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Fundraiser Burnout? Try Automation to Boost Both Efficiency and Employee Morale

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How Automation Can Help You Retain Fundraisers Automating business processes saves time and resources so your team can focus on support for your cause and the more challenging elements of the job, instead of the repetitive, monotonous tasks that sap energy and so much of a fundraiser’s time.

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RSS Reading Habits

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

It's more like hanging out in a village square or a pub -- conversations, news, and resources come to me. 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. It still is, but I now use other methods for scanning. Finding ???Looking

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

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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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Reduce Travel by Telecommuting

Tech Soup

Be sure and check out our new GreenTech Initiative Telecommuting page for additional resources on telecommuting outside of this post. US workers alone commute an average of 10,000 miles per year each and consume 67 billion gallons of gasoline. " The environmental impact in this area is profound.

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Join Us at MuseumCamp 2015 to Explore Making Space for Self and Others

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To empower people to feel rich in time and resources even as we work hard to make change in a limited world. For knowledge workers. It will challenge us to confront blank canvases, empower others, and take care of ourselves. Our goal is to learn and practice new ways of energizing and renewing ourselves and others. For managers.

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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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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. Tony points out this paragraph: I believe that blogging falls into the unproven category.

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