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OpenAI leads $23.5M round in Mem, an AI-powered note-taking app

TechCrunch

Collaboration features let teams share, edit and comment on notes and directly attach them to shared calendars for faster reference. One source estimates that document disorganization costs businesses $3,900 per employee each year in productivity losses, making Mem an attractive proposition if the tech works as advertised.

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

sgEngage

Bennington College 300+ annual work hours saved automating gift notifications and documentation Preble Street 500+ annual work hours saved automating gift reporting and documentation Make Room for Collaboration Fundraisers are collaborative by nature. Those that have already adopted automation are seeing amazing gains in efficiency.

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Productivity platform Loopin helps work teams wrangle meetings

TechCrunch

For example, the lifecycle of a meeting typically starts with a calendar invite that may have an agenda from another app. Meanwhile, Loopin’s tasks feature helps each person track their action items by adding tasks to their calendar. If workers are wondering how they spend their time, they can look at Loopin’s calendar analytics.

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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. A quick glance at your calendar shows that you spent hours in meetings, answering emails, or working on shared documents but you can’t remember why. Sound familiar?

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The often invisible difference between working and pretending to work

Fast Company Tech

If knowledge workers are merely promptly AI and instructing the AI agents to work for them, are humans still working? When work became hard to see One of the great historical transitions in the knowledge economy is that as work became more “intellectual,” it also became less visible.

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A skeptic’s guide to quitting your smartphone

Recode by Vox

The third generation of the device, which debuted in late March, represents a radical rethinking of what a smartphone can and should do, cutting off users from distracting features while directing them toward simple tools they need to thrive in a digital world, like a phone and a calendar. The Light Phone 3 is intentionally boring but useful.

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Hustler at the end of the world

The Verge

As the world shut down in March 2020, anxious knowledge workers barricaded themselves at home, scrubbing produce with soap. one broker wrote that summer when bank documents hadn’t materialized. Many people feel as though the past two years were stolen, wiped from the calendar and replaced with a long and empty slog.