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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! We’ve modeled them as part of the session and it allowed us to brainstorm in smaller teams on how to be more engaging in our meetings from now on.

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Is Your Remote Team Getting the TLC They Deserve? An Audit Delivers Answers

.orgSource

The entire team should have up-to-date hardware with sufficient processing power, a high-quality camera and speakers, and a reliable, fast internet connection. If you don’t have the budget to provide these resources, you probably need to rethink staffing and business models. Your team should have up-to-date hardware and software.

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Loss and Grief in Volunteer Engagement

VQ Strategies

Studies have shown that being on camera through virtual meetings is more tiring than meeting with people in person – and even simple tasks have become more draining than they were back in 2019, before concerns about COVID-19 dominated work and media and such. We can support them by modeling these tactics and helping them do the same.

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Seven tips to survey staff at your association and improve employee engagement

Nimble AMS

By offering a variety of professional and personal perks like remote and work from anywhere positions, unlimited paid time off, mentors for new staff, no-meeting Fridays, and camera-off meetings. Online survey: An online survey is one of the most successful survey models. The best methods to use when surveying your staff.

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Collaborative Models for Capturing and Sharing Conference Notes at Nonprofit Gatherings

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

This model can also be scaled to an entire blog community platform. With this model, there is a "wiki moderator" who has posted notes for participants who have never used a wiki before. If others in attendance are also blogging, they are encouraged to comment, link or trackback to the posts.

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Flying High: Some Truly Creative Ways that Drone Technology is Being Utilized

Byte Technology

Equipped with a float, camera, microphone and life preserver, they can give a victim precious time to survive until emergency personnel arrive. Bridging the gap between the 3D vision of the designer and the 2D reality of the builder, drones can help with on-site modeling in ways that greatly increases the rate at which construction happens.

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E-Mediat: Beirut Bound – Guess What’s In My Suitcase?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I’m the lead for Zoetica where my role is to deliver training, advise on the curriculum and coaching methods, model transparency, and serve as a sort of meta network weaver. In addition, I’m packing my own FLIP Camera and hope to get interviews with members of the in-country teams.

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