Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 21, 2017

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 nonprofits become networked and different departments work across silos, we need to connect with more people than ever.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

A lot of the focus in online education — and, let’s face it, education overall — has been about professional development for knowledge workers, education for K-12 and how best to deliver cost-effective, engaging higher learning to those in college and beyond. “There are 5.9 “There are 5.9

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TechCrunch

JUNE 6, 2022

And a number of smaller players including Signavio , Intellibot , and Servicetrace were snatched up by incumbent tech firms. “Before Magical, I founded a company called Careerify , an HR tech startup that was acquired by LinkedIn in 2015. But the goal is to introduce paid plans with premium features in the future.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 18, 2022

If the pandemic has made us completely rethink the way we work, that we — the swath of workers at home in pajamas popping into meetings on Zoom — leaves out a massive chunk of the workforce that continues to show up for work in-person, every time.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 11, 2021

The war for talent in the tech world can be brutal — and so, it turns out, can the war between platforms that help companies source it. The company matches skilled tech personnel like engineers, software developers, designers, finance experts and product managers to clients across the globe.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 27, 2021

Dear Sophie: Any suggestions for recruiting international tech talent? Your questions are vital to the spread of knowledge that allows people all over the world to rise above borders and pursue their dreams,” says Sophie Alcorn , a Silicon Valley immigration attorney. Dear Sophie: Marriage-based green card versus EB-1C green card? ??Here’s

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Towards Data Science

OCTOBER 7, 2023

And tech giants like OpenAI, Google, Amazon, and Microsoft have been flooding the market with features driven by large language models (LLMs) and image-generating diffusion models. Tech solutions: Customized solutions are beginning to emerge, including BloombergGPT , a 50-billion parameter LLM specifically developed for financial services.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 10, 2022

Serena Ventures, Omidyar Group’s Luminate Fund, Melo 7 Tech Partners and Cascador (Empowering Economic Growth Foundation) participated. So less text-heavy way of publishing and more of forecast and prediction around sectors that matter to knowledge workers and their organizations.”. million seed round led by MaC Venture Capital.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 13, 2021

Hibob has created a solution that serves and anticipates the needs of modern, evolving businesses,” said Anton Levy, co-president, MD and global head of tech at General Atlantic, in a statement. “We G.Network, Revolut and Cazoo — are in the U.K. and other European markets.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

We talk a lot these days about the future of work and the proliferation of new and better tools for distributed workforces, but companies focused on developing fleet management software — even if they have not really been viewed as “tech startups” — have been working on this problem for many years already.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 1, 2022

We’ve seen a boom in the last several years around tech built for front-line, service, manual, and other workforces typically paid on an hourly wage. ” That was the impetus for building a platform to automate the process, from tracking time worked through to calculating payment and workers comp based on that.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

Apps catering to frontline workers are seeing a surge of interest in the market these days, as businesses finally start to wake up to using tech to better connect with these employees, and investors eye up an interesting and new growth opportunity in enterprise IT. The global opportunity is a big one, with an estimated 2.7

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Fast Company Tech

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

This time around, itll be knowledge workers in tech hubs and financial centers who will face the greatest exposure to AI-driven change. In San Jose’s Santa Clara County, Brookings found that nearly 43% of workers could see half or more of their tasks transformed by AI tools including OpenAIs ChatGPT and Anthropics Claude.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

“The tech community likes us because of those things.” But even if it’s a bit of a renegade, the plan will be to incorporate VPN functionality for those who want it, and there may be plans down the line also to work within more established virtualization tech. “Manufacturing pipelines cannot move to cloud.

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TechCrunch

MAY 11, 2021

The tech, meanwhile, is unique to SightCall, built over years and designed to be used by way of a basic smartphone, and over even a basic mobile network — essential in cases where reception is bad or the locations are remote. SightCall has raised $67 million to date. “The video solution has to work.”

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TechCrunch

JULY 13, 2021

Remote , which provides tools to manage onboarding, payroll, benefits and other services for tech and other knowledge workers located in remote countries — be they contractors or full-time employees — has raised $150 million. Remote raises $35M to help orgs with global workforce payroll, benefits and more.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

“Rather than a complex one-sized-fits-all approach that airs on the side of the knowledge worker, we have pushed the industry to see that it doesn’t work for hourly workers,” he added. “We Dear Sophie: Any suggestions for recruiting international tech talent?

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 2, 2021

The holiday shopping season kicked off last week with some lackluster results , but employers are still in dire need of workers. The tight labor market, driven in part by “ The Great Resignation ,” is highlighting the need for more tech-enabled tools for connecting employers with available workers.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

Oyster , a startup and platform that helps companies through the process of hiring, onboarding and then providing contractors and full-time employees in the area of “knowledge work” with HR services like payroll, benefits and salary management, has closed a Series A round of $20 million. “There are 1.5

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TechCrunch

MARCH 10, 2021

The idea for the app comes from four computer science and software engineering students from the University of Waterloo, who previously interned at tech companies like Google, Facebook, Asana and Spotify. The startup plans to add support for more integrations going forward, including Microsoft Teams, Cisco WebEx and others. Team photo.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 26, 2022

Samsung later acquired Viv, folding a pared-down version of the tech into its Bixby voice assistant. ” At Google, Luan was the overall tech lead for what he describes as the “large models effort” at Google Brain, one of tech giant’s preeminent research divisions.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

It’s been built for what Huffman thinks is the future: digital knowledge workers, a term he uses to describe independent tech workers who freelance for different companies or gigs. The early adopters are independent workers who want to work or advise for a product team.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

But even when all the other productivity boxes have been checked, Teamraderie speaks to another challenge that exists in the workplace, specifically the knowledge worker workplace, that of improving our relationships with each other as a route to working better together.

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Tech Soup

MAY 5, 2009

Statistics compiled by the Telework Coalition show that more than 44 million Americans are commuting less by working at home at least one day per week, and it is the same in most countries with a growing number of "knowledge workers." " The environmental impact in this area is profound.

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Fast Company Tech

APRIL 30, 2025

I suspect most knowledge workers can relate. ChatGPT gave me incorrect information, which I recognized right away, based on my knowledge of the app. Thinking strategically about improvements I could make in my department, for example. We compile reports, attend status meetings, and follow processes with endless tedious tasks.

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Tech Soup

MAY 17, 2011

As I delve deeper in to the world of telework I have to admit my surprise at its potential for changing how we work - for everyone, not just well-paid knowledge workers. We all know how profoundly the Internet has changed the way we job search and get our resumes in front of employers.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 15, 2012

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. The future of work requires this shift in managerial mindset.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 8, 2013

The Open Knowledge Foundation is a great advocacy charity in that field. Grameen has a team of community knowledge workers who go out in the fields of Uganda and collect agricultural information on their mobile devices. The field of open data is all about their sharing it out to the rest of us. The UN Global Pulse initiative.

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Neon CRM

MAY 30, 2023

Wasted Time The average knowledge worker reports spending about 60% of their time on “work about work.” Low Barrier to Entry: These are easy to start using right away and don’t require any major tech implementations. Low Barrier to Entry: These are easy to start using right away and don’t require any major tech implementations.

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The Verge

APRIL 20, 2021

It is literally the idea of video being used to communicate with your workforce that’s distributed around the world, or share knowledge or train. Literally, there’s a billion knowledge workers in the world, and every single one of them has now become a creator and the talent, in a way that we never thought would happen.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

Miami is quickly becoming a symbol for the tech exodus from Silicon Valley. The area is home to a number of investors, successful tech founders and an eager local government. 8 Miami-area investors assess America’s southernmost tech ecosystem. How do you see these factors impacting the city’s tech evolution?

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JUNE 24, 2008

Most creatives and knowledge workers who are not developers. If you are a ‘Circuit Rider’ then re-applying this knowledge makes administrating easier and thus cost effective for 3rd sector organisations. Where is Linux not a good idea? Did you learn anything about how your computer works? I bet you did.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 25, 2008

industry and the tech industry (fishbowl). 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. So, this is the information, knowledge worker part of it -- but how do you keep up ? Reading what friends write.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

Hourly workers make up abut 55% of the working world , yet when it comes to tech built for the world of work, their so-called knowledge worker counterparts dominate the space. They log in much as you might on any other work-based app, based on the company you work for and your mobile number or email.)

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 19, 2021

While it’s been assumed that to get into tech, the obvious route was a two-to-four year (and often more) tour through college or university to pick up a higher education degree, the bet that Multiverse is making here is that apprenticeships can easily, and widely, become another. These typically last 1.5

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Futurism

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

The research team surveyed 319 "knowledge workers" basically, folks who solve problems for work, though definitions vary about their experiences using generative AI products in the workplace.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 20, 2025

We conducted BEx 2025 in November 2024, surveying 1,000 members of the general population adults and 500 knowledge workers. Knowledge workers overwhelmingly support transparent AI development, with 81% emphasizing security, 78% ethical oversight, and 77% privacy. Communication builds trust.

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