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

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The resultant traffic and chaos from commuters attempting alternate methods of transportation including ferries, buses, and carpooling likely resulted in something of a local holiday – as highways turned into parking lots. But the benefits for organizations and workers extend far beyond decreasing wasted hours spent sitting in traffic.

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Social Media and Nonprofits: The Line Between NGTD and ROI

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Stephen Downes points to a post by Tony Karrer with disagreeing with some points in about the value of blogging in Thomas Davenport's book Thinking for a Living: How to Get Better Performances And Results from Knowledge Workers. I know of no organization in which the benefits of blogging have been measured.

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Is Your Nonprofit Using Data to Boost Productivity?

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Bureau of Labor Statistics , productivity is a measure of economic performance that compares the amount of goods and services produced (output) with the amount of inputs used to produce those goods and services. billion knowledge workers, equaling a trillion hours per year. According to the U.S. Is everyone excited now?

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