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How Cell Phones and Tablets Enable Telework

Tech Soup

As an example, the National Science Foundation (NSF) found that by not commuting, each NSF teleworker reclaims an average of 62 hours of their lives back and saves $1,201 a year. TechSoup: Telework Policies. They have around 2,100 employees and about a third of them telework on a regular basis. Find their report here.

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Scratch: An Educational, Multi-Generational Online Community that Works

Museum 2.0

Some adults may be skeptical of the efficacy of this policy, but as ScratchR scales up, it is hard to imagine another form of policing that wouldn't significantly reduce participation. It was more important to the ScratchR team to acknowledge every new submission prominently on the homepage than to check each one first.