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How To Avoid Becoming Addicted To Your Mobile Phone

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Rosen’s research has found that the average person checks their phone every 15 minutes or less and that approximately 50% of the time there isn’t a notification beckoning them to do so. According to Rosen, we check our phones to reduce anxiety. How are you avoiding getting addicted to your mobile phone? This is a Ludic Loop!

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Break Your Mobile Phone Addiction: There’s An App for That and More

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Having trouble getting that mobile phone out of your hands and checking it when you need to focus on work? There’s an app that can help you break your mobile phone addiction and it makes it fun. The app is called Forest that turns putting down your phone into a game. Here’s how it works.

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Don’t Bring Your Phone in the Shower

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Don’t Bring Your Phone in the Shower – guest post by Carrie Avery. If you’re not attending and curious what funders are learning, you’ll have an opportunity to read some of the ideas and questions being discussed right here on this blog. This morning’s breakfast plenary speaker, Jonah Lehrer, was fantastic.

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Twitter + Phone = Phweet

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

And you can share who you are talking to in real time without having to reveal or exchange phone numbers or other identities. No need to share or make additional information public (phone numbers, ID???s t need to download or share anything more to talk. The call is contained within a PhweetUrl; a smart link that calls you.

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Simple Ways To Reduce Virtual Fatigue for Nonprofit Leaders

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He asked them to leave his phones behind and take a ten-minute walk around the block. Before they left, they had to tilt their cameras down so he could see their phones that were left behind. It comes from Eric Jenssen , a teacher, who had his students leave the zoom call mid-class. He made them do it.

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#Fakecommute: A Ritual for Work-Life Balance When You #WFH

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I also have a winding down ritual – I set the alarm, make my next day to-do list, and put away my laptop and phone. Don’t take your phone on your walk or put it into airplane mode if you are using the camera. Once you are done for the day, put your phone on do not disturb. Make it a no screen zone.

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What do mobile phones, baseball, and pediatric Diabetes have in common?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

s phone bill. s Super Bowl launch of a United Way fund-raising campaign using mobile phone text messaging. " In a May 2008 post in Read/Write Web about Text to Give Campaigns : Mobile Giving is certainly a growing trend meant to capitalize on the ubiquity of cell phones and their heavy use by members of the younger generation.

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