{"id":59022,"date":"2017-04-03T11:57:49","date_gmt":"2017-04-03T15:57:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/?p=59022"},"modified":"2017-04-03T11:57:49","modified_gmt":"2017-04-03T15:57:49","slug":"the-best-amazon-alexa-skills-griffith-5-alexa-skills-to-try-this-week-johnson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/2017\/04\/03\/the-best-amazon-alexa-skills-griffith-5-alexa-skills-to-try-this-week-johnson\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;The Best Amazon Alexa Skills&#8221; [Griffith] &#038;  &#8220;5 Alexa skills to try this week&#8221; [Johnson]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-58429\" src=\"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Alexa-Feb2017.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"100%\" height=\"100%\" border=\"0\" srcset=\"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Alexa-Feb2017.jpg 617w, http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Alexa-Feb2017-150x100.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 617px) 100vw, 617px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/in.pcmag.com\/speakers\/113478\/guide\/the-best-amazon-alexa-skills\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>The Best Amazon Alexa Skills<\/strong><\/a> &#8212; from in.pcmag.com by Eric Griffith<\/p>\n<p><em>Example skills:<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/A-Television-Networks-Mobile-History\/dp\/B01N92PFXG?ascsubtag=e1638e0f-0f2c-401a-ae67-58db8b4d735b&amp;tag=pcmag_edit-20\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"embed\" src=\"https:\/\/assets.pcmag.com\/media\/images\/534721-thisdayinhistory.png?thumb=y\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Twitter-Inc-Reader\/dp\/B01LFJO3M0?ascsubtag=9794ddf0-cd36-4c5a-b1e3-26a0846a3f6a&amp;tag=pcmag_edit-20\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"embed\" src=\"https:\/\/assets.pcmag.com\/media\/images\/534755-twitterreader.png?thumb=y\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B01MRM361G?tag=viglink124673-20&amp;pldnSite=1\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"embed\" src=\"https:\/\/assets.pcmag.com\/media\/images\/534856-webmd.jpg?thumb=y\" alt=\"WebMD\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/venturebeat.com\/2017\/04\/01\/5-alexa-skills-to-try-this-week-1-april-2017\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>5 Alexa skills to try this week<\/strong><\/a> &#8212; from venturebeat.com by Khari Johnson<\/p>\n<p><em>Excerpt:<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Below are five noteworthy Amazon Alexa skills worth trying, chosen from New, Most Enabled Skills, Food and Drink, and Customer Favorites categories in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/b?ie=UTF8&amp;node=13727921011\" target=\"_blank\">Alexa Skills Marketplace<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #800000;\">From DSC:<\/span><\/em><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800000;\"> I&#8217;d like to see how the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Life-Church-Verse-of-the-Day\/dp\/B01NB1U6UI\/ref=sr_1_1\" target=\"_blank\"><em><strong>Verse of the Day<\/strong> <\/em><\/a>skill performs.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Life-Church-Verse-of-the-Day\/dp\/B01NB1U6UI\/ref=sr_1_1\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-59024 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/AmazonAlexaSkills-April2017-VerseOfDay.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"100%\" height=\"100%\" border=\"0\" srcset=\"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/AmazonAlexaSkills-April2017-VerseOfDay.jpg 674w, http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/AmazonAlexaSkills-April2017-VerseOfDay-150x139.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 674px) 100vw, 674px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><em>Also see:<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/b?ie=UTF8&amp;node=13727921011\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-59023\" src=\"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/AmazonAlexaSkills-April2017.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"100%\" height=\"100%\" border=\"0\" srcset=\"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/AmazonAlexaSkills-April2017.jpg 792w, http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/AmazonAlexaSkills-April2017-150x123.jpg 150w, http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/AmazonAlexaSkills-April2017-768x630.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 792px) 100vw, 792px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><em>From DSC:<\/em><br \/>\nThis topic reminds me of a slide from<\/span> <a href=\"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/2017\/03\/15\/a-smorgasboard-of-ideas-to-put-on-your-organizations-radar-christian\/\" target=\"_blank\">my NGLS 2017 Conference presentation:<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/2017\/03\/15\/a-smorgasboard-of-ideas-to-put-on-your-organizations-radar-christian\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-59027 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/DanielChristianNGLS2017Conf-AlexaSkills.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"100%\" height=\"100%\" border=\"0\" srcset=\"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/DanielChristianNGLS2017Conf-AlexaSkills.jpg 657w, http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/DanielChristianNGLS2017Conf-AlexaSkills-150x116.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 657px) 100vw, 657px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; The Best Amazon Alexa Skills &#8212; from in.pcmag.com by Eric Griffith Example skills: &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; 5 Alexa skills to try this week &#8212; from venturebeat.com by Khari Johnson Excerpt: Below are five noteworthy Amazon Alexa skills worth trying, chosen from New, Most Enabled Skills, Food and Drink, and Customer Favorites categories [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[113,329,354,556,356,391,821,309,156,312,367,822],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-59022","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-21st-century","category-24x7x365-access","category-av-audiovisual","category-amazon","category-artificial-intelligence-agents-llms-and-related","category-human-computer-interaction-hci","category-natural-language-processing-nlp","category-platforms","category-usability","category-user-experience-ux","category-vendors","category-voice-recognition-voice-enabled-interfaces"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59022","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=59022"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59022\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59036,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59022\/revisions\/59036"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59022"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59022"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59022"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}