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The Struggle for Book Access: Amazon (Blog Post #2)

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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

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On day one, we also hosted a group of 14 nonprofit executives at the Soho House in New York City. They shared valuable insights that addressed the many challenges nonprofits are facing around smart tech adoption, content strategy, change management, and leadership.

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Latest Cloud Forecast from McKinsey - Takeaways for Nonprofits?

Tech Soup

Various media outlets such as the New York Times , Forbes , and Ars Technica are reporting that McKinsey; along with The Uptime Institute, a data center consulting group; released a report this week on the value (and hype) of cloud usage, cloud computing, and cloud services.

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NRDC Research Study: Is Your Server Room Being Overlooked?

Tech Soup

Headquartered in New York City, NRDC is an environmental nonprofit membership organization with 1.3 You may have heard about the Googles and Amazons of the world striving to make their enormous datacenters more energy efficient. This is a guest blog post by Drew Bennett of Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC).

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The Future of the Nonprofit Office: Working from Home v2.0

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Look for Amazon, Rackspace, Google, and Microsoft to continue spending a lot of time and effort in this area, liberating us from our hardware prisons. . is dependent on which technologies are heavily adopted and integrated into our everyday lives. Look what I can do with my phone! What do you think? The technical evolution of WFH 2.0

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10 Holiday Gifts That Give Back

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When it comes to spending your holiday dollars, would you rather they went to Amazon and Borders, or to your local economy? The Jackson Street Book blog recently reported that the New York Times and NPR have added BookSense.com as an online book purchasing option, in addition to Amazon.com.

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News by the Spoonful: TechSoup's 2015 Tech Predictions

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The New York Times also recently came out with an article on Reinventing the Internet to Make It Safer. Wes Holing, TechSoup's web content developer, predicts that the nonprofit Electronic Frontier Foundation 's new program, called Let's Encrypt , will literally make the entire web more secure. We'll see.

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