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Delivering Happiness CEO Jenn Lim Shares Insights About Four-Day Workweeks

Eric Jacobsen Blog

data : Microsoft Japan increased sales by 40%). And workplaces designed on old-school factory-style model/thinking are becoming obsolete. Question: What is it going to take to convince more companies to try a four-day workweek? Lim: To understand first that productivity is NOT lost but actually gained.

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

Byte Technology

From the earthquake in Nepal to the numerous tsunamis that have devastated Japan and Southeast Asia, drones are being used to pinpoint remote regions that would typically be underserved by emergency crews, in the end saving more lives.

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Games for Change 2011: Channeling Our Collective Power

Tech Soup

” He cited Portal 2, one of the games in Valve’s portfolio, as breaking the mold of a traditional game model by eschewing the conventional collection of monsters or weapons and positioning itself instead as a game about physics and problem-solving. Players raised over $1.5 million in just five days.

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Building Refurbished Computers with Volunteers at InterConnection

Tech Soup

It refurbishes IT equipment to very high standards with a largely volunteer workforce, and it is a model program for responsible export of refurbished IT equipment in to developing countries. InterConnection is a nonprofit refurbisher that has figured out how to do two things very, very well. Global Impact of InterConnection's Programs.

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Free Live Interactive Event: Future of Fundraising

Tech Soup

” Nonprofits once limited to raising money through cookie sales, charity balls, and foundation grants now have access to almost limitless fundraising streams with new technology platforms, micro-funding models, and evolving culture of giving. Jen recently spoke at TechSoup’s Online Community Meetup.

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Social Media for Social Good Video Roundup from #BBCon

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

not organized or centralized by specific non-profit organizations) model be sustainable and/or enough to affect real change in the world? Is the lack of control something that non-profits can deal with and/or embrace? Will the grassroots decentralized (i.e. Using Causes on Facebook to Change the World with Matthew Mahan. Meet Matt.

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Khan Academy and the Revolution in Online Free Choice Learning

Museum 2.0

More importantly, it means that we should be looking to their model to push ourselves in how we think about delivering the most engaging, powerful content possible. We are finally leaving behind the 18th century model of education where groups of students are expected to learn at a standard pace.