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RSS Reading Habits

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

It still is, but I now use other methods for scanning. Michele Martin wrote a post summarizing a paper titled How Knowledge Workers Use the Web and pulls out some the classifications referenced in the paper. So, this is the information, knowledge worker part of it -- but how do you keep up ? Finding ???Looking

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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. The future of work requires this shift in managerial mindset.

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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. Remote workers are often in very different physical locations, with different working patterns (that fit around the rest of their lives), and different needs.

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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. She, like me, is less interested in the calculation method. She points about Web2.0

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Is Your Nonprofit Using Data to Boost Productivity?

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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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