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What Are Natural Language Queries and Featured Snippets and Why Do They Matter?

The MatrixFiles

Two very important factors to consider for search engine optimization (SEO) when crafting your content are natural language queries and featured snippets. What are natural language queries? Consider giving pages like this a title that better reflects a natural language query. ” will.

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5 signs you’re being talked over in meetings, and how to stop it for good

Fast Company Tech

Use direct language. But also, reflect on the environments youre in. Add practical language. If you often hear yourself say, As I was saying earlier, or, Just to finish that thought, youre probably being interrupted more than you realize. These polite reentries signal youve been cut offand trained to work around it.

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Celebrating 25 Years of Innovation and Impact: Reflecting on Our Journey

The MatrixFiles

When SQFI (the Safe Quality Food Institute) came to us to redesign and help them do business better on a global scale, we integrated AWS Translate into their CMS so that the new website is available in 9 languages, visitors can search in 9 languages AND the site is indexed by Google in 9 languages. Be safe, be well.

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New York metro transit systems add on-demand sign language interpreters

Engadget

Musanos experience reflects one of many ways people who have disabilities and, more specifically, who are hard of hearing, have difficulty when using public transportation. Musano is the CEO of Convo , a company that was founded in 2009 and connects people with sign language interpreters on demand.

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Pinterest Changes User Terms So It Can Train AI on User Data and Photos, Regardless of When They Were Posted

Futurism

Pinterest has updated itsprivacy policy to reflect its use of platform user data and images to train AItools. Following the privacy policy update, some Pinterest users reflected on the changes in the r/Pinterest subreddit. The fact this option is default on is really eugh."

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Shifting power: How the Ford Foundation’s DEI commitment is transforming culture and impact 

Candid

That refocus of our mission would be reflected in our grantmaking, but we also wanted to ensure it was reflected within our institution. We knew our staff needed to reflect the diverse communities we serve. We rewrote job descriptions to use gender-neutral language.

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What are Key Messages and How Can Nonprofits Use Them Effectively?

Nonprofit Tech for Good

It is critically important to craft your key messages in specific language that reflects their values and on platforms they can relate to. Do the research to understand your stakeholders’ culture, what motivates them and inspires them to act. So, get out there and talk to your target audiences, and learn where they hang out!

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