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Five Tips for Nonprofits to Avoid Virtual Fatigue

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Experts point to several reasons why we are feeling a loss of vitality, productivity, and wellbeing in our virtual workplaces: Online-mediated interaction and communications deprive us a full sensory experience as we are only limited to audio and visual experiences (when using video conferences) or just text. second delay.

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Why Your Organization Needs Telecommuting – When the Commuter Train Shuts Down

Tech Soup

The resultant traffic and chaos from commuters attempting alternate methods of transportation including ferries, buses, and carpooling likely resulted in something of a local holiday – as highways turned into parking lots. The future of work requires this shift in managerial mindset.

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30 Virtual and Hybrid Event Fundraising Ideas for Nonprofits

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Although this appears at first glance to be beyond reach in a virtual setting, consider breaking down each aspect one by one to consider online alternatives. Alternatively, you might combine a silent auction with a shop by allowing buyers to either purchase an item at a buy-it-now or have the item awarded to the highest bidder.

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How To Facilitate Effective Virtual Meetings

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

This word cloud is from a virtual workshop I facilitated asking participants what the barriers to effective virtual meetings are: technology, engagement, connectivity, and participation. Virtual meetings may have some specific norms, for example: We will use the technology that most accessible to everyone on our team.

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Running Effective Virtual #Nonprofit Meetings: 9 Best Practices for Facilitating Engagement

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Workplace flexibility creates a need for better skills in facilitating virtual meetings and hybrid meetings where some participants are in the room and others participate are using audio-only or video conferencing platform. Test your technology before the meeting and resolve any technical issues.

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Game Friday: Do Games Have to Be Fun To Be Good?

Museum 2.0

Who would set their sights on these mundane aspects of human experience, things that recede into the background, given the glitzy alternative of commercial games? And Wii Fit is the new hot thing--a game to help you exercise. Serious games offer one example. Supposedly it improves your brain function. Which by comics? Which on the web?

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App Recommendations from TechSoup Staff: Part Two

Tech Soup

Uber – is an alternative taxi or ridesharing service. Their team of journalists pull together a politics and technology news feed that condenses the essential information of the day and makes easy to look at on the small screen. Sidecar – is an alternative taxi or ridesharing service (like Uber ).

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