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Important Updates to Google’s Gmail That Nonprofits Need to be Aware Of

Pamela Grow

Just this month, Google made crucial changes to Gmail in an effort to combat spam and improve user experience. Starting in February 2024, Google will be implementing new rules aimed at curbing the misuse of Gmail for mass promotions. If your nonprofit engages in email fundraising, these are changes you’ll need to be aware of.

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AI for Nonprofits and Social Good: Link Roundup

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Facilitated by Lucy Bernholz, the panelists discussed how data mining, policy algorithms, and predictive risk models affect poor and working-class people in America. Gmail Gets Smarter: If you are a gmail user, then you no doubt have noticed the newest feature, Smart Compose that uses Artificial Intelligence to finish your sentences.

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The Problem of Nonprofit Data and Equity

NTEN

Think of how we communicate every day: text messages are global standards regardless of carriers; the transmission of email is a global standard irrespective of whether or not it arrives in Gmail, Outlook, or some other service. What is ordinary in the corporate world is heretical in the nonprofit world.

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Bringing home the bacn

Connection Cafe

Not too long ago, Google also introduced a feature in Gmail called Priority Inbox , which has automatic classification of the importance of an email based on their criteria , but also allows users of the service to train the Gmail filter what is and is not "important", and higher prioritized, email.

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13 signs that you’re an Amateur Fundraiser online

Get Fully Funded

Your website MUST have an easy-to-find Donate Now button to facilitate online gifts. You use a Gmail or Yahoo email account (or something similar). If someone visits your website and they read about your upcoming dinner in May of 2005, they may get the sense that you aren’t organized or aren’t in business anymore.

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July NetSquared Think Tank Round-Up: Building a Culture of Accessibility

Tech Soup

Gmail Motion. Originally an April Fools joke from Google, Gmail motion has been turned into reality. The technology, built on Microsoft Kinect, allows gmail users to use their body movements to control gmail, rather than a click of the mouse. Two of the most common are screenreaders and screen magnifiers."

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Email in the Cloud: A Google Apps Case Study

Tech Soup

I talked with Doug Bastien, OCASI's Online Capacity Development Facilitator, and Dave Montague, IT Manager, to find out what prompted them to switch to Google Apps and what their experience has been. Google Apps is a cloud system that can manage your organization's email, calendar, documents and sites.