buy the book. Earned media is when you get press or coverage by somebody else. My book, “The nonprofit Communications Engine,” is available on Amazon.

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 28, 2021

There’s the Amazon list or the deal-of-the-day. They press X, and they close the box, or they click the donate button, and they’re taken to your donate page. There’s a lot of noise. There’s a ton of noise in your inbox, not just from fundraisers. There’s Black Friday sales. Interesting.

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Non Profit Quarterly

AUGUST 3, 2022

12 More pertinently, Amazon likely uses the service internally to train its own controversial software, Rekognition, described by the company – in terms as vague as they are sinister – as a tool for monitoring ‘people of interest’. At first glance, it’s not entirely obvious what Amazon gets out of the platform.

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DNL OmniMedia

OCTOBER 22, 2020

Project Open Hand accomplishes that, and goes a step further by organizing their news, blog, and press releases in an eye-catching (on-theme!) Tree House’s page includes integrated donation tools, sponsorship options, information on tribute and planned gifts, Amazon wish list donations, and more. Social media integration.

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Have Fun - Do Good

NOVEMBER 9, 2011

Cristi Hegranes Executive Director and Founder, Global Press Institute. GPI (formerly the Press Institute for Women in the Developing World) uses journalism as a development tool to educate, employ and empower women, who produce high-quality local news coverage that elevates global awareness and ignites social change. Share Tweet.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 24, 2013

In retail, Amazon is so 2012. It is a China-based company that now has merchandise sales volume that is more than Amazon and eBay combined. The company is so controversial that the comments are often more fun to read than the main articles on it in the IT press. New Industry Leaders. Mobile and Apps.

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Tech Soup

MAY 19, 2014

This debate, by the way, is largely a clash of titans between huge economic entities like big ISPs one side, like Comcast and AT&T, and content providers like Amazon and Netflix on the other side. Libraries have higher approval ratings than Congress, the press, and those American standbys, baseball and apple pie. In the U.S.,

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Non Profit Quarterly

AUGUST 10, 2022

Amazon, born in 1995 as an online bookstore, grew by the 2000s to become the largest global e-commerce platform company in existence. Nick Srnicek, Platform Capitalism (Cambridge, UK: Polity Press, 2017). Certainly, people seemed to appreciate access to the platform apps that began changing their world. George Akerlof and Robert J.

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Bloomerang

APRIL 2, 2021

So nonprofits are building Alexa Amazon skills to reach new audiences and build relationships with potential donors. So take a look at these Amazon skills. If you have a skill, if you have something to teach that you want your audience to know about, you can create your own Alexa skill for free at Amazon. So pretty neat.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 8, 2013

I love year-ahead forecasts and have looked a number of them from all over the global IT press. Another big trend in the IT press forecasts is the much heralded decline of the traditional PC – laptops and desktop computers. Here’s what the buzz seems to be for 2013 from a nonprofit technology viewpoint. The Decline of PCs.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 19, 2006

I certainly get inspired by getting to touch and be a part of some of the vast wilderness left on the planet, so the job has allowed me the privilege, which not everyone has, of going to Indonesia, and going to the Amazon in Brazil, and certainly that is fuel that will fill my engine for a very long time.

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