GeekWire

APRIL 22, 2021

That includes kids who are Black, Indigenous and people of color (BIPOC); children who struggle socially due to autism, ADHD or other conditions; and women eager to break into technology or entrepreneurial roles. Create your own user feedback survey. Ada Developers Academy. Geeking Out Kids of Color ( GOKiC). iUrban Teen.

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GeekWire

JANUARY 25, 2021

We cannot overlook communities that are disproportionately burdened by the economic and social impacts of this pandemic,” Jody Allen, chair of the Allen Family Foundation, said in a news release. The following nonprofits received immediate support: Na’ah?

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Vox

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

Increasingly, that’s seen as a problem by researchers and by nonprofits scratching their heads at why they’re seeing fewer people donating. That’s the assumption that the nonprofit sector is now reexamining. That has puzzled researchers and nonprofits. But it only counts donations to religious and nonprofit organizations.

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GeekWire

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

The first-in-the-nation law aims to address a social practice that is rooted in thousands of years of history in India and other countries. Caste is “a system of rigid social stratification characterized by hereditary status, endogamy, and social barriers sanctioned by custom, law, or religion,” according to the legislation.

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GeekWire

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

Back in the spring, Seattle’s Kate Isler and Susan Gates were surveying COVID-19’s economic wreckage. It includes retail sales and professional services, as well as nonprofit organizations and a blog about women’s economic issues, creating more of a sense of community than a platform focused strictly on shopping.

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GeekWire

JANUARY 26, 2023

Sawant’s proposed legislation would be a first-in-the-nation attempt to address a social practice that is rooted in thousands of years of history in India and other countries. Samir Khobragade , a former Amazon engineer and current senior director of software engineering for cloud platforms at NetApp, has worked in tech for 26 years.

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Vox

NOVEMBER 24, 2023

The California-based nonprofit puts out an annual guide for recommended animal charities, and it just released its list for this year. For example, it examines social psychology data on how to influence public opinion about animals in a way that actually leads to behavior change.

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The Verge

DECEMBER 6, 2021

Tony Hunt, chief development officer of Operation Safe Escape, a nonprofit organization that helps victims of domestic violence escape their abusers, says deleting yourself from the internet could be exactly what the stalker wants. For Lorraine, deleting herself from the internet didn’t feel like a solution.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JULY 5, 2023

Srini Koushik has been passionate about the environment for 35 years and now, as a board member of the nonprofit SustainableIT.org and CTO of cloud services provider Rackspace Technology, he wants to help enterprises achieve sustainability in the cloud.

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GeekWire

JULY 6, 2021

She is the founding senior strategist for BoardReady , a nonprofit providing board diversity analytics and that helps match companies with diverse directors. Survey methodology: GeekWire examined the boards of publicly traded technology and biotechnology boards in Washington state. Do I wish the change would come faster?”

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The Verge

JANUARY 31, 2022

While there isn’t yet any hard data, turnover seems higher, says Michael Platt of Inside Public Accounting, who is in the middle of doing surveys for the 2021 calendar year. It seemed like we communicated even less on a social or personal basis, which was kind of weird to me.”. Working from home was a big shift.

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Vox

APRIL 22, 2024

hours a day staring into their cellphone , according to Sapien Labs, a nonprofit organization that runs an ongoing survey into global mental health. I remember loosening my parental controls on social media during Covid because I wanted Hollis to “stay connected” to her friends during the forced absence. We pulled her out again.

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GeekWire

MAY 7, 2020

Other Seattle-area startups that are ramping up hiring to meet demand include voice tech developer WellSaid Labs ; social support platform Give InKind ; cloud services provider BitTitan ; and more. The computer science education nonprofit is hiring for a wide range of technical and curriculum positions.

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The Verge

OCTOBER 5, 2020

The Verge spoke with seven backup drivers for Waymo and Cruise (six current, one former), who raised concerns about being stuck in a vehicle for hours a day with another person without the ability to socially distance. Waymo followed suit , resuming limited operations in June delivering packages for two Bay Area nonprofits.

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SecureWorld News

OCTOBER 27, 2021

According to both Wilson and Egan, promoting lesser known cybersecurity social media holidays, like Data Privacy Day and Digital Spring Cleaning, can help up interaction, too. I can go into my [saved] folders, and find our folder on social engineering. Wilson says surveys can be successful when not overdone. "I Ransomware.

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Vox

DECEMBER 28, 2023

When Bryce, a 29-year-old nonprofit director in Kansas City, started using it last summer, “It was the one that everyone was talking about.” At the time, McLeod said all this was meant to make the experience less anonymous and more like being on a social network than a dating app. It can’t be too unique,” said Bryce.

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Vox

JANUARY 24, 2023

The growing size and reach of the “everything store,” however, has affected its public perception: A 2019 CNBC survey of 10,000 Americans showed that a majority of respondents believed the company was bad for small businesses. Applying for a grant can often be a long, burdensome process for nonprofits. billion since its launch.

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CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 15, 2024

Nimesh Mehta might not have millions of followers on social media, yet he still considers himself an influencer. With technology and digital strategy interwoven into every aspect of modern business, CIOs increasingly have the CEO and board of directors’ ear, cited by 79% of respondents to the 2024 State of the CIO survey.

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Vox

APRIL 19, 2022

“Child care workers, the people providing this labor and this service that is absolutely vital to the continuing of our economy and families, are so underpaid that they can’t afford to cover their basic needs,” said Asha Banerjee, an economic analyst at the Economic Policy Institute, a nonprofit think tank. Nonprofits have also stepped in.

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The Verge

MAY 20, 2020

Lil Nas X’s “Panini,” NASA’s social media presence, Rihanna’s Fenty Beauty line, and John Krasinski’s Some Good News YouTube show are among the winners of this year’s Webby Awards. National Geographic took away this year’s most awards, 15 total, with wins for its science podcasts, travel videos, and photos on social media, among other things.

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Vox

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

Our winner-take-all economy has resulted in a country where, according to a 2017 CareerBuilder/Harris Poll survey of nearly 3,500 workers, 40 percent of people report usually living paycheck to paycheck. My nonprofit group, Venture for America, is known for trying to rebuild local economies through entrepreneurship.

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The Verge

JUNE 25, 2020

Also of note is where Boogaloo adherents are organizing themselves: social networks, most notably Facebook. Riley writes (emphasis hers): Researchers at the global nonprofit group Avaaz found nearly two dozen Facebook pages affiliated with the “boogaloo” movement, a generally anti-government and anti-law enforcement ideology.

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The Verge

JUNE 3, 2021

There are areas where tech companies have made significant contributions — like collecting mobility data that helped officials understand the effects of social distancing policies. Companies like Facebook and Google tracked how people’s movement patterns changed in response to social distancing policies. This was really chaotic.

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GeekWire

APRIL 22, 2021

Last month Vulcan announced that EarthRanger and a number of other AI-related projects would be moving to the nonprofit Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence, another organization founded by Paul Allen. But after studying a Tableau dashboard, rangers knew where they needed to look and found the wayward rhino the very next day.

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Vox

APRIL 25, 2022

Let’s take a quick survey: Cut costs. And don’t bother arguing that there is a horde of conservative/free thinker users who will flood back to Twitter if Elon makes it more inviting for them: If there were, Donald Trump’s Truth Social would be booming, not a ghost town.). But Twitter is Twitter, so people have suggestions.

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The Verge

JULY 9, 2020

Yesterday we talked about the audio-only social network Clubhouse , which found itself at the center of controversy after failing to take action or even make a public comment after users began to experience harassment within the app. To its credit, TikTok has owned up to its overly draconian approach to the problem.

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Trends in the Living Networks

AUGUST 11, 2022

She led a research project on the Future of Data and investigated topics such as 3D printing, social enterprise, and the evolving role of the state. Chung has been a Co-Curator of TEDxSingapore, and she continues to advise teams of undergraduate students about their management consulting projects for clients in the social sector.

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The Verge

JUNE 3, 2020

Zuckerberg noted for employees today that Facebook actually did remove Trump ads in March that misled users into thinking that a campaign survey was actually the US Census. The optimists argue that social media is neither good nor bad , but simply a powerful new tool for society to use. Zuckerberg, in this framing, is an optimist.

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The Verge

JUNE 24, 2021

The oversight agency compiled data from court records and corroborated it with other organizations, including the nonprofit Human Trafficking Legal Center. Earlier this week, the US Government Accountability Office (GAO) released a legally mandated report on the first three years of FOSTA-SESTA.

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Vox

JUNE 12, 2023

TULSA — Teamer Tibebu walked onto the rooftop of the recently renovated Tulsa Club Hotel to survey his new home. Roller, who has lived in Tulsa since the early ’70s, is a mentor with the local chapter of the business nonprofit SCORE , which offers businesses free assistance with things like financial planning and fundraising.

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The Verge

JANUARY 27, 2021

A group of 75 activist groups and nonprofits have urged against sweeping changes to Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act, warning that it could silence marginalized communities while making online moderation harder. Amazon, for instance, invoked it to defend suspending the social network Parler over violent threats.

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Vox

DECEMBER 14, 2020

But over the coming weeks and months, she’ll be far from the only person showing up in social media feeds getting inoculated. At the dawn of the pandemic, celebrities and influencers flooded our feeds with content urging us to take preventive measures, like hand-washing, social distancing, and mask-wearing.

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Vox

AUGUST 25, 2023

The nonprofit placed an ad campaign on “made for kids” channels and asked to target the ads to various audience segments. In a survey, about a third of US and UK kids said they want to be YouTubers when they grow up — more than any other profession. YouTube is hugely popular with kids, including the very youngest of them.

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