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

sgEngage

Think of automation as a tool to help your team focus on the uniquely human skills of creativity, relationship building, and critical thinking that only they can bring to their fundraising roles.

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

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Collaborative overload is defined as the burnout that results from our over reliance on e-mails, meetings and other collaborative technology tools that have, ironically, limited our ability to get stuff done. Having too many platforms and tools for collaboration can confuse and annoy your team and partners.

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Reduce Travel by Telecommuting

Tech Soup

The most basic tools of telecommuting have been phone and email, but new information and communication technologies (ICT) are available that make telecommuting much more effective. US workers alone commute an average of 10,000 miles per year each and consume 67 billion gallons of gasoline.

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Social Media and Nonprofits: The Line Between NGTD and ROI

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

One barrier to adoption of social media tools (and other technologies) is a concern from management or your boss about the value or benefits. at the moment it's a tool for individuals to express their somewhat random musings. If anything this tool has detracted from productivity, not increased it. What's the roi?

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Tagging and Communities of Practice - Reflections from KM

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

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. " Good is advocating for a new type of knowledge worker - he calls them Newsmasters. The person uses a combination of machine automation and topic-specific expert knowledge.

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Linux desktops?

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

Most creatives and knowledge workers who are not developers. It’s just dead easy to use Linux for development – easier than using the Mac, even though it has BSD as it’s basis. Where is Linux not a good idea? And we don’t (at least I don’t) want to spend to much time getting all of that to work.

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Finding the Best Nonprofit Membership Management Software: A Guide

Neon CRM

Not only will it help administrators track and process member data, but the right tool will come with features covering automation, personalization, and campaign analysis that will make it a nonprofit’s best friend. Wasted Time The average knowledge worker reports spending about 60% of their time on “work about work.”