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RSS Reading Habits

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

So, it's like I have a left brain, orderly, linear way to scan and a right brain, wildly creative way to scan. Michele Martin wrote a post summarizing a paper titled How Knowledge Workers Use the Web and pulls out some the classifications referenced in the paper. My RSS reading is mostly information gathering or browsing.

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

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

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. Most of this information could be better captured in a dashboard, project document or an email update. Is your team emailing after hours? Rethink having status update meetings.

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Tagging and Communities of Practice - Reflections from KM

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Can anyone use this tag or do we want to create a special feed/account to provide filtered information? (BK: How do we create an environment where people are eager to participate or do you focus on providing a high quality resource of information? Doesn't tagging create information overload? Why not just use search?"

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