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How Cell Phones and Tablets Enable Telework

Tech Soup

Call us what you will, the International Data Corporation (IDC) predicts that by 2015, a bit over 37 percent of the total global workforce will be made up of mobile workers. According to the Baltimore Sun , It was, in fact, the giant snowstorm in 2010 that was the impetus for the federal government to push more employees to work from home.

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Community Science Workshops and Shared Authorship of Space: Interview with Emilyn Green

Museum 2.0

We received two rounds of NSF funding in the 1990s to expand. I came on in 2010 to start the statewide nonprofit network. We received NSF funding for three years and then it cut off. We know anecdotally that a lot of these people are repeating and deepening their participation, but we don''t have the data. It''s powerful.

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