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Flexible Space: The Secret To Designing Powerful Training

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Classroom style with desks puts a barrier between the students and the instruction, especially when people are using laptops or tablets to take notes. When I design instruction, I want to make sure that learning activities use four different kinds of activities that help the brain learn rapidly. Talking and hearing (Auditory).

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Wisdom 2.0: Balance in A Hyper Connected World

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I decided to have a different experience than live tweeting and even taking notes on my laptop. ” I don’t have an answer, but I think it has to do with modeling conscious information and consumption and being mindful about how you connect with people, cultivate relationships, and share information.

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Does the Used IT Market Have a Future?

Tech Soup

During the intervening two years, we have entered the “post-PC” era in which laptop and desktop computers are being superseded by tablets, phones and other mobile devices. And indeed sales of new PCs and laptops are declining. Refurbishers in emerging markets will start to see a higher supply of laptops for refurbishment.

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Is the Used Computer Market Going Away?

Tech Soup

By "post-PC," Jobs meant essentially that computing and Internet use for both work and pleasure will no longer be dominated by PCs, but that there will be an array of smart devices including smartphones, tablet computers, smart TVs, laptops, and even sensing devices in our clothes and cars and other every day items.

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Nonprofit Technology News for January 2014

Tech Soup

Many of the new gizmos were smart watches, but I won’t bore you with a listing of new models of those. The Interaxon Headband is a brain-wave detector that sends real time information on your brain activity to your phone, supposedly so you can improve concentration and composure.

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The Networked NGO in Pakistan

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

What I loved about this exercise, is that after Stephanie and I modeled taking photographs and sharing on our Facebook Group or Twitter, participants started to also document digitally. It almost always naturally leads to discussion about how to amplify each other’s voices using social media. The power of peer knowledge at work!

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[VIDEO] How to Get a Return on Your Nonprofit Technology Investment

Bloomerang

The chief operating officer in the ’50s developed this model that is true for all of us, and it’s called the J Curve. You have to model being a coach, and you’re going to wait so you can see over time, eventually, you start to see some tangible benefits. Adult brains don’t learn new things that easily.