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

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

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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Cause Camp 2017 Speaker Lineup Announcement

NonProfit Hub

Named one of the most influential women in technology by Fast Company and one of BusinessWeek’s “Voices of Innovation for Social Media,” Beth was Visiting Scholar at the David and Lucile Packard Foundation 2009-2013. He is a regular contributor to Philanthropy News Digest and the Huffington Post IMPACT Channel. John Haydon.

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Writing for Change Conference: An Interview with Elizabeth Pomada

Have Fun - Do Good

We are both from New York, but felt that California was the right place to be. EP: We were both in publishing in New York City. When we went back to New York, Michael was suddenly out of a job and he looked for three days in New York, and then decided, "Gee, we should really live in California."

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[VIDEO] Building Your Nonprofit’s Engagement Engine

Bloomerang

And, as Steven mentioned today, we’re going to be talking a bit about some of the things in my new book, “The Nonprofit Communications Engine.” There really isn’t a clear definition that is universally accepted in the sector. Hopefully, you’ll get some good value from this.

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How To Save The Planet: 10 Changes With The Biggest Impact

Twenti - Digital Marketing For Nonprofits

Make your voice heard. Some changes you can make to make your voice heard on climate change are: Vote for parties and candidates who prioritise environmental policies. Cutting animal products from your diet was named by researchers at the University of Oxford as “the single biggest way to reduce your impact on planet Earth”.

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How To Save The Planet: 10 Changes With The Biggest Impact

Twenti - Digital Marketing For Nonprofits

Make your voice heard. Some changes you can make to make your voice heard on climate change are: Vote for parties and candidates who prioritise environmental policies. Cutting animal products from your diet was named by researchers at the University of Oxford as “the single biggest way to reduce your impact on planet Earth”.

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Technology for Whom? Owning Our Platforms

Non Profit Quarterly

Amazon, born in 1995 as an online bookstore, grew by the 2000s to become the largest global e-commerce platform company in existence. 18 In this world of management by algorithm, many workers feel that they have lost dignity and voice. Certainly, people seemed to appreciate access to the platform apps that began changing their world.

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