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AI and Nonprofits: Will Bots Make Transition from Functional to Friendship?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

With over 100,000 bots created on the Facebook Messenger platform and the rise of AI and conversational user interfaces (think SIRI), Gartner analysts predict by 2020 the average person will have more conversations with bots than their spouse. Artificial intelligence has become the new customer service department.

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Harnessing generative AI for good

Candid

2) Fast follow The Gartner Hype Cycle captures the euphoria new technologies tend to generate in the early days. But training and running large language models is expensive. What we need most is agility—the ability to learn and pivot as quickly as possible. We have the responsibility to ask: who is generative AI going to benefit most?

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Fundraiser Burnout? Try Automation to Boost Both Efficiency and Employee Morale

sgEngage

Operate More Efficiently Gartner projects that 70% of organizations will implement structured automation by 2025. Automation can help your staff feel more satisfied in their roles and more motivated to support your mission. Automating just a few tasks in your fundraising team’s workflow delivers interconnected benefits.

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Crystal Ball: Cloud Computing and SaaS

NTEN

Enter Gartner. According to Gartner (and they do consider themselves the authority here), Cloud computing is: A style of computing where scalable and elastic IT-related capabilities are provided as a service to external customers using Internet technologies. I'd like to respond to that with a healthy "Get Over It!",

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Game On: How Gamification is Changing the Sector

ASU Lodestar Center

Let’s face it; every day we use our smartphones and mobile technology to get through daily and simple tasks, from finding information, to exercise, to learning new languages, even finding the nearest grocery store. posted by Rudy Frank Graduate Student, ASU Master of Nonprofit Leadership & Management. Target Audience. Player Goals.

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A View of the Cloud from India

Tech Soup

It's a highly diverse country where 415 languages are spoken, 30 of which are major languages with over one million speakers each. NASSCOM Foundation's Survey of NGO Cloud Readiness.

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Cloud Before Cloud was Cool

Connection Cafe

Last week, Gartner “the world’s leading information technology research and advisory company” issued a press release around the results of a worldwide survey of CIO’s in the commercial sector. Author: Tad Druart. The survey identified cloud computing as the top technology priority for CIOs in 2011.

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