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Tips To Make Online Meetings Less Exhausting

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Encourage being on camera. We are not used to seeing ourselves on camera. If you want to look better on camera, you can raise the level of the laptop or use a light close to you! How To Look Good on Camera (NY Times). Children and pets can be welcome in your meeting if needed. Fun Zoom Backgrounds.

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How to Move Your Nonprofit Forward During COVID-19 with Virtual Fundraising Events

Nonprofit Tech for Good

They can broadcast the video right from their laptop web camera. The good news is that a virtual event is a cost effective way to engage your donors. A quick and simple video from your organization’s leader is a personal touch that tells your story. Take it a step further and do a personal video every day of your virtual event.

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Of Mice and Men and Laptops (A Kind of Buyer's Guide)

NTEN

I was trying to count the number of laptop models for sale at Best Buy, all the while avoiding the glance of any of the eleven sales associates (AKA "Blue Shirts") that hovered around the computer displays. That's how many different laptops there were on display at my local Best Buy (not counting the Pommes de Cher ).

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"This Is My Friend": How the Kosch-Westerman Foundation Connects Terminally Ill Children to the Outside World

Tech Soup

Their project began with just one or two kids attending classes with the help of a camera and a clunky laptop. Brian uses donated laptops and tablets with Skype software, connected to cameras in the children's classrooms. … your laptop is really your only friend." He was wrong. Too Much Freedom?

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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. For me, I have a making coffee ritual that signals the beginning of the workday. Make it a no screen zone.

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"This Is My Friend": How the Kosch-Westerman Foundation Connects Terminally Ill Children to the Outside World

Tech Soup

Their project began with just one or two kids attending classes with the help of a camera and a clunky laptop. Brian uses donated laptops and tablets with Skype software, connected to cameras in the children's classrooms. … your laptop is really your only friend." He was wrong. Too Much Freedom?

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"This Is My Friend": How the Kosch-Westerman Foundation Connects Terminally Ill Children to the Outside World

Tech Soup

Their project began with just one or two kids attending classes with the help of a camera and a clunky laptop. Brian uses donated laptops and tablets with Skype software, connected to cameras in the children's classrooms. … your laptop is really your only friend." He was wrong. Too Much Freedom?