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What Your Nonprofit Needs to Know About Amazon Alexa

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Smart speakers are voice-activated digital assistants that enable users to use their voice to command a wide variety of activities, such as play music, listen to news, make calls, watch video clips, shop online, and control smart home devices (thermostats, home alarm systems, lights, smart TVs, etc.). Voice-commerce is on the rise.

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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. NLP is programming code that allows computer to “talk” to humans via text or voice. Let’s look at some examples of Chat Bots and Voice Activated fundraising being used by nonprofits today. Voice Assistants As A Fundraising Channel.

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10 Online Fundraising Tools to Watch in 2021

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Helpen is an interesting fundraising concept that combines voice giving with print. 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. Helpen :: helpen.com. Jewelry for Good :: jewelryforgood.org.

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Artificial Intelligence for Government

Forum One

Voice Recognition Technology – This will grow more ubiquitous as we use voice recognition for creating transcripts of meetings, as a personal identifier (using your voice as your password), asking computers questions (think Alexa with more sophistication and accuracy), or forwarding calls to the proper department.

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What Chat-First Search Means for Nonprofits (Organic & Ad Grant Traffic)?

Whole Whale

As chatbots and voice assistants provide direct answers, people may not click through to content. While some voice searches for your organization’s name may decrease over time, improving your chatbot or voice experience can build new entry points and relationships. Navigational : Moderate risk of reduced traffic.

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What Chat-First Search Means for Organic & Ad Grant Traffic for Nonprofits?

Whole Whale

As chatbots and voice assistants provide direct answers, people may not click through to content. While some voice searches for your organization’s name may decrease over time, improving your chatbot or voice experience can build new entry points and relationships. Navigational : Moderate risk of reduced traffic.

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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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