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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.

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After talking to marketing leaders for a year, here’s my advice for CEOs

TechCrunch

Finding a new way to make established channels such as TV, direct mail and radio generate awareness around a brand can be a huge competitive moat and propel a company to exponential growth. According to Gartner, marketing budgets as a percentage of company revenue fell to 6.4% I’m not saying that it’s easy. Purses are tightening.

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Now Is the Time for IT Leaders to Re-imagine IT

NTEN

Flickr photo: pasukaru76 "Now is the Time for IT Leaders to Re-imagine IT" That was the subject line of an email I received from Gartner recently. Your job was to make sure everyone else could do their jobs, by making sure they had computers that work, access to email, and of course, the ability to print mailing labels. (Un?)Fortunately,

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Is Your Nonprofit Using Data to Boost Productivity?

sgEngage

Technology can pose as many productivity challenges as it solves, according to a Gartner/Deloitte report. Is the technology meant to improve efficiency serving as a barrier to strategy development?

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A View of the Cloud from India

Tech Soup

Here is Prashant and Pooja's view of the cloud based on a survey of Indian NGOs that they completed in September 2011: Gartner has forecasted that India's spending on green IT and cloud initiatives will double from $35 billion in 2010 to $70 billion in 2015, indicating a buoyant technology outlook for the Indian industry.

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Nonprofit Technology News for May 2013: Free WiFi in Forbes Magazine and Braille Phones

Tech Soup

Gartner just came out with a pretty set of interesting predictions on the hardware market through 2017. Android, iPhone, Windows Phone), annoying junk mail doesn't stand a chance. Using this free app, you can take a photo of the junk mail you want to get rid of and PaperKarma will do the rest of the dirty work.

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Nonprofit Technology News for April 2013

Tech Soup

Gartner just came out with a pretty set of interesting predictions on the hardware market through 2017. Android, iPhone, Windows Phone), annoying junk mail doesn't stand a chance. Using this free app, you can take a photo of the junk mail you want to get rid of and PaperKarma will do the rest of the dirty work.

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