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What Your Nonprofit Needs to Know About Amazon Alexa

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Amazon Alexa is the digital assistant software that empowers Amazon’s smart speaker series, the Amazon Echo. Most than just a digital assistant, Amazon Alexa is evolving into software that empowers and proliferates the Internet of Things. In addition: 1) Amazon Alexa has 82% of the smart speaker market share.

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AI for Fundraising Today: Voice Activated Fundraising & Chat Bots for Giving

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

” Think Alexa, Facebook Messenger Bots and other Chat Bots, etc. One of the most insightful points made by the CEO, was that developing an effective bot is not about tech skills, your nonprofit has to be a good communicator and listener and be empathetic. They use machine learning combined with Natural Language Processing (NLP).

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AI for Nonprofits and Social Good: Link Roundup

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Automation and the Changing Demand for Workforce Skills: Blog post by Irving Wladawsky-Berger summarizing various studies about AI will impact workforce skills. This will be help voice assistants like Alexa improve as well as software that automatically analyzes documents inside law firms and others organizations.

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How can nonprofits embrace technology to achieve social impact?

ASU Lodestar Center

posted by Alexa Schnoor Fall 2018 Alumna, ASU Master of Nonprofit Leadership & Management. Having these volunteers do tasks for the organization online can help free up time for other full-time staffers and use their skills to improve operations within an organization. Illustration by Jocelyn Ruiz. Conclusion.

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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). Donate your skills (graphic design, strategic planning, human resources). Then help implement these tools.

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AI with a Social Impact: The Top 5 Reasons Why Nonprofits Should Explore Chatbots

Tech Soup

From self-driving vehicles to Alexa, our lives are slowly transforming as a result of constantly changing and improving AI. But most nonprofits simply do not have the time, money, or skills to conduct UX research. Artificial intelligence (AI) is the new tech craze, and everyone wants in.

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6 Ways to Use the Web to Find a Nonprofit Job

Have Fun - Do Good

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. Within two weeks she had a job. I'm sure that isn't the norm, but it can't hurt to ask, right?

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