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How To Focus When You Work in An Open Office Space

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The Gensler study suggests that employees need four different work areas to be productive: focus, collaborate, learn, and socialize. Such spaces offer great benefits for collaboration, transparency, knowledge sharing, learning, creativity, and team building.

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NTC Storytellers: Accidental Technologist, Volume One

NTEN

[As part of the 2011 NTC, a group of attendees are documenting their experiences at the conference on the NTEN Blog.] This blog entry and the theme of "Tech" will focus on what I hear from others, no matter the significance, newness or pros or cons as the story is sharing, the sharing is key to learning.

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7 Reasons Nonprofits Need iPads

Forum One

1) Better Petitions: Whether at a conference or on the street, the iPad is an enticing input device. 2) Storytelling: The iPad offers a new format for one-on-one sharing of compelling interactive stories. The very people you write about, photograph, or record, can see how you've composed their "stories" in real-time.

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