Tech Soup

JUNE 23, 2014

For this month's column, I'm going to dissect the latest entry into the smartphone field: the Amazon Fire Phone. Amazon Fire Phone and the Internet of Things. The long-awaited "Amazon phone" is finally here and it's goal is to make shopping that much easier. It runs on Amazon's own Fire OS 3.5,

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 17, 2010

" Amazon Patents Social Networking System, Winks at Facebook – "The United States Patent and Trademark Office awarded Amazon a patent for a “Social Networking System.&# Whether you want to watch the dynamic duo live on your computer or just chat with them on Twitter, the party will be a blast."

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Have Fun - Do Good

DECEMBER 26, 2011

Does that sound like fun to you? Full disclosure: I have an Amazon Associates account. If you buy something on Amazon after clicking one of the cookbook links, I get a percentage of the sale. Which of these VegCookbooks are you the most excited to cook from in January?

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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). It’s easier than it sounds. On behalf of your organization, investigate ways to receive money that the organization may not have in place already.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 26, 2007

Kindle, at first blush, sounds pretty cool. Closed – can’t upload open document formats Can only buy books from Amazon I’m still not clear about what happens when you buy your 201st book – do you have to throw out one? Sorry, Amazon. Amazon has this thing sewed up tight, whereas books are to be shared.

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Judi Sohn

MARCH 14, 2010

Shut down and turned off the SuperDuper drive (more to protect it now than anything else) and restarted to a blinking folder with a question mark all the while the machine is making sounds that can only be described as painful. My most important work files are copied to an Amazon S3 disk via JungleDisk. I'm sure they can tell.

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Judi Sohn

MARCH 14, 2010

Shut down and turned off the SuperDuper drive (more to protect it now than anything else) and restarted to a blinking folder with a question mark all the while the machine is making sounds that can only be described as painful. My most important work files are copied to an Amazon S3 disk via JungleDisk. I'm sure they can tell.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 25, 2011

A great example of this is a series of online posts by the website administrator of the membership group, Fencing Registration and Events Database (FRED) which recently moved their online database to Amazon's Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) and began having technical problems.

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Classy

APRIL 16, 2021

Volkswagen, GM, Amazon, and the USPS pledged a commitment to green vehicles. ICYMI: There’s been a lot of environmental milestones recently. A $10 billion Great American Outdoors Act passed in July 2020. The UK will ban new gasoline or diesel car sales by 2030, and California plans to follow . The six largest banks in the U.S.

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Connection Cafe

MAY 30, 2017

That thing you just bought on Amazon, was it recommended to you? The ability to see into the future sounds like magic, but there are actual methods that have been proven effective at doing this. As the collection of data becomes ubiquitous and seamless and the analysis of data more powerful, it is changing every aspect of our lives.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 24, 2017

So I am thrilled to announce that The Art of Relevance audiobook is now available for YOU to listen to on Audible , Amazon , and iTunes. You can also listen to a five-minute sample from the introduction to get a sense of what it sounds like. I knew if I wanted to make the book relevant and accessible, I should get on it.

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Media Cause

MARCH 15, 2021

After reading it, my husband and I started composting, we started a garden from seeds, we ditched paper towels, we stopped using Amazon, and we switched from almond to soy milk because of water needed to grow almonds (they call them “thirsty little nuts” in the book). – Sarah Ackerman, Director of Copy + Content .

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Bloomerang

JUNE 26, 2023

I know, this can sound pretty basic, but there are a lot of organizations out there that haven’t tapped into this form of marketing and dare I say, fundraising. Think of Amazon, where you simply go online and purchase the product and it arrives at your door. That is, if they learn to know, like, and trust it.

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Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 17, 2008

Podcasting Hardware Olympus Digital Recorders $125-$200 on Amazon Samson Zoom H4 Handy Digital Recorder. About $270 on Amazon. Need headphones to monitor sound. 120 on Amazon Headphones. About $100 on Amazon. 42 on Amazon Skype Podcast Recording Software Skype [link] (Skype to Skype is free.

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Get Fully Funded

JULY 16, 2023

” Any of that sound familiar? Is Amazon building a distribution center near you?Your .” “Nobody shows up on time. Then, they want to leave early.” ” “Nobody comes prepared.” ” “We have Board members that don’t even show up half the time!” Well, have no fear.

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Bloomerang

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Consider auctioning off a streaming service package with one-year subscriptions to platforms like Netflix, Hulu, Max, Amazon Prime, and Disney+. Custom artwork You may think it sounds unwise to sell an auction item that doesn’t technically exist yet, but attendees will be on board when you offer custom artwork.

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Achieve

AUGUST 28, 2016

Does that sound like your nonprofit? now available from Amazon and Barnes & Noble. In many cases, nonprofits that have lost the attention of John and Jane Q. Public may have focused on these groups in the past, but somewhere along the way they fell out of the habit or simply forgot why John and Jane are important.

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Connection Cafe

NOVEMBER 21, 2013

It sounds creepy, but this is info you can (and should) use. When you add something to your cart on Amazon it suggests other items for you to consider. There’s no reason that arts and cultural organizations can’t do the same thing. You know where they are. You know what they like. The same is true for your museum.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 14, 2009

We discussed Chafee, especially in the context of the Amazon text-to-speech brouhaha, and the proposed international treaty that was tabled at the WIPO SCCR meeting in Geneva last month. It sounds like there will be more public input on these issues in the future, getting ready for the next SCCR meeting. The Chafee Amendment The U.S.

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Get Fully Funded

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

But it’s not as easy as it sounds. It’s also not the time to invite people to purchase event tickets or buy something from your Amazon wish list. And we all want more donors, right? By telling the right stories in the right way, you can lure visitors to your donation page and inspire them to give. You don’t have much time to do so.

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Get Fully Funded

MAY 16, 2022

Because of our team of monthly donors – who we fondly call Rescuers – I can now peacefully sleep at night knowing I’m safe and sound in my forever home and feel lots of love! You might also want to grab her book “The Sleeping Giant” on Amazon. Will you become a Rescuer today and show us we matter?”.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MAY 3, 2012

It sounds “old-school” but I love to go to my local library every Saturday to wander up and down the stacks. Another big treat is for me is Amazon Overnight Delivery. For me there is nothing like the thrill of curling up in bed with a book or polishing off a (hopefully good) blog post.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 23, 2012

Click Through to Amazon and Get This Book! His chapter on “Data Literacy” describes what sounds a lot of good content curation skills minus the social sharing part. The steps of intelligent seeking of information by having good filters and knowing your sources and making sense of the information or synthesis.

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Judi Sohn

AUGUST 1, 2011

If that’s not enough, I can also shop the Amazon app store since my phone is supported and grab their daily free app. I like that I can set different sounds for each type of notification. I like that I can shop the Android Marketplace from my computer and a few seconds later the app is already on my phone. Many free choices.

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Connection Cafe

JUNE 7, 2012

The major purveyors of e-book platforms (Amazon, Apple, Barnes & Noble) all want to make it easy for you to produce content, and make it sound as easy as uploading HTML or Word Documents.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 14, 2013

I know that sounds basic, but people buy everything online now. Amazon will mail you cereal. I think that’s basic sales, right? "One-time only sale!" " "Buy now or miss out on the deal!" Make It Easy: Sell Tickets Online. "Cyber Monday" is in the dictionary.

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Forum One

MARCH 31, 2009

Mal Warwick has just written a book with this title, available at Amazon , on specific things you can do to minimize your costs and ensure that your organization is in a position to resume growth when the crisis passes (and it will!). You cannot make sound decisions in panic mode. Fundraising When Money is Tight.?

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Have Fun - Do Good

DECEMBER 19, 2008

Bill Somerville makes the search for innovative funding opportunities sound like an Indiana Jones adventure. If you're going to purchase a copy on Amazon, buy it though the Three Cups of Tea site so that Mortenson's organization will get up to 7% of the proceeds. tools, it was about how Web 2.0 tools can, and are changing our world.

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Get Fully Funded

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

Creating a nonprofit social media plan sounds like such a daunting task, doesn’t it? Lighting and SOUND matter. If you need to, use an external mic (you can get a simple lapel mic on Amazon for about $20 – it plus right into your smart phone, easy peasy). Many people scroll their social feeds and don’t turn the sound on.

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Tech Soup

MAY 23, 2014

The Team Omni-Hearing Solution from Taiwan developed a combination solution consisting of: a smartphone app to replace a traditional hearing aid; a cloud service to identify the nature of hearing problems; and a sound processing technology to enhance the quality of all forms of vocal communication. Very sophisticated for a student team.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 17, 2007

I bet within 6-12 months you'll see a title on Amazon along the lines of "How To Develop and Write An Effective Web 2.0 MacManus' conclusion will sound very familiar to those who have worked with nonprofits around adoption of any technology: Yet web 2.0 and the higher education perspective form Brian Kelly's Web2.0:

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Cloud 4 Good

OCTOBER 27, 2022

While this feature sounds like a given nowadays, it is this modern, and predictive consumer experience that IUA was lacking before Salesforce. Cloud for Good and IUA have successfully created a modern, “Amazon-like” experience its stakeholders have come to expect.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 17, 2007

It’s this idea of taking your fiction or poetry and dispersing it out on the web in places where people can enter things—like into an Amazon book review. I'm working with speech to text software to filter outside sound and create poems. This is what I'm trying to do with dispersed fiction: to hide it all over the web.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 5, 2014

" Sounds great, right? Amazon Fire Phone Teardown. Our friends at iFixit recently did one of their teardowns of the Amazon Fire Phone. Back to the Amazon Fire Phone, iFixit gave it a sad 3 out 10 for Repairability (10 being the easiest to fix). You can read the whole teardown and explanation here.

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Get Fully Funded

DECEMBER 7, 2021

Amazon Smile is also super-simple but unless you have lots of people making big purchases, the money you receive through Amazon Smile will likely be super small. It can be confusing sometimes to determine if the check is from a DAF or a family foundation, as the DAF could have a name that sounds like a family foundation.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 9, 2007

On the web, such socializing can happen around games (MMOs), shopping (Amazon discussions), trip planning (TripAdvisor), music or book collections ( Librarything ). I've been thinking about what, of all this 2.0 stuff, is most exciting to me. And right now, it's the ways that these technologies encourage social engagement among strangers.

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 28, 2009

Great to have a lapel mic and ear phones (to monitor how the recording sounds). Sony Sound Forge - much like audacity but is single track. let’s you listen to mp3 format before you upload it to be sure it sounds right, add tags, etc. Amazone Web Services - for very cheap. Sometimes the ambient noise is good.

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