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How To Avoid Becoming Addicted To Your Mobile Phone

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Recently, 60 Minutes did a piece on Brain Hacking or intentionally designing apps so you feel the need to to check in constantly. 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.

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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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Get Organized and Increase Your Nonprofit Productivity

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Here are some of my favorite tools and how I use them to stay organized and be productive: Google Workspace, formerly known as G Suite: I cannot imagine a more important set of tools for nonprofit productivity than these free tools from Google: Google Docs , Google Sheets , Google Forms , Google Slides , and Google Calendar.

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Wearable Computing: Sussing Out the Frontiers of Nonprofit Technology

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Lots of folks at the event were wearing Google Glass , the newest innovation in eyeglasses. Most attendees were Android app developers who are interested in getting into Glassware , the app development platform for Google Glass. Google Glass functions like smartphones in that apps can be built on top of it to extend and enhance it.

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Conscious Computing: 7 Apps and Tips That Help You Focus, Reduce Stress, and Get Work Done

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We all know that with so much content out there, it is eating our brains and memory , relying more on “google it.” ” But what if there was a way to use online tools, mobile apps, and software that helped lengthen our attention spans and replace information overload with a sense of mindfulness? Mindfulness'

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Answer these 6 questions to frame your fundraising plan structure

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How much will it cost for you to accomplish what you have in mind? Some fundraisers swear by project management tools like Trello , but Google Calendar works great for many people as well. Use the tools you need, just don’t try to keep everything stored in your brain. To do that, you have to get people’s phone numbers.

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Wisdom 2.0: Living Consciously In A Connected World

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Soren is the author of the book, " Wisdom 2.0 " and writes about mindfulness and technology use for Huffington Post and on Mashable. Soren is the author of the book, " Wisdom 2.0 " and writes about mindfulness and technology use for Huffington Post and on Mashable. He also talked about changing his brain chemistry.