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RSS Reading Habits

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

This scan, capture, analyze patterns, and write a blog post is a part of my routine. It still is, but I now use other methods for scanning. I'm finding new links and posts either through twitter, comments on my blog post, or through people who have linked to me. industry and the tech industry (fishbowl). Finding ???Looking

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Why Your Organization Needs Telecommuting – When the Commuter Train Shuts Down

Tech Soup

The resultant traffic and chaos from commuters attempting alternate methods of transportation including ferries, buses, and carpooling likely resulted in something of a local holiday – as highways turned into parking lots. The future of work requires this shift in managerial mindset.

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Tech Wellness in the Nonprofit Workplace: Tips for Avoiding Collaborative Overload

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

This blog post shares some thoughts. According to Rob Cross’s research, knowledge workers spend 90 to 95 per cent of their time on the phone, responding to e-mails or in meetings. This can contribute to overload unless you have a method to establish a remote work policy. What is Collaborative Overload?

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Social Media and Nonprofits: The Line Between NGTD and ROI

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Stephen Downes points to a post by Tony Karrer with disagreeing with some points in about the value of blogging in Thomas Davenport's book Thinking for a Living: How to Get Better Performances And Results from Knowledge Workers. Tony points out this paragraph: I believe that blogging falls into the unproven category.

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Is Your Nonprofit Using Data to Boost Productivity?

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Highlights from that report: Most workers toggle between apps 10 times an hour , costing organizations 32 days per worker, per year of workplace productivity Staff spends 25% of their time looking for information they need to do their jobs Knowledge workers spend 40% of their time on work about work.

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