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Why Your Organization Needs Telecommuting – When the Commuter Train Shuts Down

Tech Soup

Despite the fact that many knowledge workers could efficiently and effectively do their work from home, most organizations default to a management and evaluation style designed for factory workers. BetterWorld Telecom, a TechSoup donation partner, has helped organizations as they shift to a more virtual work environment.

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How Online Work Can Save America

Tech Soup

In GreenTech we've explored how telework, or working remotely via the Internet, is good for the environment and will likely change the modern office. Here's a look at how telework can create jobs for low wage workers. Specifically, she focused on its potential to provide incomes to poor people in both rich and poor countries.

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Is Your Nonprofit Using Data to Boost Productivity?

sgEngage

The unfortunate truth is that Americans are constantly inundated with productivity pressure —productivity in the workplace, productivity at home, productivity while maintaining a healthy work-life balance, productivity in a remote work environment, productivity when returning to an office. the list goes on. That’s 800 hours times 1.25

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Tagging and Communities of Practice - Reflections from KM

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

How do we create an environment where people are eager to participate or do you focus on providing a high quality resource of information? " Good is advocating for a new type of knowledge worker - he calls them Newsmasters. The person uses a combination of machine automation and topic-specific expert knowledge.

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Building The Nonprofit Board of Your Dreams: A Deep Dive Into Peter Drucker’s Insights

Bloomerang

Embrace knowledge as power Drucker coined the term “knowledge worker” to highlight the role of continuous learning and data-informed decision-making in organizational success. “The most valuable asset of a 21st-century institution, whether business or non-business, will be its knowledge workers and their productivity.”

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