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Healthy and Productive Nonprofit Meetings: What Does the Research Say?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The best advice is to ask yourself if you need to schedule a meeting in the first place. The Buffer Blog article suggests that taking hand-written notes is more effective than typing notes on a laptop. A Table Stack for Cell Phones. In the article, they suggest creating a coat-check for cell phones.

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Walking While Working

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

My doctor’s advice was to start eating a heart healthy diet and get more exercise. A lot of my work consists of sitting — working on a computer, talking on the phone, or attending meetings or conferences. As Nilofer Merchant points out in this Ted.com talk , people are sitting 9.3 hours. It’s not a luxury.

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What TechSoupers Are Doing to Ensure Their Online Security: Part 2

Tech Soup

I also encrypt my Android phone. I also use LastPass Premium on both my laptop and my cellphone for easy and secure password management. If someone happens to get in to my phone or computer, my browser’s password manager file is empty. "My security precaution on my mobile phone is not to leave it on my desk.

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Marketing for Every Moment of the Student Engagement Lifecycle

Connection Cafe

They’re looking for an institution that catches their eye, so your technique for becoming their first choice needs to have a fresh, new spin each year. The average smartphone conversion rate is up 64%—this means that people are making decisions to fill out forms, download more information, and buy things all from their phones.

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Wisdom 2.0: Living Consciously In A Connected World

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

As a trainer or doing shoulder-to-shoulder coaching, I'd hear people complain about information overload, anxiety, etc and started to incorporate techniques for reducing it. . Chris offered this advice: " Don't just pick the low hanging fruit in your in box. Soren Gordhamer, Wisdom 2.0 He also talked about changing his brain chemistry.

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Bridge Conference: Social Media ROI: Mapping Metrics to Strategy

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Over the past three years, I've been presenting on this topic , the thinking and practice has evolved from 'we can't measure social media or it doesn't yet provide a tangible return," to being able to have guidelines, metrics, and techniques for demonstrating the ROI. My presentation use s*x metaphors to explain some of the points.

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Reflections on Extension 2.0 Webinar

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I would bring the laptop and plug into the phone line and do demos in small groups. There wouldn't be a local node or the phone had some weirdness that prevented me from dialing out successfully. Like the time I was doing a session in an artists loft and the phone jack was 150 feet away and my phone cord was only 125 feet.