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How to use AI to find new movies, music, and books

Fast Company Tech

By feeding a list of your favorite books and movies to an AI assistant, you can uncover hidden patterns in what you love. Digital readers: refer to your Kindle library , your read shelf on Goodreads , listen history on Audible, timeline on Libby , or any doc or spreadsheet you maintain with your favorites. Subscribe here.

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Roll Your Own RSS Feed Digest Widget

Wild Apricot

There are many ways to publish any RSS feed on your own website — Feedburner’s BuzzBoost feature, and Widgetbox, for example, among a host of other methods including a Google Docs trick — but lately I’ve been using a free service called Feed Informer, for several reasons.( read more ).

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How to use Google’s free transcription tools

The Verge

Google Docs voice typing. Even longtime users of Google Docs may not be aware of its voice typing tool, which converts speech into text. To use voice typing as a transcription tool: Open a new Google Doc. However, these are subscription services with fees. Select Tools > Voice typing. I’ll explain.

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Tools I use: basic workflow

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

And, like all consultants, workflow involves documents and spreadsheets, and for that I mostly use LibreOffice , although sometimes using Google Docs makes sense for collaboration. I use Google Reader for RSS feeds, and TweetDeck , or, more recently, HootSuite for Twitter (I really like the tabbed interface of HootSuite.

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Making Facebook Groups Rock for Nonprofits – Guest Post by Miriam Brosseau

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Docs are like super-simple wikis, and probably the most truly collaborative aspect of a Facebook group. Docs live in a designated place within your group and are therefore not as subject to the news feed, which is more timely. Docs are great for posting information that you plan to come back to again and again.

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More online than local: Why I love Google Docs

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

And, with google groups you have an option of reading via a RSS feed. So, I've used wikispaces, pbwiki, socialtext, jotspot, and writely (now google docs). But, since Google combined writely and its spreadsheets into Google Docs - I'm going to consolidate there. You can easilyl collaborate with spreadsheets and docs.

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10 top tools for business brainstorming and collaboration

The Next Web

Stick With What Works, Google Docs. We use Google Docs for everything. Our Yammer feed has a constant stream of new ideas, articles and more. The platform really allows everyone to piggyback on other ideas in order to come with something truly collaborative.” ” - Logan Lenz , Endagon. Hammer Away on Yammer.