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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. Another great resource for creating telecommuting policies is a previous blog post by Jim Lynch, a seasoned TechSoup expert.

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Tech Wellness in the Nonprofit Workplace: Tips for Avoiding Collaborative Overload

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

According to Rob Cross’s research, knowledge workers spend 90 to 95 per cent of their time on the phone, responding to e-mails or in meetings. As your team’s projects get bigger or more complex or you are trying to accomplish more with less resources, it gets harder without more intentional planning.

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Tagging and Communities of Practice - Reflections from KM

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The tagging discussion included an action learning exercise where we shared a lot of resources about tagging as well as explored the discovery aspect of delicious. In the comments, I prodded her to share some of her experience about using tagging as a tool to share resources in a community of practice context. e-collaboration???

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