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Ready to Declutter Your Digital Life?

The MatrixFiles

This past holiday season, I decided to declutter my digital life. The Downloads folder on my laptop was huge! I realized I had old project files, and I don’t want those on my laptop; I want those files on our company intranet and nowhere else! The post Ready to Declutter Your Digital Life? I Emptied My Downloads Folder.

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The Secret To Successful Work/Life Balance When You Work From Home

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The workshop, Work/Life Balance: Tips Fundraisers During A Pandemic included fundraisers from many different countries. When your work commute is down the hall versus across town to an office, the lines between work and personal life become blurred. Having a ritual that lets you make the pivot work to home life can help.

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#Fakecommute: A Ritual for Work-Life Balance When You #WFH

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

If we learned anything during 2020, work-life balance is much harder when working from home. Create a conscious shift from work to life and life to work. I also have a winding down ritual – I set the alarm, make my next day to-do list, and put away my laptop and phone. Make it a no screen zone.

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My Life Below the Fold

NetWits

Two-finger scrolling on laptop track-pads has become a standard feature. They scroll without thinking about it to the point that you may not even realize you are doing it. Modern devices for interacting with the web have embraced scrolling – modern mice have either a scroll wheel or touch-based scrolling.

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How to Get Longer Life Out of Your Laptop Battery

Tech Soup

By following these tips, you should get more hours out of each charge of your laptop battery and save electricity to boot: Close unused applications or software programs. The information to run the programs is stored in memory, which requires energy to keep active. If you're not using it, close it! Turn down the brightness of your monitor.

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Nonprofit Remote Work: Is Staying at Home Here to Stay?

Bloomerang

The pandemic jet-fueled significant shifts in the world’s work-life pattern. ” Now is the right time to ask if one of the pandemic’s major impacts on daily life could be here to stay. Would working out of the office vs. working help nonprofit organizations in the long term? Saving from staying home.

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Register for By the Cup, Enter to Win a Laptop

Tech Soup

We're giving away two refurbished laptops to subscribers of our By the Cup (BTC) newsletter. The program extends the life cycles of commercial-grade IT equipment that comes from corporations and other institutions, and it also provides free end-of-life shipping and responsible recycling when you're done with it.

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