Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

DECEMBER 29, 2010

Steffon, who attends Gadsden Community College in Gadsden, Alabama is a straight-A student who has made his college deans list each semester. Bookshare has already been helpful to Steffon’s younger brother Devante, a Bookshare member who is now a student at Steffon’s alma matter, the Alabama School for the Blind.

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The Verge

AUGUST 5, 2020

No location data or personal information is ever collected, stored or transmitted to VDH as part of the app,” a health department official told Virginia Public Media , which first reported the news. Alabama launched a closed pilot for its own exposure notification app, called GuideSafe, this week.

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The Verge

MAY 20, 2020

The companies have pledged not to collect data from the framework or otherwise monetize it, and they intend to shut the system down once the public health crisis has passed. Today’s update simply opens the door for public health apps to use the framework and the enhanced Bluetooth access that it enables.

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The Verge

MARCH 1, 2021

On Sunday night, President Joe Biden released a message of support for unionizing Amazon workers in Alabama, while sternly denouncing anti-union efforts by employers. Biden never names Amazon directly in the statement, although he does directly name Alabama warehouse workers. Photo by Adam Schultz for White House / Flickr.

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The Verge

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

The ads were the latest entry in a long campaign aimed at disrupting organization efforts at an Amazon warehouse outside of Birmingham, Alabama. Amazon running the ads on a streaming platform it owns, however, was a very public move. The Alabama unionization vote began on February 8th and is scheduled to conclude on March 29th.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 18, 2025

Some are working on reinvention: Huntsville , the Alabama town famous for its history with NASAs rocketry program, has remarketed itself as a music, arts, and cultural destination; while Hilliard , an Ohio city of less than 40,000 in the Columbus area, continues to build out infrastructure to incubate innovative startups.

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The Verge

APRIL 29, 2021

Following a failed union vote in Bessemer, Alabama, a fired worker is attempting to unionize other Amazon warehouse facilities. But as Amazon’s sales have grown, it has also grown more concerned with government intervention. Its @AmazonNews Twitter account made the bizarre decision to troll US Congress members about tax laws.

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The Verge

MARCH 9, 2021

The list of clients that use Verkada is broad: in addition to companies like Tesla and Cloudflare, the group gained access to Verkada cameras inside Halifax Health, a Florida hospital; Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut; Madison County Jail in Huntsville, Alabama; and Wadley Regional Medical Center, a hospital in Texarkana, Texas.

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

But at the time, any given state needed to have an app developed by a public health agency that used the API. The University of Alabama at Birmingham launched a closed pilot for an exposure notification app last month as well. Support for the protocol was first added to iOS in May with the release of iOS 13.5. Image: Apple. “As

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The Verge

APRIL 15, 2021

In addition to giving a nod to working conditions at Amazon, the letter is the first time Bezos has publicly addressed the failed union drive at its Bessemer, Alabama plant. Amazon issued a rare public apology earlier this month, after it was caught publicly lying to Rep. The technology will roll out throughout 2021, he said.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 8, 2009

Ida is expected to make landfall on the Gulf Coast near the Alabama/Florida border late Monday or early Tuesday. We need volunteers to review the wiki section by section and make sure that there are resources collected for Florida, Alabama, Mississippi and Louisiana. Most importantly, we need to update the wiki: [link].

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The Verge

APRIL 3, 2021

Amazon has issued a rare public apology — but not to its workers, and with no real admission of guilt. And most importantly, all of this is happening in the shadow of an Amazon union vote in Bessemer, Alabama that could help shape the future of labor in the United States, let alone at Amazon. Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge.

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The Verge

MARCH 26, 2021

Amazon is intensifying its bizarre online public relations strategy of picking increasingly petty fights with sitting US Congress members, with the company’s Amazon News account on Friday shifting targets from Rep. Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge. Mark Pocan (D-WI) and Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) to Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA).

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The Verge

AUGUST 24, 2021

Activision Blizzard had already been criticized by both a company shareholder and the press for hiring WilmerHale, a noted union-busting law firm that reportedly helped Amazon initially defeat its workers’ efforts to organize in Alabama. The complaint now accuses the company of shredding “documents related to investigations”.

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Non Profit Quarterly

JULY 9, 2019

According to LVN’s website , “multiple mayoral candidates have committed to tuning into LVN Madison conversations and incorporating (often under-heard) community voices and concerns into their campaigns—with our goal being to surface relevant new issues onto the public agenda.”. Julie Euber.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 26, 2022

No matter what’s happening in the public markets, bees make honey and venture capitalists raise money: It’s just what they do. But since the “extreme valuation recalibration” in the public markets, VCs are amassing more and more dry powder, write Jeremy Abelson and Jacob Sonnenberg of Irving Investors.

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The Verge

MAY 7, 2021

A new phase of the historic union vote by Amazon warehouse workers in Bessemer, Alabama begins today. This needs to be public knowledge so that we understand why a law like the PRO Act is so important.”. Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge. It’s imperative that we continue to pay attention to this,” she says.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 25, 2022

Landing has all of these furnishings made in Vietnam and shipped to warehouses in Austin, Phoenix and Alabama, where it is based. Neumann, in comparison, is a forceful personality, and not everyone came out ahead, famously , on WeWork’s path to becoming a publicly traded company last year.

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

Amazon faces many more NLRB complaints , and the NLRB issued a preliminary assessment in August that the company illegally interfered with the highly publicized warehouse union drive in Bessemer, Alabama. That case is currently still open.

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ASU Lodestar Center

DECEMBER 8, 2011

Attending public meetings. These states are Arizona, California, Alabama, Florida, Nevada, Rhode Island, and Delaware. Patsy Kraeger received her doctorate from the ASU School of Public Affairs in May of 2011. The civic engagement factors considered: Volunteering. Working with neighbors to address community problems.

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Google Research AI blog

APRIL 7, 2023

Indeed, Google's current ML-based flood forecasting approach was developed in collaboration with researchers ( 1 , 2 ) at the Johannes Kepler University in Vienna, Austria, the University of Alabama, and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, among others.

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The Verge

APRIL 28, 2021

The labor rights movement took an especially public hit earlier this month when a push to unionize an Amazon warehouse in Alabama overwhelmingly failed. But, like Tesla, they have been assembling non-unionized workforces ahead of production at their respective factories.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

The app launched to the public in September 2021. Users can play private contests with up to 16 friends or get assigned to public leagues with strangers. “We felt empowered to return to the core that provided sports games with the most meaning: Playing with our friends. It also provides games for esports fans.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 15, 2022

As of December 9, the Poolit platform became available to the public. For Rice, who grew up in rural Alabama before attending Brown University, it would be a dream to one day open access to investing in VC and private equity funds to an even broader pool of people. . Image Credits: Poolit.

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DipJar

JUNE 24, 2021

Even the simplest of steps – like informing the public on what to do if someone finds a stray – have positively impacted Dallas Animal Services’s connection to the Dallas community. That connection has been a two-way street, even in trying times. It’s helped create funding opportunities that extend well beyond the Dallas area.

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Tableau

APRIL 3, 2024

Jessica herself lives in Hunstville, Alabama, so Hart of Dixie is close to home. “I My first Tableau Public viz was about another TV show, Colton's season on The Bachelor. I was re-watching Hart of Dixie because it had been a while and I didn’t recall all the storylines,” Jessica explains. So it's all effectively one dashboard.”

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TechCrunch

MAY 17, 2022

To date, Arrived has fully funded more than 102 properties in 17 cities across Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, Colorado, Georgia, North Carolina and South Carolina, for a total of over $40 million invested. Currently, homes on the platform range in price from $165,000 to $650,000 and are typically turnkey properties. “The

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ASU Lodestar Center

JUNE 20, 2012

Young boys are generally not allowed in the Girl Scouts, as noted by Girl Scouts of Southern Alabama : “Our many years of experience shows that girls have unique needs and interests that are best met in a program designed especially for them, delivered in an all-girl setting.”. A second reason may be fear based.

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The Verge

DECEMBER 18, 2020

Serial Productions settled a lawsuit in May this year over the alleged use of the deceased subject’s name for commercial purposes, violating the Alabama Right of Publicity law. Participant Media acquired the show’s feature rights and is currently developing it to become a full-length film.).

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TechCrunch

MARCH 13, 2023

Arrival , which went public in 2021 via a merger with a special purpose acquisition company , posted preliminary fourth-quarter and full-year earnings reports this past week. Ah, yes, “desperation” among some companies running low on capital. However, its fundraising days are not over. million), Reuters reported.

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Volunteer Hub

APRIL 6, 2021

Founded in 1962, Birmingham Botanical Gardens has been a staple in the Birmingham, Alabama community for over 50 years. The Gardens is open 365 days a year and is free to the public. Since its inception, the Botanical Gardens has grown to a 67.5-acre

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Non Profit Quarterly

DECEMBER 14, 2021

They solicit community members to volunteer, bring them into mission activities, and broadcast their work to the public. As one volunteer manager in a human services organization in Alabama put it, remote technology like social media gives you an “audience that doesn’t have limits.”

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Museum 2.0

JULY 26, 2010

Nell and the Underground Librarians are passionate about helping people see the relationships between media artifacts and lived experience in the city, and they spend a lot of their time soliciting artworks and publications from unlikely corners to flesh out their collection and honor the diversity of content production around Chicago.

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Cloud 4 Good

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

The University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC) is a dynamic public research university integrating teaching, research, and service to benefit the citizens of Maryland. Success Story: The University of Alabama at Birmingham: Transforming Student Journeys Through Salesforce. Success Story: Helping Children Heal With Salesforce.

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The Verge

AUGUST 19, 2021

At the height of Amazon’s labor battle in Bessemer, Alabama, there was no way to distinguish between workers who actually represented Amazon, and those who were posting satirically. Twitter hadn’t anticipated the authenticity of rank-and-file workers would ever be up for scrutiny. In April, I wrote about the case of Amazon’s Twitter army.

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Tech Soup

JULY 30, 2014

First, we saw payphones slowly disappearing from public places in the United States. If you live in Carbon Hill, Alabama, you may have to upgrade your phone system sooner than expected. Now, traditional landlines are being used less and less. Fading Infrastructure.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 29, 2016

They did this as a demonstration project by publicizing last year's #GivingTuesday together. Louis; Huntsville, Alabama; and Orlando. I feel like in many cases, they don't provide the public and funders with the power of their work. This coming year, they plan to organize more days of giving and service.

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