Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 9, 2017

Amazon Alexa is the digital assistant software that empowers Amazon’s smart speaker series, the Amazon Echo. As Microsoft’s Windows 10 is the software (operating system) that empowers the PC , Amazon Alexa is the software (operating system) that empowers Amazon Echo smart speakers. Most than just a digital assistant, Amazon Alexa is evolving into software that empowers and proliferates the Internet of Things.

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.orgSource

AUGUST 17, 2021

Whether it’s Alexa, Watson, or Hal, you can’t visit a website without a super-friendly little bot popping up on the right side of your screen. The post Will Alexa Be a Regular at Your Future Meetings? — Artificial intelligence has moved into customer service departments.

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Network-Centric Advocacy

NOVEMBER 11, 2015

Siri, Cortana and Alexa can read email, book hotels, tell political jokes and manage your lights (seriously they can just ask them). What does Congress do with petitions from Alexa, Cortana or Siri when they feel like people don't even have the time and interest to read or fill in the basic elements of an action alerts? How long before they can fill out requests to sign petitions automatically once commanded?

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Network-Centric Advocacy

NOVEMBER 11, 2015

Siri, Cortana and Alexa can read email, book hotels, tell political jokes and manage your lights (seriously they can just ask them). What does Congress do with petitions from Alexa, Cortana or Siri when they feel like people don't even have the time and interest to read or fill in the basic elements of an action alerts? How long before they can fill out requests to sign petitions automatically once commanded?

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Confessions of a Non-Profit Executive Director

APRIL 9, 2006

Pipes (1) Current Projects , Programming How to create a REST request for Alexa Web Information Services in Ruby 04.09.06 | 31 No Comments [link] How+to+create+a+REST+request+for+Alexa+Web+Information+Services+in+Ruby 2006-04-10+04%3A52%3A36 Allan+Benamer Hi all, I’ve been busy creating the beginnings of my super-duper Real-Time Popularity Engine and instead of doing it in PHP (seems like the OSS version of vbscript – hehe), I decided to do it in Ruby on Rails.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 31, 2021

Designed to inspire generosity in children, members are mailed monthly postcards featuring nonprofits and then the family can listen to the impact of their giving through Alexa.

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.orgSource

DECEMBER 19, 2022

One of the first projects we supported was to build an Alexa integration into the database. The group asked for $50 for equipment (to buy an echo dot, a speaker that connects to Alexa) and three people for two days to do a hackathon.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 22, 2021

Smart speaker giving, such as Alexa Donations — 1%. The 2021 Open Data Project [ español , français ] seeks to gain a better understanding of how nonprofits, NGOs, and charities worldwide use technology for digital marketing and fundraising.

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Care2

JULY 14, 2008

60) Search « Three Tips: How to Harness the Power of Video for Nonprofits | Main | Nonprofit CRM Trends Plus How to Choose an eCRM » Monday Jul 14 2008 Insiders Guide to Video and YouTube for Nonprofits Monday, July 14, 2008 at 10:48AM | by Hatef Yamini YouTube is one of the most popular sites on the Internet, reaching about 20% of Internet traffic daily according to Alexa rankings.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 13, 2020

By Erin Booker , Head of Content at Funraise , a fundraising platform built for fundraisers by fundraisers with 20+ third-party integrations. We’ve talked a lot recently about taking your nonprofit’s fundraising strategy digital.

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Confessions of a Non-Profit Executive Director

MAY 13, 2006

Pipes (1) OSS , Web CMS Google Trends and OSS CMS Trends 05.13.06 | 49 2 Comments [link] Google+Trends+and+OSS+CMS+Trends 2006-05-13+19%3A39%3A27 Allan+Benamer So Google’s version of Alexa’s tracking software is now out.

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Qgiv

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

Alexa Langford is Vice President of Giving Sciences at One & All. Alexa’s expertise includes analyzing data from a variety of integrated channels, generating actionable direction from findings, predictive modeling, and product development.

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Classy

JULY 14, 2021

The Collaborative’s logistics were owned by Alexa. Alexa shared a variety of ways her team evaluated the success of their planning and execution of the Collaborative event. The best way to learn about virtual fundraising events is to hear from those who’ve experienced them.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 4, 2010

Alexa Top Sites : This website illuminates what sites are the most popular in the world today. Over the years I have stumbled across countless Internet gems, but the 10 below are those that I regularly and repeatedly return to. These resources are invaluable when looking for quality content to utilize and share on social media sites. If you have any favorites that you would like to share, please add them in a comment below. Thanks.

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BoardAssist

OCTOBER 21, 2014

Example: Alexa joined a board where she was asked to commit “something personally significant.” Alexa was the only member of the board who earned more than $60,000 a year. At the end of the year when the budget gap was roughly $100,000, the rest of the board wanted Alexa to make up the difference. The rest of the board were generating about $3,000 each and thought that at a minimum Alexa should generate $50,000, or 5% of her income.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 3, 2022

For example, accepting gifts of stock by opening a brokerage account, accepting Venmo donations, accepting cryptocurrency , and accepting donations from Alexa (Amazon devices).

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Beth Kanter

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

” Think Alexa, Facebook Messenger Bots and other Chat Bots, etc. This past spring, Red Nose Day, incorporated voiced activated giving into its strategy, although it is unclear exactly how many donors made contributions via Alexa compared to other channels. This summer Communities in Schools is using Alexa to encourage donors to donate a backpack full of school supplies to students in need. Source: AI for Lawyers (Click image for larger version).

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 4, 2019

As technology continues to evolve—think things like “Alexa, make a donation,” and the advent of driverless cars and essentially a “second living room”—we’ll only see more opportunities and integrations crop up that allow nonprofits to interact with consumers through platforms like Uber, Venmo, Shopify, and Twitch.

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Classy

MAY 7, 2021

This is a guest post written by event planner Alexa Steevens on the Classy events team. The Collaborative: Virtual Sessions , hosted by Classy , is an online conference designed exclusively for nonprofit and social sector professionals.

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Confessions of a Non-Profit Executive Director

JUNE 11, 2020

If you have an Alexa or Google Home, you can turn all of your lights on and off by speaking to your home assistant. In the digital age, more older Americans are hopping on the technology bandwagon. Technology has reshaped the way we live and, in many cases, has made our lives easier.

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Beth Kanter

DECEMBER 28, 2018

It powers Alexa’s speech recognition, Waymo’s self-driving cars, Google’s on-the-fly translations, and more. Allison Fine and I have been actively researching and writing about AI for Social Good and Nonprofits. Most recently, we co-authored a policy brief for the Toda Peace Institute on artificial intelligence and its implications for civil society. We are tracking reports, articles, and new items about AI and Social Good. Here’s this month’s roundup.

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ASU Lodestar Center

AUGUST 13, 2019

posted by Alexa Schnoor Fall 2018 Alumna, ASU Master of Nonprofit Leadership & Management. Alexa Schnoor is a graduate of the Master of Nonprofit Leadership and Management program at Arizona State University. Illustration by Jocelyn Ruiz. New technology is consistently emerging and transforming how we interact with the world.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 18, 2011

Alexa Top Sites :: alexa.com/topsites. The number of low-cost or free, web-based resources and tools available to nonprofits today is astounding. So much so that many nonprofit professionals are overwhelmed by the all choices – and as the Mobile Web and related start-ups continue to grow, prepare to be mind-boggled by all the new technology options available to your nonprofit in coming years.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 5, 2009

Each blog's ranking is established by statistics: Technorati ranking, Technorati inbound blog links, Bloglines subscriptions, Alexa rank, Google pagerank, and Yahoo! Livingston Communications has launched a new ranked list of cause-related blogs called List of Change. If you are using your blog for social impact, you can submit your site to be included on the List by filling out this form.

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NonProfit Hub

JULY 9, 2019

In 2019, emerging tools such as Alexa have made this possible. If you’re looking for ways to boost your 2019 fundraising efforts for your nonprofit organization, you’re in the right place. There’s no better way to do so than by knowing the trends within your niche. Understanding what’s happening around you helps you to think ahead, learn people’s behaviors, and seize the opportunities available. Here are 7 essential fundraising trends that you shouldn’t miss in 2019.

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Confessions of a Non-Profit Executive Director

JUNE 3, 2019

This first rolled out to Android, so is definitely something Alexa developers took advantage of. The technology that your business pushes out into the world can be extremely valuable. But, typically, only if you know how to really utilise this technology from a marketing point of view. Your app is no different. With that in mind, here are some ideas for how you can utilise SEO when it comes to marketing your brand new app. Choose a Keyword-Rich App Name.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 24, 2011

Alexa Top Sites :: alexa.com/topsites. The number of low-cost or free, web-based resources and tools available to nonprofits today is astounding. So much so that many nonprofit professionals are overwhelmed by the all choices – and as the Mobile Web and related start-ups continue to grow, prepare to be mind-boggled by all the new technology options available to your nonprofit in coming years. 2dCode :: 2d-code.co.uk. co.uk.

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ASU Lodestar Center

MAY 8, 2017

posted by Alexa Vale Graduate Alumna, ASU Master of Nonprofit Leadership & Management. Alexa graduated with a Master of Nonprofit Leadership and Management from ASU in December 2016 Governing boards are the backbone of many nonprofit organizations. When a board is effectively fulfilling its responsibilities, an organization will be more efficient and more successful.

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Tech Soup Blog

AUGUST 14, 2017

From self-driving vehicles to Alexa, our lives are slowly transforming as a result of constantly changing and improving AI. Artificial intelligence (AI) is the new tech craze, and everyone wants in. Although AI may seem foreign to the nonprofit world, many nonprofits including Raheem.ai, UNICEF, and charity: water are taking advantage of AI in the form of chatbots.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 3, 2007

The chat above is from Alexa and is shows the growth of page views for facebook versus myspace over the past three years. I'm headed out to Palm Springs for PBS Development 2007. Another attempt at the Meet Jane style. Also, the first time I've done a story created out of Twitter Tweets. You can't really see it unless you hear the narrative and animation. I'll try to do a voice over at some point.

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Network-Centric Advocacy

NOVEMBER 7, 2015

Artificial intelligent agents like Siri, Alexa and Cortana lowering clictivism to AI proxy work. . In many context, it is always a struggle to find partners that want to invest in creating adaptive process and infrastructure. In times of uncertainty, we are often attracted to the "silver bullet" rather than the negotiated settlement.

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Beth Kanter

NOVEMBER 23, 2016

These are some of the questions that Alexa Cortes Culwell and I set out to answer in our new report, The Giving Code: Silicon Valley Nonprofits and Philanthropy. Creating Healthy Nonprofits in Silicon Valley. Guest Post By Heather McLeod Grant. Why are Silicon Valley community-based nonprofits struggling to meet demand, and having a hard time maintaining their organizational health? Why aren’t more local philanthropists directing their dollars toward these organizations?

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Beth Kanter

NOVEMBER 20, 2018

This will be help voice assistants like Alexa improve as well as software that automatically analyzes documents inside law firms and others organizations. Allison Fine and I have been actively researching and writing about AI for Social Good and Nonprofits with an eye towards our next book. Most recently, we co-authored a policy brief for the Toda Peace Institute on the age of automation and it implications for civil society.

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Network-Centric Advocacy

NOVEMBER 7, 2015

Artificial intelligent agents like Siri, Alexa and Cortana lowering clictivism to AI proxy work. . In many context, it is always a struggle to find partners that want to invest in creating adaptive process and infrastructure. In times of uncertainty, we are often attracted to the "silver bullet" rather than the negotiated settlement.

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Tech Soup Blog

DECEMBER 20, 2016

We're also starting to talk to our houses with voice-activated smart home devices like Amazon Alexa –powered voice-controlled speakers, the Echo and Echo Dot. Here's our look at the most interesting and fun things that happened in nonprofit technology this year. For more #nptech news, check out part 1 of this blog series. Mobile. This was the year that Slack became a thing in our offices — it certainly did at TechSoup.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 30, 2012

Alexa Top Sites :: alexa.com/topsites. The number of low-cost or free, web-based resources and tools available to nonprofits today is astounding. Many nonprofit professionals are overwhelmed by the all choices – and as the Mobile Web and related start-ups continue to grow, prepare to be mind-boggled by all the new technology options available to your nonprofit in coming years. That said, to be alerted of new resources for nonprofits, please subscribe to the Nonprofit Tech 2.0

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Connection Cafe

APRIL 27, 2017

While it may not have been perfect, Clippy should be considered the grandfather of Apple’s Siri, Google’s Assistant, Microsoft’s Cortana, and Amazon’s Alexa. In the movies, the emergence of Artificial Intelligence usually leads to robotic cyborgs going haywire, machines that threaten humanity, or a choice between a red or blue pill. The plotline almost always assumes the worst will happen. Thankfully, these aren’t the droids you’re looking for.

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Beth Kanter

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. The results for this week’s GivingTuesday 2018 have been reported.

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Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 6, 2009

Twitter According to the Wall Street Journal article, Twitter Yourself a Job , Alexa Scordato sent out a message to her Twitter followers saying that she was looking for an entry level social media job in Boston. Yikes! One of today's New York Times' headlines is, Economy Shed 598,000 Jobs in January. If you're one of the folks looking for a job with a nonprofit right now, here are some ways to use the web to help with your search.

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ASU Lodestar Center

MAY 16, 2012

for web; Alexa Rank , Compete Visitors , Google PageRank and for social media; Facebook Likes and Twitter Followers and lastly Charity Navigator’s 4 star rating scale). posted by Craig Van Korlaar , Consultant and Project Manager. Create Etc. A while back, you might remember seeing a beautiful infographic about the social media practices of the top 50 nonprofits. When I first came across it, I was really excited.

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