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Economically, open looks better than closed

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

Here’s a tidbit of a Infoworld report about the study: By one measure — “value added,&# which the report defines as “an industry’s gross output minus its purchased intermediate inputs&# — the fair use economy is greater than the copyright economy. economy by copyright industries amounts to $1.3

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Will Robots (and bots) Replace Nonprofit Staff and Interns in the Workplace?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Let’s take a look at a few examples: Major Gifts Officer: A new platform called First Draft developed by Gravyty uses AI to identify and draft emails to prospects in an organization’s database. Robot lawyers probably won’t dispute the finer points of copyright law or write elegant legal briefs just yet.

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How to Implement a Data-Driven Approach to Fundraising

Saleforce Nonprofit

Photo copyright: The National Aquarium. Previously, they used a proprietary CRM that was clunky, had no reporting capabilities, and required programming knowledge to be fully used. We can run reports on who is in the Lead Pool and sort them in different ways. The National Aquarium is in Baltimore, Maryland. The Old Ways.

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