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AI for Nonprofits and Social Good: Link Roundup

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

How Cancer Research UK is Exploring AI and Voice Tech: This cancer charity in the UK has been testing chatbots, voice enabled devices, and natural language processing – looking at how those could be useful and where the impact lies.They piloted a chatbot on our fundraising pages to help answer the most common questions people had.

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New Book Loveworks Teaches How To Make Emotional Connections

Eric Jacobsen Blog

New Book Announcement: Loveworks is researched and written by Brian Sheehan , a professor of advertising at the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications at Syracuse University in New York. In 2010 Advertising Age magazine named Lovemarks one of their "ideas of the decade."

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Delivering Bestsellers to the Bookshare Community

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Most of the books I work with are books requested by students and titles from the New York Times (NYT) bestsellers list. When Bookshare scans a book, the OCR program removes all accent marks from non-English languages. Bookshare’s collection of more than 80,000 books, newspapers and magazines, is free to qualified U.S.

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Carrie Karnos, recipient of the 2006 James H. Veale Humanitarian Award.

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Here's the letter from the editor of Matilda Ziegler Magazine, which explains why Carrie was deserving of this award: A Letter from the Editor New York City Dec. Matilda Ziegler Foundation for the Blind, which funds this magazine as well as eye research programs at universities across the United States.

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Upcoming Nonprofits Live: Storytelling and Collaborative Video

Tech Soup

We'll discuss best practices, platforms, cloud services and filesharing, how to edit together when you're not in the same place, and how to agree on ways to tell your story when you may not be speaking the same language. Berkeley, Stanford, United Nations University, New York University, UC.

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Participation in Storytelling: Collaborative Video on Nonprofits Live

Tech Soup

We'll discuss best practices, platforms, cloud services and filesharing, how to edit together when you're not in the same place and how to agree on ways to tell your story when you may not be speaking the same language.

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Community Funded Reporting: Interview with David Cohn of Spot.us

Have Fun - Do Good

David is a journalist turned entrepreneur who has written for Wired , Seed , Columbia Journalism Review and The New York Times. Now, it's almost not even breaking news to say that newspapers are facing, to be quite frank, an economic death spiral. They have a magazine called Race, Poverty and Environment Magazin e.