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Making Exercise Equipment Accessible

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Rich Thesing, a long-time disability activist and fellow Fellow of the American Leadership Forum in Silicon Valley, has been thinking hard on how to make exercise equipment accessible. There are lots of exercycles that are in health clubs and exercise rooms around the world, but they lack minor accessibility features to make them usable.

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Build a Mission-Worthy Team

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Although you’re probably not recruiting a team for an extreme experience, it can be helpful to begin thinking about team building from Bell’s perspective. “A A mission team—like any team, anywhere—needs competent people who work well together,” Bell advises. “In Building a great team starts with hiring the right people.

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Give Joy!

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In fact, according to Gallup about 85 percent of people in the global workplace are either not engaged or disengaged. Maybe one reason people aren’t happy at work is because they don’t expect to find happiness there. Offer to help when help isn’t expected. Allocate time off for exercise. Bring treats.

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An Offline Social Media Exercise That Improves Online Content

Tech Soup

For the Professional Social Media class I teach at Sonoma State University , I created an exercise designed to help folks practice both content creation and looking at metrics. Ask folks to think about the people in the group and what content would appeal to them. Feel free to remix, modify, and share this exercise.

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New Year’s Resolutions For Your Website in 2024

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So many of us resolve to exercise more, be kinder, spend more time with family, and so on. For example, if one of your goals is to make your organization’s join process better, your action plan might have these steps: Look at Google Analytics to see what kind of traffic the join page gets and where people abandon. And so and so forth.

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How Tech is Helping to Combat Food Insecurity and Transform Healthcare

Saleforce Nonprofit

treating chronic diseases, many of which are mostly preventable by diet and moderate exercise. Yet, for many people in America, food insecurity, or the lack of consistent access to adequate food for a healthy life, is a significant challenge and makes it more difficult for many to meet the nutritional needs of their household.

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Thought Leaders Blaze Trails of Discovery and Engagement

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Passion plus knowledge is a powerful hook, making people who were about to swipe stay for a while. He defined it as “those people who possess a distinctively original idea, a unique point of view, or an unprecedented insight into their industry.” Meet people where they are going, not where you imagine they want to be.”

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