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Survey: Nonprofits Using Case Management Software Spent Less Time on Program Audits

NonProfit PRO

New survey findings show that nonprofits that have deployed case management software spend 66% less time on program audits.

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Florida bans children under 14 from holding social media accounts

TechSpot

The law, which will go into effect on January 1, 2025, is expected to have far-reaching consequences for not only teens and their parents, but also social media companies that will have to delete the accounts of children under the age of 14. They will also have to seek parental.

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Campaign Planning Studies Enable You to Fulfill Your Potential

NonProfit PRO

Conducting research is a best practice before starting a major fundraising campaign. Here's how to get the most out of this process.

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AMD readies Ryzen 5000XT series CPUs, further prolonging socket AM4

TechSpot

The AMD Ryzen 3000XT series debuted in mid-2020, and were Zen 2-based chips with slightly higher clock speeds than their base counterparts. Conventional wisdom suggests the 5000XT series will be based on Zen 3 and ship running at a higher frequency compared to original 5000 series chips.

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The Everyday Donor: Unlocking Prospecting Segments Through Behavior Analysis

Speaker: Tim Sarrantonio, Director of Corporate Brand

Do you really know your donors? Not just what they give, but who they are? 👥 In this interactive session, we’ll break down how nonprofits can use behavioral indicators (affinity, recency, frequency, and monetary value) to build prospecting segments that go beyond wealth screening and actually align with donor identity. You’ll walk away with practical strategies to move beyond basic demographics and cultivate supporters based on how they already engage with you!

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Why Marketing Failures Often Originate at the Top and How to Fix Them

NonProfit PRO

Marketing failures sometimes may be tied to leadership toward the top of the organization. Here's why — plus tips to remedy these issues.

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6 Tips for Analyzing Online Fundraising Campaigns

Bloomerang

When you’re a busy fundraising professional, it might seem like you’re jumping from one campaign to the next. It seems often easiest to “rinse and repeat” last year’s campaigns. However, I encourage you to take some time to analyze your online fundraising campaigns to optimize your overall fundraising results. Analyzing your campaigns can help you: Track how the campaigns are performing so that you can adjust and improve them along the way Understand how well the campaigns performed compared wit

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Steve Wozniak says TikTok ban is governmental hypocrisy

TechSpot

Speaking in an interview with CNN, Wozniak was asked about Apple's walled garden, which the company has long claimed protects its users' privacy and security.

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ICYMI: Inspiration + guidance from john a. powell and Christian LoBue

M+R

Read time: 2 minutes “America is not nearly as ‘fragmented’ or ‘polarized’ as the press paints us to be. There’s what’s called the exhausted majority, a lot of people who want something different but they can’t really imagine it and they don’t have the microphone so we don’t hear from them. We need to give them the microphone and talk to them as well.” — john a. powell, in our recent webinar, Winning Elections Without Losing Everything.

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Google's AI-powered search feature recommends malicious sites, including scams and malware

TechSpot

Google started rolling out its Search Generative Experience (SGE) earlier this month. The company boasts that the feature allows users to ask complex and more descriptive questions, with the generative AI providing text summaries of sites and recommendations related to a user's search.

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Navigating Payroll Compliance: Future-Proofing Payroll in an Evolving Regulatory Landscape

Speaker: Jennifer Hill

Payroll compliance is a cornerstone of business success, yet for small and midsize businesses, it’s becoming increasingly challenging to navigate the ever-evolving landscape of federal, state, and local regulations. Mistakes can lead to costly penalties and operational disruptions, making it essential to adopt advanced solutions that ensure accuracy and efficiency.

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6 Best Bank Reconciliation Software in 2024

TechRepublic

Bank reconciliation software programs help businesses automate the matching of their bank transactions with their bank register, ensuring the accuracy of their books. We review the six best bank reconciliation software for businesses.

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Chromium browsers will have better text rendering on Windows thanks to Microsoft engineers

TechSpot

The next Chrome version (124) is expected to offer improved text rendering on Windows PCs. Microsoft programmers have been working for years to integrate a ClearType feature into the "insular," platform-agnostic text renderer developed by Google for the Chromium project. Now, the code is nearly ready to be shipped to.

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How I use Gen AI as a Data Engineer

Towards Data Science

Generative AI is all the rage.

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What if Nvidia had acquired Arm?

TechSpot

Back in business school, I had secured an interview for a really great job. The interview was scheduled early in the morning, but I woke up early. Had some coffee. Reviewed my notes. I was ready. This was long enough ago that I was using a cordless, landline phone to.

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Why Every Small Business Needs an HCM Solution: A Comprehensive Guide

Managing HR tasks like payroll, compliance, and employee data can overwhelm small businesses. That’s where a Human Capital Management (HCM) solution comes in. Our eBook, Why Every Small Business Needs an HCM Solution: A Comprehensive Guide , shows how an HCM system automates tedious processes, ensuring your business stays compliant and efficient. You’ll learn how to simplify payroll, eliminate costly errors, and empower your employees with self-service tools.

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Vertex AI Studio puts the promise in generative AI

InfoWorld

Vertex AI Studio is an online environment for building AI apps, featuring Gemini , Google’s own multimodal generative AI model that can work with text, code, audio, images, and video. In addition to Gemini, Vertex AI provides access to more than 40 proprietary models and more than 60 open source models in its Model Garden, for example the proprietary PaLM 2, Imagen, and Codey models from Google Research, open source models like Llama 2 from Meta, and Claude 2 and Claude 3 from Anthropic.

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Tesla is offering a free month of full self-driving, Musk enforces demo requirement for deliveries

TechSpot

In an internal memo seen by Bloomberg, Musk told Tesla employees that it is now a "hard requirement" for staff to install and demonstrate the FSD Beta driver-assistance technology before handing over cars to customers.

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Google Vertex AI Studio puts the promise in generative AI

InfoWorld

Vertex AI Studio is an online environment for building AI apps, featuring Gemini , Google’s own multimodal generative AI model that can work with text, code, audio, images, and video. In addition to Gemini, Vertex AI provides access to more than 40 proprietary models and more than 60 open source models in its Model Garden, for example the proprietary PaLM 2, Imagen, and Codey models from Google Research, open source models like Llama 2 from Meta, and Claude 2 and Claude 3 from Anthropic.

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MIT researchers develop new method for single-pass AI image generation

TechSpot

Image generation AI typically employs a process known as diffusion, which refines the visual output through several sampling steps to reach the final, hopefully "realistic" result. Researchers say diffusion models can generate high-quality images, but they require dozens of forward passes.

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Best Practices to Streamline Compensation Management: A Foundation for Growth

Speaker: Joe Sharpe and James Carlson

Payroll optimization can be one of the most time-consuming and complex factors of small business management. Yet, organizations that crack the code on streamlining employee compensation often discover innovative avenues for growth. With the right strategies in place, outsourcing and streamlining payroll processes can result in substantial time and resource savings.

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Ethics makes a comeback in cloud-based systems

InfoWorld

Years ago, I found myself sitting in a conference room dealing with a question that I’ve gotten thousands of times in my career: Was the technology I was representing, which I created as the CTO of an enterprise technology company (I’m being purposely vague), the right fit for a specific customer problem that I had just learned about in that conference room?

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Amazon Pharmacy leverages AI and local distribution to speed up prescription deliveries

TechSpot

A new facility in Brooklyn, for example, stocks the most commonly prescribed medications.

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Intel taps developers in a massive AI push

InfoWorld

Intel Corporation has launched two new initiatives as part of its AI PC Acceleration Program to promote collaboration between software and hardware ecosystems, aimed at enhancing AI capabilities across over 100 million Intel-based AI PCs by 2025. The first initiative, the AI PC Developer Program, is tailored specifically for software developers and independent software vendors (ISVs).

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Apple Find My app led a Missouri SWAT team to raid an innocent family's home, lawsuit pending

TechSpot

A Ferguson, Missouri family is suing the St. Louis County Police after a SWAT team raided and ransacked their home based on information from "Find My," the functionality that helps Apple users find lost or stolen devices. The lawsuit claims that the software lacks the accuracy to pinpoint a device.

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How to Scale Recurring Giving for Sustainable Growth

Speaker: Tim Sarrantonio, Director of Corporate Brand

Is your organization ready to build a recurring giving program that not only sustains but also propels your mission forward? 🚀 In this new webinar with industry visionary Tim Sarrantonio, we’ll guide you through the critical steps to establishing and scaling a successful recurring giving program. Whether you’re starting fresh or enhancing an existing program, this session will provide the strategies you need to deepen donor relationships and secure long-term support!

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How generative AI can promote inclusive job descriptions

InfoWorld

An ever-increasing number of employers are experiencing the many benefits of artificial intelligence throughout their human resources practices—from candidate personalization, conversational experiences, matching and scoring algorithms and AI-generated insights. With the emergence of generative AI , HR tech products are starting to build use cases to optimize communication among recruiters, managers, candidates, and employees as well as build assistants to boost HR productivity.

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Blizzard just gave us a hint of how many World of Warcraft subscribers remain (and it's still in the millions)

TechSpot

According to YouTube channel Bellular Warcraft, World of Warcraft currently has around 7.25 million subscribers. While the game appears to have recovered from the disaster following the Warlords of Draenor expansion almost 10 years ago, it remains far from its peak of 12 million in 2010 during Wrath of the Lich King.

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Oracle’s GraalVM backs Java 22

InfoWorld

Oracle has released GraalVM for JDK 22 , an update to the Java runtime with ahead-of-time (AOT) compilation that brings support for Java 22 features. Released on the same day as Java 22, which was published March 19 , GraalVM for JDK 22 can be downloaded from the project website. Most features of JDK 22 are available for Graal JIT compilation and Native Image AOT compilation.

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Steve Jobs signed Apple business card sells for over $180,000 at auction

TechSpot

The 1983 Apple Computer business card was signed by Jobs at a time when he was the chairman of the board of directors at the Cupertino firm - John Sculley had just been recruited from Pepsi-Cola to serve as CEO at the time. Boston-based RR Auctions writes that the card.

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Empower Your Nonprofit With Effective Payroll & HCM Services

Managing a nonprofit involves many challenges, but payroll and HR shouldn’t be among them. Our guide, "A Buyer’s Guide to Payroll & HCM Services," helps nonprofits choose the best provider. Efficient payroll services ensure timely, accurate payments, vital for maintaining staff and volunteer morale. Compliance support helps navigate complex labor laws and avoid costly fines.