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How Online Work Can Save America

Tech Soup

An example of this might be data entry, bookkeeping, transcription, and translating content from English to another language or even specific dialects like Haitian French. As I delve deeper in to the world of telework I have to admit my surprise at its potential for changing how we work - for everyone, not just well-paid knowledge workers.

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Is Your Nonprofit Using Data to Boost Productivity?

sgEngage

Highlights from that report: Most workers toggle between apps 10 times an hour , costing organizations 32 days per worker, per year of workplace productivity Staff spends 25% of their time looking for information they need to do their jobs Knowledge workers spend 40% of their time on work about work.

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Tagging and Communities of Practice - Reflections from KM

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Her point is this: Getting people motivated to tag content (easy tool, easy approach) and at the same time create good content as output (quality selection of sources, good descriptions and tags) is just very difficult. " Good is advocating for a new type of knowledge worker - he calls them Newsmasters.

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