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Thursday Thoughts: attracting passionate nonprofit advocates

EveryAction

When you have a goal to meet—like asking a governing body to sign a bill into law, telling a CEO or other stakeholder to change a behavior or policy, or meeting goals around educating decision-makers on your issue area—you know you can’t do it alone. Cast a wide net with texts, emails, phone calls and social posts.

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Send Your Feedback to the FCC: Net Neutrality Needs You

NTEN

The FCC recently announced that it would consider new rules governing the Internet, including the opportunity for phone and cable Iternet Service Providers (ISPs) to create two levels of access, or a "fast lane" for those paying a higher price. Add your voice and send feedback to the FCC! Now it is important to share your story.

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AI for Nonprofits and Social Good: Link Roundup

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

What should governments, universities and companies do? California Passes New Law That Bans Bots From Pretending to Real People: California Gov. More on the new law here. How does machine learning actually work? Why is it dangerous to ignore machine learning? You can watch the YouTube presentation or read the takeaways here.

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Don’t Be Fooled by Abstract Jargon: Internet Governance and ICT Policy

Tech Soup

Most civil society organizations (CSOs) and citizens don’t use high-level jargon such as Internet governance and ICT policy. The 6th Internet Governance Forum will soon bring multiple stakeholders to Kenya to discuss key policy and governance issues. Net neutrality has been enshrined in law in the Netherlands and Chile.

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Bookshare without Borders: #1/3

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

These ebooks can quickly be turned into Braille, large print or be read aloud by a synthetic voice synthesizer. This is a most exciting development: it means that anyone with a cheap MP3 player or a phone that plays MP3s can have access to our books. Moreover, earlier this year we began offering books in MP3 format.

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Provide the Nonprofit Voice to America's Broadband Plan

NTEN

We need real competition instead of the cable and phone company duopoly. These phone and cable companies control 97 percent of the residential broadband market. The FCC should review policies governing competition and pricing. This $7 billion-a-year program promotes universal phone service by subsidizing phone networks.

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Net Neutrality for Networked Nonprofits: Guest Post by Vince Stehle

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Net neutrality has been the default law of the land since the Internet’s founding more than 40 years ago. But we should not lose our voice without a fight. For nonprofits, access to an open Internet is the fundamental and necessary condition that will allow them to compete in the marketplace of ideas. But that condition is threatened.

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