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Give Joy!

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Survey the office and evaluate the comfort quotient. 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. We requested specificity and got it!

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100+ Fundraising Tasks for Your Nonprofit’s Board

Nonprofit Tech for Good

For example, accepting gifts of stock by opening a brokerage account, accepting Venmo donations, accepting cryptocurrency , and accepting donations from Alexa (Amazon devices). Perhaps you can individually evaluate the way the organization pays vendors or contractors and see if there are efficiencies to be found. Miscellaneous.

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13 Virtual Fundraising Event Takeaways From 4 Marketing Professionals

Classy

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. Registrants: Classy aims to increase the total number of registrants for the Collaborative year over year, so Alexa’s team reviews this metric first.

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AI for Nonprofits and Social Good: Link Roundup

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

This will be help voice assistants like Alexa improve as well as software that automatically analyzes documents inside law firms and others organizations. Their AI system — dubbed Lymph Node Assistant, or LYNA — was able to detect cancer better than human pathologists. Algorithms can identify pathology faster and more accurately.

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Step Up to AI, But Tread Lightly

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For example, Amazon’s Alexa along with the site’s personalized recommendations for movies, books, and music are provided by various AI models. But, unless you are familiar with the topic and can evaluate whether the information is correct, fact-check any significant data, especially citations. Due diligence is needed.

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Using Metrics To Harvest Insights About Your Social Media Strategy

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I think engagement metrics are far more useful for evaluating reader interest. This is evaluating your performance in relation to other blogs in your space using the same metrics. . You could analyze your blog using services like compete and Alexa - Alan Benamer has done this. . Feedburner doesn't provide those.

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Experts Weigh-In on Nonprofit Website Design Best Practices

Connection Cafe

I often get asked questions about how a nonprofit’s website should look and behave and what benchmarking or evaluation tips I might have. Devices like Alexa have changed the way people shop. As an educational consultant, I offer nonprofits instruction on best practices around their technology.

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