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Will Robots (and bots) Replace Nonprofit Staff and Interns in the Workplace?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

But, there are also concerns that need to be considered now, including ethical issues and loss of jobs to robots. Experts predict that robots and bots could eliminate human jobs or parts of those jobs that are repetitive in the next five years in many industry sectors. (More about that scary scenario here ).

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Economically, open looks better than closed

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

Here’s a tidbit of a Infoworld report about the study: By one measure — “value added,&# which the report defines as “an industry’s gross output minus its purchased intermediate inputs&# — the fair use economy is greater than the copyright economy. economy by copyright industries amounts to $1.3

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Fundraising When Money Is Tight

NTEN

And you can’t stop building your donor database. If we have anything more than the most rudimentary of databases, we know how long our donors have been giving to us, how much they’ve given, and how frequently. Copyright © 2009 by Mal Warwick. In fact, it’s a time for caution and cost-cutting. . You can’t not raise funds.

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Guest Post: Collections Access - Open the Door Wider

Museum 2.0

I encountered strong push-back on the listserv, with one subscriber calling my fitness for my job title, “collections care trainer,” into question. Copyright infringements: A large portion of historical collections are in the public domain. Should the museum impose a fee on reproducers or limit their pursuits in other ways?

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Convio Open: How APIs May Change the Way You Work - Online Fundraising, Advocacy, and Social Media - frogloop

Care2

As I learned from attending the just completed Convio Summit in Austin, Texas, a discussion about APIs and databases fortunately doesnt have to be technical. The essence of an API is that it enables databases and applications to talk to each other, so you can share data and host data in multiple places simultaneously.

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